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18902044Osaka: Poole Women's College 1890. <p>A delicate and magnificent Japanese rarity in fine condition: 3 volumes contained within a printed wrap-around band together in a single pictorial sleeve each volume approx. 4½ x 3¼" printed and bound in the Japanese manner in decorative paper wrappers each with a double-page folding color woodblock panorama The Daimyos Procession The Procession of the Mikado and The Bridal Procession of the Common People and each followed by 26 for a total of 78 color woodblocks of samurai court officials nobles servants merchants girls of high and low station nurses weavers cooks soldiers courtiers fishermen etc. - the entire panoply of Japanese society. "Every page has color woodcuts showing people of all classes and professions each with caption in English and Japanese. The books were written by an English teacher at the 'Pool' School for Girls." - Miles.</p> <br /> <p>From the Preface "These books are not only designed to please children but to show the manners and customs of the ancient and modern people of Nippon. The fine illustrations afford an important aid in this respect. It is through the eye that the understanding itself is most quickly reached." </p> . Poole Women's College unknown
1873214113Japan. Meiji 6 1873. Four very attractive colour folded woodblock school posters 60 x 78cm each with accompanying woodblock printed textbook 32 double-folded leaves 22.5 x 15cm. Edges of posters worn with some minimal loss at margins the accompanying textbook is worn at edges with some thumb marks at lower corners but sound and generally clean. Overall good. Offers a fascinating glimpse into the beginnings of modern Japanese education. A wonderful collection of four primary school colour posters and a teacher's textbook dating to the very beginning of modern school education in Japan. The four posters contain sets of beautifully coloured and delicately printed pictures illustrating key words which children would be taught to read together with the corresponding kanji characters. The posters are divided by theme - one showing parts of the body and clothes; one showing crockery and cooking utensils; one with animals plants and tools; and one household items including a clock chair and abacus. They are particularly interesting for their combination of traditional Japanese and western items. The accompanying woodblock print text book 師範学校小学教授法 Shihan gakkō shōgaku kyōjuhō was published in Meiji 6 1873 and show how to explain each item in the classroom. <br> <br>The posters have the chops of Chikuma Prefecture current Nagano Prefecture and 1000 limited copies at the top. . hardcover
1886GT842London: Sunday School Association 1886. 1st Edition . Hardback. Fine. small 4to. 144pp. Nos 121-132 Jan -Dec 1886.Pub. blue hardback boards with little girl asleep with a dog standing guards 12 monthly issue for 1886 each with a large wood-cut cover and vinettes throughout. A surprisely scarce magazine in fine conditionwith an owners neat name to the attractive original floral end-papers. The rear board has an Cadbury's Coco advert with a little child holding a drink tray with a cup of Coco. <br/> <br/> Sunday School Association hardcover
19002081402109703789Yamamoto High School Alumni Association 1900. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Yamamoto High School Alumni Association paperback
18792092902143901756Arai Tashiro Meiji Shazo version 1879. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Arai Tashiro (Meiji Shazo version) paperback
18792092902143801941Arai Tashiro Meiji Shazo version 1879. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Arai Tashiro (Meiji Shazo version) paperback
186013891860. Pencil on cream-colored oak tag 10 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches 260 x 136 mm. Scattered light gray discoloration throughout rubbing with some small areas of associated loss in the lower left image area at the sheet edge. Inscriptions in pencil on the verso including an illegible signature. This charming landscape features the structure now known as the Worplesdon Place Hotel near Guildford Surrey. The house is of notable historical significance and it is registered to have been built in about 1845 by Sir William Bovill. Initially called Worplesdone Lodge the grand manse served as a private residence for the next 100 years and was owned by several notable people. In the 1950s it became a hotel and still operates in this manner today. Here we see the house soon after its completion with St. Mary the Virgin Church seen on the hill in the distance. unknown
185014321850. Pencil on cream wove paper 10 1/2 x 7 inches 267 x 178 mm. A few scattered light spots of discoloration and general toning. On the verso there is a partial non-archival inventory sticker as well as some light notations in pencil including the name "Corley. unknown
1863L018554Phillips & Hunt 1863. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. VG- in cloth cloth rubbed/corners bumped; slight internal stains and browning. 16mo 2935 pp Not located in either Wright or Halkett & Laing. 4pp publisher's ads at rear. Exterior as noted; slight wear to front and rear endpapers previous owner's marks else a very good copy of a rare children's title.5 b/w Illustrations including Frontispiece portrait. Phillips & Hunt unknown
18742082402113501862Monbusho 1874. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Monbusho paperback
183426035Italy 1834. Pen-and-ink watercolour and gouache painted black border titled and dated in white gouache in the lower margin within the border. Lovely 19th-century watercolour of Palermo.<br/> <br/> Catering to the foreigners flocking to the region on the Grand Tour this lovely watercolour shows the town of Palermo with its beautiful hills and mountains in the background with a large fort in the harbour with a British and French ship beside it. The sky is awash in pinks and blues displaying the incredible light of the region. unknown
1890460264Fredonia New York 1890. Hardcover. Good. Two notebooks with printed title: Normal Rhetorical Exercise Correction Book. Fredonia N.Y.: F.C. Chatsey Publisher Copyright 1886. Small quartos. Bound in quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards. Covers are rubbed and worn one front cover has some staining good overall. Both notebooks contain several book reports and essays on special topics written by Walter Pettit when he was a teenage student at the Fredonia Normal School.<br /> <br /> Both notebooks date from the late 1890s. In addition to reports on The House of the Seven Gables Gulliver’s Travels The Merchant of Venice Oliver Twist and other books; the notebooks include both fictional essays such as “My Flying Machine†and “A Trip to the North Pole†and personal essays on special topics. Here for example is an excerpt from an essay titled: “Should Lynching be Suppressedâ€:<br /> <br /> “One of the greatest evils in existence is lynching. That it should be abolished is evident. Many innocent people have met their death by this means and it still is in existence in the Southern States. Perhaps some person … suspected of a crime is imprisoned. A crowd collects and is excited by somebody over the crime … the jailor gives up the suspected criminal to the mob who immediately carry the poor man to the nearest tree … This incident is kept from the newspapers and the suspected criminal dies unmourned unknown. With hanging by authorities … the criminal has a chance for his life; he may plead his case before unprejudiced men. His death is not embittered by the taunts of an unfeeling multitude of men women and children many of whom are as bad as the criminal. The wretches who are the leaders in such a mob are far worse than the victim …â€<br /> <br /> Also included is a travelogue from Sitka Alaska to Dawson City then at the height of the gold rush written in the form of a letter:<br /> <br /> “Feb. 18 1898: Dawson City Canada / Dear Friend … We started from San Francisco … arrived at Sitka … the town consists of a number of Indian huts a few Russian and American residences … we accompanied an excursion party to the Yukon. This river is one of the largest in the world … upon its banks are a few Indian villages … and here and there ‘Totem poles’. These totem poles … are made of wood grotesquely carved with figures of men beasts and birds. Upon them are kept the records of the Indian’s ancestors. These Indians are a half civilized sneaking dirty race short in stature with small eyes. They act as guides around the settlements … While at Sitka we bought a large stock of groceries … We carried these with us when we went to Dawson. Our party consisted of ten Indians my partner and I. Our journey took three weeks … we reached this city in October and immediately rented the only vacant building in town … I wish you where here to wait on some of our customers. They bring in a bag of gold dust and we weigh out enough to pay for the groceries they buy. This city is in the midst of the gold fields. It is composed principally of saloons dancing halls theaters and gambling houses. The miners sleep in tents … we have rows nearly every night and thieves are as thick as mosquitos …â€<br /> <br /> A graduate of the Class of 1901 Pettit had quickly shed such early external prejudices against indigenous peoples and gold miners. He taught high school in the Philippines 1901-09 attended Teacher’s College at Columbia and served as a U.S. Government Special Relief Assistant in Russia during World War I. As Director of the New York School of Social Work Pettit won international acclaim for his work on the “interdependence of peoples and the strengthening of international relationsâ€.<br /> <br /> A compelling pair of notebooks that sheds light on Pettit’s early education in upstate New York. American Sociological Review December 1961 pp. 959-60. hardcover
189013431890. Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in blue ink on the recto as well as the Jaipur City Council blindstamp 13 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches 335 x 215 mm. Toning handling creases and minor scattered surface soiling throughout. There are scattered coeval inscriptions in ink on the recto and verso. The first revenue stamps in India were issued in the mid-nineteenth century during the Raj and they are still being issued to this day. Apart from issues for the whole of India many princely states provinces and other states also had or still have their own revenue stamp issues. Before independence Indian revenue stamps were closely modeled on similar designs from Great Britain as is the case with this carriage motif stamp from Jaipur. <br /> <br /> The stamps were issued to denote various denominations including rupees and annas. An anna or Änna was a currency unit formerly used in British India equal to 1â„16 of a rupee. It was subdivided into four old Paisa or twelve pies thus there were 192 pies in a rupee. When the rupee was decimalized and subdivided into 100 new paise one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise. This particular stamp was used as evidence of court taxes remitted for property dealings. unknown
18972111902160602815Nishimura Gohokan Collection Edition 1897. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Nishimura Gohokan Collection Edition paperback
1883215London: English Printmakers 1883. Etching with aquatint and stipple on cream laid paper 7 x 4 3/4 inches 175 x 120 mm full margins. With a stamped signature including the date in the lower right image area and the English Pintmakers blind stamp lower left sheet margin. In very good condition with extremely small dog-ear shaped hard crease lower left sheet corner. A lovely 19th century Parisien interior scene. English Printmakers unknown
185072325ca 1850. Chinese rice paper. Size: 170 x 280 mm Framed size: 315 x 425 mm Good condition. unknown
189013391890. Ink and gouache with yellow heightening on fibrous brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto and the Jaipur State Council Stamp dated June 5 1894 and the 1889 Jaipur State Council stamp in black ink on the verso 12 1/2 x 9 inches 318 x 230 mm. Toning handling creases and minor scattered surface soiling throughout. There are scattered coeval Hindi inscriptions in ink on the recto. The first revenue stamps in India were issued in the mid-nineteenth century during the Raj and they are still being issued to this day. Apart from issues for the whole of India many princely states provinces and other states also had or still have their own revenue stamp issues. Before independence Indian revenue stamps were closely modeled on similar designs from Great Britain as is the case with this carriage motif stamp from Jaipur. <br /> <br /> The stamps were issued to denote various denominations including rupees and annas. An anna or Änna was a currency unit formerly used in British India equal to 1â„16 of a rupee. It was subdivided into four old Paisa or twelve pies thus there were 192 pies in a rupee. When the rupee was decimalized and subdivided into 100 new paise one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise. This particular stamp was used as evidence of court taxes remitted for property dealings. unknown
1860218670東京. Tokyo. circa1860s. Three colour woodblock prints a triptych panels loose each approx 38.5 x 25.4cms Japanese text artist's signature publisher's seal and date in the outer margin of the centre and right-hand panels and in the inner margin of the left-hand panel slivers of paper tape strengthening the top margin to the verso of each print pin-holes to the corners from previous display with loss to the lower right corners and the inner corner of the left-hand panel paper a little dusty and soiled but overall in good condition. Wonderful satirical woodblocks with muted tonings possibly from the composition for "Sumo wrestling match of Seven Lucky Gods" replacing the gods with actors as aging sumo wrestlers surrounded by onlooking geisha and fellow actors in masks and costume. <br> <br>From the collection of the late John Caiger lecturer in Asian studies ANU. . unknown
1846007435New York: Lane & Tippett 1846 180 pages. In the original binding. Early owner's signature and old damp stains to the margins of pages. Size: Small 8vo. Illus. by Illustrated with three engravings. First American Edition. Leather and Marbled Boards. Good. Lane & Tippett hardcover
18782080502106501451Sairyu-sha 1878. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Sairyu-sha paperback
18742081002108700741Not Available 1874. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: Small Japanese paper Number of books: 4 Not Available paperback
18742090502130300239Osaka Prefectural Office of Education 1874. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Osaka Prefectural Office of Education paperback
18802080202106300477Not Available 1880. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
18782080502106601118Not Available 1878. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
18772082402113500964Monbusho 1877. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Monbusho paperback
