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rif. 942031 folding leaves. Large 8vo 305 x 190 mm. orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers wrappers slightly soiled new stitching. Yeongju: 1774. First edition and very rare of this gazetteer for the Confucian Three Peaks Academy WorldCat 46318280. The word “gazetteer” is used in reference to a genre of East Asian historical and geographical texts generally known in Korea as ŭpchi 邑志 which translates roughly to “local treatises.” The now rare word “gazetteer” is used in analogy with a similar genre that existed in British India. It was not unusual for Korean gazetteers to be published by a local Confucian academy as seems to be the case here. Confucian academies were important centers of intellectual life in ChosÅn Korea. Several of the leading thinkers of the era spent parts of their career teaching at academies thus creating a following. The Three Peaks Academy Sambong sÅwÅn 三峰書院 was founded in the village Valley of Three Peaks sambonggol 三峰谷 in 1654. The colophon explains the genesis of the gazetteer: “The late Mr. Ch’Ål-nam éµå— i.e. Kim Si-hwa é‡‘å§‹éµ 1662-1772 wrote and edited the gazetteer taking note of the geographical features and dates of buildings the positions and names of halls houses ponds and lookouts and recording them for posterity.” Kim Si-hwa furthermore recorded key events in the lives of scholars who had taught at the academy. Kim Wi 金㙔 1709-89 who authored the colophon dated 1774 wrote about the updates that had been made to Kim Si-hwa’s text for our edition. We find no record of an earlier printing; probably Kim Si-hwa’s text was first published in this edition. Nice copy. WorldCat locates only the Berkeley copy. References Digital culture encyclopedia for Yeongju 디지털ì˜ì£¼ë¬¸í™”ëŒ€ì „. http://www.grandculture.net/yeongju Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System í•œêµê³ 문헌종합목ë¡. https://www.nl.go.kr/korcis/index.do PÅk’ŭlli taehak Tongasia tosÅgwan sujip Han’guk kojÅnjÅk mongnok 버í´ë¦¬ëŒ€í•™ ë™ì•„시아ë„서관 수집 韓國å¤å…¸ç±ç›®éŒ„. Seoul: KoryÅ taehakkyo minjok munhwa yÅn'guwÅn 2009. “Sambong ha sambong sÅwÅn maŭl ‘Sambonggol’” 삼봉三峯 下 삼봉서ì›ä¸‰å³¯æ›¸é™¢ ë§ˆì„ ‘삼봉골三峯谷’. YÅngju simin sinmun ì˜ì£¼ì‹œë¯¼ì‹ 문 November 26 2018. https://www.yjinews.com/news/articleView.htmlidxno=49174. unknown
rif. 942031 folding leaves. Large 8vo 305 x 190 mm. orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers wrappers slightly soiled new stitching. Yeongju: 1774. First edition and very rare of this gazetteer for the Confucian Three Peaks Academy WorldCat 46318280. The word “gazetteer” is used in reference to a genre of East Asian historical and geographical texts generally known in Korea as ŭpchi 邑志 which translates roughly to “local treatises.” The now rare word “gazetteer” is used in analogy with a similar genre that existed in British India. It was not unusual for Korean gazetteers to be published by a local Confucian academy as seems to be the case here. Confucian academies were important centers of intellectual life in ChosÅn Korea. Several of the leading thinkers of the era spent parts of their career teaching at academies thus creating a following. The Three Peaks Academy Sambong sÅwÅn 三峰書院 was founded in the village Valley of Three Peaks sambonggol 三峰谷 in 1654. The colophon explains the genesis of the gazetteer: “The late Mr. Ch’Ål-nam éµå— i.e. Kim Si-hwa é‡‘å§‹éµ 1662-1772 wrote and edited the gazetteer taking note of the geographical features and dates of buildings the positions and names of halls houses ponds and lookouts and recording them for posterity.” Kim Si-hwa furthermore recorded key events in the lives of scholars who had taught at the academy. Kim Wi 金㙔 1709-89 who authored the colophon dated 1774 wrote about the updates that had been made to Kim Si-hwa’s text for our edition. We find no record of an earlier printing; probably Kim Si-hwa’s text was first published in this edition. Nice copy. WorldCat locates only the Berkeley copy. References Digital culture encyclopedia for Yeongju 디지털ì˜ì£¼ë¬¸í™”ëŒ€ì „. http://www.grandculture.net/yeongju Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System í•œêµê³ 문헌종합목ë¡. https://www.nl.go.kr/korcis/index.do PÅk’ŭlli taehak Tongasia tosÅgwan sujip Han’guk kojÅnjÅk mongnok 버í´ë¦¬ëŒ€í•™ ë™ì•„시아ë„서관 수집 韓國å¤å…¸ç±ç›®éŒ„. Seoul: KoryÅ taehakkyo minjok munhwa yÅn'guwÅn 2009. “Sambong ha sambong sÅwÅn maŭl ‘Sambonggol’” 삼봉三峯 下 삼봉서ì›ä¸‰å³¯æ›¸é™¢ ë§ˆì„ ‘삼봉골三峯谷’. YÅngju simin sinmun ì˜ì£¼ì‹œë¯¼ì‹ 문 November 26 2018. https://www.yjinews.com/news/articleView.htmlidxno=49174. unknown books
rif. 8576Many fine black & white double-page & single-page woodcuts throughout. Ten vols. 8vo orig. blue semi-stiff wrappers orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers three labels are somewhat defective new stitching. Osaka: Tenmaya Yasubei; Kyoto: Yoshida Jihei 1835. with: — & MATSUKAWA Hanzan; —. Ehon Toyotomi Ryukyu gunki Illustrated Tale of the Ryukyu War. Many fine black & white double-page & single-page woodcuts throughout six in Vol. I are color-printed. Ten vols. 8vo orig. pale blue patterned wrappers orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Osaka: Kawachiya Tobei & Kawachiya Mohei colophon dated 1864; title-page dated 1862. First edition of these finely illustrated stories of the conquest of the Ryukyu kingdom in 1609 by the Shimazu clan of southern Kyushu. The main artist Okada Gyokuzan Issei or Ishida is a rather shadowy figure; he probably studied under the famous Okada Gyokuzan of Osaka but we know very little about him. The second work Ehon Toyotomi Ryukyu gunki has an additional artist Matsukawa Hanzan 1818-82 who studied painting under Suga Shoho and worked in Osaka as a book illustrator. This is a splendid example of an ehon yomihon a type of long novel combining text with frequent illustrations. Our works are finely illustrated throughout with scenes of battles the notable figures in the conquest both winners and losers historical figures scenes of important ceremonies scenes of the extravagant lifestyles of the Ryukyu royal family seen in their gardens famous castles etc. The most useful captions in each woodcut name participants and explain the scene. The woodcuts are clear and impactful; many of the scenes have a pronounced Chinese atmosphere. Several types of battles are shown: conflicts involving cavalry fighting in the water assaults on castles hand to hand combat etc. In the first series Vol. I has a single-page woodcut world map and Vol. III has a fine double-page woodcut map of Ryukyu and its 36 islands. In the first volume of the second series are six full-page woodcut portraits of the heroic leaders of the Shimazu clan’s military forces in full attire with wonderfully delicate color printing. The text furnishes important details on the history of the relationship between Ryukyu and China and Japan; the quantities and types of weapons and number of soldiers drummers and doctors including veterinarians who traveled by ship to Ryukyu; and the major military actions of the conquest. These statistics are broken down by the contributions of men and materiel made by each region of Satsuma. The names of the leaders of each military section are given; we believe this is unique information. Family crests and banner symbols are depicted. Fine and fresh copies. Rare when complete and in excellent condition like our sets; WorldCat lists only the University of Hawaii copies part of the famous Frank Hawley Ryukyu collection. In Vol. 9 of the first series there is misnumbering but the text is absolutely complete and is identical to the set in the National Diet Library. unknown
rif. 8576Many fine black & white double-page & single-page woodcuts throughout. Ten vols. 8vo orig. blue semi-stiff wrappers orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers three labels are somewhat defective new stitching. Osaka: Tenmaya Yasubei; Kyoto: Yoshida Jihei 1835. with: — & MATSUKAWA Hanzan; —. Ehon Toyotomi Ryukyu gunki Illustrated Tale of the Ryukyu War. Many fine black & white double-page & single-page woodcuts throughout six in Vol. I are color-printed. Ten vols. 8vo orig. pale blue patterned wrappers orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Osaka: Kawachiya Tobei & Kawachiya Mohei colophon dated 1864; title-page dated 1862. First edition of these finely illustrated stories of the conquest of the Ryukyu kingdom in 1609 by the Shimazu clan of southern Kyushu. The main artist Okada Gyokuzan Issei or Ishida is a rather shadowy figure; he probably studied under the famous Okada Gyokuzan of Osaka but we know very little about him. The second work Ehon Toyotomi Ryukyu gunki has an additional artist Matsukawa Hanzan 1818-82 who studied painting under Suga Shoho and worked in Osaka as a book illustrator. This is a splendid example of an ehon yomihon a type of long novel combining text with frequent illustrations. Our works are finely illustrated throughout with scenes of battles the notable figures in the conquest both winners and losers historical figures scenes of important ceremonies scenes of the extravagant lifestyles of the Ryukyu royal family seen in their gardens famous castles etc. The most useful captions in each woodcut name participants and explain the scene. The woodcuts are clear and impactful; many of the scenes have a pronounced Chinese atmosphere. Several types of battles are shown: conflicts involving cavalry fighting in the water assaults on castles hand to hand combat etc. In the first series Vol. I has a single-page woodcut world map and Vol. III has a fine double-page woodcut map of Ryukyu and its 36 islands. In the first volume of the second series are six full-page woodcut portraits of the heroic leaders of the Shimazu clan’s military forces in full attire with wonderfully delicate color printing. The text furnishes important details on the history of the relationship between Ryukyu and China and Japan; the quantities and types of weapons and number of soldiers drummers and doctors including veterinarians who traveled by ship to Ryukyu; and the major military actions of the conquest. These statistics are broken down by the contributions of men and materiel made by each region of Satsuma. The names of the leaders of each military section are given; we believe this is unique information. Family crests and banner symbols are depicted. Fine and fresh copies. Rare when complete and in excellent condition like our sets; WorldCat lists only the University of Hawaii copies part of the famous Frank Hawley Ryukyu collection. In Vol. 9 of the first series there is misnumbering but the text is absolutely complete and is identical to the set in the National Diet Library. unknown books
1930rif. 015758Paris Editions Kra - Collection «Club des soixante» n°1 1930 In-4 Reliure Edition originale Dédicacé par l'auteur
1850rif. 68036Northumberland NY and Tuolumne County CA. 1850–1857. New Yorker in the "Land of Gold" A scattered but intriguing collection of manuscripts related to New York native Isaac Vanderwerker or Vanderwarker who made for the California gold mines in 1850 and remained out west until at least 1857. This group consists primarily of letters written to Isaac by his brother at home in Northumberland inquiring after Isaac's activities in the gold fields and commenting on matters at home though it also contains a detailed letter from Isaac himself a letter from his ill-fated sister Joann and two letters written by business partners in California. The earliest letter here written by Isaac's brother who signs only with initials is dated October 7 1850 shortly after Isaac arrived in California. Isaac was apparently one of many gold-seekers who elected to take a slow sailing ship from Panama rather than wait on the heavily delayed steamships though he weathered the journey better than most. Isaac's brother also notes several acquaintances who "have returned without making their fortune" and still more who are leaving regularly for the mines including a "Justus" who "made a vendue and sold his personal property" in order to fund the journey. Everyone in town it seems either wants to head to California or has an excuse not to. "I hope you will be one of the lucky ones and get well paid for all your toil sufferings and anxieties" he writes to his brother. "We have most of the California news every month. I saw in the last paper an account of the riot and burning of Sacramento City it spoke of some large lumps of gold being taken out weighing from one to forty pounds at Carsons new diggings on the Stanislaw another instance where a man took out four thousand dollars in two days at Murphy diggings but these cases are something extra John L. Cramer is at the Northern Mines on the Yuba…." The Vanderwerkers were early settlers of upstate New York and appear to have done well for themselves – Isaac and his brother are involved in several substantial properties and much of their correspondence relates to the management of their farms. The next letter in the group comes from the following summer written by Isaac's sister Joann. Joann discusses more details of the family's properties and notes that her health is poor enough that she is not sure to see the end of the week. Regardless news of California remains at front of mind: "There is a story in circulation that Aron Bliss Jaines Brother in law has stoll 15 thousand dollars at San Francisco and the owner has followed him here and there a going to take him back and hang him. John Cramer is on the yube never his Father said he guest by his writing he was not doing very well." From here we skip two years to October 16 1853 when Isaac's brother writes to tell him that large numbers are still heading for California. Joann has been holding on the last two years and "Old Frank" who used to work with them before moving to Canada would like to know if Isaac has work for him in California. He also goes on to discuss a bit of contentious New York politics: "We shall have five state tickets this fall viz whig Barnburner or soft hunker Adamantine or hard Temperance & abolition. The whigs no dout will carry the Election. The Barnburners had quite a majority in the State Convention….the Canal board are Barnburners & they are making a clean sweep of the hunkers." The letters continue over the next few years regarding more transcontinental legal matters real estate dealings Joann's eventual death in 1855 and the usual litany of deaths and marriages at home. The most content rich letter in the group is the only one written by Isaac himself sent to New York from Tuolumne County on May 18 1857. As Isaac describes his life in the west he also reveals himself to be a talented writer: "Dear Brother I will again endeavour to correspond with you by a few rude caught characters on paper which may put you in mind that you have a Brother Still in the land of gold…." He sends some gold home not present describes a chance meeting with the aforementioned John Cramer remarks on the high cost of goods in the mines and recent fires in San Francisco and Stockton. Business isn't cheap in the "land of gold" and he claims he "can do as much business in the States for 10 Dollars as I can Here for one Hundred." With that in mind he adds a postscript stating that he has sold out his plot and mining apparatus for $1500 and will try to go into business burning lime or supplying bricks and lumber in Benicia. He describes the new town and the rapid pace of development in California: "Benicia is situated about thirty miles up the Bay from San Francisco and about Six miles from the present Capital of the state named Vallejo. About three months ago the first building was erected which is a Hotel about two weeks ago they commenced building there is now about twenty small houses up and one three story Hotel. The government officers reside at Vallejo after the 10 of this month. I had an introduction to the governor at Vallejo last week he is a clever sort of man but not Dignified hardly fit for the Station…." Isaac's brother responds to this letter a few months later curious about his sibling's new business ventures. He also comments that "by what I can learn of the character of the Mexicans and Indians I should hate to travel alone without being well armed. I see by our papers that Lynch Law is that that governs all the mines I saw an account of a man being hung at San Francisco by Mr. Lynch at short notice." Unsurprisingly more and more are returning home by 1857 including a man named Wells " come in the same steamer your letter did he was sick but made out to keep up till he got home and died less than a week after he was not very successful in California." A heartfelt letter from a friend about the health of Isaac's mother also present seems to have convinced him and Isaac returned home for a visit to New York in the latter part of 1857. A September 3rd letter from his business partner John W. Kelly sent from Sawmill Flatt is addressed to Isaac in Saratoga and discusses business dealings in California. It would appear Isaac never pulled completely out of mining as the letter regards efforts to secure mortgage payments for Isaac's "ditch." The final letter in this collection is dated December 17 1857 and is addressed to Isaac from the offices of A.C. Goodrich in Columbia California. Goodrich describes a large flume his company has built 180 miles long and twelve feet wide by three feet deep "exclusive of the artificial embankment or five hundred ton stream capacity this day and night as we have reservoirs in abundance to hold the night & Sunday water. Would give 1000 ton streams which sold at the precent price viz $4.00 per day would pay ten per cent on a Capital of $1000.000. This would give a large basis for waste and reduction in price and still leave room for handsome profits on our Capital stock of $450000. The present cost of the work we can only approximate to but it is not far from 100000$." They hope that Isaac can become their agent and help them find investors. An interesting group of letters sent between brothers in California and New York during the Gold Rush stretching across seven long years of separation. Old folds occasional light tanning and staining. Very good. unknown
1850rif. 68036Northumberland NY and Tuolumne County CA. 1850–1857. New Yorker in the "Land of Gold" A scattered but intriguing collection of manuscripts related to New York native Isaac Vanderwerker or Vanderwarker who made for the California gold mines in 1850 and remained out west until at least 1857. This group consists primarily of letters written to Isaac by his brother at home in Northumberland inquiring after Isaac's activities in the gold fields and commenting on matters at home though it also contains a detailed letter from Isaac himself a letter from his ill-fated sister Joann and two letters written by business partners in California. The earliest letter here written by Isaac's brother who signs only with initials is dated October 7 1850 shortly after Isaac arrived in California. Isaac was apparently one of many gold-seekers who elected to take a slow sailing ship from Panama rather than wait on the heavily delayed steamships though he weathered the journey better than most. Isaac's brother also notes several acquaintances who "have returned without making their fortune" and still more who are leaving regularly for the mines including a "Justus" who "made a vendue and sold his personal property" in order to fund the journey. Everyone in town it seems either wants to head to California or has an excuse not to. "I hope you will be one of the lucky ones and get well paid for all your toil sufferings and anxieties" he writes to his brother. "We have most of the California news every month. I saw in the last paper an account of the riot and burning of Sacramento City it spoke of some large lumps of gold being taken out weighing from one to forty pounds at Carsons new diggings on the Stanislaw another instance where a man took out four thousand dollars in two days at Murphy diggings but these cases are something extra John L. Cramer is at the Northern Mines on the Yuba…." The Vanderwerkers were early settlers of upstate New York and appear to have done well for themselves – Isaac and his brother are involved in several substantial properties and much of their correspondence relates to the management of their farms. The next letter in the group comes from the following summer written by Isaac's sister Joann. Joann discusses more details of the family's properties and notes that her health is poor enough that she is not sure to see the end of the week. Regardless news of California remains at front of mind: "There is a story in circulation that Aron Bliss Jaines Brother in law has stoll 15 thousand dollars at San Francisco and the owner has followed him here and there a going to take him back and hang him. John Cramer is on the yube never his Father said he guest by his writing he was not doing very well." From here we skip two years to October 16 1853 when Isaac's brother writes to tell him that large numbers are still heading for California. Joann has been holding on the last two years and "Old Frank" who used to work with them before moving to Canada would like to know if Isaac has work for him in California. He also goes on to discuss a bit of contentious New York politics: "We shall have five state tickets this fall viz whig Barnburner or soft hunker Adamantine or hard Temperance & abolition. The whigs no dout will carry the Election. The Barnburners had quite a majority in the State Convention….the Canal board are Barnburners & they are making a clean sweep of the hunkers." The letters continue over the next few years regarding more transcontinental legal matters real estate dealings Joann's eventual death in 1855 and the usual litany of deaths and marriages at home. The most content rich letter in the group is the only one written by Isaac himself sent to New York from Tuolumne County on May 18 1857. As Isaac describes his life in the west he also reveals himself to be a talented writer: "Dear Brother I will again endeavour to correspond with you by a few rude caught characters on paper which may put you in mind that you have a Brother Still in the land of gold…." He sends some gold home not present describes a chance meeting with the aforementioned John Cramer remarks on the high cost of goods in the mines and recent fires in San Francisco and Stockton. Business isn't cheap in the "land of gold" and he claims he "can do as much business in the States for 10 Dollars as I can Here for one Hundred." With that in mind he adds a postscript stating that he has sold out his plot and mining apparatus for $1500 and will try to go into business burning lime or supplying bricks and lumber in Benicia. He describes the new town and the rapid pace of development in California: "Benicia is situated about thirty miles up the Bay from San Francisco and about Six miles from the present Capital of the state named Vallejo. About three months ago the first building was erected which is a Hotel about two weeks ago they commenced building there is now about twenty small houses up and one three story Hotel. The government officers reside at Vallejo after the 10 of this month. I had an introduction to the governor at Vallejo last week he is a clever sort of man but not Dignified hardly fit for the Station…." Isaac's brother responds to this letter a few months later curious about his sibling's new business ventures. He also comments that "by what I can learn of the character of the Mexicans and Indians I should hate to travel alone without being well armed. I see by our papers that Lynch Law is that that governs all the mines I saw an account of a man being hung at San Francisco by Mr. Lynch at short notice." Unsurprisingly more and more are returning home by 1857 including a man named Wells " come in the same steamer your letter did he was sick but made out to keep up till he got home and died less than a week after he was not very successful in California." A heartfelt letter from a friend about the health of Isaac's mother also present seems to have convinced him and Isaac returned home for a visit to New York in the latter part of 1857. A September 3rd letter from his business partner John W. Kelly sent from Sawmill Flatt is addressed to Isaac in Saratoga and discusses business dealings in California. It would appear Isaac never pulled completely out of mining as the letter regards efforts to secure mortgage payments for Isaac's "ditch." The final letter in this collection is dated December 17 1857 and is addressed to Isaac from the offices of A.C. Goodrich in Columbia California. Goodrich describes a large flume his company has built 180 miles long and twelve feet wide by three feet deep "exclusive of the artificial embankment or five hundred ton stream capacity this day and night as we have reservoirs in abundance to hold the night & Sunday water. Would give 1000 ton streams which sold at the precent price viz $4.00 per day would pay ten per cent on a Capital of $1000.000. This would give a large basis for waste and reduction in price and still leave room for handsome profits on our Capital stock of $450000. The present cost of the work we can only approximate to but it is not far from 100000$." They hope that Isaac can become their agent and help them find investors. An interesting group of letters sent between brothers in California and New York during the Gold Rush stretching across seven long years of separation. Old folds occasional light tanning and staining. Very good. unknown books
rif. 36023801Japan 1860 n.p. Large sheet 96 x 1m 44 cm. gouachevery clean work no worming or other condition issues painted on 16 joined sheets of Washi paper to make one large sheetfine water-color painting. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAINTED ART WORK . . . AM ORIGINAL COLOR PAINTING IN GRAND SIZE . . . FROM JAPAN'S OLDEST MYTHOLOGY: . . . THE KOJIKI & NIHON SHOKI PANTHEON . . . THE ORIGINS OF THE EMPEROR . . . OTOHIME GYO RETSU ZU: . . . THE PROCESSION OF OTOHIME DAUGHTER OF THE SEA GOD . . A stunning color painting by Kyosai. Probably done for a temple donation or as an expression of his faith to Japan's historic heroine. . OTOHIME is a goddess in Japanese mythology and is featured in the Kojiki as well as Nihon Shoki. Also known as "Luminous Jewel". A Japanese goddess the beautiful daughter of the sea-king Ryujin. She married Hoori and gave birth to a son after which she turned into a dragon. . Per the Japanese text brushed on the verso upper left corner: "239 ban dated Ansei 7th Kanoe-Saru-doshi 2 gatsu jojun end of February OTOHIME GYO RETSU ZU" . English: "#239 dated Ansei 7th monkey zodiac year end of Feb.: 1860 . PAINTING TITLE PER VERSO: "THE FIGURE OF PRINCESS OTOHIME'S PROCESSION THE DAUGHTER OF THE SEA GOD" . "Toyotama-hime" Japanese for "Lady Bountiful Soul" better known as Otohime is a goddess in Japanese mythology and is featured in the Kojiki as well as Nihon Shoki. She is the beautiful daughter of Ryujin the "God of the Sea." . A STUNNING ORIGINAL POLYCHROME GOUACHE PAINTING: . This original color watercolor painting shows the lively procession of OTOHIME and her hand maid. She is followed by a flag and umbrella bearer. Also following is a man with a pair of deer antlers good omen a man with a small red offering table with peaches the Wind God and his thunder-drum. Another flag bearer his helper followed by two others one holds a staff the other an offering of golden egg. . The items carries are symbolic good fortune and wealth in terms of deer antlers peaches and the golden egg represent ancient Chinese also used by the Japanese of omens of good fortune and good luck. . THE PAINTING: . Per the Japanese brushed text on the verso there is a number found meaning this panel of several was part of a larger work per the chronology found in Clark see below. . This panel of several paintings was part of a restoration of Zojo-ji temple in Shiba. In 1859 KANO Toei & Kyosai "participates in a repair project at the Zojo-ji temple." See Clark. . Although Kyosai had officially left the Kano school in 1854 by participating in the restoration of Tokugawa's family temple in Shiba he was showing loyalty to the Tokugawa family a good reason to volunteer his skills to the temple. It is also noteworthy that his mentor Kano Toei also participated in the restoration and in all likelihood Kyosai joined his master in a sign of respect and loyalty to him. . Based on this chronology it is clear Kyosai was one of the painters who worked at Zojo-ji temple along with his mentor and master teacher Kano Toei. It was not uncommon at this time for schools to volunteer teachers and students to do temple restoration and art work painting replacing or enhancing paintings and large murals. . This item's date matches the restoration dates for the Zojo-ji temple which began in 1859 and continued into 1860. . This panel was unused in the restoration it may have been a precursor to the final painting which was actually used in the restoration project. It matches the scenes found in Zojo-ji temple restoration. The work is the exact style of others painted by Kyosai and his genre. The caricatures of the people in this painting reflect Kyosai's style exactly the theme of his eccentric humor expressing his love for creativity and the joy of painting. . It is entirely within Kyosai's bizarre character to undertake and devote himself to such a project as illustrating the famous myth of OTOHIME in more than 200 deluxe extra-large-size format paintings. . This restoration project could also have been a 'paying job' for Kyosai as at that time he did not seem to be employed but in 1858 he began to design "Kyoga crazy pictures. It was in 1857 he married Okyo the daughter of a Rimpa painter Suzuki Kiitsu but Okyo died in 1859 and he remarried Tose who died in 1860. . It is more than likely Kyosai being a Buddhist he felt it was his religious obligation to do pennants by contributing to and drawing Buddhist or such traditional images as a way to placate the loss of his wife. . THE STORY OF OTOHIME DAUGHTER OF THE SEA GOD: . Because this work was part of the Zojo-ji temple restoration it cannot be considered a commercial painting one that was casually drawn and put on the market for sale. This was part of a commissioned restoration financed by some benefactor to the temple and most likely supported by the Tokugawa family. . ONE OF JAPAN'S EARLIEST AND MOST FAMOUS MYTHS: . The story of OTOHIME DAUGHTER OF THE SEA GOD is one of Japan's oldest and most famous myths known to all Japanese. Treasured as one of the most important in the ancient pantheon it is found in the earliest writing about the origin of Japan and the Emperor in the KOJIKI and the NIHON SHOKI. . This kind of larger paper illustrated story would take months to complete by It would also take devotion to the subject and focus with responsibility to produce a good number of paints daily. This was something Kyosai could and would do ! . THE ARTIST/PAINTER: This work is unsigned which is expected as part of a larger series of paintings. If this was the work of Kyosai it falls entirely within the dates during his period of work produced when he was 29 years old. . The caricature in the faces and fluid bodies in motion the "flowing" style are his. Although there is no signature and it is a true reflection of Kawanabe's work we are attributing it to him. . Another convincing point is that this kind of painting and meticulous style is also found in his famous instructional showing various 'schools' of painting in his KYOSAI GADEN. See below. . WHO WAS KAWANABE GYOSAI/KYOSAI: 1831-1889: Kawanabe Kyosai was a superb artist in the words of a critic "an individualist and an independent perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional Japanese painting". . Living through the Edo period to the Meiji period Kyosai witnessed Japan transform itself from a feudal country into a modern state. Born at Koga he was the son of a Samurai. His first aesthetic shock was at the age of nine when he picked up a human head apart from a corpse in the Kanda river. . After working for a short time as a boy with Utagawa Kuniyoshi he received his artistic training in the Kano school but soon abandoned the formal traditions for the greater freedom of the popular school. During the political ferment which produced and followed the revolution of 1867 Kyosai attained a reputation as a caricaturist. His very long painting on Makimono" scroll The battle of the farts" may be seen as a caricature of this ferment. . He was arrested three times and imprisoned by the authorities of the Shogunate. Soon after the assumption of effective power by the Emperor a great congress of painters and men of letters was held at which Kyosai was present. . He again expressed his opinion of the new movement in a caricature which had a great popular success but also brought him into the hands of the police this time of the opposite party. After this time he changed his name from Kyo crazy or wild to any one of 19 other "Go" studio names he used. However after the police jailed him he avoided use of "Kyo" but returned back to it with three other "GO" that used the same character "Kyo" crazy & wild such as #7 "Baiga Kyosha" #10 "Kyosai #12 Kyosha Gaishi #16 "Shosho Kyosai" Quoted from Roberts below see that reference for more details. . Kyosai is considered by many to be the greatest successor of Hokusai as well as the first political caricaturist of Japan. His work mirrored his life in its wild and undisciplined nature and occasionally reflected his love of drink. . Color photos are posted to our website. . REFERENCE: . More on OTO HIME: heon-org/articles/o/otohime-html KAWANABE Gyosai later known as Kyosai: Is well collected by world museums I GADAN: 1887 4 vol. set: In this work he outlines and exhibits a wide variety of "styles" of painting. In this work there are several examples of this kind or school of painting. Wikipedia stated about this book: "The most important work about Kyosai's art and life was written by himself: Kyosai Gadan or "Kyosai's Treatise on Painting" half autobiography and half painting manual. WESTERN APPRECIATORS: Many westerners came to visit Kyosai and their memoirs about the artist are valuable. The two important ones both rare were: Emile Etienne Guimet Promenades Japonaises Paris 1880. Josiah Conder: "Paintings and Studies by Kawanabe Kyosai" Tokyo 1911. Conder was a serious student of Japanese art; after some initial rejections he was accepted as Kyosai's pupil and accompanied him for ten years until the master's death. Timothy Clark Demon of painting: the art of Kawanabe Kyosai p.186 chronology and the drawing #21 p.58 is very similar to the pose found in our painting of OTOHIME Toyotama-hime both in pose facial quality hair style and the general perspective. ROBERTS Laurance P.: A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS: PAINTING SCULPTURE CERAMICS PRINTS LACQUER p.100 stated of him: Kyosai ".was marked by a wild eccentric humor.caricatures of full of fantasy and invention." KAWANABE KYOSAI MEMORIAL MUSEUM. KAWANABE KYOSAI DOKU HON. OTOHIME: Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Toyotama-hime. Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. . . unknown
1501rif. 000683Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: recent Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Malvern; tawed quarter leather over quarter-sawn oak boards quires hand-sewn on four double-cords creating four raised spine bands board leather blind-tooled with period style rosettes and fleurs-de-lys within panel of diagonal blind triple fillets hand-sewn Gothic double headbands of alternate hand-dyed indigo and undyed linen thread hand-made brass hasps and clasps ornamented in period style; an exceptionally attractive recreation of a Gothic hand-sewn binding employing medieval techniques contemporaneous with the date the book was printed. COLLATION: pi6 a2-8 b-y6 z8 zeta6 antisigma8; leaf a1 excised and subsequent first few lines of a2recto redacted in black ink in the sixteenth century by the inquisitor for its heretical content see below. TEXT: Double column 50 lines and headline gothic type red manuscript rubrication throughout in a contemporary hand with numerous 3 4 and 6 line capitals red paragraph markers and in-text capitals marked out in yellow. CONDITION: indecipherable contemporary manuscript ink inscriptions to title page final two leaves a little soiled new endpapers in complementary period-style paper small professional paper repairs to fore-edges of opening and closing leaves unobtrusive light stain to lower outer page corners well clear of printed text overall a beautifully clean wide-margined copy. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: Rare not in Adams USTC 696770 citing 32 copies with just 3 in the UK and 2 in the US. Sebonde's Theologia was a celebrated text in its day but is mainly known now through Montaigne's attention and his French translation of the work in 1569. Its prologue asserting the ability of human reason to understand the existence and attributes of God through observation of the natural world was added to the Index Prohibitorum in 1559. A beautiful example of this rare text in an exceptionally fine binding. Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris hardcover
1564rif. 1907280011Genevae : Ex officina Francisci Perrini M.D. LXIIII 1564. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Calvin's 16th century commentary on the book of Joshua and Beza'z Biography of Calvin Bound in contemporary vellum. Some soiling to cover. Octavo. 32 316 p. Printer's woodcut device on title-page. Slight worming in inner margin towards beginning not affecting text. Bookplate of Duncan Shaw and early inscription of Franciscus Saluardus. Calvin's last work. Includes the Latin translation Theodore de Besze's Life of Calvin. Adams C280. The French edition was printed in 1565. Genevae : Ex officina Francisci Perrini, M.D. LXIIII hardcover
1851rif. 28441New York: Nagel & Weingaertner 1851. Hand-coloured lithograph after Hanson titled below the image. Expert restoration closing tears. The first America's Cup: a rare hand coloured lithographed view of the winning yacht which gave its name to the cup. In 1851 the Royal Yacht Squadron proposed a race around the Isle of Wight. A group of New York Yacht Club members led by Commodore John Cox Stevens built a yacht designed to compete in such races. Designed by Steers and Co. and captained by Richard Brown the yacht America would win the race by eighteen minutes giving its name to one of the oldest and best-known trophies of the sport: the America's Cup. This lithograph and lithographer are not recorded by Harry T. Peters; we find no other extant examples of this rare print. For Nagel and Weingaertner see Peters America on Stone pp. 291-294. Nagel & Weingaertner unknown
1851rif. 28441New York: Nagel & Weingaertner 1851. Hand-coloured lithograph after Hanson titled below the image. Expert restoration closing tears. The first America's Cup: a rare hand coloured lithographed view of the winning yacht which gave its name to the cup. In 1851 the Royal Yacht Squadron proposed a race around the Isle of Wight. A group of New York Yacht Club members led by Commodore John Cox Stevens built a yacht designed to compete in such races. Designed by Steers and Co. and captained by Richard Brown the yacht America would win the race by eighteen minutes giving its name to one of the oldest and best-known trophies of the sport: the America's Cup. This lithograph and lithographer are not recorded by Harry T. Peters; we find no other extant examples of this rare print. For Nagel and Weingaertner see Peters America on Stone pp. 291-294. Nagel & Weingaertner unknown books
rif. 006479Paris C. L. F. Panckoucke 0 6 volumes in-8 Demi-veau tabac Edition originale
1526rif. 4610Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae 1526. SECOND GIUNTA EDITION 1st 1519. Hardcover. Fine. A tall unsophisticated copy in its original limp vellum binding vellum stained lacking ties short split to upper hinge. The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing heavier in some gatherings. A compendium of ancient geographical texts including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela Dionysius Periegetes and Gaius Julius Solinus. Shorter texts include a catalogue of the regions within the city of Rome "De regionibus urbis Romae" by "Publius Victor". The work is possibly a literary forgery of the 15th century presented as the work of a newly-discovered author. The name was coined by Pomponius Leto of the Roman Academy. The volume was edited by Antonio Francino 1480- after 1537 a scholar of great talent who taught in the households of important Florentines and who produced starting in 1517 numerous editions of Greek and Latin authors for the Giunta firm. Francino's opening letter in this volume is addressed to the twenty-year old Pietro Vettori who would himself become a philologist of great renown. Pomponius Mela's Description of the World: "A generation earlier than the work of the natural historian Pliny under the reign of Claudius or Caligula we find the first Latin author whom to the best of our knowledge we can call a pure geographer and whose work has come down to us complete. This is Pomponius Mela a Spaniard from Tingentera near Gibraltar whose Chronographia "Description of Places" in three books is preserved. The Chronographia describes the world taking the Mediterranean as its basic point of reference. It proceeds counterclockwise from the Strait of Gibraltar whither it returns at the end of the description."Conte "After a short prooemium in which he dwells upon the importance and difficulties of his undertaking he proceeds to define the cardinal points and to explain the division of the world into two hemispheres and five zones. The northern hemisphere is that portion of the Earth which is known and is separated by the impassable torrid zone from the southern hemisphere which is altogether unknown and is the abode of the Antichthones. The northern known hemisphere is completely surrounded by the ocean which communicates with the four great seas: one on the north the Caspian; two on the south the Persian and the Arabian; and one in the west The Mediterranean with its subdivisions. Next follows a description of the three continents: Asia Europe and Africa and an enumeration of its inhabitants. These preliminaries being discussed the author enters upon more minute details and makes a complete circuit of the known world. "Thus commencing at the straits of Hercules with Mauritania he passes on in regular order to Numidia Africa Proper the Cyrenaica Egypt Arabia Syria Phoenicia Cilicia Pamphylia Lycia Caria Ionia Aeolis Bithynia Paphlagonia the Asiatic nations on the Euxine and the Palus Maeotis European Scythia Thrace Macedonia Greece the Peloponinesus Epirus Illyricum Italy from the head of the Adriatic round by Magna Graecia to the Ligurian Gulf Gallia Narbonnensis and the eastern coast of Spain. Hispaniae ora citerior. The tour of the Mediterranean being now completed a chapter is devoted to its islands. Passing beyond the Straits we stretch along the western coast of Spain Hispaniae ora exterior the western coast of Gaul Galliae ora exterior the islands of the Northern Ocean Germany Sarmatia the shores of the Caspian the Eastern Ocean and India the Mare Rubrum and its two gulfs the Persian and Arabian Aethiopia and those portions of Aethiop a and Mauritania bordering upon the Atlantic which brings him round to the point from which he started. It will be seen from the above sketch that the existence of the northern countries of Europe and of the northern and eastern countries of Asia were unknown it being supposed that these regions formed part of the ocean which in like manner was supposed to occupy the whole of Central and Southern Africa."Smith Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography Solinus: "Gaius Julius Solinus who probably lived between the middle and the end of the third century was concerned with geography though not in the modern sense of the term. His work is entitled Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium but in the Middle Ages when it was widely read it was also known as Polyhistor to emphasize the great number of curiosities that were collected there. The work is a careful compilation from many literary sources chiefly Pliny the Elder but also Pomponius Mela and Suetonius along with various other geographical treatises that are no longer extant. Solinus noted down all the unusual things he came across when reading these works about peoples and their customs animals and plants. "The work opens with a full treatment of Rome and Roman history from the kings to the principate of Augustus. The area examined is then extended to Italy and then to Greece and the Black Sea Germany Gaul Britain and Spain; this counterclockwise tour ends with Africa Arabia Asia Minor India and the kingdom of the Parthians in accordance with a systematic geographical plan that is one of the most characteristic features of the work. It enjoyed considerable success in the Middle Ages when it was also read and studied as a summary of the excessively vast Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder. It did not however altogether replace it with the result that it enjoyed so to speak a success parallel to that of its more illustrious predecessor."Conte "Referring to the reading of Pliny and Solinus in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Anthony Grafton writes: 'Generations of readers thrilled like Desdemona listening to Othello at these tales of strange creatures foods and burial customs - and were no doubt stimulated by them to see the inhabitants of strange lands as literally outlandish less than civilized or even less than human.' Charles Raymond Beazley has made note of this remarkable appeal: 'The compilation of Solinus. became so fashionable in the Middle Ages and exercised so powerful an influence on the geographical imagination that it cannot be passed over. It is simply a collection of marvels chiefly of natural history brought together apparently on the principle 'Credo' or at least 'Lego quia impossibile.'. no one ever influenced Christian geography more profoundly or mischievously." "References to and borrowings from Solinus can be found in a wide variety of medieval texts stretching though the whole of the medieval period. Readers of Solinus ranged from Augustine to Bede to Dante and Solinus' influence can be seen in examples as varied as the Hereford Mappa mundi ca. 1300 and Fazio degli Uberti's verse epic 'Dittamondo' 14th c. in which Solinus in the place of Dante's Virgil guides a pilgrim on a tour of the known world. The interest in Solinus had not waned by the fifteenth century. While geography was not a primary area of interest for the humanists Solinus Pliny and authors like them were widely read and commented upon by Renaissance scholars. The strong interest in antiquity that characterized the Renaissance continued the medieval curiosity for the Roman compilers who seemed to have succeeded in encapsulating the entire world and all the knowledge in it."Dover and McDonough. Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae hardcover
1526rif. 4610Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae 1526. SECOND GIUNTA EDITION 1st 1519. Hardcover. Fine. A tall unsophisticated copy in its original limp vellum binding vellum stained lacking ties short split to upper hinge. The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing heavier in some gatherings. A compendium of ancient geographical texts including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela Dionysius Periegetes and Gaius Julius Solinus. Shorter texts include a catalogue of the regions within the city of Rome "De regionibus urbis Romae" by "Publius Victor". The work is possibly a literary forgery of the 15th century presented as the work of a newly-discovered author. The name was coined by Pomponius Leto of the Roman Academy. The volume was edited by Antonio Francino 1480- after 1537 a scholar of great talent who taught in the households of important Florentines and who produced starting in 1517 numerous editions of Greek and Latin authors for the Giunta firm. Francino's opening letter in this volume is addressed to the twenty-year old Pietro Vettori who would himself become a philologist of great renown. Pomponius Mela's Description of the World: "A generation earlier than the work of the natural historian Pliny under the reign of Claudius or Caligula we find the first Latin author whom to the best of our knowledge we can call a pure geographer and whose work has come down to us complete. This is Pomponius Mela a Spaniard from Tingentera near Gibraltar whose Chronographia "Description of Places" in three books is preserved. The Chronographia describes the world taking the Mediterranean as its basic point of reference. It proceeds counterclockwise from the Strait of Gibraltar whither it returns at the end of the description."Conte "After a short prooemium in which he dwells upon the importance and difficulties of his undertaking he proceeds to define the cardinal points and to explain the division of the world into two hemispheres and five zones. The northern hemisphere is that portion of the Earth which is known and is separated by the impassable torrid zone from the southern hemisphere which is altogether unknown and is the abode of the Antichthones. The northern known hemisphere is completely surrounded by the ocean which communicates with the four great seas: one on the north the Caspian; two on the south the Persian and the Arabian; and one in the west The Mediterranean with its subdivisions. Next follows a description of the three continents: Asia Europe and Africa and an enumeration of its inhabitants. These preliminaries being discussed the author enters upon more minute details and makes a complete circuit of the known world. "Thus commencing at the straits of Hercules with Mauritania he passes on in regular order to Numidia Africa Proper the Cyrenaica Egypt Arabia Syria Phoenicia Cilicia Pamphylia Lycia Caria Ionia Aeolis Bithynia Paphlagonia the Asiatic nations on the Euxine and the Palus Maeotis European Scythia Thrace Macedonia Greece the Peloponinesus Epirus Illyricum Italy from the head of the Adriatic round by Magna Graecia to the Ligurian Gulf Gallia Narbonnensis and the eastern coast of Spain. Hispaniae ora citerior. The tour of the Mediterranean being now completed a chapter is devoted to its islands. Passing beyond the Straits we stretch along the western coast of Spain Hispaniae ora exterior the western coast of Gaul Galliae ora exterior the islands of the Northern Ocean Germany Sarmatia the shores of the Caspian the Eastern Ocean and India the Mare Rubrum and its two gulfs the Persian and Arabian Aethiopia and those portions of Aethiop a and Mauritania bordering upon the Atlantic which brings him round to the point from which he started. It will be seen from the above sketch that the existence of the northern countries of Europe and of the northern and eastern countries of Asia were unknown it being supposed that these regions formed part of the ocean which in like manner was supposed to occupy the whole of Central and Southern Africa."Smith Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography Solinus: "Gaius Julius Solinus who probably lived between the middle and the end of the third century was concerned with geography though not in the modern sense of the term. His work is entitled Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium but in the Middle Ages when it was widely read it was also known as Polyhistor to emphasize the great number of curiosities that were collected there. The work is a careful compilation from many literary sources chiefly Pliny the Elder but also Pomponius Mela and Suetonius along with various other geographical treatises that are no longer extant. Solinus noted down all the unusual things he came across when reading these works about peoples and their customs animals and plants. "The work opens with a full treatment of Rome and Roman history from the kings to the principate of Augustus. The area examined is then extended to Italy and then to Greece and the Black Sea Germany Gaul Britain and Spain; this counterclockwise tour ends with Africa Arabia Asia Minor India and the kingdom of the Parthians in accordance with a systematic geographical plan that is one of the most characteristic features of the work. It enjoyed considerable success in the Middle Ages when it was also read and studied as a summary of the excessively vast Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder. It did not however altogether replace it with the result that it enjoyed so to speak a success parallel to that of its more illustrious predecessor."Conte "Referring to the reading of Pliny and Solinus in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Anthony Grafton writes: 'Generations of readers thrilled like Desdemona listening to Othello at these tales of strange creatures foods and burial customs - and were no doubt stimulated by them to see the inhabitants of strange lands as literally outlandish less than civilized or even less than human.' Charles Raymond Beazley has made note of this remarkable appeal: 'The compilation of Solinus. became so fashionable in the Middle Ages and exercised so powerful an influence on the geographical imagination that it cannot be passed over. It is simply a collection of marvels chiefly of natural history brought together apparently on the principle 'Credo' or at least 'Lego quia impossibile.'. no one ever influenced Christian geography more profoundly or mischievously." "References to and borrowings from Solinus can be found in a wide variety of medieval texts stretching though the whole of the medieval period. Readers of Solinus ranged from Augustine to Bede to Dante and Solinus' influence can be seen in examples as varied as the Hereford Mappa mundi ca. 1300 and Fazio degli Uberti's verse epic 'Dittamondo' 14th c. in which Solinus in the place of Dante's Virgil guides a pilgrim on a tour of the known world. The interest in Solinus had not waned by the fifteenth century. While geography was not a primary area of interest for the humanists Solinus Pliny and authors like them were widely read and commented upon by Renaissance scholars. The strong interest in antiquity that characterized the Renaissance continued the medieval curiosity for the Roman compilers who seemed to have succeeded in encapsulating the entire world and all the knowledge in it."Dover and McDonough. Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae hardcover books
1802rif. 6160"ONE OF THE BASIC WORKS ON TURKISH COSTUME" ATABEY Folio 35 x 24.4 cm. Hand-colored vignette title-page in English followed by title-page in French; preface in English and French 8 pp; table of contents in English and French 2 pp.; and 60 hand-colored stipple engravings many on paper with watermarks dated 1796 after Octavian Dalvimart and engraved by John Dadley or William Poole the title-page vignette by R. Jones; each engraving always printed on the verso with facing description page English on recto and French on verso. Occasional light spotting and off-setting from plates to the facing description; plate 1 and tissue guard bound at the beginning preceding English title-page. Early 20th-century red straight morocco by Bayntun-Rivière their stamp in upper left-hand corner of front flyleaf blind- and gilt-stamped tooling on boards turn-ins and spine marbled endpapers; some rubbing but generally excellent. First edition with watermarks dated 1796 of "one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material" Atabey. Dalvimart's vivid plates primarily depict the vibrant attire of the ruling classes and their servants but they also showcase traditional garments—especially those worn by women—from the extensive territories of the Ottoman Empire at the time encompassing regions such as Bosnia Albania Greece Syria and Egypt. Octavian Dalvimart remains a somewhat enigmatic figure. He appears to have been active as an artist and engraver in England and France in the early 19th century. According to the preface he traveled to Athens in 1797 and Turkey in 1798 where he created the original drawings for the plates consistently sketching from life. The characters are precisely drawn and handsomely depicted in vivid colors. The accompanying descriptive text is sometimes attributed to William Alexander drawing heavily from the published accounts of Turkey by James Dallaway 1797 Baron de Tott who resided in Constantinople for many years until 1790 and other sources. This first edition was followed by subsequent editions in 1818 and 1820. Little is known about the two engravers John Dadley 1767–after 1807 who worked in London and William Poole active 1803-1807. R. Jones active early 19th century exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1780 to 1812. Abbey Travel 370; Atabey 312; Blackmer 444 ca. 1820 impression Colas 782; H. Hiler Bibl. of Costume 1939; Lipperheide 1422; Vinet 2337; Bénézit III p. 317 Dadley III p. 335 Dalvimart and VI p. 95 Jones no entry for Poole. London, Printed for William Miller, Old Bond Street, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street hardcover
1802rif. 6160"ONE OF THE BASIC WORKS ON TURKISH COSTUME" ATABEY Folio 35 x 24.4 cm. Hand-colored vignette title-page in English followed by title-page in French; preface in English and French 8 pp; table of contents in English and French 2 pp.; and 60 hand-colored stipple engravings many on paper with watermarks dated 1796 after Octavian Dalvimart and engraved by John Dadley or William Poole the title-page vignette by R. Jones; each engraving always printed on the verso with facing description page English on recto and French on verso. Occasional light spotting and off-setting from plates to the facing description; plate 1 and tissue guard bound at the beginning preceding English title-page. Early 20th-century red straight morocco by Bayntun-Rivière their stamp in upper left-hand corner of front flyleaf blind- and gilt-stamped tooling on boards turn-ins and spine marbled endpapers; some rubbing but generally excellent. First edition with watermarks dated 1796 of "one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material" Atabey. Dalvimart's vivid plates primarily depict the vibrant attire of the ruling classes and their servants but they also showcase traditional garments—especially those worn by women—from the extensive territories of the Ottoman Empire at the time encompassing regions such as Bosnia Albania Greece Syria and Egypt. Octavian Dalvimart remains a somewhat enigmatic figure. He appears to have been active as an artist and engraver in England and France in the early 19th century. According to the preface he traveled to Athens in 1797 and Turkey in 1798 where he created the original drawings for the plates consistently sketching from life. The characters are precisely drawn and handsomely depicted in vivid colors. The accompanying descriptive text is sometimes attributed to William Alexander drawing heavily from the published accounts of Turkey by James Dallaway 1797 Baron de Tott who resided in Constantinople for many years until 1790 and other sources. This first edition was followed by subsequent editions in 1818 and 1820. Little is known about the two engravers John Dadley 1767–after 1807 who worked in London and William Poole active 1803-1807. R. Jones active early 19th century exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1780 to 1812. Abbey Travel 370; Atabey 312; Blackmer 444 ca. 1820 impression Colas 782; H. Hiler Bibl. of Costume 1939; Lipperheide 1422; Vinet 2337; Bénézit III p. 317 Dadley III p. 335 Dalvimart and VI p. 95 Jones no entry for Poole. London, Printed for William Miller, Old Bond Street, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street hardcover books
rif. 02230281.exp4GHardcover. Good. Complete in seven volumes each bound in two parts plus matched atlas. Numbered 10 of 200 Van Gelder large-paper copies. Outer edges of front and back boards of each volume reinforced with textured and matched green tape. Boards show moderate surface and corner wear otherwise. Bindings intact. Significant discoloration to outer edges of front and back end pages cause unclear of each volume with only occasional smudging and discoloration within remainder of text. Ghosting from plates throughout; text appears clean and unmarked otheriwse. hardcover
1837rif. ABC_47224Paris 1837. Folio ca. 35 x 26.5 cm. Dauty Contemporary half sheepskin maroon watered silk sides title in gold on the front board. With an engraved title-page and 11 of 23 engraved botanical prints: 4 showing 5 kinds of fruits each 3 showing 9 types of flowers each and 4 showing flower bouquets. All prints are stipple engravings and coloured by a contemporary hand some parts glazed with egg white. 12 ll. Extremely rare botanical print series showing both European and exotic fruits and flowers engraved by Jean-Baptiste Huet the younger 1772-1852 after designs of Benoît-Louis Prévost 1735-1804 or Jean-Louis Prévost 1760-1810. It also includes four plates showing bouquets from Europe America Asia and Africa. Only one complete copy is known at the Bibliothèque nationale de France we have traced no copy in sale or auction records and it is not mentioned in the usual botanical bibliographical works. The BnF copy is described in the Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 where the series consists of 23 prints issued all together under this title. The BnF and the IFF date the work ca. 1837-1839 but it is more likely that it is ca. 1837-1838 as Dauty died in 1838 and he printed at Rue de Bibliothèque no. 16 only in 1827 and 1835-1838. The BnF ascribes the designs for the prints to Benoît-Louis Prévost but Jean-Louis Prévost remains a possibility for he produced another famous print series of flowers and fruits in the same style of stipple engravings Collection des fleurs et fruits 1805.With a contemporary inscription "A M.elle Vincent" on the first free endleaf dedicating it to or belonging to the famous French 19th-century botanical painter Henriette Vincent 1786-1834 who was a student of Gerard van Spaendonck and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Head and foot of the spine damaged and spine slightly worn boards a little rubbed edges slightly worn corners bumped. Some light browning and foxing throughout title-page a little more browned and with a light marginal water stain. Lacking 12 plates according to IFF. Otherwise in good condition. An extremely rare botanical print series vividly hand-coloured.l BnF FRBNF40503621; IFF Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 Huet p. 518; not in Nissen BBI; Pritzel; Stafleu & Cowan. hardcover
rif. 90223Rai KyÅhei 頼京平 aka ShunsÅ or Manshiro artist. Kakemono 掛ã‘物 - Hanging Scroll Landscape. N.p. n.d. Landscape painting of a mountain scene with pine trees. Hanging scroll kakemono 掛ã‘物 beautifully mounted on brocade with black wooden jiku handles. Image size 44.7x18.4cm with 49.5cm silk fabric at top 26.5cm at bottom and borders of approx 5-5.5cm on either side. Rai KyÅhei 頼京平 c.1756-1834 was an influential Confucian scholar and the uncle of the famous kanshi poet Rai SanyÅ. Sanyo was known for TÅjun KagetsuchÅ å旬花月帖 Journal of Flowers in 100 Days/ A Few Brief Moments Describing Moon and Flowers a collaborative work of poetry with floral and landscape paintings created after a three month walking tour through central Japan with his nephew and mother in the 1820s. The three poets and their entourage were influenced by the lyrical scenes of nature observed in Kyoto and Nara during their travels. This scroll is likely inspired by that period of travel and reflection in nature. Slight foxing on the image. Encased in a wooden scroll box 40.7 x 6.4cm with artist’s name brushed on label laid down on end of box. unknown
rif. 90223Rai KyÅhei 頼京平 aka ShunsÅ or Manshiro artist. Kakemono 掛ã‘物 - Hanging Scroll Landscape. N.p. n.d. Landscape painting of a mountain scene with pine trees. Hanging scroll kakemono 掛ã‘物 beautifully mounted on brocade with black wooden jiku handles. Image size 44.7x18.4cm with 49.5cm silk fabric at top 26.5cm at bottom and borders of approx 5-5.5cm on either side. Rai KyÅhei 頼京平 c.1756-1834 was an influential Confucian scholar and the uncle of the famous kanshi poet Rai SanyÅ. Sanyo was known for TÅjun KagetsuchÅ å旬花月帖 Journal of Flowers in 100 Days/ A Few Brief Moments Describing Moon and Flowers a collaborative work of poetry with floral and landscape paintings created after a three month walking tour through central Japan with his nephew and mother in the 1820s. The three poets and their entourage were influenced by the lyrical scenes of nature observed in Kyoto and Nara during their travels. This scroll is likely inspired by that period of travel and reflection in nature. Slight foxing on the image. Encased in a wooden scroll box 40.7 x 6.4cm with artist’s name brushed on label laid down on end of box. unknown books
1922rif. 32975-509Moscow and Berlin Gelikon January 1922. Illustrated with 16 photogravures on plates and line illustrations by F. Léger and others. 140 2 publisher's adv. 2 blank pp. 8vo. Orig. illus. wrappers with a Cubist drawing by F. Léger 220 x 160 mm. Moscow and Berlin Gelikon January 1922. First edition of an important work with a strong visual preseentation of Erenburg's text. One of 100 copies of an edition limited to 500 copies. The typography is Futurist amd is stikingly juxtaposed with Leger's illustrations. This rare treatise on contemporary avant-garde art by Erenburg 1891-1967 is not only noteworthy for its typographical experimentation but it defends Contructivism in early art "Oblozhka raboty Fernanda Lezhe" and includes also a penetrating analysis of the "new architecture" which Vladimir E. Tatlin and his work are seen to have generated. Among the artists the Russian critic considers are Léger Lipchitz Lissitzky Picasso Rodchenko Van Doesburg and even from a Charlie Chaplin film. - A very good uncut copy in the original wrappers designed by Léger. - Senkevitch Soviet Architecture 1917-1962 no. 1120; cf. Compton Russian Avent-Garde Books 1917-34 p. 52 & p. 153 no. 64; MoMA no. 401. LITERATURE: RUSSIAN ; ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ; ARCHITECTURE ; Moscow and Berlin, Gelikon unknown
1818rif. Flo136Very rare complete set of all 8 volumes of this review of French theatre in the years 1818-1824. All eight years of publication complete with 8 handcolored engraved title pages and over 90 finely handcolored engraved portraits of actors actresses opera singers ballet dancers and comedians in costumes of their famous roles. "Very interesting almanac attributed to Charles Malo or Francois-Adolphe Loeve-Weimars giving a summary of Parisian and provincial theaters reviews on the plays and their performers notes on debuts repertoires etc." Grand-Carteret Les almanachs français Includes portraits of sopranos Mme. Gavaudan and Angelica Catalini tenors Jean-Blaise Martin and Simon Cheard ballet dancers Emilie Bigottini Genevieve Gosselin Antoine Paul and Mlle. Clotilde child actress Leontine Fay actors Francois-Joseph Talma and Charles-Gabriel Potier and many more. Odd volumes turn up occasionally but it is very rare to find the complete set of this intriguing anecdotal overview of Parisian theatre from the first quarter of the 19th century. Condition: All volumes in their pastel card slipcases paper bindings holding some spots of foxing to a few plates but overall very good with tissue guards. Complete with all engravings and calendars at end. Charles Malo 1790-1871 was a French author editor and translator whose books included a series of gift books for women illustrated by Pancrace Bessa almanacs city guides battlefield guides etc. Louis Janet paperback
1948rif. 4162London: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 1948. First edition. First edition the extremely rare offprint of the first published paper to propound the 'steady-state' model of the universe according to which the universe is expanding but unchanging with no beginning or end and in which matter is continually being created throughout space so that its average density remains constant. Hardcover. THE STEADY-STATE MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE. First edition the extremely rare offprint of the first published paper to propound the 'steady-state' model of the universe according to which the universe is expanding but unchanging with no beginning or end and in which matter is continually being created throughout space so that its average density remains constant. Bondi and Gold's Cambridge colleague Fred Hoyle published his own formulation of steady-state theory four months later in the same journal 'A New Model for the Expanding Universe' MNRAS Vol. 108 No. 5 pp. 372-382. Bondi Gold and Hoyle were led to steady state theory because of well-known problems associated with the then current evolving models of the expanding universe: such models predicted a cosmic age that was problematic less than the known age of some stars and they disliked Lemaȋtre's idea of a universe with an explosive beginning. Although the steady-state theory was eventually disproved by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background in the 1960s "Steady state was of enormous importance in the history of astronomy because it turned cosmology into a serious observational part of science by making predictions different from those of an evolutionary universe for which Hoyle coined the name big bang. The predictions included numbers sizes colors and brightnesses of galaxies at large distances compared to those near us" DSB under Gold. In 2014 an unpublished manuscript was discovered probably dating from early 1931 in which Einstein himself considered the possibility of a universe that expands but remains essentially unchanged his 'cosmological constant' being responsible for the continuous creation of matter from empty space O'Raifeartaigh et al. We have located only one other copy of this offprint at the Royal Society in London no copy on OCLC. No copies in auction records. "To the extent that there existed a standard cosmology in the late 1940s it was the evolutionary universe based on Einstein's field equations of 1917 either in the big bang version or the ever-expanding but no-bang Lemaître-Eddington version. In their discussions of 1946 and 1947 Hoyle Gold and Bondi agreed that an evolutionary universe governed by general relativity was unsatisfactory in whatever version. They concluded that an unchanging yet expanding universe was preferable and for this reason they postulated continual creation of matter to occur throughout space at such a rate that it compensated for the expansion and left the average density of matter constant the idea came from Gold. In early 1948 Gold and Bondi and independently Hoyle worked out their two formulations of the steady state universe. The theory presented in the 1948 Bondi-Gold paper was deductively founded on what they called the perfect cosmological principle the postulate that the universe is uniform not only spatially but temporally as well: it has always looked the same. This principle they claimed was a fundamental axiom from which physical results should be deduced; if theoretical extrapolations from experiments conflicted with the principle such as did the law of energy conservation they had to be rejected. Bondi and Gold consequently denied that the universe could be described by the energy-conserving theory of general relativity. Moreover they objected that relativistic cosmology was "utterly unsatisfactory" because it covered so many models and was based on so many free parameters that as a whole it could not be falsified observationally. In spite of the qualitative and philosophical flavor of their paper Bondi and Gold could prove that their theory led to a number of definite predictions including a specific rate of matter creation of about 10-43 g/s/cm3. It also followed from their theory that the metric of the steady state universe had to be of the De Sitter type a flat space expanding exponentially" DSB under Bondi. "There is a charming story not taken seriously by all historians about how steady state theory began. The idea came in 1947 Hoyle claimed when he and his fellow scientists Hermann Bondi and Tommy Gold went to a movie. The three knew each other from shared research on radar during World War II. Hoyle was versatile undisciplined and intuitive; Bondi had a sharp and orderly mathematical mind; Gold's daring physical imagination opened new perspectives. The movie was a ghost story that ended the same way it started. This got the three scientists thinking about a universe that was unchanging yet dynamic. According to Hoyle "One tends to think of unchanging situations as being necessarily static. What the ghost-story film did sharply for all three of us was to remove this wrong notion. One can have unchanging situations that are dynamic as for instance a smoothly flowing river." But how could the universe always look the same if it was always expanding It did not take them long to see a possible answer-matter was continuously being created. Thus new stars and galaxies could form to fill the space left behind as the old ones moved apart. "To many philosophical minds the steady-state universe proposed by Hoyle Bondi and Gold had a major advantage over the big-bang expanding universe. In their universe the overall density was kept always the same by the continuous creation of matter. In the big-bang universe with its radically changing density various physical laws might not apply the same way at all times. It would be impossible to extrapolate with confidence from the present back to the super-dense origin of the universe. "Steady-state theory also had an observational advantage over big-bang theory in 1948. The rate of expansion then observed when calculated backward to an initial big bang gave an age for the universe of only a few billion years-well below the known age of the solar system! That was certainly an embarrassment for the big bang theory. For some time cosmologists had measured ideas against a "cosmological principle" which asserted that the large-scale properties of the universe are independent of the location of the observer. In other words any theory that put we humans at some special place like the center of the universe could be rejected out of hand. Bondi and Gold insisted that the universe is not only homogenous in space but also in time-it looks the same at any place and at any time. They grandly called this the "perfect cosmological principle" and insisted that theory should be deduced from the axiom that we are not at any special place in either space or time. "Hoyle was less insistent that the perfect cosmological principle was a fundamental axiom. He preferred to have theory follow from a modification he proposed to Einstein's relativistic universe adding the creation of matter. The two different steady-state theories had enough in common however to be considered one for most purposes. "Much of the later development of steady-state theory came in response to criticism. In Great Britain especially scientists gave considerable attention to elaborating the theory. Their arguments were largely of a philosophical nature with little appeal to observation. "The cosmological debate acquired religious and political aspects. Pope Pious XII announced in 1952 that big-bang cosmology affirmed the notion of a transcendental creator and was in harmony with Christian dogma. Steady-state theory denying any beginning or end to time was in some minds loosely associated with atheism. Gamow even suggested steady-state theory was attached to the Communist Party line although in fact Soviet astronomers rejected both steady-state and big-bang cosmologies as "idealistic" and unsound. Hoyle himself associated steady state theory with personal freedom and anti-communism. "Astronomers in the United States found the steady-state theory attractive but they took a pragmatic approach. The rival claims of big-bang and steady-state theory must be settled by observational tests. One test involved the ages of galaxies. In a steady state with continuous creation of matter there would be a mixture of young and old galaxies throughout the universe. In a big bang with only an initial creation galaxies would age with time. And astronomers could look back in time by looking at more distant galaxies for observing a galaxy a billion light-years away meant seeing it in light that had left it a billion years ago. Observations reported in 1948 purported to find that more distant galaxies were indeed older. Score one for the big bang. Bondi and Gold reviewed the data carefully and in 1954 they showed that the reported effect was spurious. Score one for steady state. The age test might be able to distinguish between the rival theories in principle but in practice it could not. "Another possible test involved the rate of expansion of the universe. In a big bang the expansion rate would slow; in a steady state universe it would remain constant. Data from the Mount Wilson Observatory seemed to favor the big bang but not certainly enough to constitute a crucial test. "Meanwhile there was a solution to the embarrassing calculation that put the age of a big-bang universe less than the age of the solar system. Walter Baade showed that estimates of the distances to galaxies had mixed together two different types of stars. As a result the size of the universe had been underestimated by about a factor of two. If galaxies were twice as distant as previously thought then calculation with the observed rate of expansion gave an age of the universe twice as great as previously calculated - safely greater than the age of the solar system. "The most serious challenge to steady-state theory came from the new science of radio astronomy. Fundamental knowledge in the techniques of detecting faint radio astronomy signals advanced greatly during World War II especially with research on radar and especially in England. After the war research programs at Cambridge at Manchester and at Sydney Australia built radio telescopes to detect signals from outer space. They dominated radio astronomy for the next decade. "The program at Cambridge was led by Martin Ryle who in 1974 would receive the Nobel Prize in physics for his overall contributions to radio astronomy. In 1951 Ryle believed that radio sources were located within our galaxy and hence were of no cosmological interest. But over the next few years he became convinced that most of the radio sources he was detecting were extragalactic. His observations then could be used to test cosmological models. Ryle argued that his survey of almost 2000 radio sources completed in 1955 contradicted steady-state theory because more distant/older sources seemed to be distributed differently from nearby ones. But he overstated the significance of his initial data. Only after more years of work would radio observations argue strongly against steady-state theory" American Institute of Physics ;/a>. Both Bondi 1919-2005 and Gold 1920-2004 were born into Jewish families in Vienna but left Austria shortly before the Anschluss. Bondi was admitted as a foreign student at Trinity College Cambridge where he arrived in the fall of 1937; Gold became an undergraduate student at Trinity in the following year. In 1940 the British government concerned about possible fifth columnists interned many Austrian and German émigrés as enemy aliens. Thus it was that Bondi and Gold who did not previously know each other met as internees in a camp in Quebec Canada where they soon became close friends. The slightly more senior camp resident Max Perutz organized an informal "school" at which the young students could teach each other. Bondi's extraordinary mathematical skills and Gold's outstanding physical insights soon became obvious and complementary. Bondi and Gold did not return to England until 1942. Hoyle 1915-2001 entered Emmanuel College Cambridge in 1933 and went on to do graduate work in theoretical physics under Rudolf Peierls and Paul Dirac. In 1939 he secured a fellowship at St. John's College Cambridge. In 1940 the Admiralty the British government department responsible for the Royal Navy recruited Hoyle for theoretical research on radar. As director of the theory division at the radar establishment Hoyle recruited Bondi in June 1942 and on Bondi's advice in October 1942 Hoyle brought in Thomas Gold. Bondi Gold and Hoyle shared a small rented house close to their place of work spending their evenings and weekends debating problems in astrophysics. All three returned to Cambridge in 1945 and from 1947 they started to work together on cosmology. O'Raifeartaigh et al 'Einstein's steady-state theory: an abandoned model of the cosmos' European Physical Journal 39 353-367. For a very detailed account of the Bondi & Gold and Hoyle papers see Kragh Cosmology and Controversy 1996 pp. 162-201. The Einstein manuscript on a steady-state universe is 'Zum kosmologischen Problem' Albert Einstein Archive Online Archive No. 2-112 Offprint from: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 108 No. 3 1948. 8vo pp. 252-270. Stapled as issued in self-wrappers. / Hardcover. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society unknown
1852rif. 68368Placer County California 1852. GOLD RUSH. Gold Rush Map Manuscript. Being a Survey for the adjoining plots of land belonging to H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. Placer County California: 1852. Two pages on a single sheet 17 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.; 438 x 275 mm. Manuscript document with map dated variously between 4-24 September 1852 and signed by H.H. Watson A.J. Polhill and others. Sheet with some mild staining and ink blots. Some minor chipping at edges and some separations at the creases. Creases reinforced with nearly invisible tape. Overall a very interesting piece of gold rush history. We could not find any other California mine surveys at auction in the past 50 years. "Survey for H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. A Tract of land laying near ville bounded as described in the annex plot commencing point as the S.W. corner of J.H. Hancock survey." "Survey made by N.O. Hinman County Surveyor." "In the present survey the tracts of land being issued to Watson and Polhill are bounded on the right by the Volcano Mining Company Ditch and Volcano Canion sic with the Todds sic Valley Company Ditch running through each plot. The Volcano Gold Gravel Mining Company was one of the most extensive gravel mines during the Gold Rush and hundreds of acres of valuable mining lands were drained by its enterprises. Placer County falls in both the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada regions in what is known as the Gold Country. The discovery of gold in this region in 1848 brought tens of thousands of miners from around the world and thousands more settled in the area to provide goods and services to them. The name "Placer" is taken from the Spanish word for gravel or sand deposits containing gold." From Sotheby's. HBS 68368. $3500. Placer County, California unknown
