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1880151061880. Ca. 1880 original hand colored albumen print titled 'Blind Shampoo'. Showing the traditional Japanese shampoo a form of massage performed by a blind person. The image shows a reclining woman in kimono under a green quilt with a blind shampooer dressed in a red robe behind her. A tea pot resting on a brazier is in the foreground. The lady rests on her side possibly reading or writing. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in mounted on board. Image slt faint at upper half of print o/w very good. HKD775. unknown
188015399Japan 1880. Very good overall. Original hand colored albumen photo titled '510 Women in Bed'. Showing two women eyes closed reclining under a floral patterned quilt. A small incense box rests on the floor in front of the futon with hanging wall prints in the background. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4". Image slt faint at lower right corner. unknown
1884859271884. PHOTO ALBUM - JAPAN. 25 OUTDOOR SCENES AND STUDIO POSED PHOTOS. Small late 19th century oblong 12 x 18.3 cm album of albumen photos of landscape and city scenes genre shots of trades and customs in the studio each about 9.5 x 13.5 cm image size. Brocade covered boards. The images are skillfully handcolored with very little fading. The covers have a bit of rubbing and the condition overall is very good. With the inscription of Capt. John C. Cooper from 1884 and hence a bit earlier than most albums one sees and certainly more interesting. unknown
18852111902160200127Tokyo Genba Branch 1885. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 23cmx15.2cm Number of books: 16 Tokyo Genba Branch paperback
18812091202133201037Shinshichi Okajima and others 1881. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 50 books in total Shinshichi Okajima and others paperback
1880613<p>Manuscript 12pp. of gouache paintings on fine cloth pages calligraphic labels in Japanese next to each specimen tipped into a modern binding with a gilt appliqué border 150 x 230mm c.1880</p><p>This album contains illustrations of moths butterflies dragonflies a spider a stag beetle a lady bird a wasp lizards frogs and toads cicadas grasshoppers hornets a cockroach a centipede and the full life cycle of a silkworm executed by a skilled artist in gouache.</p><p>This was produced during the Meiji period an important time for Japanese art. In 1868 the restoration of imperial rule in Japan brough the Edo shogunate to an end and marked the start of the Meiji era which would last until the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912. During this brief period Japan transformed itself from an isolated feudal nation to a world power. The historic skills of Japan's traditional arts played a vital part in the struggle to compete in international markets.</p><p>The masterpieces of Meiji art in a unique style blending the best of traditional design with prevailing international taste are unrivalled in the quality of their craftsmanship and were avidly sought by Western collectors. The blending of styles can be seen in this album of illustrations which were most likely produced for export. The addition of the european-style gilt border exemplifies this.</p> hardcover
1889AQ33349Tokyo: Z. P. Maruya & Co. 1889. 2 v 1 248pp 4. Printed in double columns. With an engraved folding map and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's blind-stamped limp red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. One preliminary leaf detached short tears to map at gutter scattered spotting. The first edition of a tourist guide to the roads railways and primary population centres of Japan compiled by American physician and interpreter of the U.S. legation at Tokyo Willis Norton Whitney 1855-1918 author of Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan 1885. . First edition. 8vo. Z. P. Maruya & Co. hardcover
1900166942Chicago.: A. Flanagan Company. 1900. Coloured map of China Indochina and Korea and a coloured map of Japan containing insert maps of Formosa Ryukyu Island Ezo and Chishima and an Outline map of Japan. Coloured frontispiece and one other colour illustration together with black & white photographic illustrations engravings and line drawings throughout the text. Original green decorated cloth stamped & lettered in black. 90pp 79pp and 6 pages of book advertisements. Prior owner signature on front free endpaper. A particularly good copy offered together with the 1931 edition which omits any mention of the Boxer Rebellion. <br>The 1931 edition was published by A. Flanagan Company Chicago. 166pp Original tan cloth covered boards with a prior owner bookplate on the front pastedown. Written for intermediate and upper grade American schoolchildren the earlier of these two editions of this textbook published in 1900 contains a description of the Boxer rebellion that has been removed from later editions: <br> <br>" How we have longed to visit this wonderful country! A few months ago such a visit would not have been possible for China was at war with our nation and many of the nations of Europe. Our lives would have been in danger and the journey to China might have been the last we should ever have taken. <br> <br>You have heard of the Boxers of China who killed many foreigners and also many Christianized Chinese in the late revolution in that country. Do you know who these Boxers are They are members of a secret patriotic society. They love their country and want to prevent it from falling into the possession of foreigners. They believe that these foreigners have come to overthrow their government and to destroy their religion. They are opposed to the ruling family in China who are Manchus. These Manchus came from a territory outside of China Proper and Chinese Boxers have always disliked to have the rulers of their country chosen from Manchuria." There is a particularly gruesome illustration of Boxer heads in cages exposed as a warning to passers-by. <br> <br>The 1931 edition omits any reference to the Boxers and the illustration described above has also been removed. . A. Flanagan Company. hardcover
1829018979London: G. Virtue 1829. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 9" x 6" x 7. Plates at Front. Three Volumes. 713 Xv. 698 Xviii Index At End. 780 Xiii 2 P Directions For Placement Of Plates. Original Green Cloth Original Yellow Endpapers No Marks Not Institutional Copies. Vols. Ii And Iii Dated 1829 On Title Pages Vol. Iv No Such Date. Frayed At Top And Bottom Of Spines And At Upper Rear Tips Spine Gilt Strong Spine Cloth Aged To Brown. Hinges Neatly Broken. <br/> <br/> G. Virtue hardcover
1861173654London.: Richard Bentley. 1861. First edition hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and black and white text illustrations i-xxxii 350pp with a final advertisment leaf of Bentley's Standard Novels 19.4 x 13cm original blind-stamped blue cloth boards gilt-lettered spine dulled and gilt vignette of a ship with pennants a flutter to the top board slight spotting mainly limited to the endpapers and age toning to the edges of the text old varnish to the boards obscuring gilt lettering to spine and dulling the gilt to the ship vignette corners tender but a good clean example of a title scarce on the market. Written in the year Japan opened its doors to foreign trade but published three years later by the first British Consul to Nagasaki Christopher Pemberton Hodgson he also served as French Consul. As well as giving a key survey of a landmark period including the structure of society religion and Japanese attitudes to the West Hodgson importantly includes a catalogue of Japanese plants with an index prepared by the eminent botanist Sir William Hooker the work's dedicatee and his own on natural history. Pemberton noted his keen interest in botany and geology in an earlier work written after a turbulent five years on the Darling Downs in Australia. The present work also includes a lengthy chapter by Pemberton's wife taken from letters to her mother noting her experiences and impressions. . Richard Bentley. hardcover
181956897Kyoto Japan: Marubeni Shoten Design Dept. Keimeikai Textile & Dyeing Studio Tanioka Shoten Design Dept. ca. 1918-1945. Folio. 61 original hand-painted inked and pencil designs with a few on a lightly toned but quality semi-translucent paper the majority on thick paper stock and still others with two pieces carefully pasted together with contiguous designs sized from 9 x 15 in. up to 19.25 x 38.5 in. with 13 of the pieces larger the larger size a number of them sized 18 x 32 in. and many in the 14.25 x 15.5 in. size colour painted; the majority feature the design studio chop or crest at lower corners throughout many w/ annotations in margins several w/ change orders neatly annotated or even the title of the design and still many others w/ Roman numeric inventory codes in margins as well two still retaining original small silk samples many with creasing or minor tears & edgewear or creasing to fore-edges a few w/ small & large closed tears while others show some creasing and thumbing from continued use still an exceptional group of manuscripts. This superb archive of 61 original hand-painted kimono designs furnishes an exceptional visual array of Taisho- and early Showa-era Japanese motifs and styles. A number of the designs evoke traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints with deep vivid colours and well rendered illustrations. Many of these designs incorporate floral patterns including Kiku Chrysanthemum Botan Mon Peony Pattern Manju Kiku Marigolds Japanese Irises Morning Glory Cockscomb Ivy Dahlias and many other botanical motifs. In addition there are many illustrating ornately embroidered designs austere bamboo mushrooms and intriguing landscapes some with a small portion fully painted in with brilliant colouring while the outline of the kimono fills out the drawing. Two of the designs still features their original small attached silk kimono sample more reminiscent of Western Design houses which often attached their chosen fabric samples to their clothing designs. A few of the designs are executed on translucent thin paper for the kimono draper to transfer the design to white silk or other fabrics via some type of carbon paper process. Another of the designs has been executed on a stunning silver metallic paper with palm or bamboo leaf fronds executed in vivid blues & browns. Some feature a nearly surrealist quality while several others include illustrations of doves or chickens. Two of the designs incorporate Art Deco representations of Chinese Junks and Japanese sailing vessels typical of the 1930’s prior to World War II. In the Taisho Era a new era opened for textile designers working with Kyoto drapers and department stores with many having trained at new art colleges and then working in the design studios of Marubeni Keimeikai Textile & Dyeing Studio and others. The Tachiki Artist design studio designs on thin translucent paper include one with designer stamp of character embedded within a skull. Some appear to have two different date stamps for the Marubeni Shoten Design and some are unsigned or stamped. The Taisho- and Showa-era kimonos featured brighter colours more groundbreaking designs as Japan’s designers embraced traditional dress and transformed it into a new garment equally appealing to the “Moga†or brazen “Modern Girl.†The designer notes include instructions to “leave a little more space between the fans;†“Drop the little fan crest;†“too much white bush clover†on the pine cones and even that Matsuo Taishichi had ordered a design for “clothes for paying a visit for a young person.†The Marubeni Shoten originated with Chubei Itho who began in 1858 as a salesman for linen cloth and by 1872 had opened his drapery store Benchu in Senba Osaka. By 1918 Chubei Itoh had expanded the business into Osaka and deciced to merge with Itochu Shoten Ltd. becoming Marubeni Shoten with their own drapers shops and many contracts with department stores. Later by the mid-1950s Marubeni merged with the company that operated the Takashimaya Dept. Store Chain all the while preserving their design studio and artists. See: Yuko Fukatsu-Fukuoka The Evolution of Yuzen-dyeing Techniques and Designs After the Meiji Restoration 2004; Arisa Shinko Tomikawa Hand Painted Kyo Yuzen Atelier “Arisa†A Brief Introduction 2020; Annie Van Asche Japanese Kimono Fashion of the Early Twentieth Century Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings 2000; Our History Our Roots Marubeni Corporation 2020. Marubeni Shoten Design Dept., Keimeikai Textile & Dyeing Studio, Tanioka Shoten Design Dept., hardcover
1881032313St. Louis: Denton J Snider 1881. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 348 Pp. Olive Green Cloth Beveled Edges GiltYellow Endpapers "Privately Printed" And 1881 Date On Title Page. Inscribed To The Same Person Twice Same Date"With Friendly Regards" On Both Front And Rear Endpapers. Wear At Corners With A Few Small Losses Of Surface Of Cloth At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips. Front And Rear Hinges Each Split About1 1/2" At Endpapers. Small Stamp Of The World Human Culture Foundation Mckay College Los Angeles Near Bottom Of Title Page No Other Marks Or Damage. Writer Educator And Literary Critic Denton Jacques Snider 1841-1925 Was One Of The Original Members Of The St. Louis Philosophical Society An Association Of Hegelians Founded In 1866 By William Torrey Harris And Henry C. Brockmeyer Whom Snider Met While Teaching In The St. Louis Schools. With His Knowledge Of Greek Latin French German And Italian Snider Brought A Love Of Literature A Fine Critical Sensibility And A Breadth Of Outlook To The St. Louis Group. He Spent Some Time Teaching Classics In Susan Blow's Kindergarten Training School. An Acrimonious Parting Of The Ways Resulted From Blow's Disapproval Of His Independence And Enthusiasm For Pagan Cultures. From 1884-97 Snider Wrote And Lectured Touring Extensively Mainly In The Midwest Including Speeches To The Grand Rapids Kindergarten Training School. According To The Dictionary Of American Biography Snider Would Move "Impetuously About The Stage Checking His Flow Of Eloquence Only To Chide Severely The Late-Comers." To Avoid The Commercialization Of His Work He Published His Writings Himself At His Own Expense Under The Imprint Of His Sigma Publishing Company. He Made Little If Any Money From The More Than Forty Volumes He Published And Often Gave Away Copies To People Attending His Lectures Who Wanted To Read Them. Snider's Earlier Works Many Of Them In Verse Deal With Greece And Rome A Walk In Hellas Homer In Chios Prorsus Retrorsus Agamemnon's Daughter. Between 1877 And 1897 He Produced Nine Volumes Of Commentary On "The Four Literary Bibles Of The Occident"-Shakespeare's Plays Goethe's Faust Homer's Works And Dante's Divine Comedy. Later He Embarked On An Ambitious Series Of Volumes Intended To Comprise A Grand Philosophic Or "Psychologic" System Which Included Works On History Science Psychology And Political Philosophy. Snider Also Wrote Poetry And Two Autobiographical Works A Writer Of Books In His Genesis 1910 And The St. Louis Movement In Philosophy Literature Education Psychology With Chapters Of Autobiography 1920. <br/> <br/> (Denton J Snider) hardcover
188064107New York: Harper & Brothers 1880. Tall 8vo. 421 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Colour chromolithograph frontisp. reproducing a Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut swimming scene over 300 text engravings & woodcut engraved plates most with tissue guards. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth illustrated & decorated in black silver gilt & red illustrated gray clay-sized endpapers minor rubbing dustsoiling slight rubbing to lower fore-edge front cover still VG bright copy. First edition of this title in the Boy Travellers series. Of particular interest are the historically accurate descriptions of social customs history and travel details including overland trip to California participating in a whaling voyage climbing Mt. Fuji studying the culture and habits of Japanese women before trekking onto China. After surviving a Typhoon the pair experience the Tai-Ping Rebellion and travel to Shanghai Peking the Great Wall of China Hong Kong Canton and beyond. Knox 1835-1896 famed Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald later worked for the Russo-American Telegraph Company which inspired his Boy Travellers series featuring an industrialist father and two sons traveling the world. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
186261091Edo: Tsutaya Yoshizo 1862. Two parts in one vol. 12mo. 4.7 x 6 in. 40 pp. With two colour ukiyo-e woodblock prints colour-tinted woodblock prints woodblock illustrations throughout. Colour-woodblock ukioyo-e illustrated softcovers 1862 publisher’s ads for Tsutaya Yoshizo on rear pastedown for the Spring of 1862 including many other vols. in Ryutei Tanehiko’s series minor shelfwear slight rubbing NF copy. First edition thus of this installment in the very popular series of illustrated novels issued by Ryutei Tanehiko 1783-1842 considered one of the 10 principal authors of gesaku -- popular illustrated fiction of the late Edo. By the mid-19th-Century he was virtually a household name and yet despite his celebrity and wide circulation of this many different productions all are quite scarce and even individual parts such as this tend to be uncommon. The splendid woodcuts were designed by Utagawa Kunisada II 1823-1880 who took the name Kunisada II in 1850-51 after marrying Kunisada’s daughter and focused on actors portraits of beautiful geishas along with erotica but his popularity waned in the Meiji period. Worldcat locates 1 copy of this individual part DLC; See: Andrew Lawrence Markus The Willow in Autumn: Ryutei Tanehiko 1783-1842 1992. Tsutaya Yoshizo, paperback
188019480AB1880. Japan ca. 1880 27 : 195 cm image - 31 : 245 cm 14 coloured woodcuts on crepe paper pasted on stiff cardboard. Contemporary cloth gilt title on front board. Depicts scenes of every-day life in Japan. Printed on crepe paper. hardcover
1890220325Japan. Late Meiji Circa1890s. 49 hand-coloured albumen prints each approximately 9.2 x 13cm or portrait mounted on thick album card each edged with a decorative washi border gilt and paint decorated bevelled enamelled covers; the front cover with a bamboo tree and a pair of birds in flight and the back cover a vine with butterflies 14 x 20cm renewed black leather spine and tissue guards some fading and spotting to the images and to the card margins the covers a little scratched small chip from the top edge a handsome album in good condition. A beautiful small album of hand-coloured photographs of Japanese people and scenes in a lacquered cover. An excellent example of the photo albums produced for visitors to Japan in the early Meiji Era. Images include photos of farmers tilling the field and sowing harvesting and threshing rice; street sellers peddling hats vegetables flowers and other wares; silk spinning and tea picking; a rickshaw puller and a woman being carried in a palanquin. There is also a picture of Japanese monks and several shots of domestic scenes including one of a koto player. Landscape views include fine photos of Mt. Fuji and of an avenue of cherry blossoms in flower. The images are after original prints by Felice Beato Kusakabe Kimbei Raimund von Stillfried and others. . 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
188099373Japan: Unknown Publisher 1880. Japan Unknown Publisher circa 1880s. A leporello of 24 albumen paper photographs each approximately 90 × 140 mm mounted on both sides of card leaves bound in brocade-covered thick bevel-edged boards 120 × 180 mm. Brocade lightly worn at some corners; leaves slightly cockled; minor silverfish damage to the surface of the pastedowns and the two adjacent pages affecting the top portion of the two photographs mounted on them; for the rest the condition is excellent. The images include views of villages towns and shrines with occasional mountain scenes Mount Fuji makes a cameo appearance. Only one image is captioned in the negative 'Temple at illegible'. We have handled hand-coloured examples of albums of this nature and we have to say these uncoloured plates are much to be preferred. Unknown Publisher unknown
1862030663Kjobenhavn Copenhagen: J H Schultz 1862. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 11 Pp. Original Printed Wrappers No Names Or Marks Minute Loss At Lower Tips Of Cover And First Page. Ex Copley Library Although Not Marked As Such. <br/> <br/> J H Schultz paperback
1854220832Kyushu Japan. Kaei 7 1854. Manuscript architectural plan 69.8 x 87cms in black ink red dots indicating pillar removal in very good condition. An original architectural plan for a substantial Japanese house which has undergone renovation. The building probably belongs to a person with official samurai status. The plan is dated Kaei 7 1854 and shows the layout of the main rooms entrance and gateway as well as interior features such as a water source drainage points and irori sunken hearths for charcoal fires. Red dots on the plan show the places where pillars have been replaced and the document bears the names both of the carpenter and of an official of the Kokubu District in southern Kyushu. . unknown
1854025450New York: Harper & Brothers 1854. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Good. Map and Woodcuts. 226 Pp. Original Cloth Gilt And Blind Stamped. Contents Clean Light Aging. Covers With Wear Cloth Lightly Frayed Across Top Of Spine And Down 3/4" At Top Front Spine Edge A Few Other Points Of Fraying. Spine Has Been Wet Gilt Is Dulled Cloth Of Spine And Adjacent Areas Of Covers And Endpapers Damp Stained This Damage Not Reaching The Printed Pages. Anecdotes And Observations Made While Curzon Was Part Of A Commission To Resolve The "Turkish And Persian Problem In Kurdistan And Armenia" Seeking The Most Arbitrary And Least Democratic Solution For All Residents Of The Area And Achieving Enduring Success. Library Label Franklin Institute On Front Pastedown Four Digit Number At Base Of First Page. This Copy Fairly Crisp And May Never Have Been Read. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers 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
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
1900026127London: John C Nimmo 1900. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Xi 273 Pp 4 Pp Publisher's Catalogue At End. Red Cloth Gilt Top Edge Gilt. First Printing. Lightly Used Slight Dust/Soiling All Gilt Still Bright A Few Points Of Fraying At Some Corners. Clean Maroon Endpapers Neatly Cracked Bindings Quite Sound. No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates Except A Bookseller's Stamp On Verso Of First Free Endpaper. <br/> <br/> John C Nimmo hardcover
1830218745東京. Tokyo.: 江戸松. Edomatsu. Circa1830. Woodblock print Japanese text artist's signature and publisher's seal in the lower corner of the outer margin 37.5 x 25.5 cms edgewear sheet soiled and abraded in parts with a few creases pin-hole and loss to the upper right corner lower edge with a few minor chips but overall in good condition. Ukiyo-e woodblock of a beauty bijin outside a sweetshop. <br> <br>From the collection of the late John Caiger lecturer in Asian studies ANU. . 江戸松. [Edomatsu]. unknown
