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Shinchō. Kōchō ruien 新雕. 皇朝類苑 [Newly Carved. Categorized Garden of Historical Facts [or] A Library of Chinese Classics by Courtly Scholars] by CHOKUBAN 勅版 (IMPERIAL PRINTING)

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Title: Shinchō. Kōchō ruien 新雕. 皇朝類苑 [Newly Carved. Categorized Garden of Historical Facts [or] A Library of Chinese Classics by Courtly Scholars]
Author: CHOKUBAN 勅版 (IMPERIAL PRINTING)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Collected & edited by Jiang Shaoyu 江少虞. Complete in 78 parts plus table of contents, bound in 15 vols. (full collation supplied in the Hyde catalogue). Large 8vo (286 x 215 mm.), early paper wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: chokuban [privately published by the Emperor Go-Mizunoo’s order], 1621. First edition and a fine complete set of one of the very few surviving “imperial editions” printed with movable type (kokatsujiban 古活字版). There is considerable modern debate, with no definitive conclusion, whether this book was printed with metal or wooden type (see below). It is of very great rarity, and we find no printed copy in WorldCat. This enormous publication is by far the largest of the eight surviving chokuban (imperial printings) and the only surviving Gen’na chokuban 元和勅版 — imperial printing during the reign (1611-29) of Emperor Go-Mizunoo 後水尾天皇 (1596-1680). The production of this large work was a very complex and difficult project employing the recently imported technology of movable type from Korea. The Song dynasty editor Jiang Shaoyu (active 12th century) compiled the substantial encyclopedia Huang Song shi shi lei yuan 皇宋事實類苑 of the writings of Chinese courtly scholars, completed in 1145. Encouraging the preservation of Chinese traditions long valued by aristocrats, Emperor Go-Mizunoo continued the project initiated by his father, Emperor Go-Yōzei, of printing imperially commissioned volumes of Chinese literary classics, with the present work, a collection of Confucian texts that were considered both an ethical and a literary legacy of the court. Some of the many topics include music, medicine, painting, calligraphy, supernatural events, safeguarding the border, and controlling the unruly. “The earliest surviving books printed [in Korea] with movable type date from the late fourteenth century…During the invasion of the Korean peninsula undertaken by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the closing years of the sixteenth century…large numbers of printed books were looted, and printing type was removed from the Printing Office and taken to Japan…It appears that Korean type was immediately put to use to print the text of the…Kobun kokyo (Classic of Filial Piety) in 1593, although no copies of this appear to have survived. In 1597, in the postface to another work printed in Japan with movable type, a monk who was present at Hideyoshi’s headquarters acknowledged that typography in Japan had come from Korea. It was not clear whether any Korean printing artisans came to Japan as well as a result of the invasion, but in any event the impact on Japan of Korean typography, both technologically and intellectually, was far greater than that of the Jesuit Mission Press, principally because the imported Korean typography was much closer to the centres of power in Japan than the increasingly precarious Jesuit missions.”–Kornicki, The Book in Japan, p. 129. Emperor Go-Yōzei, who nominally ruled Japan from 1586 to 1611, “displayed great enthusiasm for the new process, and not content with the original type brought back from Korea, ordered a new set of wooden type to be made. This was engraved between 1597 and 1602, and the books printed from this new type are generically known as choku-han, or ‘imperial printings.’ Indeed ‘imperial’ is a fitting description of these works, for they are among the finest unillustrated books ever produced in Japan. Not only was the typeface larger, but the best-quality paper and the finest ink were used to achieve effect. Very few choku-han works were actually printed between 1597 and 1603 [actually, 1621], and if we exclude the 1593 edition of Kobun kokyō, almost all the titles were copies of Chinese philosophical classics… “One other choku-han is known to have been printed by order of Emperor Go-Mino-o [Emperor Go-Yōzei’s son and successor] in 1621, and that is the Horuien [the present work], although one or two other titles were printed and have been lost. All these works are considerable examples of the printer’s art and show how quickly the Japanese were able to make full and aesthetic use of movable type.”–Chibbett, The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration, p. 69. At the time of the writing of the Hyde sale catalogue, it was believed that the present work was printed with copper type; the latest research has suggested that wooden type was used. No final conclusion has been reached. See Kornicki, Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Cambridge: 2025), p. 26, for a discussion. Very fine and fresh set. Minor worming, carefully repaired. Final volume with some dampstaining. Preserved in two chitsu. From the Rokuō-in 鹿王院 temple in Kyoto and the library of Donald and Mary Hyde (their sale, Christie’s NY, 7 October 1988, lot 87). With the provenance seal 弘文荘, “Kōbunshō,” the trade name of Sorimachi Shigeo 反町茂雄 (1901-91), the “H.P. Kraus of Japan.”.

Die Geburt des Menschen, in physiologisch-diätetischer und pathologisch-therapeutischer Beziehung, grösstentheils nach eignen Beobachtungen und Versuchen dargestellt, 2 vols. by Wigand, Justus Heinrich [ed. Franz Naegele] - CHILDBIRTH

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Title: Die Geburt des Menschen, in physiologisch-diätetischer und pathologisch-therapeutischer Beziehung, grösstentheils nach eignen Beobachtungen und Versuchen dargestellt, 2 vols.
Author: Wigand, Justus Heinrich [ed. Franz Naegele] - CHILDBIRTH
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good; bindings are worn with abraded spines; some spotting and minor tide mark on a few pages in vol 1. A small 19th century gum
Description: Berlin: Friedrich Nicolai, 1820. First Edition. Contemporary marbled paper over paste paper boards.. Good; bindings are worn with abraded spines; some spotting and minor tide mark on a few pages in vol 1. A small 19th century gum label of ownership is on each title page: Dr. med. d'Outrepont in Wurzburg.. 8vo, I - lxiii, [1 - errata], [2], [3] - 308, [2 - printer's slug]; II - xl, [4], 5 - 578, [2 - errata] pp. + 4 folding lithographic plates. A remarkable book based on the author's original observations. Wigand suffered from bad health throughout his relatively short career and died just before this book, his life's achievement, was published under the editorial direction of Franz Naegele (he also added an introduction pp. xix - xlviii). The book itself is a very detailed look at the mechanics of birth and the problems that ensue. Later in his career Naegele would write on the same topic and issue a well regarded work (G-M #6257) on a related subject. Wigand, however, disappeared from the historical record. See Kerr et al, Hist. Rev. British Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1800-1950, p. 183: "Wigand ... [gave] a good description of primary inertia, which he called uterine atony, and of secondary inertia, which he termed 'lassitudo, exhaustio' or paralysis uteri ...." ; Hirsch V, p. 930; see Naegele's entry in Hagelin, The Woman's Booke.

Club Woman's Cook Book. Compiled by The Fortuna Monday Club. Revised edition by [Fortuna Monday Club (Fortuna, Calif.). Committee in Charge]

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Title: Club Woman's Cook Book. Compiled by The Fortuna Monday Club. Revised edition
Author: [Fortuna Monday Club (Fortuna, Calif.). Committee in Charge]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Fortuna, California: The Club, 1928. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 139, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Prefatory remarks (title page) signed "Committee in Charge." Second, Revised Edition. A relatively ambitious community endeavor with nearly six hundred brief contributions, the majority attributed, emphasizing sandwiches, salads, casseroles, coffee cakes, and other luncheon specialties. Representative: Apple and Pimento Salad, Baked Cucumbers, Egg Egleston (eggs baked in mashed potato nests), Krummerfort (date and walnut pudding), Peach Cream Cake. Uncharacteristic of the time is but a modest showing of pies and pastries. In partial compensation, general instructions for home-made fruit sodas are filed under Cream Soda. Founded in 1906, the Fortuna Monday Club was for many years an eminent group esteemed for its fund-raising for community improvement projects by, for instance, hosting socials and dances. The first edition of Club Woman's Cook Book appeared in 1922. Shortly thereafter plans were initiated to build a meeting house with a small stage and banquet room, and since the current building at 610 Main Street has been dated to 1929, it might reasonably be surmised that the revised edition might have been undertaken in support. The Club is fondly remembered but no longer active. Ownership of the house on Main Street was transferred to the city in 1996, and is still used as an event facility. In stapled, black-titled brown textured wrappers; lightly rubbed and edgeworn. One checkmark in pencilto a single recipe, otherwise very good. Gift inscription on front endpaper: "Mrs. Henry Craft, Lompoc, Calif. with compliments of Mrs. C.W. Seffens". [OCLC locates three copies of this revised edition, and one other so identified but with different pagination; not in Brown nor Cagle].

Tiara by ANDERSON, Lyn & TALMONT, Ralph

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Title: Tiara
Author: ANDERSON, Lyn & TALMONT, Ralph
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ISBN: 9780958366892
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Description: AUKLAND: Barkfire, 2004. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Numerous color photographic illustrations of the yacht "Tiara." Short oblong 4to, cream cloth, d.w. (Aukland: Barkfire Press, 2004). First Edition. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by both the author and photographer on the fly-leaf.

HOW I SEE APOCALYPSE by Treece, Henry

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Title: HOW I SEE APOCALYPSE
Author: Treece, Henry
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Description: London: Lindsay Drummond, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Critical essays by poet Treece. A fine copy, blue cloth stamped in red, in Better than very good dustjacket, designed by John Tunnard, with light wear at corners, a few closed tears and a small chip upper edge rear panel.

Zoroaster's Influence on Greek Thought by Afhan, Ruhi

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Title: Zoroaster's Influence on Greek Thought
Author: Afhan, Ruhi
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Philosophical Library, 1965. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xvi, 431pp+index. Previous owner's ink name and 'chop' stamp on front free endpaper, else a very good hardback in a price clipped, slightly rubbed jacket.

The Production of the Arvo Lancaster Bomber. Reprinted from “Machinery” March 4 and 11, and April 1 and 29, 1943. by Arvo.

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Title: The Production of the Arvo Lancaster Bomber. Reprinted from “Machinery” March 4 and 11, and April 1 and 29, 1943.
Author: Arvo.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Harrison & Sons, Printers, n.d. [ca. 1943]. Octavo, self wrappers, stapled, 28 pp. Photos. Very Good.

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