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Eight scrolls, finely woodblock-printed, of the complete Lotus Sutra [S.: Saddharmapundarikasutra; J.: Myohorengekyo 妙法蓮華経] by LOTUS SUTRA

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Title: Eight scrolls, finely woodblock-printed, of the complete Lotus Sutra [S.: Saddharmapundarikasutra; J.: Myohorengekyo 妙法蓮華経]
Author: LOTUS SUTRA
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 17 characters per column; 24 columns per sheet. Each sheet: ca. 450 mm. long. Text-block height: 207 mm. Eight scrolls (297 x 10,785; 12,480; 11,600; 10,430; 11,190; 10,190; 10,130; 9000 mm.), all with front endpapers speckled on inside with square-cut gold, silver, & copper foil, outer endpapers dyed reddish-orange & with clouds of gold, silver, & copper mottling. Seven of the eight scrolls have on the outside of the front endpaper an orig. label stating “Myohorengekyo” [“Glory to the Dharma of the Lotus Sutra”], and its volume number. All with wooden rollers. [Japan: late Muromachi to early Edo]. A handsomely produced woodblock-printed edition of the complete Lotus Sutra in 28 chapters, originally translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva and completed in 406. The Lotus Sutra is the most influential of all sutra and “was highly influential in East Asia, inspiring both a range of devotional practices as well as the creation of new Buddhist schools that had no Indian analogues.”–Buswell & Lopez, eds., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, p. 730. For several Japanese schools of Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra remains their central text and is considered to be the only valid Buddhist sutra for the Degenerate Age. These handsome scrolls have been printed on high-quality paper (gampi, or mulberry fibers), with a light sprinkling of mica dust, and printed in bold, thick strokes, using black lacquer-like sumi ink, typical of Kamakura and Muromachi Kasuga-ban printings. Kumarajiva (344-413), Buddhist monk, scholar, missionary, and translator, who came from the Silk Road kingdom of Kucha, was famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vendantic learning. He was the greatest translator of Buddhist scripture from Sanskrit into Chinese, and it was largely owing to his efforts and influence that Buddhist religious and philosophical ideas were disseminated in China. Following many years of study in Kucha and Kashmir, he arrived in Chang’an (now Xi’an), in 401, with a great reputation. He became known as “teacher of the nation.” There, he headed a famous school of translators, and together they translated many important texts into Chinese, including the Vimalakirti, the Diamond, the Lotus, and the Amitabha sutra. It is most unusual to find on the market an early printing of a long sutra, like the Lotus Sutra, textually complete; usually one finds just one part of a text in one scroll. Complete sets of this work are of the greatest rarity. A fine set, clean and fresh. The third scroll has some worming to the final quarter of the text, touching and affecting characters. At the end of the final scroll is a manuscript note, dated “9 July 1646,” signed by a Buddhist practitioner named Nichi’en. At the beginning of the first scroll and at the end of the final scroll, we find the names in manuscript of two donors, Jo’an and Myo’an, members of the Nichiren sect. Above their signatures in the eighth scroll, they have written in a very beautiful calligraphic style, “Namumyohorengekyo Nichiren Daibosatsu.” ❧ K.B. Gardner, “Centres of Printing in Medieval Japan: late Heian to early Edo period” in British Library Occasional Papers 11. Japanese Studies (ed. by Yu-Ying Brown), London: 1990, p. 159–”The term Kasuga-ban became used more loosely, in a wider sense, to denote publications of the Nara monasteries in general, not only of the Kofukuji. The printing of Kasuga-ban in this broader sense flourished throughout the Kamakura period and up to the end of Muromachi (ca. 1570).”.

Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten by REMAK, Robert

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Title: Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten
Author: REMAK, Robert
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1858. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary paper over boards, worn with some tears on edges and corners, spine label; interior in good condition with only some minor spotting. First edition. Remak was the first to develop electrotherapy using the galvanic current as a treatment, claiming that the electricity the procedure produced had a catalytic effect. This in turn aided in the cure of many different nervous and muscular ailments. He treated around 700 patients using the galvanic current, which he argued was a superior method to the previously used faradic current. Today, galvanotherapy (now electro-chemical-therapy or ECT) is used primarily to treat cancer, applying electric current to tumors attempting to the change pH values and electric field in the tissue. Remak (1815–1865) was a Jewish Polish-German physician and an important figure in the field of neurology. In addition to his work in electrotherapy, he also discovered that cells were the product of the division of pre-existing cells in the body by studying chicken embryos and frog eggs (a discovery that Rudolf Virchow claimed as his own). Remak also reconfigured Karl Ernst von Baer’s four germ layers to three. However, despite his achievements, he never received full professor status at the University of Berlin where he taught. He eventually was appointed assistant professor––the first Jewish individual to achieve that rank. DSB, XI, pp. 367-70; Garrison & Morton, 4534; Haymaker and Schiller, Founders of Neurology, p. 68; Rowbottom and Susskind, Electricity and Medicine, pp. 103-8; Schmiedebach, “Robert Remak (1815–1865). A Jewish physician and researcher between recognition and rejection,” Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung 84 (1990): pp. 889–94.

Kansas in Maps by Baughman, Robert W. [Dale L. Morgan]

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Title: Kansas in Maps
Author: Baughman, Robert W. [Dale L. Morgan]
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1961. First Edition. 104pp. Folio [36.5 cm] 1/2 grained cream cloth over red patterned cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Housed in white illustrated slipcase. Both book and slipcase are near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. This is the De Luxe edition of this work, which was limited to 200 number copies - this is copy 125. Profusely illustrated work on the history of cartography in Kansas. Though the book is listed under the authorship of Baughman it is certain that Morgan was responsible for most or all of this work or substantial editing. A typewritten draft of the manuscript in his style and with his editing resides in the Morgan Papers at the Bancroft Library. It is unquestionably of his creation. He does at least appear at the head of the list of acknowledgments. Variant of Saunders 35.

My Enemy's Enemy [Signed] by AMIS, Kingsley

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Title: My Enemy's Enemy [Signed]
Author: AMIS, Kingsley
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm.); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 224pp. Author's clipped signature mounted on title page. Offsetting to half-title page, lower corners gently bumped, with light sunning to lower board edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 18/- net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. The author's first collection of short fiction, containing seven short stories set in post-WWII England.ocial satire at its ironic best.

Naval Actions and History, 1799-1898 by (NAVAL ACTIONS)

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Title: Naval Actions and History, 1799-1898
Author: (NAVAL ACTIONS)
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description: hardcover. 8vo, original cloth; (ex-lib, otherwise very good). Boston: Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 1902. Most of the chapters are on naval actions during the Civil War. Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, vol. XII.

The Yacht Sailor. by Vanderdecken." (William Cooper).

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Title: The Yacht Sailor.
Author: Vanderdecken." (William Cooper).
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: Sixth edition. Victorian yachtsmanship as well as information on design, building and rigging, racing, and an interesting chapt
Description: London: Hunt & Co., 1888. Sixth edition. Victorian yachtsmanship as well as information on design, building and rigging, racing, and an interesting chapter on boats. See Toy 1955 for various editions. Bound in blindstamped and gilt covers. Light cover wear, else very good condition. . 22 cm. viii, 208 pp. b/w folding plates.

OLD FRIENDS, BEING LITERARY RECOLLECTIONS OF OTHER DAYS by Winter, William

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Title: OLD FRIENDS, BEING LITERARY RECOLLECTIONS OF OTHER DAYS
Author: Winter, William
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909. Second Printing. Hardcover. Thick Octavo, 407 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's dark blue cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have moderate wear including faint scratches/scuffs and some chipping to the edges. Text block has moderate plus wear including age toning to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Partial cracking to the hinges. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Chipped tail edge to the copyright, dedication, table of contents and illustration list pages with a closed tear to the dedication page. Illustrated. Second printing. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T, ND-T. 1400304. FP New Rockville Stock.

Korean war: a nation divided

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Title: Korean war: a nation divided
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: A.S.I., 1974. 13p. staplebound pamphlet, minor foxing, very good. A discussion of the "hidden history of the Korean War," favorable to North Korea.

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The Lullaby Songbook. by YOLEN, Jane (editor).

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Title: The Lullaby Songbook.
Author: YOLEN, Jane (editor).
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780152499037
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: San Diego:: Harcourt Brace & Company,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0152499032 . With musical arrangements by Adam Stemple (Jane Yolen's son). Illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. Fourth printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. .

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