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A group of drawings & Japanese internal government communiqués on foreign incursions by EARLY FOREIGN ENCOUNTERS

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Title: A group of drawings & Japanese internal government communiqués on foreign incursions
Author: EARLY FOREIGN ENCOUNTERS
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three large folded sheets & two lengthy letters with their original manuscript envelopes. Japan: ca. 1822-31. An exceptional collection of documents on two consequential early Western visits to Japan in the 1820s: the first landing of the Saracen at Uraga and the Takarajima incident. During this period, accounts of these incursions were kept top-secret as matters of Japanese national security. Pre-Commodore Perry materials, such as ours, are extremely scarce. This collection also contains well-rendered drawings of foreigners and their ships. The letters sent by government officials speak to the widespread anxiety throughout the country in the face of much more frequent sightings and occasional landings of Western ships. Historian David L. Howell writes in his article “Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan” that beginning in 1820 “the number of foreign vessels that approached the coast of Japan surged, the result of an influx of whalers working the so-called Japan Grounds, an area of the northwest Pacific rich in cetacean life…Whereas sightings of foreign vessels had been exceedingly rare throughout Japan before the whalers moved in, afterward they became almost commonplace” (p. 301). Two significant episodes are touched upon in this archive. The first involves the Saracen, an English whaler, which anchored at Uraga in 1822 (and would also reappear offshore in 1824). The Japanese did not allow the crew to disembark but provided the ailing men with supplies, following established policy. Our archive includes a contemporary ink drawing of the Saracen, annotated with information on the vessel’s crew of 34, and its appearance in Uraga Bay on 29 April 1822, and its eventual departure on 8 May. As Howell describes (p. 302), it was an entirely peaceful encounter, unlike the incident at Takarajima, which occurred two years later. “In the second month of 1825 [the shogunate proclaimed] an order known most commonly in English as the ‘shell and repel’ edict, but which I have rendered here as ‘don’t think twice.’ It supplanted an earlier order, issued in 1791 and revised in 1806, which had instructed local officials to provide foreign vessels with fresh water, food, and fuel, even as it admonished them to avoid trade and remain vigilant in the face of possible violence… “The shogunate formulated the new policy specifically in response to…a subsequent encounter with a British vessel. In the seventh month of 1824…men from another English whaler landed on Takarajima, a small island far to the southwest of Kyushu, which belonged to the Satsuma domain. The men tried to barter for cattle, but when that failed they mounted an armed attack on the island, which ended in the death of the leader of the English landing party and the loss of several heads of cattle.”–Howell, p. 309. The documentation of this incident includes a drawing depicting the slain Englishman, possibly named Stephen Josephson. It is a drawing typical of early Japanese encounters with Westerners. The artist has accentuated his “deep-set” eyes, red hair, large nose, and strange garb. The very tall subject is also holding a firearm. The remaining manuscripts in this collection include: –Two long written letters (ca. 1825) from a bakufu official reporting on an English ship that asked for water, firewood, and food and furthermore conducted “aggressive actions.” He expresses grave concern about the growing number of foreign ships sighted offshore. –An undated sheet recording the estimated distances from Nagasaki to foreign countries, cities, and islands, like Nanjing, Shandong, Fujian, Beijing, Yunnan, Taiwan, Luzon, Cambodia, Sumatra, Jakarta, Madagascar, England, Portugal, Holland, and Russia. –Manuscript copy of an illustration and text from Oranda sanbutsu zuko (1798), a book by Motoyoshi To about the curiosities and wonders of Holland. An image of a Dutch ship is closely reproduced here on the sheet. Overall, the collection has been well preserved, but there is some minor worming to the drawings. ❧ David L. Howell, “Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan,” The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer 2014), pp. 295-327.

Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les ovaires by NEGRIER, Charles

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Title: Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les ovaires
Author: NEGRIER, Charles
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris, 1840. FIRST EDITION. 11 full-page lithographed plates. Contemporary gilt red sheep-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Old bookseller label of A. Maloine. Light foxing, but otherwise a good copy. [With:] Recueil de faits pour server a l’histoire des ovaires et des affections hystériques de la femme. Angers: Cosnier and Lachèse 1858. 8vo. viii, 176 pp. First editions of these two landmark medical texts on the human ovaries which shifted the clinical opinion of the uterus being the most important organ of the female reproductive system. In the first, Negrier asserts for the first time the link between menstruation and ovulation and describes the shrunken and atrophied nature of the ovaries in women who have ceased menstruation through case studies. He examined the organs after the women’s deaths from unrelated causes; these accounts represent the first thorough documentation of normal post-menopausal ovaries. The second text attempts to link hysteria to ovarian function. Negrier states that the inflammation and contracting of the ovary during menses causes mood swings, abdominal discomfort, depression, and nervousness: “Death would be preferable to this painful existence to this state of perpetual nervous troubles; with this erotic madness, sometimes appalling and distressing stupidity is associated, which makes miserable young girls populate our hospitals” (p. 159, tr.). Charles Negrier (1792-1862) was a French physician who coined the term menopause. His career began as a military surgeon, but he later returned to his hometown of Angers to teach at l’École de Médecine et Pharmacie. Moore, “Women’s Ageing and Medical Hygiene” in The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing (2022), 176-221.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN STUDIOS ART DEPARTMENT (1923) Publicity photo by Samuel Goldwyn

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Title: SAMUEL GOLDWYN STUDIOS ART DEPARTMENT (1923) Publicity photo
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: About Fine
Description: Samuel Goldwyn. No binding. About Fine. [Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Studios, 1923]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin print photo. Minor wear at the bottom left edge corner, about fine. Very rare view of the Goldwyn Studios scenic art department from the studio's first days, being established in 1923. Artists are seen constructing miniatures in cardboard for study of sets designed for full-scale build. There is a typed blurb on the verso, as well as an ink stamp date of Sep. 18, 1923.

The Supernatural Reader by Conklin, Groff and Lucy

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Title: The Supernatural Reader
Author: Conklin, Groff and Lucy
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Edited by Groff and Lucy Conklin. Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($3.95), faintly rubbed and a few spots of rubbing on the back panel. Green cloth. Square and firmly bound, a few spots of soiling at the fore-edge, clean otherwise. A collection of weird and grotesque tales from the likes of Dunsany, M.R. James, Saki, May Sinclair, Stephen Grendon, F. Marion Crawford, and others.

Rangeley Lake Hotel, Rangeley Maine

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Title: Rangeley Lake Hotel, Rangeley Maine
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: Augusta, ME: Roy Flynt Service. [circa 1935]. 9" x 4" green and black folded brochure (18" x 12" sheet folded into 9" x 4"), printed on both sides, numerous b&w illus. An illustrated brochure for the Rangeley Hotel and cottages, with images of daily social and sporting traditions on one side, and cottages on verso. CONDITION: Very good, clean, crisp, slight wear on edges.

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