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1885Best.-Nr. 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
1970Best.-Nr. 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
1900Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 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
2007Best.-Nr. 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
1946Best.-Nr. 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
1715Best.-Nr. 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
1949Best.-Nr. 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
1910Best.-Nr. 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
1969Best.-Nr. 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
1969Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1904Best.-Nr. 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
1936Best.-Nr. 316722London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1936. Bound ion three quarters modern polished crimson calf and marbled baords. Fine. T. Werner Laurie, Ltd unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. 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
1880Best.-Nr. 2560561880. Albumen print mounted and captioned beneath image "Fusiyama highest mt. in Japan 14500 feet high-90 miles from Yokohama.". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches Image. Foxing waterstain on mount extending into top of image. Albumen print mounted and captioned beneath image "Fusiyama highest mt. in Japan 14500 feet high-90 miles from Yokohama.". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches Image. WH/9/Box D unknown books
1900Best.-Nr. 235312Japan 1900. 50 hand colored-albumen prints mounted on card. Each print framed by two original watercolor vignettes. Tissue guards. 1 vols. Oblong folio 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches; image 8 x 10-1/2/ inches. Lacquered wood covers with hand-painted title in gold; central vignette depicting rickshaw and passenger; floral motif background to front and rear covers. A.e.g. Spine neatly rebacked in leather. Fine. 50 hand colored-albumen prints mounted on card. Each print framed by two original watercolor vignettes. Tissue guards. 1 vols. Oblong folio 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches; image 8 x 10-1/2/ inches. Fifty finely pastel hand-colored albumen prints some captioned in English in the negative some with pencil captions. Includes scenes of Koyoto Nara Osaka Kobe and Nagasaki; Japanese junk European steamer a tea house at Tokyo street vendors Kabuki actors including a member of the renowned Danjuro lineage sumo wrestlers dancers and geisha as well as some studio portraits. Each image is framed by two original watercolor vignettes a total of 100 unique images mostly depicting scenes of nature. unknown books
1883Best.-Nr. 58137Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 1883. First edition. 169 illustrations. xiii 301 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt designed by the author. Spine ends chipped extremities rubbed. Very Good. First edition. 169 illustrations. xiii 301 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Lee and Shepard Publishers unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 55196Tokyo: Tokyo City Government 1935. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Flexible silk-wrapped boards with silk ties. Minor rubbing else Fine. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Tokyo City Government unknown books
Best.-Nr. vot9875Kodansha International Ltd. 1979 Quarto thick khaki cloth hardcover red label black lettering 308 pp. Very Good with small former-owner stamp; in a Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine. From dust jacket: If you want to be really outstanding at karate you are just the person for whom this book is intended. If you are determined to master the blindingly fast powerful and potentially devastating punches and kicks that make karate the most respected form of self defense and a tremendously exciting sport as well you can do it through the hundreds of excellent photographs and descriptions provided here. Those who have tried one of the older books on karate ususally have found to their disappointment that it simply did not give them the complete detailed instructions and illustrations -- the fundamentals plus the fine points -- that they were hoping for. This book fills the gaps left by others. It is written in a precise get-to-the-point style by Masatoship Nakaymama Chief Instructor of the 10000-member Japan Karate Association. Here he shares his great experience as a karate competitor and teacher describing and illustrating in detail all the correct movements involved in the particular block punch or kick you want to perfect as well as instructions on combining clocking techniques normal camera work often fails to record the action accurately. For this reason many of the photo sequences found in Dynamic Karate were taken using a stroboscope with a flash time of 1/10000 of a second enabling you to follow each movement as it is actually performed. The Japanese-language edition of this book is already a huge success in Japan where modern karate was developed. Already it has proved its value as the most authoritative complete book ever prepared for students and instructors alike. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 44211Japan and Western Medicine. Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki. Original pen ink and watercolor drawing on light brown-toned silk with 4 vertical lines of Japanese characters in the upper left corner. Japan: late 18th or early 19th century. 483 x 363 mm. mounted as a scroll at a modern date on light grey silk backed with paper with a half-round hanging rail with braided ribbon attached at the top and a suspension bar at the foot measuring 914 x 443 mm. overall; preserved in a custom-made wooden box. A few tiny pinholes in upper corners of image but fine with the coloring fresh and bright. This striking image showing an amputation carried out by a Dutch surgeon in Japan was most likely painted in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century during Japan's self-imposed period of national isolation. The hand-painted image is related but by no means identical to a Nagasaki woodblock print titled "Surgery by a Dutch Physician" one of many popular souvenir prints depicting scenes unique to Nagasaki which at the time was the sole point of contact between Japan and the outside world. See our reproduction of the print. It may be that our scroll is the original of the image; however it is also possible that both hand-painted and woodcut versions of the image were produced simultaneously. Western surgery came to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via the Portuguese who in 1543 became the first Europeans to make direct contact with Japan and the Dutch who became the only European nation allowed to trade with Japan after Japan's expulsion of the Portuguese in 1639. Surgeons attached to the Dutch East India Company established practices at the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay which led to the formation of several Japanese schools of surgery based on European methods. "This aspect of Western medicine known as K m -ry geka or 'Surgery of the Red-Haired' has had a profound effect on the development of surgical practice in Japan" Van Gulik p. 37. Van Gulik "Dutch surgery in Japan" in Red-Hair Medicine: Dutch-Japanese Medical Relations ed. Beukers et al. pp. 37-50. . unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 57934Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry/Japanese Government Railways 1937. First edition. 134 pp w/appendix. Fine in illustrated wrappers and original unprinted glassine dust jacket near fine. 14 1/4 x 15 3/4 inch map printed in four colors “Japan and its World Connections” folded and housed in an envelope at the back of the volume as issued. Illustrated with twenty b&w photographs and one color plate. [Tokyo]: Board of Tourist Industry/Japanese Government Railways, unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 40698NY & San Francisco: Kodansha International 1979. First US edition. 311 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. NY & San Francisco: Kodansha International unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 67809Hakone Ito and Kawasaki Japan: The clubs 1950. Golf scorecards each a bi-folium 4 7/8 x 3 inches the inner pages with the scorecard local rules in both Japanese and English on the verso of the integral leaf. The first has been completed 90 100 and 108 for three golfers the other two unused. Each decorated wrappers rubbed. Very good lot. For the three The clubs unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 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
