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1885ref. 41568Tokyo: Japanese Ministry of Education 1885. Oblong octavo 125 x 186 mm. Original plain light brown wrappers. Sewn. 90 pp. 1f. Printed from woodblocks. With text in Japanese. Music for 1 to 3 voices in Western notation. Slightly worn and soiled. In very good condition overall. WorldCat 1183054501. First published as part of a 3-volume series commencing in 1881. Japanese Ministry of Education unknown books
1945ref. 226061945. WWII Japan Linguistics Katakana: Japanese Syllabic Script. Chief Intelligence Officer Air Command South-East Asia November 1944. First edition. Illustrated throughout with syllabary charts and pronunciation tables. Original printed wrappers. 6 pages. 8vo. Issued for Allied intelligence personnel during World War II this scarce pamphlet provided military staff with an introduction to katakana one of the two Japanese phonetic syllabaries. Prepared under the authority of the Chief Intelligence Officer for Air Command in Southeast Asia the manual emphasizes the script's military utility noting that "on account of its clarity katakana has been adopted by the Armed Forces of Japan for use in the spelling of foreign names and words in signals in maps etc." Explanatory text outlines the history of Japanese writing systems the role of katakana in phonetic transcription and its function in military communications. Pages feature full katakana syllabary charts "additional katakana groups" for voiced and combined sounds a section on Japanese numerals and examples of transliterated foreign names such as "Singapore" "Java" and "Sumatra." The pamphlet also instructs readers that katakana can be written "in almost any direction; left to right or right to left or from top to bottom and even diagonally." Light toning bottom right cover corner clipped interior clean and well-preserved overall very good condition. A rare wartime intelligence manual bridging linguistics and military history this ephemeral publication documents Allied efforts to train personnel in Japanese language recognition and highlights the central role of katakana in wartime communication systems. Particularly significant for institutions collecting on Japanese linguistics World War II intelligence and the history of language pedagogy in military contexts. unknown books
1900ref. 9033029Paris: Maurice De Brunoff 1900. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in quarter vellum with tan cloth boards spine and cover stamped in illustrated gilt. Top edge gilt textured cloth endpapers. A dazzling massive and stately book. Full of illustrations. Sixty-eight beautiful full-page photogravures in black and white and color with printed-text tissue guards. Ninety-nine additional illustrations drawings engravings and photos in black and white interspersed with the text. In French. 12 x 15 1/2 inches. 277 pages plus preface. Maurice De Brunoff hardcover books
1969ref. 9023814Tokyo: International House of Japan 1969. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original orange wraps stamped in blind. Chipped at the heel. Illustrated throughout in dualtone offset and multi-color letterpress with an original silkscreen p. 9 handmade by craftsmen at the Toppan Plant from Hiroshi Tanaka's prize-winning design. Price list from the exhibit and raffle laid in. Book design by Helmuth Holtz. International House of Japan paperback books
1965ref. 9023832Tokyo: International House of Japan 1965. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated paper wraps over printed wraps. Illustrated throughout in dualtone offset and full color plates tipped in. Errata tipped in. International House of Japan paperback books
1969ref. 9023849Tokyo: Japan Print Association 1969. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Lightly rubbed at edges and extremities else fine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Japan Print Association paperback books
1949ref. 763111949. Tokyo: National Personnel Authority 1949. 41 pp. Tokyo: National Personnel Authority 1949. 41 pp. The Japanese Civil Service During the Occupation Period Japan. Occupation Period. The National Public Service Law Law No. 120 of 1947 as Revised by Laws No. 222 258 and 265 of 1948 and by Laws No. 2 125 and 174 of 1949. Tokyo: National Personnel Authority 1949. 41 pp. Stapled pamphlet in stiff printed wrappers. Wear to corners wrappers beginning to detach light browning to interior early annotations in pencil to rear wrapper. $125. Changes to laws concerning the civil service in the post-war Japanese Constitution which was enacted on May 3 1947. unknown books
1892ref. 019217@1892. Hardcover. Photographs are Fine and bright with tissue guards. Both boxes in nice shape. The front cover of the album with a horizontal crack about 3 inches from the bottom and extending across most of the cover doing little to detract from the lovely decorative scene. Overall a beautiful example uncommon in such nice condition. Oblong Folio 14" x 10-1/2" with a black morocco leather spine with gilt designs and exquisite black enamel painted and onlaid covers. Containing 50 hand-colored 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages titled in the negative in English and with small color drawings of figures in the margins of each page. Images include cityscapes landmarks and scenes of daily life and rituals in mid-to-late Meiji period Japan. Places shown include Tokyo Kyoto Yokohama Nagoya Enoshima the shrines of Nikko and two views of Mt. Fuji. Occupational scenes include women spinning cotton men striking wheat a rice plantation men transporting rice bales on horseback a samurai a Shinto priest Shinto pilgrims a "blind shampooer" a pottery shop a shoe shop a grocery a cloth store "reading at home" "gathering the cocoons" "playing at ball" and more. Albums such as this were sold to overseas visitors to Japan ca 1880s- early 1900s who would choose their favorite scenes from the photography studio's stock and whether to pay extra for hand-coloring fine binding and artistic covers. We have offered a handful of examples over the years and this is easily the finest in content with more occupational and daily life scenes as opposed to the standard landmarks as well as special touches such as the small hand-painted characters in the margins of each page and also in the finest condition. Housed in a clamshell box with decorative cloth covers and likely the original tin container used for shipment to America. hardcover books
1892ref. 019216@1892. Hardcover. Cardboard pages in album have a slight wave; prints have light toning along edges and light silvering a few prints with light soiling and foxing affecting content; all prints have good exposure. Heavy fraying and wear to covers spine dry with moderate chipping and a tear along one edge. Covers Fair but overall the photographs themselves are Very Good. Oblong Folio 13-1/2" x 10-1/2" in worn decorative cloth over heavy wooden boards and leather spine with tissue guards for the photos. A personalized travel album from 19th century Japan with 50 hand-colored 10" x 7-5/8" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages with titles in the negative and occasionally in manuscript below the image all in English. This was the album of Frank Leslie Coombs 1853-1934 who was a United States Minister ambassador to Japan from June 1892 to August 1893. Most images found within this album depict peaceful scenes of landscapes temples tea houses and roads. Five images however illustrate the aftermath of the Mino-Owari earthquake also known as the Great Earthquake of 1891. With a magnitude of 8.0 this quake left significant damage some of it recorded here. Images include views of twisted bridges crumpled buildings and the town of Osaka burned to the ground. hardcover books
1728ref. 019215London: for the Publisher and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Light dampstaining in second volume. Generally clean and bright Near Fine. Two folio 8-1/2" x 13-3/4 volumes in contemporary calf leather neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine labels. First edition in English second issue with the additional appendix in volume 2 translated from the German by J. G. Scheuchzer. Titles printed in red and black with additional engraved titles and 45 mostly double-page or folding plates and maps. Kaempfer's HISTORY OF JAPAN "was for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer; an account of his journey; a history and description of Japan and its fauna; a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendices on tea Japanese paper acupuncture moxa ambergris and Japan's seclusion policy" DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY. Kaempfer was a physician for the Dutch East India Company's trading settlement at Nagasaki in the late 17th century. Sir Hans Sloane acquired the manuscript after Kaempfer's death and arranged for it to be translated into English for this edition. Of significance is the fine folding map of Japan "Imperium Japonicum in Sexaginta et Octo Provincias Divisum." Cordier JAPONICA pages 414-15; Cox I: 332; Garrison-Morton 6374.11; See Nissen BBI 1019 note; Wellcome III: 376. for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis hardcover books
1738ref. 018990Augsburg: Franz Antoni Alger 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Nineteenth century signature to front fly leaf and early signature to title some very light staining in various places throughout mostly only visible in margins; expected soiling to binding. A clean and attractive Near Fine example. Quarto 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" with two parts bound together in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards clasps lacking but catches present title on spine label stamped in blind; 24 534 2 559 1 pages. Title in red and black engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates. The First German Edition of this history of the Jesuit Mission in Japan. While Christianity in Japan flourished for a brief period in the mid 1500s the religion was banned in 1620 and existed only underground. The Catholic church took some exception to Crasset's work saying that he "attributed the origin of the persecution of 1597 to the imprudence of the friars in making their religious ceremonies too public" Catholic Encyclopedia IV 468. Franz Antoni Alger hardcover books
1876ref. 018471Tokyo 1876-1877 and 1879-1880. First Edition. Wraps. Wrappers of Part I quite worn with one title label mostly lost; front wrapper of Part III creased. Some offsetting and color bleedthrough; occasional edge browning; a few leaves very slightly moisture warped from coloring. Tape or glue residue in places on the versos of the plates in Part I. Near Fine with stunning hand-colored plates. First edition of Ninagawa's study of Japanese pottery arranged in chronological order from ancient times onward. Apparently one of only 300 copies published. Seven oblong folio parts 15-1/4" x 10-3/8" stitched as issued in the original blue paper wrappers with lithographed title labels on the front wrappers in French and Japanese Parts I-V and in English and Japanese Parts VI and VII. Each part with lithographed text in Japanese 5; 10; 11; 9 11; 10; and 14 leaves respectively. Printed on rectos only. Ninagawa's red stamp appears on the last leaf of text in each part. Illustrated with 125 numbered hand-colored lithographed plates several heightened with gum arabic 17 plates in Part I and 18 plates each in Parts II-VII. Some plates and items numbered with small printed labels. An excellent copy of this fragile set with the extremely scarce Parts VI and VII. This copy without the five octavo booklets containing the French translation of Parts I-V Tokyo: H. Ahrens & Co. 1876-1878 or the publisher's silk chitsu or portfolio issued with the first five parts. paperback books
1990ref. 018514n.p. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Four tall folio 12" x 18" portfolios bound Japanese accordion style in boards covered with ORIGINAL COLOR WOODCUTS and illustrated within with 6 pages of color woodcuts of kimono patterns. When each volume is fully open it extends to 10-1/2 feet. Copy #2 of what was likely an edition of 5 or less SIGNED by the artist on the colophon of one volume. A scarce private production by a student of Hans Hoffman. hardcover books
1908ref. 018530Kobe Japan: T. Takagi 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in flexible string-tied silk boards 10" x 7" with a color-printed title page and 20 color collotypes with some hand-coloring protected by tissue guards depicting the process of making silk. (T. Takagi) hardcover books
1692ref. 0184951692 - 1779. First Edition. Wraps. Wrappers with some soiling and slight loss. Contents Fine bright and fresh. A string-tied manuscript 7-3/4" x 10-1/2" of Japanese Flower Arrangements Kadou author unknown from the middle of the Edo era 1692-1779 consisting of 32 leaves with no text and a total of 63 lovely hand-colored drawings one per page of flower arrangements. paperback books
1970ref. 87829Tokyo Japan: Yama-to-Keikoku Sha Co. Ltd 1970. Two Volume set with two mini vinyls tipped into rears of text. Two Octavo volumes 19cm; photographic paper-covered boards; dustjackets; ii2062pp; ii2062pp; colorful photographic illustrations throughout both volumes. Text in Japanese with Scientific names and English names included for bird species. Both volumes have modest shelf-wear with rubbing to paper of board edges and trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Volume I dustwrapper has trivial surface wear; Very Good. Volume II dustwrapper has trivial surface wear with tiny tear to lower front flap fold; Very Good. Volume I explores over 90 species of terrestrial birds each classified by their habitat. Volume II includes 93 species of wild birds focusing on those on watersides and the coastal area. Both volumes include colorful illustrations and Scientific names of the bird species. 87829. Yama-to-Keikoku Sha Co., Ltd unknown books
1988ref. 86620New York: George Braziller 1988. First American Edition. Folio. 37cm. publisher's pale orange cloth covered boards titled in white to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 192pp. Very light wear strong tight and bright; internally clean and fresh illustrated throughout with 91 full color full page plates; in a strong clean dustjacket with some very light marginal signs of wear. A near fine copy. A lavish collection of Hiroshige's bird and flower illustrations reproduced in high quality. George Braziller unknown books
2007ref. 86634Marseille: Le Dernier Cri 2007. First Limited Edition. Folio. 36cm. Limited to a run of 200 copies only. Publisher's original illustrated heavy card wraps. Unpaginated 72pp. Light wear and creasing to corners and extremities a little soiling to the white portions of the card wraps strong and bright; internally clean and fresh lavishly illustrated. A very good strong copy. Described as both violent and beautiful Daisuke Ichiba's visual art style borrows from manga and anime Japanese body horror Asian folklore and the supernatural and a hefty dose of queasy eroticism often placed in direct opposition to the grotesque nature of the composition. "Mariage" is one of his limited edition book form pieces for the outsider art studio "Le Derneir Cri" in Marseilles. "Pakito" resident artist at Dernier Cri and the celebrated manga artist Takashi Nemoto have both served as patrons of Ichiba's art over the years and Takashi Nemoto in particular has been a staunch supporter of Daisuke's often controversial and divisive work. "Humans simultaneously combine tenderness and violence. If you peel back the face of a beautiful woman you see it is clogged with viscera. Choosing to create work that is only beautiful feels artificial. Thus I paint both. You cannot sever the two. The expression that results is a natural chaos. In my work I project chaos anarchy anxiety the grotesque the absurd and the irrational. By doing so I attain harmony. This is my art. Put simply I paint humanity the spirit." - Daisuke Ichiba. Le Dernier Cri unknown books
1946ref. 82962Yokohama: US Troop Information and Education Section; Eighth Army Printing Plant Boonjudo 1946. First Edition. Small Octavo. 18cm. Publisher's purple card wraps in a Japanese coptic style binding with an illustrated paper title label applied to the front wrap. Some mior sunning and discoloration to the wraps some light cosmetic fraying to the stiching and some dog-eared corners in places. Internally clean illustrated througout. A very good neat little book. Clearly intended for the families of US servicemen and women stationed in Japan. Details of note include a run down on the seasonal weather in the US zones of residence on Honshu it was Tokyo-Yokohama and the Sendai area; on Hokkaido Sapporo; and on Kyusha Fukuoka among other areas how to secure housing and how that housing will differ from what Americans are accustomed to schooling banking etc. Clearly stemming from the US's post war prosperity and lone superpower status some of the entries would not have been out of place in a British 19th century military guide: "Servants are of medium quality.the average family will require about three; a cook a washerwoman and a Houseboy or girl.They are capable of picking up enough English.but to find a well-trained house servant is very rare." The slim volume is illustrated throughout with photographs and some characteristically military cartoons. From differing perspectives the guide can be seen both as rather brash and colonial and as attempting from a position of ignorance to anticipate potential culture shock and hazards on all sides of the divide; victor and vanquished foreigner and citizen soldier and civilian. Less than a handful of copies represented in institutions. US Troop Information and Education Section; Eighth Army Printing Plant, Boonjudo unknown books
1715ref. 80632Paris: Francois Montalant 1715. Second Edition. Two quarto volumes 25cm. Old calf respined to style with early spine labels laid down; 281-65911 101-6786pp; text illus; eight unnumbered leaves of plates one folding. Front free endpaper lacking in first volume; aging and wear to boards; still a complete quite fresh copy: faint marginal damp-stain to final leaves of both volumes; mild foxing to perhaps a third of the contents; fine wormhole to margin of about twenty leaves in second volume not approaching printed area; Very Good. First volume with an indecipherable ownership mark on veso of title page. The plates are all present in fresh condition and retaining substantial margins. An account of Jesuit missions in Japan by the prolific ascetical writer and Catholic educator. Pagès 1859 asserts that this work is ".l'ouvrage du P. Solier mis en meilheur ordre et continué depuis 1624 jusqu'en 1658"; and indeed Catholic Encyclopedia calls the work ".scarcely original for it was drawn in great part from the work which Father Solier had issued in 1627; he merely retouched the style and continued the narrative and.the objection is made that the work lacks precision is heavy and is crowded with details." Still Crasset's remained a standard and popular work being translated into several languages before it was superseded by Charlevoix's magisterial Histoire du Japon in 1736. Some of the work's popularity may no doubt be attributed to the rather lurid illustrations depicting the suffering of Christian martyrs under the depredations of the Shogunate; the folding plate in v.II for instance depicts the torture and execution of Christians at Mount Unzen on the island of Kyushu where dozens of faithful both European and Japanese were cooked to death in the scalding waters of the village's thermal baths after refusing to renounce their faith. Crasset's account was first published in 1689 under the anagrammatic pseudonym "l'Abbe de Tersac." The work appeared in English Spanish German and Portuguese translations between 1707 and 1750. PÀGES Bibliographie Japonnaise 351. CORDIER Bibliotheca Japonica p.400. Francois Montalant unknown books
1910ref. 44085Kobe: Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi N.d. ca 1910. Oblong octavo 18cm x 26cm. Original silk-covered boards bouond with red silk cord; 19 colored collotype plates. Gift inscription from an N.L. Thacker on verso of title page dated 1914; child's ownership inscription on verso of final plate "Ermy Tharp Novato Cal" dated 1936. Rubbing and wear to board edges; internally clean and sound - a Very Good copy with all plates present. An attractive Meiji Era souvenir album with subtly hand-tinted collotype plates depicting a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony. One of several editions produced between 1906 and 1920; per the excellent bibliography of Tamamura's souvenir albums at ours would appear to be the Third Edition of 1910. Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi unknown books
ref. 367202Folio. Worn reversed calf. Solid. Folio. Dr Frederick Krecker was a Navy Physician and in practice in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. After retirement he his wife and 3 children embarked on the "Orient" as their church's first Missionaries to Japan. Page 87-154 are his accounts of his work in Yokohama and Tokyo from 1876-1882. Accompanied by Miss Rachel Hudson and the Rev. and Mrs. A. Halbacher they arrived in Yokohama in 1876. The Doctor went straight to work ministering to those poor Japanese who could not afford healers and in company with Rev. Halmbacher spread the Gospel of their church Calvary He was among the first medical missionaries in Japan and the first from his church. He and his wife lived in Japan until he died from typhus on the 26th of April 1883. He acounted for all supplies and other materials sent by the church for his work in his household accounts. The last 2 pages cover his accounts with the Oriental Bank Corporation. After his death his wife moved back to Pennsylvania with her children in 1886 and lived there and East Orange NJ until her death in 1903. Sources: Miss Ada Marie Krecker: Beautiful Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Krecker. 1905 Woman's Missionary Society of the United Evangelical Church; Tiny Endeavor Cleveland 1876 unknown books
1904ref. 353246Tokyo: K. Ogawa 1904. Illustrated with photos by Ogawa. 177 ff. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Publisher's decorated green silk-covered boards with titles and decorations in gold embroidery fine silk-backed endpapers decorated with gold inner hinges strengthened bound at the spine with cream ribbon in Japanese style. Green calf backed folding box. Illustrated with photos by Ogawa. 177 ff. 1 vols. Oblong folio. K. Ogawa unknown books
1936ref. 316722London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1936. Bound ion three quarters modern polished crimson calf and marbled baords. Fine. T. Werner Laurie, Ltd unknown books
1904ref. 316723London: Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd 1904. Second Impression. Color frontispiece 6 color plates and 30 iillustrations after Hokusai. 443pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters modern mottled brown calf and marble boards red title label. Fine. Second Impression. Color frontispiece 6 color plates and 30 iillustrations after Hokusai. 443pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Anthony Treherne & Co., Ltd unknown books
