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1848réf. 140949208New York: Daniel Adee 1848. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing with date 1848 on title page and publisher's address listed as 107 Fulton-Street. 4 v-viii 9-581 pp. illustrated with engraved frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Recently bound in maroon buckram title label to spine. Very Good with light wear to covers and slight bumping to lower corners; title label beginning to lift at one corner. Band of paper residue to front free endpaper. Light toning and moderate foxing to textblock edges and contents dampstain to outer textblock edge and outer margin throughout. Cohen pp. 347-352. The first American edition of the foundational physics text first published in Latin in 1687. Andrew Motte's 1729 translation was reprinted in 1803 and 1819 in Britain but subsequent 19th century editions were printed only in the United States and Germany. The New York-based publisher Daniel Adee deposited a copyright for the Principia in 1846 then printed five issues between 1848 and 1850. A contemporary notice in the Scientific American declared: "For a long time the 'Principia' was kept far out of the reach of the mere English Scholar as if Newton had written it exclusively for the classical student and philosopher. It was a scarce book when printed in the Latin language; it is now thanks to the spirit of an American publisher printed in our mother tongue and should find a place in every family library. Daniel Adee unknown books
réf. 84308102London 1822 Ackermann. Red original cloth very goodsmall folio gold stamped 325p. 25 aquatint illustrations on 13 hand colored copper etched plates many color foldouts 25 x 32.3 cm. THE FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Q U I T E R A R E . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown
réf. 84308102London 1822 Ackermann. Red original cloth very goodsmall folio gold stamped 325p. 25 aquatint illustrations on 13 hand colored copper etched plates many color foldouts 25 x 32.3 cm. THE FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Q U I T E R A R E . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown books
réf. 003111London: printed by Joseph Moxon: and sold at his shop in Corn-hill at the signe of Atlas 1659. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. vi 34pp. Engraved architectural title. First English edition a translation of the Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau London 1644 illustrated with the same plates. Nineteenth-century calf repaired. With twenty-six numbered engraved plates and numerous woodcuts in text. Woodcut initials type ornament headpieces. Johnson 64 for engraved architectural title; Norman 417; Cf. Thorndike VII pp. 592-593; Wellcome II p.315; Wing C1527; ESTC R17548. 0 London: printed by Joseph Moxon: and sold at his shop in Corn-hill at the signe of Atlas, 1659. hardcover
1791réf. 51520London: H. Humphreis sic January 4 1791. The Nootka Crisis Parodied In 1789 and 1790 Nootka Sound in the Pacific Northwest looked to be the spur of a major conflict between the kingdoms of Britain and Spain. The inlet was an important outpost for maritime fur trading and had therefore become the focus of the centuries-old struggle for advantage in the New World. Courtesy of explorer and trader John Meares news of Spanish indiscretions reached Britain in 1790 and intensified the growing anti-Spanish rhetoric and call for war. Meares whose credibility was famously contested in two remarkable pamphlets by George Dixon claimed not only that the Spanish had seized British ships but that they had removed his settlement at Nootka and replaced it with their own. After debate in the House of Commons it was decided the British Navy would be mobilized. While Spain initially sought to go to war they could not attain the essential support of France and thus required a diplomatic solution to the problem. This came in the form of the first Nootka Convention which was signed on Oct. 28 1790. The convention guaranteed Britain the right to have outposts on Nootka Sound and to practice whaling in waters beyond the "Ten-League Line" off the coast. The Convention eventually resulted in the seminal voyage of George Vancouver to survey the Pacific Northwest. This print is a satire on the British Tory government's handling of the crisis. Its central critical point attacks part of the convention concerning fishing rights which Pitt's opposition latched onto as evidence of underhanded dealings. They noted that the original importance of Nootka Sound was not for whaling but rather for fur trading and that the whaling industry had surely redirected political attention toward their interests. Thus the print shows Pitt and Henry Dundas in the Pacific off the west coast of North America hopelessly fishing with millions from the treasury. As Pitt expresses worry over the spending Dundas soothes him with the knowledge that "the Gudgeons we caught in England will pay for it all." In saying so Dundas declares the Britons who supported the war to have been bait for his and Pitt's political maneuvering. The coastline is shown from southern Alaska to Mexico likewise making this an early map of California Alaska and the west coast. In all it is a lively expression of disbelief and anger at the amount expended on preparing for war set against the eventual prize namely the indeterminate profitability of whaling. Cropped within plate borders with no loss to image or text. Remnants of older paper pasted to verso. Color bright and fresh. Near fine. unknown
1791réf. 51520London: H. Humphreis sic January 4 1791. The Nootka Crisis Parodied In 1789 and 1790 Nootka Sound in the Pacific Northwest looked to be the spur of a major conflict between the kingdoms of Britain and Spain. The inlet was an important outpost for maritime fur trading and had therefore become the focus of the centuries-old struggle for advantage in the New World. Courtesy of explorer and trader John Meares news of Spanish indiscretions reached Britain in 1790 and intensified the growing anti-Spanish rhetoric and call for war. Meares whose credibility was famously contested in two remarkable pamphlets by George Dixon claimed not only that the Spanish had seized British ships but that they had removed his settlement at Nootka and replaced it with their own. After debate in the House of Commons it was decided the British Navy would be mobilized. While Spain initially sought to go to war they could not attain the essential support of France and thus required a diplomatic solution to the problem. This came in the form of the first Nootka Convention which was signed on Oct. 28 1790. The convention guaranteed Britain the right to have outposts on Nootka Sound and to practice whaling in waters beyond the "Ten-League Line" off the coast. The Convention eventually resulted in the seminal voyage of George Vancouver to survey the Pacific Northwest. This print is a satire on the British Tory government's handling of the crisis. Its central critical point attacks part of the convention concerning fishing rights which Pitt's opposition latched onto as evidence of underhanded dealings. They noted that the original importance of Nootka Sound was not for whaling but rather for fur trading and that the whaling industry had surely redirected political attention toward their interests. Thus the print shows Pitt and Henry Dundas in the Pacific off the west coast of North America hopelessly fishing with millions from the treasury. As Pitt expresses worry over the spending Dundas soothes him with the knowledge that "the Gudgeons we caught in England will pay for it all." In saying so Dundas declares the Britons who supported the war to have been bait for his and Pitt's political maneuvering. The coastline is shown from southern Alaska to Mexico likewise making this an early map of California Alaska and the west coast. In all it is a lively expression of disbelief and anger at the amount expended on preparing for war set against the eventual prize namely the indeterminate profitability of whaling. Cropped within plate borders with no loss to image or text. Remnants of older paper pasted to verso. Color bright and fresh. Near fine. unknown books
1845réf. 42820862FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the Pentateuch translated by a Jew and the first American translation of the Torah. Isaac Leeser was the single most influential Jewish figure in 19th-century America. His many accomplishments include establishing the vernacular sermon as a permanent feature in the American synagogue publishing the first successful American Jewish newspaper and founding the first American rabbinical school. "When Leeser commences his public career the scattered Jewish individuals and the members of the congregation in the United States did not number more than from 12000 to 15000. His purpose to mold these into a community was to be achieved in part by the pulpit and in part by the press. … Leeser participated in all Jewish movements. He was the earliest promoter of all the national enterprises—the first congregational union the first Hebrew day-schools the first Hebrew college the first Jewish publication society—and of numberless local undertakings. The 'Occident' acquired a national and even an international reputation; the Maimonides' College of which he was president paved the way for future Jewish colleges in the United States; and his translation of the Bible became an authorized version for the Jews of America" Jewish Encyclopedia. "Practically every form of Jewish activity which supports American Jewish life today as either established or envisaged by this one man" and "almost every kind of publication which is essential to Jewish survival was written translated or fostered by him" B. W. Korn. Leeser's greatest contribution was his translation of the Bible and these volumes contain the first printing of the first and most important portion of this monumental work Leeser's English translation of the Torah. This translation was not superseded until well into the 20th century. Emphasizing that this is an American work Leeser notes in the introduction that "I have to state that I have not looked at a single work issued by English Jews and that hence I have not borrowed a single idea or suggestion from any one of them living or dead." Five volumes. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Finely bound in mottled calf spines gilt a.e.g. Title neatly restored several restored perforated and ink stamps. A very handsome set in a splendid binding. C. Sherman, 5605-6 hardcover
1700réf. B3QFFOIPSB1LAmsterdam 1700. Nicolas Visscher Framed. Very large etched birds-eye view of the Heemstede estate and gardens 99 x 71 cm engraved by Daniël Stoopendaal and printed on 2 2/3 sheets 102 x 72.5 cm from 2 copper plates. With the title on a banderol around the Velthuysen coat-of-arms with festoons all supported by 8 putti in the clouds. With 26 features in the view keyed to a numbered list in the foot margin. The whole view framed by a decorative border. A magnificent meter-high bird's-eye view of the sumptuous Heemstede house and gardens the estate of Diderick van Velthuysen 1651-1716. "The fame of the gardens of Heemstede near Houten in the province of Utrecht was and still is considerable. In literature both at home and abroad the design of this garden is listed only after Het Loo Zeist and De Voorst the palaces of William III and the leading noblemen of his court as a highlight in Dutch garden art. Heemstede owes this renown above all to Daniel Stoopendaal's glorious aerial view" Anglo-Dutch Garden.In good condition with only a few small rust spots and two small holes and with a small tear repaired. Mice appear to have nibbled at the upper right margin of each sheet but politely stopped before reaching the border. A magnificent view of sumptuous formal gardens.l Anglo-Dutch Garden 62; Berlin Kat. 3401; Hollstein Dutch & Flemish XXVIII p. 142 43. unknown
1718réf. 180568London: printed for W. and J. Innys 1718. His most important work on light with significant revisions Second edition second issue as usual of this seminal study which "did for light what Newton's Principia had done for gravitation namely place it on a scientific basis" Babson. Newton arrived at most of his innovative ideas on colour by about 1668 and Opticks was largely complete by 1692. However when he first expressed his theories in public they provoked hostile criticism. As a result Newton delayed publication until his most vocal critics - especially Robert Hooke - were dead. By the mid-1710s Opticks was established in Britain as the model for blending theoretical speculation and quantitative experimentation. Newton's aim was not to "explain the properties of light by hypotheses but to propose and prove them by reason and experiments" p. 1. The work's greatest achievement is showing that colour is a mathematically definable property. Newton demonstrates that white light is a mixture of infinitely varied coloured rays and that each ray is definable by the angle through which it is refracted. Other topics include colour circles theories of the rainbow and the phenomenon now known as Newton's rings. The textual revisions for this edition demonstrate the development of Newton's experimentation process. The first edition was published in 1704 followed by the Latin translation of 1706. This edition was the first in octavo format. It had a print run of 750 copies and within that two issues. The scarce first issue is dated 1717 on the title page and includes William Bowyer's name in the imprint; copies are recorded both with and without the cancel A2. The second issue as here has a cancel title dated 1718 and only the names of W. and J. Innys Printers to the Royal Society in the imprint; A2 the first two pages of the "Advertisement" is set as the cancel. Octavo 198 x 193 mm pp. viii 382 2. With 12 folding engraved plates woodcut diagram on p. 330 and tables in text woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. With leaf of publisher's advertisements at rear. Contemporary panelled calf spine with raised bands edges sprinkled red. With 1718 signature of one "Norcliffe" possibly Fairfax Norcliffe 1674-1721 of Langton Hall North Yorkshire; engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Arthington c.1726-1801 of Arthington Hall West Yorkshire; errata corrected in contemporary ink. Nineteenth-century note on rarity and price to front free endpaper. Joints restored. Light wear minor browning and foxing to contents plates generally crisp: a very good copy. Babson 134; ESTC T18663; Gray 176. hardcover
1874réf. 188323Beijing: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1874. No man of that day equaled him in idiomatic command of the spoken Mandarin First edition of a sinological milestone: the first translation of the Old Testament into northern colloquial "Mandarin" Chinese the language spoken by most potential Chinese converts. Schereschewsky was also the first sinologist to translate directly from the Hebrew masoretic text and his efforts formed the basis of the 1919 Union Bible the most widely used Bible among Chinese Protestants in the 20th century. Born to Jewish parents in Russian Lithuania Schereschewsky 1831-1906 converted to Christianity the early 1850s. After studying for a time in New York in 1857 he volunteered for missionary work in China arriving in 1860. In 1862 he accepted a position as an interpreter to Anson Burlingame and devoted himself to textual translation spending the next 14 years working on this translation his greatest accomplishment. While earlier missionaries had produced versions of the Bible in classical Chinese and minor southern dialects Schereschewsky's was the first to make the Old Testament accessible to the country's biggest language group. After completing the mammoth project Schereschewsky returned to New York with his family where he was elected Bishop of China. Back in China in the late 1870s he founded St John's College in Shanghai and his skills as a translator excited comment for decades to come. Evaluating Schereschewsky's contributions to the missionary cause in the 1890s his contemporary Henry Blodget observed that "the translation into the Mandarin was made by a master hand seemingly raised up by God for this purpose." According to W. A. P. Martin himself a skilled translator Schereschewsky's Old Testament "stands by itself and is not likely to be superseded. For that task his qualifications were exceptional. By birth a Hebrew of the Hebrews and running over with rabbinic lore he had made himself a Chinese by adoption and by successful study. No man of that day equaled him in idiomatic command of the spoken Mandarin" both quoted in Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity. Of this rare translation WorldCat records only ten copies New York Public Library Columbia Harvard Stanford Kansas Peabody Essex Emory National Library of Australia SOAS and Leiden. This is the only complete copy traced in recent commerce. In 2025 Peter Harrington also sold a presentation copy from the library of General Theological Seminary but that copy lacked the table of contents. Octavo 274 x 170 mm pp. iv title page and table of contents 4 preface 1042 = 1045 page register duplicating p. 124 and pp. 730-1 3 blank. Text in Chinese. Contemporary brown half sheep rebacked with original spine laid down spine with printed title label repurposed from original wrappers green pebble-grain cloth sides. Smattering of old blue ink marks and annotations internally. Binding refurbished and lightly soiled second and third leaves repaired at fore edge without loss to text occasional stains to contents: very good. Darlow & Moule 2683. hardcover
1822réf. 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
1822réf. 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
réf. 84308103London 1822 Ackerman. Dark purple tooled leather raised bands 25 hand colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates many fold-outs very clean 325p. small folio 24 x 31.5 cm all edge gilt gold stamped. VERY NICE COPY. QUITE RARE ! . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown
réf. 84308103London 1822 Ackerman. Dark purple tooled leather raised bands 25 hand colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates many fold-outs very clean 325p. small folio 24 x 31.5 cm all edge gilt gold stamped. VERY NICE COPY. QUITE RARE ! . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown books
1838réf. 42121Philadelphia: Printed by Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1838. Hardback. 1st Edition. Gorgeous Period-style gilt-tooled leather. 8vo. Vol. 1: "Part one - Prayers for the Whole Year" siddur. VII 216 216 pages. Vol. 2: "Part 2 - Prayers for Rosh Hashana". 120 121 page 121 page. Vol. 3: "Part 3 - Prayers for Yom Kippur". 4 245 246 1 3 pages. Vol. 4: "Part 4 - Prayers for the Festival of Succot". 175 176 1 pages. Vol. 5: "Part 5 - Prayers for Pesach and for Shavuot". 182 182 pages. Vol. 6 - Prayers for Fast Days". 4 184 186 4 12 pages. Hebrew and English on facing pages parallel pagination. Goldman 36; Singerman 630. The First Complete Machzor Jewish Prayer Book Set for the full year printed in America a stunning complete set. Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 was a central leader of American Jewry in the mid-19th Century the stalwart defender of Orthodoxy against the rise of the Reform movement. He was the head of the Jewish community of Philadelphia and acted as a cantor philosopher publisher and author of many sermons and essays. He was key in the founding Jewish institutions and publications central to the building of Judaism in America including the original Jewish Publication Society the Jewish Sunday School movement and many key translations of Hebrew texts into English. As such he was the first Jew to translate the Hebrew Bible into English publishing The Five Books of Moses in 1845 followed by the full Twenty-Four Books of the Old Testament in 1853. His other major translation is that offered here the first Machzor Prayer Book set for the full year published in America in 1837-1838.Publication in this case was a complex project. Leeser based his new translation on an earlier London edition improving upon both the English translation and the original Hebrew which are presented in facing pages. Once the translation was ready for publication he ordered new Hebrew types from Europe but could not find printers who were familiar with Hebrew–so he taught two Christian printers Hebrew in order to prepare them for the printing. In spite of the difficulties involved all six volumes of the machzor set were published in a total of only 13 months. Leeser marketed his prayer book to audiences in both America and the British Empire and therefore included prayers on behalf of a monarch British and a republican government America. The work also includes a fascinating two-page list of subscribers spanning the Eastern US as well as Jamaica at the end of Vol. VI. The same volume here includes interesting margin notes in pen from a period Rabbi or service leader. With an original run of only 500 sets complete sets of the first edition such as this are very rare. A set sold at Christies in 2006 for $60000. SUBJECTS: Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Passover -- Judaism -- Sephardic rite -- Fasts and feasts -- Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Paque -- Liturgie -- Textes. Judai¨sme -- Rite sefardi -- Liturgie -- Textes. Fetes religieuses -- Seder -- Passover -- OCLC: 18532819. All pages professionally washed before rebinding the quality paper very clean and bright with beautiful marbled endpapers. Stunning matching blue leather binding with raised bands and gilt tooling in custom slipcase. Very Good Condition. Rarely found as a complete set. Gorgeous and important. KH-1-1. Philadelphia: Printed by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell unknown
1954réf. 140945130Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company 1954. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition stated first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov on title page and inscribed to a former owner. 224 pp. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leatherette with spine lettered in red red topstain. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine ends pages tanned in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine and edges light edge wear and light toning. The first book in Asimov's Robot series very uncommon signed. Doubleday and Company unknown
1954réf. 140945130Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company 1954. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition stated first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov on title page and inscribed to a former owner. 224 pp. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leatherette with spine lettered in red red topstain. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine ends pages tanned in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine and edges light edge wear and light toning. The first book in Asimov's Robot series very uncommon signed. Doubleday and Company unknown books
1729réf. 243449London: Benjamin Motte 1729. First English translation. Near contemporary full brown calf morocco spine title labels spine gilt. plain endpapers. Front board volume 1 fully cracked cords still holding. Extremities rubbed with touches of wear. Internally extremely clean and bright. Overall a near fine text in very serviceable binding. Lacking both engraved frontispieces and all 47 engraved plates removed prior to or at time of binding; retains 2 folding letterpress tables 3 engraved headpieces by A. Motte. Octavos. Collation text complete: I: A2; A8-D8 E4; A8 a8 B8-X8; II: B8-Z8 Aa8-Cc8 Dd3 a4. Pagination: I: iv 3-71 The Laws of the Moon's Motion 1 errata vii Author's Preface xxv Cotes's Preface 1-40 41 42-320 p. 69 mis-numbered "99". II: 1-393 xiii Index i-viii Appendix. 7.25" x 5" THIS IS NEWTON'S COSMOS Generally regarded as the most important work in the history of science Newton's Principia Mathematica literally reordered the way we understand the cosmos. Originally written and published in Latin in 1687 it was not translated into English until Andrew Motte undertook and finished the task in 1729. In expounding the underlying laws of the natural world Newton buttressed the observations of Copernicus Galileo Kepler and others while leaving other previous scientific assumptions in the rubble. Presented here is the first English translation by Andrew Motte. Though lacking all 47 engraved folding plates and frontispieces presumably removed prior to binding with no trace of removal the text remains complete clean and bright--a remarkable relic in the history of scientific thought. Stamped ownership of J.L Robinson on front pastedown. Babson 20; PMM 161. Benjamin Motte unknown
1823réf. 6000025Clapham London 1823. Quarto manuscript in ink on paper one hand-written page on a 4 pp. folded leaf the 4th page an address panel with postmarks other 2 pp blank; a postscript added on a slip of paper; one margin torn from opening under seal black wax seal intact; tipped into a quarter morocco binding. A rare letter from an important figure: the first man to step ashore from the Endeavour following Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast of Australia. Isaac Smith 1752-1831 was one of only five crew members on the Endeavour who had previously worked with Cook having sailed with him on the Grenville on the earlier Newfoundland expedition. Smith was actually the cousin of Cook's wife; according to Beaglehole he "became very proficient in helping Cook with surveys and charts. Both he and Manley earned praise; they were 'both too young for preferment yet their behaviour merits the best recommendation'." Smith's place in history was secured with the words "Isaac you shall land first" which Cook is said to have uttered on Sunday 29 April 1770 as he prepared to make his momentous landing at Kurnell Botany Bay. Smith was thus the first man to step ashore on Australia's east coast. Isaac Smith's naval career flourished throughout the next decades. He was master's mate on the second voyage ship Resolution lieutenant in the sloop Weazle and eventually commander of a ship in the East Indies under Commodore Cornwallis. In 1807 although by this time very ill he was appointed rear-admiral. Isaac was particularly close to Elizabeth Cook and after his retirement spent the winters with her at her house in Clapham. His own residence was Merton Abbey Surrey. The Clapham house "was crowded and crammed in every room with relics curiosities drawings maps and collections brought home from the voyages" Besant. The Smith family were bequeathed a large portion of Elizabeth's estate on her death and it is thought that the family inherited the logs journals and charts. In 1830 a Captain John Smith writes that "his relative Mrs. Cook. has lately placed in his possession all the remaining books charts and instruments formerly belonging to her renowned husband" Marshall p.419. The letter to a probate lawyer is an explanation of financial payments and refunds to do with administration of an estate for which Smith acted as an executor. Examples of Smith's manuscript are very scarce despite his long life. . unknown
réf. 51-4179Geneva: Eustathius Vignon 1587. Folio. 34 x 21 cm. Original contemporary stiff vellum with 6 raised bands. 2 viii 602 10 224pp. Two columns printed in Latin and Greek in the first part and Latin only in the second part. Waterstain in the lower right corner throughout. The map is bound in front of page 1 and is in fine and fresh condition.This unique map was first printed as part of Isaac Casaubon’s edition of Strabo’s Geographia in 1587. In this the first printing there are columns of text underneath rhe map with the heading “Lectori S. P.” In later editions the map was included in the well known Mercator atlas which Rumold compiled. In 1603 the plate developed cracks in the top edge of the plate; two distinct cracks can be seen in the title.The preeminent example of Rumold Mercator’s map of the world first printed in this edition in Geneva in 1587. It is based on Gerard Mercator’s celebrated 1569 world map and was made while Gerard was still alive 1512- 1594. This is the only collectible world map with direct input from Gerard Mercator the greatest geographer of his era. Both his 1538 and 1569 world maps are unobtainable rarities.The present work is a reduced version of the 1569 wall map of the world on which the revolutionary Mercator Projection was introduced. This edition makes the map into a double-hemisphere format rather than the projection style.To the left is the western hemisphere. The prominent bulge in South America a characteristic introduced by Gerard Mercator and evident on his 1569 world map has been retained here. Tierra del Fuego forms part of a gigantic southern continent that continues in the eastern hemisphere. At the north pole two of the four islands that Gerard Mercator thought surrounded the pole are evident. There is also a suggestion of a Northwest Passage via the Straits of Anian.Isaac Casaubon 1559 Geneva —died July 1 1614 London. French classical scholar and theologian who was one of the leading scholars of the era.He was born in Geneva on 18th February 1559 a son of Huguenot parents Arnaud and Jeanne. He was educated at the university in his home town and taught Greek there. His first wife was Marie Prolyst but she and their daughter died. In 1586 in Geneva he married Florence daughter of Henry Estienne and they had seventeen children of whom about half did not survive infancy. His first major published work was on the Greek geographer Strabo and many other works followed. The invitation to come to England seems to have come from Richard Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury. Isaac was later made a prebendary of Canterbury but died in London on 1st July 1614.References: This first edition not in OCLC. Shirley The Mapping of the World - Early Printed World Maps 1472 - 1700 Nr. 157; van der Krogt Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici Vol. I 0001:1A; Adams S-1908; Graesse VI:505. Map Koeman Me12; Moreland & Bannister p. 243; Shirley 157; Wagner Northwest Coast 146 . In-folio reliure de l’époque vélin dos à 6 nerfs titre à l’encre dans le caisson de tête. Qq. taches petites déchirures nerfs et coiffe inférieure coins usés. 8-602-2 bl.-8-223 pp. et planisphère à double page rempliée. Trace de mouillure dans la partie inférieure droite sur tout l’ouvrage marquée sur le premier quart puis s’amenuisant et s’estompant jusqu’à la fin du volume. Planisphère en belle condition mouillure à peine visible pas de déchirure impression contrastée. Exemplaire complet des deux pages de titre gravées sur bois à décor identique de cariatides soutenant une couronne et de la planisphère Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio gravée par Rumold Mercator d’après la carte de son père Gérard Mercator et légendée en latin.Expertise by Christine CHATON Expertise en livres anciens et modernes C.N.E.S. 17100 SAINTES. Geneva: Eustathius Vignon, 1587. hardcover
réf. 84308101London 1822 Ackerman. Red tooled morocco leather 325p. 25 hand-colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates several fold-outs very clean x-library copy perforations on title & illustrations else clean small folio 22.7 x 29.5 cm.RARE . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown
réf. 84308101London 1822 Ackerman. Red tooled morocco leather 325p. 25 hand-colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates several fold-outs very clean x-library copy perforations on title & illustrations else clean small folio 22.7 x 29.5 cm.RARE . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown books
1951réf. 15444THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY FOUNDATION FOUNDATION & EMPIRE & SECOND FOUNDATION Gnome Press 1951 1952 & 1953 respectively first editions first state bindings and full color pictorial dust-wrappers 3 volumes all fine once open the covers snap back in like full color pictorial dust-wrappers with the slightest of wear. FOUNDATION & EMPIRE and SECOND FOUNDATION have bumps at the upper rear fore edge corner tips. This work awarded the HUGO for the best all time series. Editorial note: We would love to say that our dust-wrapper for FOUNDATION is the rare issue with the main character throughout the series name misspelled on the front dust-wrapper flap but ironically this major typo Hari Sheldon for Hari Seldon exists on all first printing dust-wrappers and was not caught until the second printing of this volume. To make matters even a bit more bizarre the misspelled name also exists on the rear flap of FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE. Signed postcard by Asimov laid in. Gnome Press unknown
1951réf. 15444THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY FOUNDATION FOUNDATION & EMPIRE & SECOND FOUNDATION Gnome Press 1951 1952 & 1953 respectively first editions first state bindings and full color pictorial dust-wrappers 3 volumes all fine once open the covers snap back in like full color pictorial dust-wrappers with the slightest of wear. FOUNDATION & EMPIRE and SECOND FOUNDATION have bumps at the upper rear fore edge corner tips. This work awarded the HUGO for the best all time series. Editorial note: We would love to say that our dust-wrapper for FOUNDATION is the rare issue with the main character throughout the series name misspelled on the front dust-wrapper flap but ironically this major typo Hari Sheldon for Hari Seldon exists on all first printing dust-wrappers and was not caught until the second printing of this volume. To make matters even a bit more bizarre the misspelled name also exists on the rear flap of FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE. Signed postcard by Asimov laid in. Gnome Press unknown books
réf. 101737Philadelphia 1853. . 4to 28 x 23 cm; contemporary calf over boards some wear and edges rubbed tear to lower cover spine skilfully restored in six compartments decorated with elaborate gilt floral detail label to second compartment tape mark to front flyleaf; some browning throughout marbled endpapers. iii 1011 pp. First edition of the first English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew. First edition of the first English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew. Built upon Leeser's 1845 translation of the five books of the Torah previous editions published by Jewish translators in England such as Levi and Alexander had simply utilised the King James translation. Leeser's Preface explains that this massive undertaking sprung from 'a desire entertained for more than a quarter of a century since the day he quitted school in his native land to come to this country to present to his fellow-Israelites an English version made by one of themselves of the Holy Word of God'. Readers would now 'have an opportunity to study a version of the Bible which has not been made by the authority of churches in which they have no confidence'. Rabbi Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 was born in Germany and emigrated to America in 1824. The head rabbi of the Synagogue Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia he became America's most influential Jewish writer editor and teacher. He promulgated Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States by providing American Jews with the numerous basic religious texts and conceptual tools they needed. Philadelphia, 1853. hardcover
