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Finely illustrated scroll on paper, entitled in manuscript on gold paper label on outside “Tokugawa bakufu daikansho Ikuno ginzan emaki mono” 徳川幕府代官所生野銀山絵巻物 [“Magistrates Office of the Tokugawa Bakufu at Ikuno Silver Mine, Illustrated Scroll”] by IKUNO SILVER MINE SCROLL

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Title: Finely illustrated scroll on paper, entitled in manuscript on gold paper label on outside “Tokugawa bakufu daikansho Ikuno ginzan emaki mono” 徳川幕府代官所生野銀山絵巻物 [“Magistrates Office of the Tokugawa Bakufu at Ikuno Silver Mine, Illustrated Scroll”]
Author: IKUNO SILVER MINE SCROLL
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1938. Scroll (275 x 13,850 mm.), borders of speckled silver, inner front endpaper with silver decoration, outer side covered with gold & red silk brocade, inner wooden core roller. At end (in trans.): “Adachi Ginrei 足立銀嶺 [the artist]…copied by Ōju 應需, 1938.” A richly illustrated scroll, in fine colors including metallic pigments such as silver, of the mining activities at the Ikuno silver mine. Silver was mined at the Ikuno Ginzan (Ikuno silver mine) from the 9th century until the late 20th century and was an important source of income for the shogunate. There were several entrances to the mine. The main tunnel was 2.6 km long and extended 1 km deep. Lead, copper, zinc, and gold were extracted, along with silver. More than 20,000 residents were in some way involved in the local mining industry. One of the most productive periods for the mine was the 18th century, when, in some months, the production of silver reached about 562 kilograms. This is a long and fine scroll concerning the mine with many scenes. The beginning images depict a procession on the second day of the year, with workers and government officials making offerings for good fortune. Following are scenes of the several entrances to the mine, offices and storage facilities, and miners preparing to enter the mine, carrying baskets. Remarkably, a long (755 mm.) shikake 仕掛け flap (“trick picture”) is attached and present underneath the scroll itself, depicting the mine shafts and activities of the labor. On the scroll itself, there are two deliberately cut-away sections (each suggesting the shikake below): one of an entrance to the mine and another of a grilled escapeway for the mine’s water. This is followed by scenes of laborers in the river sifting away impurities; various smelting and refining processes and furnaces (including an image of the nanban process); government officials observing and keeping records of output, using the abacus; liquid silver flowing out of the furnace; officials weighing and recording the finished product; the transportation of the silver to Osaka in a procession with dignitaries in a palanquin, laborers and horses carrying the silver (the trademarks of silver merchants are present on the horses’ saddles); the reception of the silver at Osaka by officials; the treasury inside Osaka Castle; and finally, an extended scene of festivities at the silver mine following the successful delivery of the silver. Each segment of the scroll has a manuscript title and text describing the following scenes, and within each image are many labels giving titles, functions, and mining terminology. In fine condition, preserved in a box.

Exhibition postcard: Reiner Ruthenbeck im Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst (13 February-17 March 1971) by (RUTHENBECK, Reiner)

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Title: Exhibition postcard: Reiner Ruthenbeck im Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst (13 February-17 March 1971)
Author: (RUTHENBECK, Reiner)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Black & white illus. on recto, details to verso. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1971. Postcard invitation for Ruthenbeck’s debut exhibition at Jürgen Wesseler’s famed gallery. In fine condition. ❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992).

The History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A.D. An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. [Descriptions largely by Howard M. Nixon] by (BOOKBINDING)

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Title: The History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A.D. An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. [Descriptions largely by Howard M. Nixon]
Author: (BOOKBINDING)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 106 fine plates. Large 4to, orig. stiff wrappers. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1957. This superb work stands as the best general survey of binding styles. The annotations and references are very informative. Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, p. 25-"the great American loan exhibition.

UCSD Medical Faculty Wives Cooking Series Proudly Present Julia Child: A Benefit for the UCSD Medical Center. Tuesday, February 7 & Wednesday, February 8, 1978. Mandeville Center, University of California at San Diego by Child, Julia; UCSD Medical Faculty Wives

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Title: UCSD Medical Faculty Wives Cooking Series Proudly Present Julia Child: A Benefit for the UCSD Medical Center. Tuesday, February 7 & Wednesday, February 8, 1978. Mandeville Center, University of California at San Diego
Author: Child, Julia; UCSD Medical Faculty Wives
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: San Diego: UCSD Medical Center Faculty Wives, 1978. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (14 x 21.5 cm.), 72 pages. Advertisements throughout. A cookbook issued on the occasion of a presentation by Julia Child, in support of the UCSD Medical Center. Includes a short biography of Julia, recipes drawn from her books and TV shows, and advertisements from sponsoring businesses. The intro states that Julia was assisted in the presentation by Paul Child and her business manager Ruth Lockwood, as well as two assistants. Some light soiling to the interior. in publisher's mustard-colored wrapper with title and a portrait of Julia printed in dark brown. Soil and wear to the wrapper, splitting at the spine, and with a 1x4 cm. chip from one corner. Inscribed by Julia on the title page, "Bon Appetit! Julia Child" and simply "Paul Child" on the front wrapper panel.

President Hayes Signs A Very Large Photograph Of His Wife To The Wife Of Famous Indian Fighter George Crook by RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

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Title: President Hayes Signs A Very Large Photograph Of His Wife To The Wife Of Famous Indian Fighter George Crook
Author: RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (1822-1893). Hayes was the Nineteenth President and a Union general during the Civil War. During his Presidency, he ended Reconstruction, began civil service reform, and restored financial confidence after the Panic of 1873. GEORGE CROOK (1829-1890). A Civil War soldier and noted Indian fighter, Crook fought at Antietam and Chickamauga. After the Civil War, he was sent to Boise, and negotiated a peace with the Apaches. He fought in 1876s Sioux War, and persuaded Geronimo to surrender.PS. 7 x 13. 1877. No place [likely Washington, DC]. A very large photograph of First Lady Lucy Hayes inscribed on the lower margin by the President, To Mrs. George Crook with kindest regards Rutherford B. Hayes 1877. It was almost surely signed as President and he signed with his full name (not his usual R.B. Hayes). Mary Tapscott Dailey (1842-1895) was the wife of General Crook. The black ink is light in a few sports but legible. The overall condition of the photograph is fine with some scattered surface marks, light staining and some waterstaining to the lower left corner.

A Map of North America from the Latest Surveys and Maps, by John Blair, L.L.D. & F.R.S. as a Supplement to His Tables of Chronology by BLAIR, John

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Title: A Map of North America from the Latest Surveys and Maps, by John Blair, L.L.D. & F.R.S. as a Supplement to His Tables of Chronology
Creator: BLAIR, John
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London, 1768. Map no binding. Fine. Thomas KITCHEN, engraver. [COLONIAL AMERICA]. 18 ¾" x 23 ¾" sheet size; 16 ½" x 22 ¾" within the neat line; vertical fold as issued in the atlas; well defined plate mark, wide margins; light offsetting of ink, else fine. A captivating clear map of the eastern coast of British North America extending up into the maritime provinces of Canada in the east, as far west as Lake Superior and the plains beyond in the north, and west of the Mississippi River to what is now Texas in the south. The map clearly identifies and names Native Tribal areas. Of the American colonies, only 12 of the 13 are identified, as the borders for Delaware are included with Pennsylvania. Also identified are areas titled Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico [Texas], Main [Maine] (then a part of Massachusetts), and Canada with Nova Scotia or Acadia, and New Foundland. The Atlantic or Western Ocean shows the location of the fishing banks so important to the economy of Great Britain. The watermark for the renowned English paper maker, J WHATMAN [James Whatman], can be seen easily, along with their fleur de lis logo used at this time.

Interim Report of South Carolina School Committee, January 11, 1955 [cover title] by [African Americana]: [Desegregation]: [South Carolina]

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Title: Interim Report of South Carolina School Committee, January 11, 1955 [cover title]
Author: [African Americana]: [Desegregation]: [South Carolina]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: [Columbia, S.C., 1955. Near fine.. 12pp. Original gray wrappers printed in black, stapled. Light wear overall. The second interim report from the South Carolina School Committee, comprised of five Senators, five Representatives, and five laymen, sent to the governor and the General Assembly, apprising them of "our findings and recommendations pending final action of the United States Supreme Court and the development of the situation its decrees will create in the field of public education." The committee is reacting, of course, to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which effectively called for the integration of public schools in the United States. The committee's findings are both alarming and unsurprising. In one passage, they state they have "no reason to change its views that the concensus [sic] of public opinion in this State favors better educational opportunity for all children - in separate schools." Their first recommendation reads as follows: "Your Committee will not recommend any course of action or legislative enactment which will force negro children to attend schools established for white children or require white children to attend schools established for negro children. If forced separation is wrong, then it must follow that forced intermingling is also wrong." One passage in the introductory portion of the work mentions the disruption of integration in other communities "on the basis of the May 17th decision" (i.e., Brown v. Board of Education), which is resulting in the decrease of enrollment of white children in public schools and facilitating their move to private schools. This paragraph ends, presciently: "This experience indicates that, wherever integration is attempted, there will result a gradual migration of families who can afford homes elsewhere to neighborhoods where residential segregation by choice will produce educational segregation by necessity." OCLC does not explicitly record this imprint, though there are likely copies of the report in serial runs of interim reports of the School Committee at one, two, or three institutions in South Carolina.

Nord-America and West Indien by Stieler, Adolph

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Title: Nord-America and West Indien
Creator: Stieler, Adolph
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Upsala, SWE]: Palmblad & Co, 1825. Map [18 cm x 21 cm] / [7" x 8.25"] on a single sheet [23 cm x 30.5 cm] / [9" x 12"] Hand tinted borders. Gentle overall foxing with top left corner nicked (does not effect map). Inset map at lower left labeled "Nordostl Theil Verein Staaten" [Northeast part of the United States] that shows the Eastern Seaboard, from North Carolina to Maine. Canada is labeled "Hudsons Bay Lander." Texas is shown and labeled, but as part of Mexico. Plate XIX [19] from first Swedish edition of the Stieler school atlas based on the first 1821 German edition. The Great Salt Lake ["Timpanogos"] and Utah Lake ["Tegigo"] are both shown with an unnamed Buenaventura River flowing from Utah Lake to Monterey. Rare. Not in Moffat. Not in Wheat.

In Search of a Distant Voice FIRST EDITION by Yamada, Taichi; Emmerich, Michael (Trans.)

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Title: In Search of a Distant Voice FIRST EDITION
Author: Yamada, Taichi; Emmerich, Michael (Trans.)
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780571229710
Condition: Good +
Description: London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Good +/Good +. First Edition. Paperback. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 1/4". 183pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Light rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Gentle creasing and bumps to covers and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Taichi Yamada was a Japanese author known for his works in contemporary literature. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Yamada gained recognition for his unique storytelling style, often blending elements of supernatural and psychological themes with everyday life. His notable works include "Strangers," which was adapted into a film, and "In Search of a Distant Voice." Yamada's writing often explores themes of loneliness, memory, and the intersection between the past and present. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Kazama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event that happened eight years previously. His problems worsen following the emergence of a strange voice - a woman who is trying to contact him. Tsuneo desperately chases this woman, and the mystery behind what happened eight years earlier.(Publisher).

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Title: In the Name of the Son
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: London: Secker & Warburg. 1962 (c.1960). 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. [minor shelfwear, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket shows just light handling wear, with a couple of tiny edge-tears]. Novel about a widowed schoolmaster in a French provincial town and his relationships with his three children, "an in particular with Bruno, the youngest, whom he rightly suspects is not his own." .

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