[JAPAN] NINAGAWA, NoritaneBiblio.com
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1876018471Tokyo 1876-1877 and 1879-1880. First Edition. Wraps. Wrappers of Part I quite worn with one title label mostly lost; front wrapper of Part III creased. Some offsetting and color bleedthrough; occasional edge browning; a few leaves very slightly moisture warped from coloring. Tape or glue residue in places on the versos of the plates in Part I. Near Fine with stunning hand-colored plates. First edition of Ninagawa's study of Japanese pottery arranged in chronological order from ancient times onward. Apparently one of only 300 copies published. Seven oblong folio parts 15-1/4" x 10-3/8" stitched as issued in the original blue paper wrappers with lithographed title labels on the front wrappers in French and Japanese Parts I-V and in English and Japanese Parts VI and VII. Each part with lithographed text in Japanese 5; 10; 11; 9 11; 10; and 14 leaves respectively. Printed on rectos only. Ninagawa's red stamp appears on the last leaf of text in each part. Illustrated with 125 numbered hand-colored lithographed plates several heightened with gum arabic 17 plates in Part I and 18 plates each in Parts II-VII. Some plates and items numbered with small printed labels. An excellent copy of this fragile set with the extremely scarce Parts VI and VII. This copy without the five octavo booklets containing the French translation of Parts I-V Tokyo: H. Ahrens & Co. 1876-1878 or the publisher's silk chitsu or portfolio issued with the first five parts. <br/><br/> paperback
189032522AB1890. Japan Kyoto / Nikko and other locations c. 1890-1900. Each slide 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm. One Plate in Black-and-White all other 44 Plates in colour. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All Plates with their original uncleaned Patina. Only one slide with a slightly broken off corner held by a strip of paper. unknown
1900D55FLLW1EWHEJapan 1900. 70 x 98.5 cm. Watercolour on silk highlighted with white gold and perhaps mica. Large Japanese watercolour with a charming scene in a Japanese bath house. The interior of the bath house shows seven women and four children washing themselves and dressing. One of the women is already fully dressed in a blue and green kimono. In good condition. unknown
1880023430London circa 1880: J. S. Virtue and Co 1880. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 13" Tall. Engravings on Steel and Wood. Vol 1: X;Vi; 240; Vol 2: Vi 240; Vol 3 Vi 240; Vol 4 Vi 236. Half Morocco Spine And Tips Over Purple Pebbled Cloth; Spines With 5 Bands Six Compartments Gilt Title And Volume Number Ornate Gilt Decorations In Other Four Compartments; Original Yellow Endpapers; All Edges Of Page Block Gilt. The Books Are 13" Tall 10 1/2" Deep And The Four Volumes Are 6 3/4" Wide On The Shelf. Undated But Circa 1880. Front Hinge To Vol Ii Cracked Binding Solid. Original Leather Recently Professionally Conditioned And Refreshed Professional Repairs To A Few Splits At Top/Bottom Of Spine Edges; Gilt Bright; No Names No Marks No Bookplates. Also With An Additional 41 Loose Plates Of Same Size As Those In The BooksPossibly From Another Copy Of This Set Or Perhaps Never Bound. Shipping Weight About 30 Pounds Insurance Required Shipping Requires Additional Charges Depending On Destination. Palestine Refers To The Area Immediately North Of Egypt Along The Mediterranean Coast Inhabited By Countless Peoples And Conquered More Or Less Mercilessly Countless Times By Various Empires From England To Central Asia. The Volumes May Or May Not Include References To This Unrivaled Mix Of Ethnicities Most Of Whom Were Then Living At Pece With Each Other. <br/> <br/> J. S. Virtue and Co hardcover
1900235312Japan 1900. 50 hand colored-albumen prints mounted on card. Each print framed by two original watercolor vignettes. Tissue guards. 1 vols. Oblong folio 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches; image 8 x 10-1/2/ inches. Lacquered wood covers with hand-painted title in gold; central vignette depicting rickshaw and passenger; floral motif background to front and rear covers. A.e.g. Spine neatly rebacked in leather. Fine. 50 hand colored-albumen prints mounted on card. Each print framed by two original watercolor vignettes. Tissue guards. 1 vols. Oblong folio 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches; image 8 x 10-1/2/ inches. Fifty finely pastel hand-colored albumen prints some captioned in English in the negative some with pencil captions. Includes scenes of Koyoto Nara Osaka Kobe and Nagasaki; Japanese junk European steamer a tea house at Tokyo street vendors Kabuki actors including a member of the renowned Danjuro lineage sumo wrestlers dancers and geisha as well as some studio portraits.<br /> <br /> Each image is framed by two original watercolor vignettes a total of 100 unique images mostly depicting scenes of nature. unknown
1854103501Nagasaki: c.1854. Wonderful locally-produced image of the Vostok a steamship that took part in Vice-Admiral Euphimy Vasil'evich Putiatin's mission to negotiate trade arrangements with the Tokugawa shogunate which were to result in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda the first treaty between the Russian and Japanese Empires. Putiatin sailed from Russia in the frigate Pallas and stopped at Portsmouth for refitting before facing the rigours of rounding the Cape of Good Hope and while there he also purchased an "iron-hulled screw steamer the Fearless and renamed it Vostok" Grainger The First Pacific War p.51. The Vostok was captained by Voin Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov a graduate of the St Petersburg School of Mathematics and Navigational Sciences and elder brother of the famous composer. Various delays meant that Putiatin's squadron arrived shortly after Admiral Perry's similar expedition but the Russian's more measured approach contrasted distinctly with that of the Americans and were to eventually ensure a highly successful outcome. It was recorded that during the squadron's second visit to Nagasaki "just before he left Nakamura Tameya the secretary to the plenipotentiaries a member of the new special committee to introduce steam ships to Japan came to the schooner Vostok with Putiatin and a Japanese artist to have a look at its engine. The artist made a quick sketch. It was the first steam ship to visit Nagasaki harbour and only the third to visit Japan" McOmie The Russians in Nagasaki 1853-54 p.54. The present print was probably based upon the drawings and notes made on that occasion. The captioning includes reference to the squadron's first arrival in August 1853 departure in November their return in January 1854 and departure the following month with no mention of mission's subsequent return in April. The rest of the text is largely given over to technical data; length 30 ken or a shade under 60 metres and width 8 ken 16 metres; two masts; funnel circumference 6 shaku about 2 metres; and a note identifying where the "power comes from to create the steam to turn the propeller which is under the ship". Russia is interestingly described in a manner assuming little knowledge of the world outside Japan: "The country of Russia is to the east of Japan. To west is Tartary and to the south is the Yezo continuing on to the country of Japan. The number of ri approx. 4 km of the land of the large country is east to the west 1000 ri. From the south to north it is more than 1500 ri. Their customs literally customs/manners/looks are similar to those of the Americans But are also unlike them". A fascinating and uncommon commemoration of this world-historically important first contact. Woodblock print with applied colour 354 x 475 mm. Window-mounted in ebonized wood frame with gilt sight-line. Lightly browned and a few minor creases judicious restoration to a few short splits and scrapes but overall very good indeed. unknown
1890219322Lille.: Société de Saint Augustin. 1890. Large thumb-indexed atlas 27 full page colour maps with accompanying text 53 x 38 cms; original paper covered boards a little stained and abraded front hinge tender but sound a few gatherings loosening front free endpaper chipped at the lower corner prelims and thumb tabs soiled but the maps in very good clean condition. Adrien Launay 1853 - 1927 a Catholic priest in the Société des Missions Étrangères was the author of many books on the Society's history and that of many of the individual missions. His atlas now scarce on the market gives maps and a gazzetteer of the Société's missions in Asia. . Société de Saint Augustin. hardcover
1893ABC_46387Japan 1893. 19th-century wrappers of thick handmade Japanese paper reinforced with straps of paper containing Japanese characters and blue and red stamps; with the title of ad 1 in Japanese characters on the front wrapper. Collection of drawings of 131 flags banners etc. on separate leaves of varying sizes most of them coloured. 131; 10 ll. Ad 1: Very interesting collection of drawings of 131 flags code and signal flags banners standards crests etc. made in late 19th-century Japan most of them coloured in red blue white black yellow and some decorated with gold and/or silver paint. Many with mottos and captions in Japanese characters. The collection can be divided into 8 subcategories. 1 34 flags on black poles of European and other powers. 2 17 rectangular Samurai banners on a pole with a horizontal pole at the top mostly in red and white. 3 28 pennants and banners of various shapes mostly on crested poles and some of them decorated or partly decorated with gold and/or silver paint. 4 27 Japanese military Samurai flags and banners in red and white some with Japanese characters including the flag of the imperial Japanese army: the red sun with the red sunrays. 5 11 Japanese military flags and banners in blue black and white. 6 4 unfinished and uncoloured sketches of Japanese military flags and banners. 7 3 symbolic banners with mottos in Japanese characters. 8 7 unfinished but partly coloured in sketches of flags banners and pennants.Ad 2: 10 folded leaves of Japanese so-called rice-paper mostly containing decorative flower designs one with fans and another with traditional Japanese dolls. All are executed with a brush and black paint two of the flower designs are executed in black red and green paint.With Japanese characters in pencil and/or black and blue ink as well as red owners stamps on the inside of the wrapper. Wrapper slightly browned with some minor signs of wear some margins slightly frayed some leaves with minor stains or browning. unknown
186034745Edo 1860. Two woodblock-printed Kawaraban broadsides on Japanese paper each 9 x 11 5/8 inches. Two late Edo Kawaraban broadsides recording foreign people objects coinage dress and material culture at the moment of Japan's accelerated contact with Europe and America.<br/> <br/> These two Kawaraban belong to the popular printed culture that developed around Japan's encounter with foreign powers in the 1850s and early 1860s. Produced for circulation beyond official channels such broadsides translated diplomatic and commercial contact into a form legible to a broad Japanese readership combining image caption anecdote and report. Their interest lies in the way they classify the foreign world through visible particulars: clothing physiognomy tools coins flags animals weapons and curiosities. The first broadside is arranged in four compartments under a title describing Western products and curiosities. It includes figures identified as foreign visitors or crewmen among them an English captain and a Black sailor together with a Dutch-style optical instrument and a draped clay or stone figure possibly a classical statue. The second broadside combines a portrait of a captain's wife with her dog a depiction of a foreign flag and examples of foreign coins shown obverse and reverse including Russian coinage and coins dated 1843 and 1854. Here the focus is less on a single event than on the material signs by which foreign nations could be distinguished. The woman's dress the dog the flag and the coins are presented as objects of information and curiosity evidence of a public appetite for visual knowledge about the peoples then appearing in Japanese ports. Together the broadsides show how Kawaraban helped mediate the experience of opening Japan to foreign trade and diplomacy. Their compact format and direct visual language made them effective vehicles for reporting and interpreting the unfamiliar preserving a popular Japanese response to the presence of Westerners at a moment of rapid political and cultural change. unknown
1892019217@1892. Hardcover. Photographs are Fine and bright with tissue guards. Both boxes in nice shape. The front cover of the album with a horizontal crack about 3 inches from the bottom and extending across most of the cover doing little to detract from the lovely decorative scene. Overall a beautiful example uncommon in such nice condition. Oblong Folio 14" x 10-1/2" with a black morocco leather spine with gilt designs and exquisite black enamel painted and onlaid covers. Containing 50 hand-colored 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages titled in the negative in English and with small color drawings of figures in the margins of each page. Images include cityscapes landmarks and scenes of daily life and rituals in mid-to-late Meiji period Japan. Places shown include Tokyo Kyoto Yokohama Nagoya Enoshima the shrines of Nikko and two views of Mt. Fuji. Occupational scenes include women spinning cotton men striking wheat a rice plantation men transporting rice bales on horseback a samurai a Shinto priest Shinto pilgrims a "blind shampooer" a pottery shop a shoe shop a grocery a cloth store "reading at home" "gathering the cocoons" "playing at ball" and more. Albums such as this were sold to overseas visitors to Japan ca 1880s- early 1900s who would choose their favorite scenes from the photography studio's stock and whether to pay extra for hand-coloring fine binding and artistic covers. We have offered a handful of examples over the years and this is easily the finest in content with more occupational and daily life scenes as opposed to the standard landmarks as well as special touches such as the small hand-painted characters in the margins of each page and also in the finest condition. Housed in a clamshell box with decorative cloth covers and likely the original tin container used for shipment to America. <br/><br/> hardcover
18568CFB37BBNOWBcopy imprint: The Hague & Amsterdam 1856. 8vo. Gebroeders van Cleef Contemporary Japanese brown paper covers side stitched and oversewn through 4 holes near the head and near the foot and 2 holes between them. In a modern Japanese gold brocade cloth chitsu folding case with 2 bone fastenings and a brown paper label. Printed from woodblocks on Japanese paper in the traditional Japanese manner on the outside of double leaves with the fold at the fore-edge. With woodcut Japanese text on the half title and last leaf. With an illustrated title-page printed on paper which has been dyed red facing the half-title showing three soldiers. 15 179 6 pp. Very rare first and only Japanese edition of a Dutch military manual being a concise guidebook for the military school originally intended for the Royal Dutch Infantry. It discusses various topics for the beginning foot soldier for example the order of rank within the army the education of soldiers and higher ranks such as officers how a soldier should stand and march and of course how to carry load and fire a rifle and the many different ways to do so. It therefore presents the basics for a trainee soldier and was commonly used at the Dutch military schools.The present manual is a beautiful example of the many Dutch military science books that were imported to and distributed throughout Japan during the Bakumatsu 1853-1867 the final years of the Edo period when the Tokogawa shogunata ended and the Meiji government was restored. Earlier Dutch editions were printed in 1826 1831 and 1833 by the brothers Van Cleef in The Hague and Amsterdam. The present edition is of great importance to illustrate the Dutch-Japanese exchange of military science but also of the utmost rarity. WorldCat records only 1 copy of the present edition in the library of Leiden University.Binding only very slightly worn a few wormholes without loss of text the last leaf with Japanese text slightly stained red colour of the illustrated title-page a little faded but overall still in good condition. Rare Japanese edition in the original Dutch language of a military manual preserved in a Japanese gold brocade folding case.l WorldCat 1 copy; not in Alt Japan Kat.; Cordier Nipponalia. hardcover
1822ST20877London: Printed for R. Ackermann 1822. First English Edition. 300 x 235 mm. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". xvi 325 1 pp.Translated by Frederic Shoberl. <br/> Imposing contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt covers with filigree frame with densely massed scrolling fleurons raised bands spine gilt in compartments with radiating viny scrolls surrounded by leaves and annular dots marbled endleaves all edges gilt. WITH 13 HAND-COLORED PLATES in etching and aquatint many after Japanese artworks one folding. Bookplate removed from front flyleaf. Bookseller's ticket of J. L. Thompson & Co Kobe Japan on front pastedown. Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489; Martin Hardie "English Coloured Books" pp. 113-14. See also E. F. Strange "Japanese Illustration" pp. xxiii-xxiv. Spine and fore-edge of upper board slightly darkened a few minute flakes to lowest spine compartment but the binding extremely well preserved with very lustrous boards. Final 10 leaves slightly creased one repaired marginal tear but still A FINE COPY INTERNALLY exceptionally bright smooth and entirely fresh and clean.<br/> <br/> This generously proportioned production illustrated with 13 vibrant colored plates is a rare European account of Japan during the period in which the country was "closed" to the west offered here in its first English edition. Originally published in French in 1820 "Illustrations of Japan" is comprised of a history and description of the Tokugawa shogunate which Titsingh had translated from the Japanese plus Titsingh's own observations on the language customs and ceremonies of the Japanese people. The present English edition is accompanied by plates in etching and aquatint enhanced with hand coloring. Our author Dutch diplomat Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 spent 14 years in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India company and between 1779-84 he served as trade director-cum-ambassador travelling to Edo now Tokyo for audiences with the shogun and other high officials in the shogunate. Unlike most of his Western contemporaries Titsingh was open-minded and curious about the people he encountered engaging with their art and culture; in fact art historian and Victoria & Albert Museum keeper Edward F. Strange tells us that Titsingh is the earliest known European collector of Japanese prints of which a number appear in the present volume. Our publisher Rudolph Ackermann 1764-1834 made his living issuing sumptuously illustrated books such as the present volume and was an early adopter of color aquatint and lithography technologies; Hardie writes that he was "the great presiding genius before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence." In very attractive period morocco this is a particularly appealing copy of the work free of the foxing and offsetting that often plague copies of this and other large-format color illustrated books. Printed for R. Ackermann unknown
1855876DLLAMJKGSWashington D.C. 1855. Folio. Original printed self-wrappers stitched. Signed in type by Franklin Pierce as President and by W. L. Marcy as Secretary of State. 5 1 blank pp. Second recorded copy of the Kanagawa Treaty of Friendship resulting in the opening of Japan to trade with the West. The American expection to open Japan was undertaken at the suggestion of its leader Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry 1794-1858. ''The key document caried by Perry to Japan was a letter to the Emperor from President Fillmore in which the President requested Japan to open relations cooperate in the development of trade assist distressed whalers and provide bunkering and supplies for ships on the California to China run. The Treaty of Friendship 1854 negotiated by Perry provided for 'perfect permanent and universal piece' and it contained assurances that the Japanese would meet the demands of the United States for safe haven and acces to naval supplies. Two ports Shimoda and Hakodate were to be openened for this purpose and Americans using them were to be allowed to exhange gold and silver for goods 'under regulations for this purpose' and were not to be subject to restrictions on movement as stringent as those applied to the Dutch and Chinese. The treaty does not include provisions for the development of normal foreign trade'' Howe but it did provide for the stationing of American consuls in Japan of which the first was Townshend Harris 1804-1878 an avid student of Engelbert Kaempfer who played an important part in the early economic education of Japanese leadership and among others was the negotiator of the Treaty of Shimoda in 1857 which granted the Americans extraterritorial rights. Fine copy. Extremely rare document concerning the opening of Japan to trade with the West and an important Americanum as well.l Howe The origins of Japanese trade supremacy London 1999 pp. 73-74; WorldCat and RLIN 1 copy in Harvard; not in Cordier Japonica; the Library of Congress; Nipponalia; NUC; Sabin. unknown
