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Jie zi yuan hua zhuan 芥子園畫傳 [Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting] by WANG, Gai 王槩 et al.

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Title: Jie zi yuan hua zhuan 芥子園畫傳 [Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting]
Author: WANG, Gai 王槩 et al.
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1782. Numerous five-color woodblock illus. Five juan in five vols. Large 8vo, new wrappers, new stitching. [China]: [1782]. The first series of this famous multicolor-printed painting manual. “There has been no other painting manual that has enjoyed wider circulation in China and Japan than the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting...in the past three centuries” (Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang, “Making a Canonical Work: A Cultural History of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, 1679-1949,” East Asian Publishing and Society 10 [2020]: p. 74). The book is “truly an encyclopedia of Chinese painting” (A. K’ai-ming Ch’iu, “The Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan (Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual): Early Editions in American Collections,” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 5 [1951]: p. 55). According to one authority, it “is the pioneer of scientific treatises on Chinese painting, and…it is truly a marvelous work in all the thousands of years of Chinese history” (Ch’iu, p. 56, paraphrasing Yü Chien-hua). “The Mustard Seed Garden was built in Nanking by Li Yü [李漁] (1611-80?), a playwright and prolific writer on many subjects, who printed a number of his own books and others under this name. Although he wrote a preface to the first series of this manual in 1679, he apparently was a sponsor but not the author.” The first installment of the book was “prepared by his son-in-law, Shen Yin-Yu [Shen Yinyou 沈因友], and illustrated by Wang Kai [Wang Gai, active 1677-1705] and his two brothers Wang Shih [Wang Shi 王蓍, active 1672-1681] and Wang Nieh [Wang Nie 王臬, active 17th-18th century]” (Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Paper and Printing, Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 5, Part 1, p. 286). Our book is “a step-by-step instruction book on how to do paintings of landscapes” (Tsien, p. 286). The book begins with a theoretical treatise on painting, followed by “the various methods of applying paint.” Volumes (and juan) Two to Four contain the elements of painted landscapes. Volume Two treats things like trees and leaves. Some of the illustrations of pine needles and other vegetation are printed using green ink as well as black. Volume Three focuses on rocks, mountains, waterfalls, waves, and mist. Some rocks are printed in brown in addition to black. Volume Four focuses on people, animals, and man-made structures. Figures engaged in various activities and from different walks of life are depicted, as are horses, deer, and birds. Structures include rural cottages, mountain lodges, larger palace-like structures, pavilions, and bridges, as well as boats and ships. The visually most stunning volume is the fifth, which contains imitations of various masters in different styles. These full-fledged landscapes are printed in gradations of black and gray, brown, blue, and dark and light green. This volume presents a canonical example of color printing, which had been developed in China in the early 17th century. The Mustard Seed Manual was first published in 1679. Our copy belongs to the 1782 edition, which went through the hands of three publishers. Our copy might be from the original publisher, Shuye Tang. The Brooklyn Museum has digitized parts of its identical copy, which belongs to the same edition and is dated to 1782. A very nice and fresh copy, preserved in a hantao. Some insignificant worming, some of it carefully mended. ❧ With thanks to Professor Thomas Ebrey of the University of Washington.

In a Back Channel, Secret Communique During the Vietnam War, Senator Robert Kennedy Engages in Diplomacy With the Viet Cong to Free an American Prisoner by Robert Kennedy

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Title: In a Back Channel, Secret Communique During the Vietnam War, Senator Robert Kennedy Engages in Diplomacy With the Viet Cong to Free an American Prisoner
Author: Robert Kennedy
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: Jun-65. This incredible unpublished letter comes from the estate of the Algerian Ambassador to the United States and has never before been offered for sale1965 marked an escalation in the War in Vietnam. On February 19, 1965, some units of the South Vietnamese Army launched a coup and were able to force a leadership change. In response to this, National Security Council Director McGeorge Bundy and Secretary of State Robert McNamara wrote a memo to President Johnson. They gave the President two options: use American military power to defeat the Viet Cong insurgency, or negotiate thus attempting to ""salvage what little can be preserved."" Bundy and McNamara favored the first option; Secretary of State Dean Rusk disagreed. Johnson accepted the military option and sent a telegram to U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor in Saigon, saying “The U.S. will spare no effort and no sacrifice in doing its full part to turn back the Communists in Vietnam."" President Johnson had crossed the Rubicon.On February 2, 1965, just before the coup, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, the official name of the group called Viet Cong in the U.S., kidnapped Gustav Hertz, Chief of Public Administration for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Vietnam. Hertz’s captivity set in motion an intricate series of diplomatic gestures that involved several governments, including those of Algeria, Cambodia, and France, and numerous prominent individuals, such as Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Cambodian leader Norodom Sihanouk, and Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella, in an effort to win his release.On March 30, 1965, the U.S. Em_bassy in Saigon was bombed by the Viet Cong. One of the V .C. agents, Nguyen Van Hai, was caught, swiftly tried and con_demned to death by the Saigon government. Both the clandestine Viet Cong radio station and Radio Hanoi immediately warned that if Hai were executed, Hertz would be too. Until a plan to free Hertz could be devised, therefore, the im_mediate problem was to keep Hai alive. That ran counter to the mood of the South Vietnamese government.Each time Hai's execution was scheduled, U.S. officials pleaded for a postponement. Chester Cooper, who handled the Hertz case for the White House, re_members one telegram from Am_bassador Maxwell Taylor saying there was great pressure in Saigon from the police and the families of the bombing victims, and he did not think Hai's death by firing squad could be delayed any longer. Somehow it was.In June 1965, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky came into office with the support of American officials, and he promised to carry out death sentences against all terrorists. Only under unremitting pressure from the U.S. ambassador did Ky reluctantly agree to exempt Hai.While the Administration was concentrating on preventing Hai's death, the Hertz family approached members of Congress for help. The first one contacted was Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who lived in near_by McLean, Va. The senator, after clearing with the Administration, paid a visit to an old friend, the Algerian ambassador, Cherif Guellal. In 1962 the National Lib_eration Front, political organiza_tion of the Viet Cong, had estab_lished in Algiers its first mission outside Vietnam. Would the Al_gerian government, Kennedy asked Guellal, consider intervening with the N.L.F. on behalf of Hertz?The Kennedys had a unique relationship with the government of Algeria, which had just received its independence. As early as 1957, John F. Kennedy had taken the floor of the U.S. Senate and given a speech that denounced France for its colonialism in Algeria and called for Algerian independence. He had even introduced a resolution to that effect. When Algeria obtained its independence in 1962, Kennedy, then President, issued a moving statement: ""This moment of national independence for the Algerian people is both a solemn occasion and one of great joy. The entire world shares in this important step toward fuller realization of the dignity of man. I am proud that it falls to me as the President of the people of the United States to voice on their behalf the profound satisfaction we feel that the cause of freedom of choice among peoples has again triumphed.” So the Kennedys had the ear of Algeria.The same day Guellal met with RFK, he tele_phoned Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's president, who consented to try to liberate Hertz. Within a few days, Guellal report_ed back to Kennedy that the N.L.F. representative in Algiers, a one_time guerrilla fighter named Huynh Van Tam, had said his organiza_tion would agree to an even ex_change - Hertz for Hai. The Al_gerians further reported that Tam had voluntarily extended their dis_cussion to include all prisoners then held by the Viet Cong, military as well as civilian, saying their willingness to divest of prisoners was because the V.C. had to move so swiftly around the countryside. Even the matter of the logistics of a Hertz-for-Hai swap was dis_cussed. One plan was to ask Sena_tor Kennedy to come to Algiers, where Hertz would be handed over to him. ""I am convinced,"" Am_bassador Guellal said later, ""that the N.L.F. was very, very ready.""This letter is Robert Kennedy’s original response to his invitation to Algeria, hand delivered to the Algerian Ambassador to the United States.Autograph letter signed, on Senatorial letterhead, June 1965, to the President of Algeria. “Dear Mr. President. I send you my best wishes. I believe that you and President Kennedy working together were able to accomplish many things for the peoples of both our countries, but also in the interest of peace for all the people of the world. I know even without him that you will continue that effort.“My appreciate to you for the discussions with your Ambassador. I am grateful for your invitation to visit Algeria and would very much like to come.“The Kennedys have always had a strong feeling of affection for you and your people. Respectfully Robert Kennedy”This unpublished letter comes from the estate of Ambassador Guellal and has never before been offered for sale.As for the Hertz-for-Hai exchange, it never happened. Senior officials in Washington ended up feeling that freeing Hai would send the wrong message to the South Vietnamese at a moment when escalation of the war was the number one priority. Both men remained in prison. At the end of the war, in 1973, Gustav Hertz’s name appeared on a list delivered to the U.S. government of Americans who had died in captivity in Vietnam. He had not been executed, but had died of malaria in a North Vietnamese prison.

THE REAL WAR Inscribed to Barry Goldwater by NIXON, Richard

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Title: THE REAL WAR Inscribed to Barry Goldwater
Author: NIXON, Richard
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a closed tear and crease at the rear
Description: New York: Warner Books, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a closed tear and crease at the rear. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Nixon, as usual for this book, on a tipped-in publisher's bookplate. This copy, however, is INSCRIBED to Barry Goldwater. Barry Goldwater, a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election, is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. His landslide defeat to Lyndon Johnson, which also brought down many other Republican candidates, opened the door for Johnson and a Congress dominated by Democrats to pass the Great Society programs. Goldwater returned to the Senate in 1969, but his role as a leader of the conservative movement had been transferred to Ronald Reagan. In 1974 Goldwater successfully urged President Richard Nixon (whom he called "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life") to resign at the height of the Watergate scandal. Goldwater retired in 1987 and was succeeded in office by John McCain. Acquired from the Goldwater family.

Description des beautés de Génes et de ses environs by Brusco, Giacomo ; Carlo Giuseppe Ratti.

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Title: Description des beautés de Génes et de ses environs
Author: Brusco, Giacomo ; Carlo Giuseppe Ratti.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Génes [i.e., Genova]: Chez Yves Gravier, 1773. Very Good. Octavo (18 cm); [2], 155, [1] pages, and [13] folded leaves of engraved views, maps, and illustrations. Engraved crest of Genoa on title page. Text within typographic border. Bound in woodblock-printed floral polychrome wraps. Mottled edges. White background of wraps rather toned. Second, much expanded edition of this architectural guide to the city of Genoa, intended, one supposes, for French and Francophone tourists. (The 1768 edition was shorter and had only four illustrations.) The printer, named in the colophon as Adamo Scionico, chose good paper stock that holds the bite of the type and of the engraved plates, which are bright and fresh. The authors names do not appear in the text, but do appear in a very similar 1768 publication in Italian from the same printer, and they have been traditionally applied to the French text as well.

Spitsbergen: by BROWN, R. N. Rudmose (1879-1957).

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Title: Spitsbergen:
Author: BROWN, R. N. Rudmose (1879-1957).
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Description: London: Seeley, Service, , 1920. First edition. 23 cm; 319 pages, 22 half-tone photographic plates, text illustrations and folding map. Bound in original gray cloth with stamped illustration of walrus hunters on a sled on upper board. Bookplate (designed by Leo Wyatt?) of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. Few pencil notes on table of contents, else about fine. Reference: Arctic Bibliography, 2331. A comprehensive history of exploration and development, physical features and resources.

Attacks of Fort Washington by His Majesty s Forces under the Command of Gen.l Sir Willm Howe K:B. 16 Nov.r 1776 by D.T. Valentine

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Title: Attacks of Fort Washington by His Majesty s Forces under the Command of Gen.l Sir Willm Howe K:B. 16 Nov.r 1776
Author: D.T. Valentine
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: For D.T. Valentine's Manual for 1861 by Geo Haywood, 1861. Disbound. Very good. The hand-colored, lithographed map image measures 22" x 16.5" and has a 7/8" margin at top, a 5/8" margin on the right and bottom, and a 1/8" margin along most of the left edge where it had been trimmed when bound into David T. Valentine's Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York. It is oriented with north to the right. Hachures show relief, and military units are depicted in red and blue. The map was said to have been "copied from an original map kindly loaned to the compiler by Mr. A. Suart." There is some light toning along the binding folds and sheet edges. Some of the folds have short splits. There is a small (1/4") hole above the 's' in "Hudson's" and a ¾" closed tear at the left edge of the Hudson River. On 16 November 1776, the Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen and his army of 8,000 German mercenaries and British regulars attacked Fort Washington (now the location of Bennet Park at the intersection of Fort Washington Avenue and 183rd Street) making use of information provided by the first American traitor, William Demont, the fort's adjutant. Although the fort's defenders were initially able to provide stiff resistance, they were eventually outflanked, and the 3,000 man garrison was captured. The Americans were then imprisoned within British prison ships anchored in New York Harbor where a great many died of starvation and disease. John and Margaret Corbin were both casualties of the battle. John was an artilleryman who was killed in the midst of the fight. When he fell, his wife Margaret (Molly), who had accompanied him as a camp follower, took his place at the cannon and continued to clean, load, and fire the gun until she was severely wounded in the left arm. Three years later, "Captain Molly," who had lost the use of her arm, became the first woman to receive a military pension from the United States. This map is in better condition with wider margins than usually found, and it is surprisingly scarce as well. At the time of listing, one other example is for sale in the trade. OCLC shows only two physical examples held by institutions; Worthpoint and the Rare Book Hub list only four auction results.

The Master of Ballantrae by STEVENSON, Robert Louis

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Title: The Master of Ballantrae
Author: STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Mt. Vernon, New York: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1965. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Lynd WARD, illustrator. G.B. STERN, introduction. SIGNED Limited Edition: 773/1500. 4to; xix, 303 [1]; black watch tartan cloth with gilt bordered spine label; 16 full-page two-color lithographic plates; signed by the illustrator with colophon on the rear fly leaf; navy paper over board slipcase; light scuffing to slipcase; fine in near fine slipcase. Lynn Ward was an American illustrator and author known for his wood engravings.

Environment and Society in Transition (Scientific Developments, Social Consequences, Policy Implications) [Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 184, June 7, 1971] by ALBERTSON, Peter and Margery Barnett, eds

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Title: Environment and Society in Transition (Scientific Developments, Social Consequences, Policy Implications) [Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 184, June 7, 1971]
Author: ALBERTSON, Peter and Margery Barnett, eds
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers; [2],699pp. Textblock a bit dust-soiled, spine creased, else Very Good and sound. Contains papers presented at the International Joint Conference of the American Geographical Society and the American Division of the World Academy of Art and Science, April 27 - May 2, 1970.

APPALACHIA by Wright, Charles

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Title: APPALACHIA
Author: Wright, Charles
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Description: New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. 69 pp. Uncorrected proof in beige glossy wrappers, with publicity sheet laid in. Fine.

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BBC Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By / Touched by an Angel. by ABNETT, Dan and MORRIS, Jonathan.

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Title: BBC Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By / Touched by an Angel.
Author: ABNETT, Dan and MORRIS, Jonathan.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781849909808
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London:: BBC Books,. Near Fine. 2011. Hardcover. 1849909806 . Second printing thus. Octavo, fully bound in blue faux leather with silver and purple lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges silver, decorated endpapers, sewn-in ribbon book mark. A few small blemishes to text block edges, else near fine. .

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