Bernard (Claude ; 1813-1878) :Livre Rare Book
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187520987Paris, Librairie J.B. Baillière et fils ; Londres, Baillère, Tindall and Cox ; Madrid, Bailly-Baillière, 1875 ; in-8, demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, titre doré (reliure de l’époque) ; VII, 536pp, 7 figures in-texte.
612 pages. Chronology of the Boxer Uprising. Glossary and key of Chinese terms. Black and white illustrations. "Containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese; oriental splendors; superstitions; secret societies; the opium habit; idol worship; industries; great cities; natural scenery; etc.... This great work contains full accounts of recent atrocities in China... Profusely illustrated with scenes in China and all objects of interest in that wonderful country." - from title page. Above-average wear and soiling. Hinges open. Partial lean to spine. Brown staining to lower corner of first ten leaves - text unaffected. A worthy copy of this chauvinistic work. Book
184956871Edo Tokyo: n.p. Kaei 2 1849. Five vols. Tall 8vo. 40; 44; 48; 42; 34 pp. With 1 double-page colour woodblock map 18 double-page woodblocks 7 w/ colour 1 single-page woodblock plate. Uniformly bound in textured embossed pattern limp softcovers manuscript titles punch-sewn at gutter margins wear soiling some worming through fore-edges text in portions thumbing to fore-edges soiling lower 2/3 of front title leaf stating “Forbidden from Sale†torn away still a G- reference set of this noted rarity. First edition of the author’s “second series†recounting further events in the First Opium War fought between Great Britain and China in 1839-1842. The text and illustrations vividly stressed the terrible effects of opium on Qing Dynasty China and the brave Chinese resisting the British military. Buttressed with striking illustrations by Utagawa Sadahide 1807-1879/79 which depict such incidents as Chinese fire-boats approaching a British warship; a captured spy; Chenshi the Monk putting up a valiant fight; a Chinese Woman warrior fighting the British; a Taiwanese fort sinking a British Warship; the fall of Zhenhai; French diplomatic ships arriving on the Yangtze and even an omen appearing in the heavens. In addition there are a number of woodblock prints depicting British cannons mortars and firearms employed during the Opium Wars. The Kaigai Shinwa printed on Mino paper was written in a sensationalistic and simple style with Japanese syllabaries attached to all Chinese characters and intended as a cautionary tale advising Japan and other Asian countries of the pitfalls of foreign invaders and intervention just four years before the appearance of Perry’s squadron in Tokyo Bay. Mineta Fuko 1817-1883 was thrown into prison for having published the work without official consent and later after he was released was deprived of the right to live in Edo Kyoto or Osaka -- the santo kamae tri-urban banishment and many of the volumes were seized and others were censored or removed. See: Timothy Brook & Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Opium Regimes: China Britain and Japan 1839-1952 2000 pp. 60-65; Masuda Wataru Seigaku tozen to Chukoku jijo: zassho sakki The Eastern Spread of Western Learning and Conditions in China: Notes on Various Books 14. Kaigai Shinwa. . . Tokyo 1979 Translated by Joshua A. Fogel UCSB pp. 27-39. n.p., paperback
175315196Lyon les Frères Bruyset Libraires 1753 -in-4- plein-veau 1 volume comprenant 3 parties en 1 vol. in-4° - reliés ensemble , reliure plein veau blond marbré et raçiné in-quarto (binding full calfskin in-quarto), dos 5 nerfs (spine with 5 raised bands), décorations "or" et à froid (gil and blind stamping decoration), titre frappé "or", pièce de titre sur fond bordeaux avec double filets "or" en encadrement, Tomaison frappée "or" avec une large roulette "or" de part et d'autre dans un encadrement de deux filets "or", entre-nerfs à fleuron "or" au fer évidé dans un encadrement d'un double filet "or" avec rinceaux "or" aux angles, roulette large "or"en tête et en pied, double filets "or" sur les coupes (double gilt line on the cuts)avec léger manque de dorure (blurred gilding), marque-page en tissu vert (bookmark in green tissue), toutes tranches lisses rouges (all red edges), pages de garde peignées à motif "coquille sur fond caillouté" (painting endpapers - model shell on paved bottom), étiquette Ex-Libris Gravée en noir au dos du 1er plat : EX-LIBRIS J. LAISSUS, titre imprimé en rouge et noir, illustrations : 1 frontispice gravé sur cuivre en noir + front de chapitres, lettrines et culs de lampes gravés sur bois en noir pour les deux volumes de la Pharmacopée et 6 planches dépliantes gravées sur cuivre en noir in fine pour les Eaux minérales [ 5 représentent les appareils nécessaires aux préparations pharmaceutiques et la dernière le tableau des symboles chimiques] (1 frontispiece for the two books of the Pharmacopée and 6 folding plates at rear for Eaux Minérales), sans rousseur ni piqûre ni mouillure (without redness mark - without small point of redness mark - without scar of waterstain), XVI+876 (pagination commune pour les deux premiers tomes) et 72 pages avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi, 1753 à Lyon Chez les Frères Bruyset Libraires - rue Mercière au Soleil et à la Croix d'Or,
1909173663London.: Printed for the HMSO by Darling & Son. February1909. Two Parliamentary Papers: <br>Volume I: title contents 98pp final blank; Volume III. title Index three large folding charts one coloured showing the sales of opium between 1902-1905 Appendices Subject Index 280 pp; both 32.5 x 21.1cm original blue title wrappers slightly creased spines discoloued with wear and slight loss to the head and foot of each volume III with two blue ink library stamps but very good clean examples. Important and scarce primary material relating to the use of opium in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. Volumes I and III were issued in the series of Parliamentary papers of Great Britain as Papers by command. Volume II containing the Minutes of Evidence was not published for sale. <br> <br>Volume I publishes 17 sections which include the effects and prevalence of opium use attempts at prohibition and restrictive measures including the registration of smokers reduction in the number of opium outlets and increasing price. Volume III includes analysis and evidence given by 74 witnesses on a range of issues relating to opium smoking followed by 99 short appendices. Both de-accessioned from the University of Hull Library sold with a copy of a letter of confirmation of de-accession. . Printed for the HMSO by Darling & Son. unknown
16260044501626 Lyon, Barthelemy Vincent, 1626. Deux ouvrages reliés en un volume petit in-8 (115 X 179 mm) vélin souple à coutures apparentes, titre calligraphié au dos à l'encre noire (Reliure de l'époque); (4) ff. dont feuillet de titre, 342 pages (dont une planche à pleine page p. 338), (1) f. de planche et privilège au verso, (7) planches dépliantes - 313 pages, (4) pages de table. Petites restaurations à la reliure et au feuillet de titre.
1870304527Chicago: Evening Journal Print No. 46 Dearborn Street 1870. First edition possibly a later state. 73 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue morocco title blocked in gilt on upper cover leafy roll border to boards marbled endsheets. Some rubbing. First edition possibly a later state. 73 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare Work on Treating Opium Addiction. First edition of this work on opium addiction in the U.S. concerning the discovery of a patent cure of Opium addiction by Samuel B. Collins and his correspondence with Fitz Hugh Ludlow editor of the Easy Chair column in Harper's and an acknowledged opium addict. Ludlow had published several chapters in The Opium Habit with Suggestions as to the Remedy 1868. Collins titles the first section An Answer to "What Shall They Do To Be Saved".<br/><br/>The work shows signs of being hastily printed referring to letters dated June 1870 and the Harper's column for August 1870. The last few pages are set in a smaller font but forming part of the last gathering and record a dispute with Henry Read over the marketing of Collins' cure and pledges of testimonials to be published in the Easy Chair that were never honored because of Ludlow's death; the last page bears memorial bands across top and bottom and begins: "A letter conveying the mournful tidings of the death of Fitz Hugh Ludlow was received by Dr. Collins ."; the elegy concludes ". for He has found the Fountain of Eternal Youth Fitz Hugh Ludlow can never grow old." Ludlow died in Switzerland on 12 September 1870.<br/><br/>Scarce institutionally and in the trade. Only the copy recorded at the Toner Collection Library of Congress shelfmark RC371.O6 C7 1870a has pagination similar to this copy. It appears to have been regularly reprinted: a sixth edition is noted with date 1871 Library Company of Philadelphia. A copy digitized at the National Library of Medicine http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/66640200R bears the date 1870 on the title page but the pagination is different and the book manifestly printed later blurred type in the imprint and the text on page 69 referring to a letter dated 26 January 1871; the digitized copy from the Library of Congress has a date of 1870 on the title but a preliminary page bears an accession stamp dated 1881; this would appear to be the copy cited by Cordasco 109 pp. Cordasco 70-021 Evening Journal Print, No. 46 Dearborn Street unknown books
12084Paris, Editions J. Terquem, 1926. 1 volume in-4 broché, couverture souple illustrée, sous étui toilé gris et sous coffret cartonné brique, illustré de 19 eaux-fortes dont 9 hors texte et de 9 vignettes gravées sur bois par Henri le Riche, superbe exemplaire en parfait état.
12963Paris, Javal et Bourdeaux, 1928. 1 volume in-4, orné de 16 planches hors texte gravées par Gaston Prost d'après Tsuguharu Foujita et coloriées au pochoir. En feuilles, couverture originale imprimée, chemise cartonné etboîte en cartonnage saumon de l'éditeur avec pièce de titre imprimé
184316305Londres, Paris, Fisher, (1843-1845) ; 4 tomes reliés en 2 volumes in 4, demi chagrin vert empire, dos à faux nerfs, fleurons et titre dorés (reliure de l’époque) ; (4), 68, 26 pp. ; 76 pp. ; 74 pp. ; 73, (3) pp. et en tout, 4 titres gravés avec une vignette et 124 planches hors-texte gravées sur acier, protégées par une serpente.
1862160274Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1862. With the atlas of eight finely engraved maps First edition with the scarce wrappers retained of this official French account of the Franco-British expedition northwards to Beijing together with a well-preserved first edition of the accompanying atlas volume. The detailed narrative encompasses such pivotal moments as the third battle of the Taku Forts the taking of Tianjin the burning of the Summer Palace and the battles of Zhangjiawan and Tongzhou. The finely engraved atlas includes maps of the Chinese coast the December 1857 capture of Canton the occupation of Tianjin by Anglo-French naval forces in May 1859 and the Western camp at Chefoo. Four other maps all folding show the Franco-British landing at Peh-tang the battles of Zhangjiawan and Baliqiao and the route of the Western advance from the mouth of the Peiho to Beijing. These works were produced at the behest of the Dépôt de la Guerre the country's principal military archive and cartographic institution. Between 1852 and 1867 the Dépôt was run by Antoine Lucien Blondel 1801-1883 a major military cartographer. From 1859 Blondel reported to Jacques Louis César Alexandre Randon 1795-1871 a veteran of Napoleon's European campaigns and Marshal of France from 1856. Two works. Atlas comprising 8 maps 4 folding with occasional hand-colouring all engraved by Erhard Schièble. Relation: quarto 281 x 200 mm. Mid-20th-century green boards Claude Honnelaitre brown spine label lettered in gilt original green wrappers tipped-in top and bottom edge trimmed fore edge untrimmed. Atlas: folio. Original green cloth-backed orange boards front cover lettered in black. Wrappers well-preserved with some staining and a few small losses atlas volume with soiling to boards couple of surface losses on rear cover and wear to extremities text and maps clean atlas with just occasional foxing. Very good copies indeed. Cordier 2nd edition 2496. hardcover
1861152570Tientsin: 1861. Peace reigns in Tianjin after the bloody taking of the Taku Forts Highly engaging album the core of which comprises 26 sketches of Tientsin Tianjin in 1861 sketched by Ensign Francis Sadleir Brereton the year following the conclusion of the Second Opium War; with additional views of Singapore and Java. A unique visual record of Qing dynasty Tianjin as seen through the eyes of a young British army officer. Brereton 1838-1911 was commissioned ensign in the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia in November 1855 transferring to the 2nd Battalion 60th Rifles in December of the same year. Even among sharpshooters he was clearly a crack shot serving as inspector of musketry and winning both the Ladies' Purse and Challenge Prize. In 1857 he sailed with his battalion to South Africa. Following service in India during the Rebellion and in China during the Second Opium War he resigned his commission in 1865. He afterwards practised as an architect with his father-in-law Frederick Beeston then independently as an architect and surveyor. In 1889 he was elected to serve on the first London County Council. During the 18th century drawing masters were established at the military training centres at Woolwich Chatham High Wycombe and Addiscombe with the aim of instructing officer cadets in drawing and watercolour. Although there is no record of Brereton having studied in this way his sketchbook comprises an accomplished series of views very much in the tradition of the soldier-artist. In light of his subsequent career his interest in architectural detail is evident in a number of highly worked and painstaking sketches of temples and cityscapes occasionally employing dense hachures and some interesting compositional framing. To the modern eye they have a haunted quality reminiscent of the deserted vistas of Giorgio de Chirico. Views are in the main captioned on verso some at lower right of image all of Tientsin each dated 1861 and initialled unless otherwise noted: View of traditional roundhouses in a landscape "Head Quarters Square 2/60th Royal Rifles" "South West angle Tien Tsin Wall" "Mahomedan Temple" "Bell Temple" "Treaty Joss House" "Pallisir's Grave" Lieut. John R. Palliser 2. Battalion 1st Royal Foot died of fever after taking part in the capture of the Taku Forts "Old Castle near Tien Tsin" View of wall and fort View of fortified tower Three temples "South Forts" double-sheet panorama "Angles of Treaty Joss House" "Treaty Joss House" "Tien Tsin from West Gate" "West Gate from the Wall" "Tien Tsin from East Gate" "Tien Tsin from North Gate" "North Gate Tien Tsin from street" "Tien Tsin from South Gate" "English burial ground & Treaty Joss House from South Gate" "Chinese Graves French Side Tien Tsin" "South Forts Tien Tsin" "South Taku Fort" "2nd North Taku Fort" "Chinamans Houses French Side Tien Tsin" 59th Regiment graveyard "Singapore" seascape "Singapore Nov. 16 1861" double-sheet panorama of the coastline showing junks and ships Java double-sheet panorama with shipping in the foreground View of palm trees in a mountainous landscape Plus another 26 views and sketches 6 double-sheet executed later with appealing panoramas in the west of Scotland Dunoon Tarbert Dumbarton Bowling and elsewhere. The album is accompanied by a typed letter by the popular boys author Lt.-Col. F. S. Brereton 1872-1957 reading in full: "These sketches were made by my father Ensign Frank Sadleir Brereton 2nd Battn. 60th Rifles when on service with his regiment in China 1861. The first action in which he was engaged was I believe an attack on the Taku Forts when he and a small command went over the side and waded ashore" undated personal stationery. Albums such as this are certainly not common on the open market and this is a particularly attractive exemplar. Landscape octavo 105 x 182 mm. Contemporary dark red roan sketchbook by Henry Penny metal clasp stamped with his name label to front pocket gilt patterned endpapers marbled edges; some 60 leaves in all 26 with views of Tientsin and environs plus blanks one of two leaves toward the end excised. Housed in a burgundy cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Loss of leather at foot of spine minor scuffing expected rubbing and signs of handling otherwise remarkably well preserved. hardcover
