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1822rif. ST20877London: Printed for R. Ackermann 1822. First English Edition. 300 x 235 mm. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". xvi 325 1 pp.Translated by Frederic Shoberl. Imposing contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt covers with filigree frame with densely massed scrolling fleurons raised bands spine gilt in compartments with radiating viny scrolls surrounded by leaves and annular dots marbled endleaves all edges gilt. WITH 13 HAND-COLORED PLATES in etching and aquatint many after Japanese artworks one folding. Bookplate removed from front flyleaf. Bookseller's ticket of J. L. Thompson & Co Kobe Japan on front pastedown. Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489; Martin Hardie "English Coloured Books" pp. 113-14. See also E. F. Strange "Japanese Illustration" pp. xxiii-xxiv. Spine and fore-edge of upper board slightly darkened a few minute flakes to lowest spine compartment but the binding extremely well preserved with very lustrous boards. Final 10 leaves slightly creased one repaired marginal tear but still A FINE COPY INTERNALLY exceptionally bright smooth and entirely fresh and clean. This generously proportioned production illustrated with 13 vibrant colored plates is a rare European account of Japan during the period in which the country was "closed" to the west offered here in its first English edition. Originally published in French in 1820 "Illustrations of Japan" is comprised of a history and description of the Tokugawa shogunate which Titsingh had translated from the Japanese plus Titsingh's own observations on the language customs and ceremonies of the Japanese people. The present English edition is accompanied by plates in etching and aquatint enhanced with hand coloring. Our author Dutch diplomat Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 spent 14 years in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India company and between 1779-84 he served as trade director-cum-ambassador travelling to Edo now Tokyo for audiences with the shogun and other high officials in the shogunate. Unlike most of his Western contemporaries Titsingh was open-minded and curious about the people he encountered engaging with their art and culture; in fact art historian and Victoria & Albert Museum keeper Edward F. Strange tells us that Titsingh is the earliest known European collector of Japanese prints of which a number appear in the present volume. Our publisher Rudolph Ackermann 1764-1834 made his living issuing sumptuously illustrated books such as the present volume and was an early adopter of color aquatint and lithography technologies; Hardie writes that he was "the great presiding genius before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence." In very attractive period morocco this is a particularly appealing copy of the work free of the foxing and offsetting that often plague copies of this and other large-format color illustrated books. Printed for R. Ackermann unknown books
1888rif. 43552Cleveland: Western Reserve Protective Tariff League 1888. First edition. Broadsheet. Good to very good copies edges browned worn some chips and tears. 2222 pp. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. With the main issue of the 1888 campaign about tariff policy the broadsheets detail the horrors of free trade in specific industries and the need to defeat the incumbent President Grover Cleveland. 1. Publication No. 2: Eagle and the Lion: begins with a Harrison quote on evils of free trade and goes on to show how England will benefit from free trade. Ends with "Cleveland & Mills Surgeons Reductions neatly effected. God save the Queen!" bordered in black box. 2. Publication No. 5: How Free Trade Works in England. & verso How Free Trade Works in England. Further Testimony. Read! Read! Read!. 3. Publication No. 6: A House Divided Against Itself. Who Tells the Truth & verso "To Iron and Steel Workers." 4. Publication No. 9: Eleven Years of Free Trade. Good Democratic Testimony as to the Ruin They Wrought. & verso Tom L. Johnson and the Farmer." Scarce. All four are apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC NUC or other reference sources of these or any other broadsheets from the society. Western Reserve Protective Tariff League unknown books
1890rif. 40232n.p. 1890. Not bound. Overall quite good but some creasing tears fading a few remounted. 12 sheets. Size varies from 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches to 13 x 10 inches. 42 albumen and silver prints mounted on large card stock some tipped in some remounted. Images of San Francisco Yosemite Pikes Peak Grand Canyon as well as the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 some captioned in plate or in manuscript. unknown books
2008rif. 39497Western History Association 2008. First editions. Paper wrappers. Mostly fine. A nearly continuous run of forty years lacking only 2000 of the Western History Association conference program books from the 9th to the 48th associated materials such as the Western Literature Association papers invitations and other ephemera for the various cities involved. Includes 39 conference booklets and over 67 pieces of other materials maps invitations tourism publications etc. Western History Association unknown books
1982rif. 195176Bombay: Crafts Council of Western India 1982. Hardcover. Good Boards are edgeworn scuffed and smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid./Good DJ is moderately edgeworn smudged and scuffed. Linen-esque boards with brown lettering; off-white DJ with brown lettering and illustration; 108 pp.; richly illustrated. "It would be impossible to encapsulate all the wealth of Indian crafts between the covers of a book. 'Shilpakar' then is only an attempt to lift the veil on a world of infinite richness -- and on the unknown craftsman who created it." -- Note from the Editor. Crafts Council of Western India hardcover books
2013rif. 145504Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art / Tokyo Broadcasting System Television 2013. Hardcover. VG- May have several bumps and nicks along bottom edge of binding; otherwise close to Like New. White boards three-quarter black & illus. dust jacket 215 pp. many color illus. Majority of text is in Japanese; with additional English captions two essays in English and one in Itailan. Issued in conjunction with several 2013 exhibitions held in honor of this anniversary of Michelangelo's completion of the Sistine Chapel decoration. Includes esssays by Pina Ragionieri Paul Barolsky and Kiyoo Uemura. The National Museum of Western Art / Tokyo Broadcasting System Television hardcover books
1988rif. 17371.11988. Softcover. VG. Wraps. 94 pp. Numerous color plates. 37 artists represented by at least as many works. Lengthy introductory essay. paperback books
2013rif. 144452Tokyo Japan: Tokyo Broadcasting System Television 2013. Hardcover. VG Corners slightly bumped. Light blue-gray cloth white & color illus. three-quarter outer paper wrap 224 pp. 99 color plates plus sundry smaller illus. Text is in English and Japanese. Issued in conjunction with several 2013-14 exhibitions featuring paintings by Monet and others. "The nearly 100 works presented in this exhibition center around a core of 36 Monet paintings ranging from his earliest through to those of his later years. These are complemented by outstanding examples of modern painting by Manet Corot Gauguin Van Gogh Seurat Signac Puvis de Chavannes Picasso and others from the collections of the two participating museums. The exhibition reveals in sharp relief how Monet created his unique pictorial space and also sheds light on how Monet fortified his eye to revolutionize the modern landscape." p. 193. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television hardcover books
1980rif. 12182Tokyo Japan: The National Museum of Western Art 1980. Softcover. VG May haveabel & few marks from previous gallery owner; slight wear to outer cover; interior is clean. White & color wraps. 286 pp 90 color plates 86 BW plates. Text is in Japanese and English. Issued in conjunction with several 1980 exhibitions of pantings and drawings by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1732-1806. With an essay by Denys Sutton. Includes a chronology. The annotated catalogue addresses 176 items and all are pictured here. Truly exquisite plates. The cover art is "The Reader" one of our favorite paintings. Uncommon. The National Museum of Western Art paperback books
2007rif. 133298Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun 2007. Hardcover. VG May be ex-art library with few marks otherwise clean. Black stiff boards with color illus. mylar titled dust jacket. 202 pp. Many color plates. Text is in Japanese and English. Issued in conjunction with a 2007-2008 exhibition at The National Museum of Western Art Tokyo and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art featuring 108 works by Munch including sketches drawings oil paintings watercolors drawings and sculptures created as part of seven mural projects: The Frieze of Life Mermaid Linde Frieze Reinhardt Frieze Aula Freia Frieze and the Worker's Frieze. Tokyo Shimbun hardcover books
2010rif. 133584Tokyo: The Tokyo Shimbun 2010. Softcover. VG. Glossy color-illustrated wraps with gilt lettering. 212 pp. Color and bw plates. In Japanese and Italian. Two volume set no matter what the title may indicate. 2010 exhibition at National Museum of Western Art Tokyo and Museum of Kyoto "Naples Beauty and the Court" featuring works from the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte. Volume 1 contains the Japanese text and color plates while volume 2 contains the Italian translations with bw thumbnails. ISBN for second volume is 9784906536559. Two volume set no matter what the title may indicate. The Tokyo Shimbun paperback books
1986rif. 131178Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art; Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc 1986. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps. 298 pp. 111 color illustrations. In Japanese and English. Includes three essays a catalogue of 111 works maps chronology list of exhibitions bibliography. The National Museum of Western Art; Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc paperback books
1960rif. 131530Cody WY: Whitney Gallery of Western Art 1960. Softbound. VG ink note on cover. Folded paper price list one sheet. Price list for full color prints as well as books slides and miscellaneous items sold by the Whitney Gallery of Western Art. Whitney Gallery of Western Art paperback books
1968rif. 127309Tokyo Japan: Musee National d'Art Occidental Tokyo 1968. Softbound. Ex-library book VG. In Japanese and French. White wraps with color illustration burgundy and black lettering on spine and front cover. Unpaginated over 110 plates in bw and some color. Contains a biography notes on the exhibition's 129 works with illustrations for most. Musee National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo paperback books
1988rif. 173711988. Hardcover. VG. Rust cloth gilt lettering white DJ. 94 pp. Numerous color plates. 37 artists represented by at least as many works. Lengthy introductory essay. hardcover books
1964rif. 312201964. Softcover. VG small label on front cover. Light blue/grey ill. wraps. 30 pp. 11 color and bw plates. Includes brief essay by George Kubler. paperback books
2005rif. 1019952005. Softbound. As New. Color illustrated wraps. 285 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Text is presented in Japanese and French. Extensively illustrated and annotated and significant addition to the literature on La Tour. paperback books
2000rif. 223552000. First Edition. Softcover. VG. Black wraps. 61 pp. Numerous color plates. Includes three essays a statement by the artist biographical chronology an exhibition checklist and a section of remembrances. Marvelous illustrations. paperback books
1972rif. 278701972. Softcover. VG owners' name on cover. White wraps. 130 pp. 135 bw ills. Catalogue prepared by Jairus Barnes and Moselle Taylor Meals. Includes introducton and fully annotated plates of fabulous examples. Shaker furniture transitional furniture Queen Ann style Chippendale Sharaton and much more! Features 160 exhibited items. paperback books
1959rif. 34611959. Softcover. VG. Yellow wraps. 14 pp. Gives brief biographies of Catlin Eastman A.J. Miller Ranney J.M. Stanley Bierstadt Remington and Russell. Lists works from various collections loaned for the exhibit including a large number of Russell bronzes. paperback books
rif. 4491No date. Softcover. VG. Red wraps. 12 pp. 13 bw repros. This collection was the gift of the W.R. Coe Foundation to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody Wyoming. Essay on the studio written by Harold McCracken. Also contains a chronology. No date but circa 1958-1960. paperback books
1964rif. 18301964. Softcover. Good. Some soiling to covers. Color wraps. appx. 50 pp. 1 color 33 bw plates. Includes a nine page unsigned essay regarding Kuhn. Full page plates. Almost all of the paintings in this exhibit are from the collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Uncommon. paperback books
1912rif. 184517Pony Montana: Western Federation of Miners 1912. Ephemera. Seven 8x12-inch printed forms with written data very good condition. The WFM union miners Local 131 of Pony MT entered monthly figures on its membership income and expenses and other information for filing with the WFM. The local suffered high unemployment during this period. Gold mining was prevalent in this area in southwest Montana. Western Federation of Miners unknown books
1920rif. List3343United States 1920. Painted poster with affixed photograph measuring 14 x 21 inches. Toned with water damage and slight damage to edges; very good to excellent. A painted poster advertising the 1920 film The Girl Who Dared a Western directed by Clifford Smith and starring Edythe Sterling. The story follows Barbara Hampton a rancher’s daughter who is elected sheriff of a small town and must take on the cattle rustlers who are after her father. Sterling born Edith May Kessinger 1893–1962 was a prolific actress known for working with animals; after her film career she performed riding stunts in a Wild West show. Smith 1894–1937 was similarly prolific directing more than eighty films during his career—mainly Westerns which were especially popular during the silent era. This poster is hand-painted with a photograph from the film affixed and advertises 1¢ admission which was remarkably cheap even for the time. unknown books
1940rif. List3440United States France and Germany 1940. Approximately 469 total items. Fifty-nine pieces of loose correspondence one with four photographs affixed. In large letter album approximately 199 pieces of written material: 118 pieces of incoming correspondence twenty-one drafts of outgoing correspondence and sixty other. 139 photographs: nine cabinet cards thirty-three smaller mounted or framed photos eleven CDVs or tintypes nineteen in small photo album sixty-six loose photographs and one real photo postcard. Eight pieces of loose miscellaneous written material totaling sixty-four pages; nine forms applications etc; forty-five clippings generally affixed to notebook pages; and ten pieces of unsorted ephemera. Written material generally dating from about 1891–1928. Photographic material and ephemera generally dating from about 1870s or earlier to 1943. Letter album with covers detached and damage to edges of paper very good plus; other material generally excellent. Overall very good to excellent. Charles Colt Yates 1868–1944 was born in Binghamton New York. He received a BS in Physics and an MS in Civil Engineering from the Case School of Applied Science now Case Western Reserve University before joining the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1892. Yates’ work with the USC&GS took him around the US and abroad; his work included observing the earth’s surface density in Hawaii; surveying Lake Pontchartrain the Alaska–Yukon border and the Aleutian Islands; surveying and ship-building in the Philippines and Hong Kong; and surveying the oyster bars in Maryland and Delaware. Offered here is a large collection of photographic and written material belonging to Yates. The photographs are almost entirely family shots. Subjects are generally identified verso by their initials and include Yates; his grandparents James Dennison Colt and Abigail Weber; his parents Walter Lloyd Yates and Charlotte Colt; and especially his brother Alonzo Colt Yates sister-in-law Elizabeth Deming and their children Evelyn and Lloyd Deming Yates. The written material relates to Yates’ work and includes incoming correspondence particularly work assignments sent by the Survey’s various superintendents; Yates’ drafts of outgoing correspondence; field expense forms—providing a look at the more quotidian activities of the Survey’s researchers—and departmental circulars; resumes and applications; notes and article drafts; and newspaper clippings. The latter generally relate to either the 1916 controversy around Woodrow Wilson’s scientific appointments particularly of E. Lester Jones or to the 1916 and 1928 Merchant Marine Acts. The merchant marine issue preoccupied Yates as several of his letters and articles concern the subject; other of his articles are an 1898 “Report on the Establishment of a Self Registering Tide Gauge at Morehead City N.C” and a 1914 report on oceanography. Early in his career Yates apparently wanted out of the Survey writing to several different people seeking a teaching position and explaining that his “desire to become a teacher and ultimately a professor is so great that I am willing to make a considerable sacrifice” in terms of pay July 16 1896. Of course there would have been upsides to leaving the Survey as working conditions at the time were far from ritzy; for instance fellow officer Alex S. Christie wrote of the employee at the Sandy Hook tidal station in New Jersey: “Where now located on the west side of this sand spit the observer is completely isolated and threatens to resign. He has no love for nature and no resources within himself. I could be very happy there.” July 26 1892 Similarly Superintendent William Ward Duffield attempted to convince Yates that the conditions on the Alaska-Yukon boundary survey were more tolerable than he might think: “It might pertinently be added here that the American Transportation and Trading Company has a number of stations on the Yukon and carries a large stock of goods including drugs etc. at points near the boundary. The country is better supplied with means of existence and communication than was supposed sometime ago.” February 29 1896 As references for a teaching position Yates offered his Case classmate and highly decorated electrical engineer Comfort Avery Adams then at Harvard and Case president Cady Staley. Yates corresponded occasionally with Staley including helping him with research by among other things giving him honest advice on the use of a theodolite: “From a personal experience: to approach a Vertical Circle without ever having seen one and having had it explained by a textbook is not only awkward but an embarrassing experience and perhaps even a disastrous experience when the proper approach of the level correction is reached.” February 24 1897 Another Case affiliate with whom Yates corresponded was Albert A. Michelson then at the University of Chicago. Michelson is best known for the 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment a test of the speed of light performed at Case with Edward W. Morley and the assistance of Comfort Adams then a student. Yates had sent Michelson an observation of some kind—though he did not save the draft of this outgoing letter—and Michelson responds with several pages of reasoning: “I scarcely think it likely that refraction is the cause of the color observed – but even if this were the case it would not help matters much. The angle subtended by the spectrum could certainly not be less than 10” if a consistent color could be appreciated . Nevertheless I would recommend that the color phenomenon be carefully observed and recorded – for it may throw light on other matters of importance – even tho not of immediate practical use.” March 8 1896 Yates also kept up with his Case classmates; several letter drafts in the archive are addressed “dear Classmates” and seem to be part of a semi-regular correspondence where the former classmates would update each other on their careers and lives though only Yates’ outgoing mail is represented. Yates writes a particularly interesting letter to his classmates describing his time in the Philippines and Hong Kong the surveying of which had become part of the USC&GS’s duties after the US assumed control of the territory: “I was just leaving for a surveying cruise along the south west coast of Samar Island the island General ‘Jakey’ Smith and brother officers made so famous by their approved ‘water cure’ and other ancient methods of obtaining information from the natives. We had an excellent Thanksgiving’s dinner in Jakey’s former residence the ‘bungalow’ at Tacloban and although many of his officers were still there I feel quite certain that water was not mentioned but their liquid method of obtaining information was probably even more effective. No doubt the natives of Samar are well subdued at least we judged so from the fact that when they saw any of our boats put off from the ship they immediately abandoned house and home to the old and crippled. Apparently Americans are to be trusted in reference to these two classes. Disappearing streaks of red skirts indicating retreating females were sometimes seen but our male ‘little brown brother’ was rarely discovered even on a run. This was quite a change from our previous experiences in other parts of the Philippines which had not received the benefit of the same intimate contact with our methods of civilization. In fact we were usually accompanied along the beach by a swarm of men women and children of all sizes and ages who though always polite and gentle were a nuisance sometimes through unintentionally getting in the way of our work.” October 15 1903 The “water cure” was a form of torture similar to waterboarding often used by American soldiers during the Philippine-American War. General Smith was infamous not for use of the “water cure” but for his orders during the Pacification of Samar to execute everyone over age ten and turn the island into a “howling wilderness”; during the campaign several thousand civilians were killed. Later Yates explained to his classmates that he had had a nervous breakdown while stationed in Asia following the death of his only child at five months old and was sent home January 20 1907. He was assigned to survey oyster fields for the Maryland Shell Fish Commission which he described as “surrounded by politicians as our work seems to be the political issue of the State”. In fact at this time Yates seems to have become more interested in politics especially the Merchant Marine acts mentioned earlier. He sent out his article titled “By-products and Relative Values of a Merchant Marine” to several potential publishers and also corresponded with Congressmen regarding the act including Jesse D. Price of Maryland Frank P. Woods of Iowa and Joshua W. Alexander of Missouri. He wrote to the latter who was the 1916 act’s sponsor: “If you succeed in passing the Bill you will deserve oceans of credit and even if you fail you will have gained the sincere admiration of those who have studied the subject and know the great aggregate of vested shipping interests both foreign and domestic which are fighting you so hard because they fear the results to their personal interest of the founding of a real American Marine which would be brought about by the passage of your Bill.” May 16 1916 Yates was also interested in the 1928 Act which concerned shipbuilding—having built ships for the Survey in Hong Kong and Wisconsin—and wrote an article that year giving suggestions for it. Otherwise the more recent contents of the archive are mainly ephemera of Yates’ brother diplomat Alonzo Colt Yates 1864–1950 including an ID card and passport. Overall a unique collection of an employee of the US government’s first and for a long time only scientific agency the archive provides a look at the agency’s activities at home and across the globe. It also provides some history of the early days of the Case School of Applied Science especially the activities of early alumni and faculty. unknown books
