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1854ref. 218513Japan. Circa1854. Black and white woodblock kawaraban 35.6 x 48.7cm ink mark upper section but text still legible otherwise a very good copy. This kawaraban dated 20 February 1854 elaborates a list of the defending lords following Commodore Perry's second visit to Edo Bay. The chart lists approximately 40 feudal lords mobilised to defend Edo each accompanied by detailed information including their house crests defensive positions and troop numbers. The total mobilisation is noted as around 375600 troops. . unknown
1853ref. 218506Japan. Circa1853. Black and white woodblock kawaraban 17.7 x 24cm In this kawaraban the American crew are assembled ready to board their rowing boats in anticipation of being transferred to their sailing ships. A group of American crew with pointed hats are in the middle while Japanese guards with black hats in an area surrounded by screens guard them at fore and rear. Numerous boats are ready on the beach with flags fluttering. . unknown
1854ref. 218390Japan. Circa1854. Black and white woodblock print 18 x 24cm a little light soiling very good. In this kawaraban two humorous and satirical poems concerning foreign arrivals are featured accompanied by illustrations. Both poems relate to foreigners and foreign ships clearly demonstrating that ordinary people were deeply interested in the arrival of foreign vessels and expressed their curiosity in various ways . unknown
1854ref. 218389Japan. Circa1854. Black and white woodblock kawaraban 18 x 24cm. Small break in the border line along upper edge as issued. Small stain lower margin not affecting the imageotherwise good. This kawaraban features eight types of headgear worn by American crew members when they arrived in Japan including both ceremonial items and an interpreter's hat. It also illustrates a sword with its sheath alongside a bayonet and a hand-gun. Each item is depicted in meticulous detail reflecting a high level of curiosity about the foreign visitors. . unknown
1854ref. 215028Japan. Circa1854. Black and white woodblock map with illustrations 32.2 x 41.5cm. Laid down on thick paper. Printed black border line at lower corner and occasionally in other areas along the border not printed otherwise good. This woodblock print map shows the defence layout around Tokyo Bay against the arrival of the American fleet. Names of lords who are responsible for defending particular areas are written with their rankings in terms of wealth sizes. In the centre the American ships are illustrated in detail. There are five sailing ships painted in red and three steam ships. These eight ships entered the bay on 6 February 1854. Thus this map most likely depicts the scene around that time. A caption on the left reads: 'The United States of America founded by Washington 77 years ago sent Matthew Perry with the President's letter in 1853; Perry revisited Edo in 1854.' . unknown
1853ref. 34749Edo 1853. Watercolour and ink drawing on Japanese paper. A contemporary Japanese watercolour of Commodore Perry and members of his expedition produced at the moment of the American squadron’s arrival in Japan and the opening of sustained diplomatic contact between Japan and the United States. This lively drawing belongs to the immediate visual culture generated by Commodore Matthew C. Perry's arrival in Japan in 1853. Perry entered Edo Bay in July 1853 to deliver President Fillmore's request for a treaty and returned the following year leading to the Treaty of Kanagawa on 31 March 1854. The event prompted wide Japanese interest in the appearance dress equipment and conduct of the visiting Americans and images of the "Black Ships" and their crews circulated in manuscript painted and printed form. The composition presents three American figures isolated against the paper ground arranged almost as a study of types. At right Commodore Perry is shown seated in a chair wearing a dark naval coat and holding his hat. At center stands an armed crewman or marine in a red jacket holding a musket upright; at left another crewman kneels while looking through a telescope or spyglass. The emphasis falls on uniform posture weaponry and optical instrument details that would have marked the Americans as visually and technologically unfamiliar to Japanese observers. The drawing is especially interesting as a Japanese interpretation of the expedition distinct from the official American pictorial record produced by artists such as Wilhelm Heine. The Japanese manuscript images such as the present work preserve a different perspective shaped by local observation report and curiosity. unknown books
1853ref. 347481853. Three woodblock-printed sheets on mulberry paper. Mild edge wear old folds. A detailed revealing group of late Tokugawa samurai reference sheets recording the names ranks stipends heraldry standards and service obligations through which the shogunate and Edo public understood military readiness at the moment of Perry's arrival. Commodore Matthew C. Perry anchored off Uraga at the entrance to Edo Bay in July 1853. His arrival made visible the vulnerability of the Tokugawa capital and produced an immediate demand for information about coastal defence domain strength and the lords responsible for guarding the approaches to Edo. Kawaraban and related broadsides answered that demand in compressed visual form combining names crests military symbols income figures and geographical or administrative data. The first printed sheet appears to be an earlier roster of Edo office-holders or guard personnel. Its tabular format with names offices crests and standards records the recognitional system already in place within Tokugawa administration before the Perry crisis sharpened the public appetite for such information. The manuscript sheet is ruled into a large grid with headings formed from the twelve zodiac signs and the four seasons including Rat Ox Tiger Hare and the seasonal headings. The entries appear to record named houses Lords or retainers against recurring seasonal and cyclical categories probably for service attendance or ceremonial obligation. The third sheet is headed "Rekko yushinroku" here translated as "Register of Valiant Retainers of the Lords." It lists major daimyo houses and their principal retainers with domain or house headings names titles stipend figures in koku family crests standards and related insignia. Visible regional or house designations include "Kaga" "Owari" "Kii" "Satsuma" "Higo" and "Tosa." The sheet gives a graphic register of the daimyo world mobilised or imagined as mobilised around the defence of Edo Bay. Together the sheets preserve the administrative and visual language of Tokugawa defence at a moment of acute pressure. They are not formal shogunal orders and the first sheet may predate Perrys arrival but they show how late Edo Japan translated rank obligation military identity and coastal defence into portable tabular form. Their compression the names of Lords and retainers the scale of domains the crests and standards by which armed households could be recognised and the bureaucratic habits of a regime suddenly forced to account for its capacity to defend the country reveals these documents' immediacy and importance. unknown books
1853ref. 347471853. 9 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches. 31; 31; 61pp. plus a loose sheet. Worming not affecting legibility occasionally touching a letter. Some dampstaining and dust soiling. Original paper wrappers stitched as issued. Contemporary manuscript annotations in red ink in one volume Vital contemporary Japanese manuscript accounts of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's arrival in Uraga Bay in July 1853 preserving official documentary and observational responses by Japanese officials and participants to the encounter that transformed Japan's relations with the wider world. The first manuscript Uraga kurofune ni kansuru comprises an official account of events following Perry's arrival off Uraga. The volume is especially notable for its contemporary red-ink annotations indicating active correction or revision of the text. It records the encounter from within the administrative world of the Tokugawa shogunate as Japanese officials confronted an American squadron that included two steam frigates. The second account Edo Uraga Beikoku fune torai ikken records the arrival of the American ships and provides a contemporary Japanese narrative of the encounter. Its double-page manuscript sketch of the Uraga coastline with the arrangement of Perry's vessels offshore reflects the immediate effort of Japanese observers and officials to describe classify and understand the unfamiliar ships equipment and conduct of the American expedition. The third manuscript Gasshukoku shokan wage utsushi preserves contemporary texts associated with the shogunate's handling of the American communications. Abe Masahiro chief senior councillor in the Tokugawa shogunate accepted the American letter ordered translations of the official letter and related documents and circulated them among daimyo for advice. This manuscript includes Japanese translations of letters from President Millard Fillmore and Commodore Perry presented by the American expedition in July 1853. The accompanying loose manuscript sheet gives a description of one of the Black Ships. Together the three volumes and loose sheet offer a substantial Japanese record of Perry's first visit combining official reporting translated diplomatic correspondence visual observation and contemporary manuscript transmission. They belong to the immediate documentary culture produced by the arrival of the Black Ships before Perry's return in 1854 and the signing of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity at Kanagawa. unknown books
1855ref. 46844Tokyo ca. 1855. Japanese Print of Perry's Ships in Tokyo Harbor Large wood block print comprised of two sheets showing the disposition of the Japanese soldiers and ships in preparation for the arrival of Commodore Perry's American fleet seen sailing into Tokyo harbor at the right side of the image. The top third of the print is comprised of text in Japanese characters. Three large American ships dominate the right side of the print while several smaller boats dot the rest of the harbor. The whole is dotted with Japanese characters denoting various people and places around the harbor. Perry first arrived in Japan on July 8 1853 with a fleet of four ships flying his pennant on the steam frigate Susquehanna. This first visit lasted ten days and culminated on July 14 with Perry's presentation of a letter from the President of the United States to the Japanese commissioners. Perry then absented himself for seven months returning on February 11 1854 for a stay of over four months. He negotiated a treaty opening Japan to trade with the western world providing for a U.S. consul in Japan and protecting visiting ships and crews. Perry's visit to Japan remains one of the most important events in the diplomatic history between western and eastern nations. A handsome print showing the Japanese side of this important historic event. 24½ x 16 inches. Matted. Old fold lines some minor wear and soiling. Near fine. unknown books
ref. 225135Paris, 1814 8 pièces en un vol. in-8, basane fauve racinée, dos lisse orné de filets, guirlandes et symboles militaires dorés, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de simple filet à froid sur les plats, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). Coiffes rognées, coins inférieurs abîmés.
First edition, 8vo, 67, [3]pp., disbound. Relating to the British raid on Rochefort in 1757.
First edition, 63, [1]pp., disbound. A reply to Henry Seymour Conway's 'The Military Arguments, in the Letter to a Right Honourable Author', 1758.
ref. 70723Au Kaire, de l'Imprimerie Nationale, an VII-an VIII 3 vol. in-8, 300 pp., 300 pp. et 316 pp., demi-chagrin bleu, dos à nerfs (rel. de l'éditeur).
ref. 226549Paris, C.-J. Trouvé, décembre 1822 in-8, 27 pp., en feuilles, cousu.
1907ref. 142830NP: Nimrod Expedition 1907. Small piece of vellum 10 X 7 cm. Printed on one side are six words which were intended to have observations recorded adjacent. Other than a bit of shrinkage to the vellum the item is in nice condition. This interesting expedition registration slip seems to have been intended for oceanographic recording. The six areas for recording are titled as follows: No.; Date; Lat.; Long; Depth; and Temp. The provenance for the slip is from the Goldberg collection as the other items in the catalogue. Other than being recorded in the Goldberg personal catalogue as from the Nimrod Expedition there is nothing else to tie it to the expedition. Still an interesting artifact. 1907 Nimrod Expedition hardcover
1930ref. 145029London: British Museum 1930. vi6161 pp. Octavo. Original wine coloured gilt cloth. Gilt title on spine. 3 plates including frontispiece and illustrations in text from sketch maps plans etc. A very nice copy Rosove 313.A1 Taurus 113 Shackleton died on the "Quest" expedition after having reached South Georgia. Even with the tragedy the Expedition pushed on and the present work gathers thirteen papers concerning the the expedition geological work. Nice non x-lib copies are much harder to find. 1930 British Museum hardcover
1918ref. 880611918. SIBERIAN EXPEDITION. Teikoku Gunjin Kyoiku-kai editors. SHIBERI JIHEN KINEN SHASHIN-CHO. Tokyo Taisho Tsushinsha Taisho 7 1918 Oblong folio bound western-style in cloth gilt. Illustrated throughout in collotype. Photos and cations on the International Siberian Expedition in support of the Whites against the Red Army in which the Japanese played a prominent role. 4 page folding panorama of Vladivostok harbor and views of the cities the countryside troops inhabitants diplomats war preparations etc. etc. One can feel the Winter coming. Very good condition throughout. Very scarce. unknown
1918ref. 880611918. SIBERIAN EXPEDITION. Teikoku Gunjin Kyoiku-kai editors. SHIBERI JIHEN KINEN SHASHIN-CHO. Tokyo Taisho Tsushinsha Taisho 7 1918 Oblong folio bound western-style in cloth gilt. Illustrated throughout in collotype. Photos and cations on the International Siberian Expedition in support of the Whites against the Red Army in which the Japanese played a prominent role. 4 page folding panorama of Vladivostok harbor and views of the cities the countryside troops inhabitants diplomats war preparations etc. etc. One can feel the Winter coming. Very good condition throughout. Very scarce. unknown books
1904ref. 142868Buenos Aires: Local Del Instituto: Arenales 687 1904. 166 2328 pp. Octavo. Half cloth and paper covered boards binding. Worn on the edges. Numerous rubber stamps having been erased on the margins with repairs on the backs. One page with a large amount of the corner renewed with slight loss. Numerous black and white illustration. 5 folding maps. An index has been cut out from somewhere else and pasted onto the title pages. A good only copy of a rare and fragile item. This volume consists of two issues of the Argentine Geographical Institute journal bound together. The first issue appears to be complete but the second issue just has 3 extracted articles that relate to the Antarctic. The first issue appears to be totally devoted to the Antarctic and many of the articles relate to the recently rescued Swedish Antarctic Expedition. Authors include Skottsberg Nordenskjold Anderson Charcot and Jalour. The second issue includes articles by Scott Harvey and Rudmore Brown. This very scarce Argentine Journal is printed on poor quality paper which probably contributed to its scarcity. The front endpaper is inscribed in Spanish with the following: To His Excellence the President of the delegation of the Republic of Peru at the VIII Pan American Conference at Montevideo in my personal affections and signed perhaps by Francisco Segui who was the editor of the Journal. Not a prime copy but very very scarce. 1904 Local Del Instituto: Arenales 687 hardcover
1925ref. 3088Oxford: Oxford University Press 1925. First edition. Original Cloth. Fine significant water damage and warping to interior. octavo. pp 444. contains appendix. contains information about the ecology of Spitsbergen from the early 20th century. Oxford University Press hardcover
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1997ref. 12401CBWien, Verlag Österreich Österreichische Staatsdruckerei AG, 1997. 4°, 300 S. mit zahlreichen s/w-Abbildungen, farbig illustr. original Pappband (Hardcover), Erstausgabe tadelloses Exemplar - sammelwürdig.
1997ref. 46662Verl. Österreich, Wien (1997). Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. 4°. 300 S. OPpbd. Unteres Kapital leicht gestaucht, sonst neuwertig.
