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KALLYE HUICH’AN or Gallye huichan 簡禮彙纂 Compilation of Rites for the Bamboo Slips

Best.-Nr. 84521 6 11 47 folding leaves. Large 8vo orig. yellow patterned wrappers wrappers a little soiled orig. block-printed title label on upper cover new stitching. Korea: 1870s. A rare anonymous manual for the general education of writers of classical Chinese from late ChosÅn Korea. The term “bamboo slips” originally referred to the material supports of writing in antiquity. In classical Chinese usage of later ages — and in this title — the phrase was used metonymically in reference to the implements and genres of classical Chinese writing. This book covers the four “rites” of capping marriage funerals and sacrifices. Each rite had specific genres associated with it which a reader of the book would learn to practice. Ample advice is included for writing letters to parents children teachers and friends — and words to use when referring to these individuals — as well as servants and slaves. While focused on the acquisition of everyday writing skills in classical Chinese this book brings to mind a larger genre of so-called “daily use encyclopedias” Ch.: riyong leishu 日用類書 which flourished in East Asia from at least the 16th century onward but had older antecedents. Those books provided readers even from lower social strata with information for use in a variety of areas. Our book with its national viewpoint and inclusion of elements of elite writing such as classical Chinese verse probably envisaged a rather more elite readership or at least one that had aspirations of social advancement. Who actually used this book is another question of course and the Compilation offers some hints: the pictured page from the list of “state taboos” contains marginalia that is written in part in vernacular Korean in the han’gŭl alphabet with nouns written in Chinese characters. From what we see of the text it appears that it concerns the ritual of entering the tablet of a recently deceased ancestor to the temple. This is also referred to in the printed text below in the context of the succession of kings and consorts. Vernacular writing was widely practiced within the ChosÅn elite but the brushstrokes — for whatever reason — look a bit hesitant. On the basis of the phrases used in the list to refer to the ChosÅn kings and royal consorts researchers have concluded that the edition dates from the reign of King Kojong but before the death of Queen MyÅngsÅng that is sometime between 1864 and 1895. A very good copy. Marginal worming in the final 14 leaves. Our copy agrees with the Harvard copy WorldCat accession number 40692963. unknown books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · Vereinigte Staaten3.000,00 $≈ 2.680,25 €

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Aula Veneris. Sive Varietas Foeminini Sexus diversarum Europae Nationum. The Court of Venus; or Varieties of the Female Sex of the Different Nations of Europe

1830Best.-Nr. 0046431830. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Very Good. An exquisite manuscript copy of plates from the 1644 work by Wencelaus Hollar. While a copy the pen-and-ink work here is absolutely exceptional requiring a loupe or magnifying glass to fully appreciate the niceties of detailing achieved by the artist copier. It is also clear that this copier did not merely trace the original work. Heightening the pen-and-ink work are touches of watercolor. 8vo. 173 by 117 mm. Unpaginated half-title page with a handwritten copy of the verse from "The Merchant of Venice entitled "The Folly of Fashion the Deceit of Ornament or Appearance" second title copied from the 1644 work followed by 36 mounted pen and ink copies of fashion etchings from the 1644 work and a final page with a drawing of a trophy and two musings written out. The drawings besides being meticulous with near-microscopic detail are austere with the pen and ink work heightened with only touches of flesh color for the women's faces and tiny dabs of gold for jewelry buttons and the like. The austerity we would stress is befitting the fashions represented as the early and mid-17th century was a time that garments tended to be more monochromatic and sober meant to suggest piety as any student of portraits from this era coincident with the Puritan Revolution and religious wars on the continent would have absorbed. And we would add the austerity is not just of the dress but also the expression on the women depicted here. The flesh color applied to the faces and also hands is just as nuanced as everything else about these portraits. There is a gradient of coloration capturing very realistically the actual pigment of human flesh. The one exception to the limited color usage is a depiction of a woman from Virginia a Native American whose bare garment is painted red and who is wearing jewelry that is captured with bolder applications of gold. This exotic specimen also shows a woman with a tattoo on her arms something that was completely alien from European cultures at the time. The Virginian is not the only non-European depicted however as there is a woman from Algiers a Moresco woman an Argentinian. Also shown is a Turkish woman and the dress shown is from different strata of the societies represented. Short cursive handwritten captions identify for us where the model is from. All the handwriting including on the title the poem etc. is rendered in a tight minute script. Unfortunately there is no indication who the artist copyist was other than the initials PC by several of the drawings. In the front there is an ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Cobbett. There is a watercolored bookplate with the Hillman family crest. unknown books

White Fox Rare Books and Antiques · Vereinigte Staaten3.250,00 $≈ 2.903,60 €

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Autograph Letter Franklin Venango County Pennsylvania May 10th 1862 to Theora Describing a Trip to Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania

Best.-Nr. 31108octavo 4 pages unsigned possible incomplete in very good condition. The writer describes his travels in Pittsburg and other western Pennsylvania towns he provides an epistolary tour of Pittsburg's industries of the day an oil refinery comments on the pollution "earth and air are impregnated with the aroma of petroleum" lumber raftsmen and iron mills before continuing on to New Brighton New Castle and Franklin in Venango County: "My dear Theora … My letter from Pittsburg was written on Thursday morning and mailed then and there so I suppose you have read it before this time and I shall start from the point where I left off …. After taking my breakfast at the St. Nicholas which by the way was an excellent one and at the moderate charge of 25 cents I turned out to view the city went to P. Office with your letter and thence across the Allegheny river and through the city of Allegheny to the heights beyond from which a fine view of the rivers and surrounding country could be obtained – rambled over a German Catholic cemetery on one of the highest hills and then descended towards the river and found myself on plunging down into a deep ravine in what I supposed by the stables and shanties around to be the Irish town or suburb but the steep hill sides were terraced and laid out in rude gardens or graperies indicating a German population in part if not in whole. I threaded my way out towards the shore where a number of oil refineries are located. I entered one of them and discoursed the proprietor upon the subject of coal oil and he very politely showed me through his refinery and described the various processes and operations to which the crude material is subjected reserving only to himself the final chemical mystery which of course no "outsider" has a right to enquire into. He made me a present of a vial filled with the purified oil – transparent warranted to be non-explosive and to burn without smoke or odor in any properly constructed lamp; of which oil he offered to sell me one hundred barrels more or less at 20 cents per gallon! Cheap and brilliant light indeed. After parting from him I wandered among the oil boats rafts and bins lying along shore all so saturated with oil and the barrels which cover the landings and surrounding commons leak so profusely that earth and air are impregnated with aroma of petroleum and even the beautifully transparent waters of the Allegheny are glazed with a coating of the same material borne on the current towards the gulf of Mexico. I crossed by a different bridge to the Pittsburg side and got among the lumber raftsmen who tried to sell me shingles at $ 1.25 per bunch of 500 and boards proportionately low but I was not ready to purchase and left them for a peep at some of the large iron mills close at hand. These mills abound along the margin of both the Allegheny and Monongahela but more particularly in Manchester which is across the latter river from Pittsburg. You may wonder how I had so much leisure time and I may state that a gentleman with whom I had conversation upon the subject of reaching the oil region informed me that he had wells and property here and that he preferred to travel by the New Castle rout when the Allegheny was not full enough for Steamboats to run. By this rout passengers take the cars as I did by the accommodation train of the Pittsburg and Chicago R. R. at 4.45 in the afternoon. As that hour approached I recrossed to Allegheny City where the depot is paid 55 cents for a ticket to New Brighton on the Beaver river a distance of 28 miles where we arrived about 6 ½ o'clock after a very pleasant run along the margin of the Ohio among gardens and truck patches villas and towns so numerous that I cannot name near all of them but there was Industry Economy and Freedom - very good and suggestive titles; besides Rochester at the mouth of Beaver and but a short distance below New Brighton. This latter is a very pretty manufacturing town there being a grand water power here equal to Manayunk which propels machinery for a variety of purposes among which are the making of tub buckets woolen shawls and numberless other articles. After taking supper at a well conducted hotel in the town we prepared for a night travel by that now antiquated and almost obsolete conveyance a canal packet which carries passengers from that point to New Castle distant 26 miles by the Beaver Canal they being expected to pay one dollar for the privilege of taking a berth and waking up in the morning in the latter town which your geography will tell you is the seat of justice of Lawrence County. The evening being cool on deck the captain thought to consult the comfort of the sleepers about 20 in number by making a fire in the cabin stove after they had retired to rest and as my berth was immediately along side of it came pretty near to being roasted. The consequence was very indifferent rest but fortunately I did not take cold and after partaking of a ramble around the little town and a very palatable breakfast at the Cochran house some 10 or 11 of our boat passengers too coach for this town of Franklin and intermediate points via Meadville which is made the dining station. Our teams were not first rate and the road but a clay one over a hilly country made the travel very slow and it was sunset by the time we had overcome the 43 miles of distance and after climbing nearly two miles uphill and descending the same distance again we entered this metropolis of Venango County dusty tired and ready for supper and rest …" books

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