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EHON TAKA KAGAMI: ILLUSTRATED MIRROR OF HAWKS. PICTURES OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF HA by KAWANABE, Kyosai

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Title: EHON TAKA KAGAMI: ILLUSTRATED MIRROR OF HAWKS. PICTURES OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF HA
Author: KAWANABE, Kyosai
Seller: Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB - AN ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY (United States)
Description: [Tokyo 1877-79,Nakamura]. Stitched yellow wrs.,5 vols.,title slips,complete: 2 parts:I:vols.1-3; II:vols.1-2, very clean, 111 woodblock illustrations, some double-page, contents very clean & solid. THE COMPLETE SET OF 5. *FIRST & ONLY EDITION* . *** **** *** . . . JAPAN'S PREMIER SINGLE RESOURCE ON FALCONRY . . . PROFUSELY WOODBLOCK PRINT ILLUSTRATED . . . ALTERNATE TITLE PER DAWES: . . THE ILLUSTRATED MIRROR OF HAWKS. PICTURES OF THE . . DIFFERENT KINDS OF HAWKS, WITH HAWKING SCENES . . BY KYOSAI & YOSAI . * The complete set contains 5 separately bound volumes. . A major resource on Japanese falconry, the capture, taming & teaching of falcons, the grooming, feeding and culture of the bird of prey. Wonderful illustrations of falcons, the associated tools & equipment, stands, methods of warming in winter before the hunt, winter hunting, respect for. On the flushing to expose game birds to be hunted by the falcon, the kill, capture of the quarry. How to tether, hoods, master's gloves and other accoutrements, field work, breeding, bathing &c. . *** FIRST AND ONLY EDITION: This magnificent work was issued once in a single edition and is complete in five separately bound volumes. . The first series consists of volumes 1~3 which were published in 1877. The second series, volumes 4~5 were published in 1879, complete in 5 volumes. . Each volume has identifying title slips with: series 1: volumes jo, chu, ge in 3 parts]; series 2: the supplement jo, ge in 2 parts, according to the traditional Japanese way of numbering each volume. . *** Please read the details of each specific copy below under: "* DETAILS FOR EACH COPY *" . *** PRINTING TECHNIQUE: This marvelous work uses crushed mica flecks as an integral part of the hand-made Washi paper [not found on all copies]. These tiny flecks of mica give a sparkle to the illustrations, and are especially effective on the feather portion of the falcons. Mica gives a realistic and "high-tech" touch to the hand-printed woodblocks. . *** A QUOTE FROM A KAWANABE KYOSAI SCHOLAR: . Per Dr. Shigeru Oikawa, the eminent scholar on Kyosai, in a letter from him to us in 1998, he discusses the dates of the set. He stated: "Takakagami was, I think, first published in 3 volumes with the title...cover was blue or black. Then came the last 2 volumes...this time the...color was yellow. The exact date is not known but the first edition in 3 volumes [first series in vols. 1,2,3,] could be 1860's and some examples of the full set in 5 volumes has the date of 1875. Kyosai had finished all of the drawings in 1860's but the publication seemed to be delayed..." . We have not found any supporting evidence to the above 1875 date, nor are these color covers cited in any bibliographies or other reference books stating any information about any 1875 edition. We have only found the 1877-79 edition. If the 1875 edition actually existed, by now it would have been listed in bibliographies. . *** KAWANABE KYOSAI: ARTIST & AUTHOR: . Per Brown: BLOCK PRINTING AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION, p.196. Kawanabe Kyosai aka.: Gyosai [1831-89] was a Kano painter, printmaker, illustrator, the son of a Samurai. Studied as a child under Utagawa Kuniyoshi, then in Tokyo under Maemura Towa, later under the most celebrated Kano Tohaku Chinshin who gave him the name Toiku at 19 years old. Loved drinking Sake, did some of his best work while under the influence, exhibited a the Vienna Intl. Exposition in 1873 & in Paris in 1883, where the West recognized his greatness. See below. . *** Josiah Conder recognized his great talent & wrote a grand reference book on him: PAINTINGS AND STUDIES, Tokyo 1911. His famous KYOSAI GADEN, [L. Dawes p.92] was widely appreciated in Europe, it even had English captions for the foreign market! This was Kyosai's attempt to show the world a wide variety of ancient Japanese & Chinese painting styles; it is a magnificent set. . *** COLLATION & SPECIAL ILLUSTRATING TECHNIQUES: None of the below reference books list details of a full set which was issued complete in 5 volumes: part 1:3 volumes; part 2: 2 volumes supplement. The full list of the set is found at the end of volume 5 with a list of recent publications, this book is cited in the last column showing both parts 1 & 2 for a complete set in 5 volumes. This title was issued as a serial in 1877,then the supplement in 1879. . *** There are two variants to the paper used to print the pages: mica-flecked Washi [mulberry fiber] hand-made paper. Then the Deluxe example used mica-flecked Washi paper giving a "sparkle and sheen" to the as a background to the illustrations. This has always been a difficult paper to make and an expensive bonus to the edition. Seldom found in books of this period. . *** THE VARIETY OF BIRDS ILLUSTRATED: The Siberian goshawk or [falcon] O-taka [in Japanese] has been considered the best variety for use in falconry in Japan since ancient times. The Chinese call these birds Lao Ying. . * RARITY: Seldom found complete. For odd volumes of the set, please see our book number 450250, posted to our website. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** . * DETAILS FOR EACH SPECIFIC COPY: * . Copy 2: A COMPLETE set of 5 volumes. . Bound in the publisher's yellow 'laid' paper covered boards, with red-printed title slips. . This copy has some of the usual slight darkening to volume 1 covers, with some darkening to the title slip which is printed in red. Signs of rubbing, dustiness, edge & corner wear, nevertheless tightly stitched and firmly bound. The contents are brilliantly clean, no marks or issues. This is a uniform complete set of matching volumes and was NOT made up from random odd volumes. We tend to be overly critical of condition, suffice to say this is in much better than the average example now approaching 150 years old. By and large a decent set, complete as issued. Please see our website photo cover.jpg for the covers to this item Note our scanner found it difficult to show actual color values. . * There is some of the usual slight wrinkling to the cover paper, small rubs, unusual minor signs of wear, feint stain, and the like. . We tend to be over critical, suffice to say this set is by and large in excellent condition for a book nearly 150 years old. . This is a uniform set, with cloth-covered inside spine corner of purple silk cloth intact [but a little rubbed as usual]. This is NOT a set made up from random odd volumes. . Please see our website photo spine.jpg for the covers to this item Note our scanner found it difficult to show actual color values. . *** REFERENCE & BIBLIOGRAPHY: . N. Brown: BLOCK PRINTING AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION, p.196. * G. Schack: KYOSAIS FALKENJAGD, Hamburg, 1968. Harting: BIBLIOTHECA ACCIPITRARIA, 372. Thieme-Becker XXII, S 155. * L. Dawes: CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 1972 pp.93, 183. Item: E.2694 to 2696-1925. * H. Kerlin: CATALOGUE OF PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE BOOKS & MAPS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS, #327, #327A ON P.816. * Douglas: CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE PRINTED BOOKS & MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, London 1904, p.24, #16035.b.18. * Mitchell: ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE NANGA & MARUYAMA...Los Angeles, 1972, p.113. * Sorimachi: CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS... IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY...#625, p.133 for a citation. * Briot, Alain: EHON TAKA KAGAMI article in Bulletin Association Franco-Japonaise numero 36, Avirl 1992 * [KAWANABE KYOSAI MEMORIAL MUSEUM].: EHON TAKA KAGAMI: vol. ix-2 article, 1985. . [KAWANABE KYOSAI MEMORIAL MUSEUM].: KAWANABE KYOSAI DOKU HON * Kawanabe Kyosai: KYOSAI GADEN * ANIMA: special number: "Aigles et auteur" Heibonsha autumn 75 * Bugniot, J.M. CHASSE AU VOL EN EXTREME-ORIENT. An article in LA CHASSE AU VOL AU FIL DES TEMPS, issued by Musee International de la Chasse-Glen, France 1994. pp.187-192, 235-237. * T. Clark: DEMON OF PAINTING: The Art of Kawanabe Kyosai, * Riccar Museum: KAWANABE KYOSAI HANGA HANBON TEN: Exhibition of Kawanabe Kyosai's Woodblock Books, Tokyo 1987; this illustrates several pages from this work. * L. Roberts: DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS p.100. * BUCKLAND, Rosina. et al. A JAPANESE MENAGERIE: Animal Pictures of Kawanabe Kyosai. * Josiah Conder: PAINTINGS AND STUDIES, Tokyo 1911. . *** NOTE: Please check our website as we have several of the above reference works in stock. . *.

Il problema estetico in San Tommaso by ECO, Umberto (1932-2016)

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Title: Il problema estetico in San Tommaso
Author: ECO, Umberto (1932-2016)
Seller: Govi Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: UMBERTO ECO'S FIRST BOOK GIUSEPPE FLORES D'ARCAIS'S COPY 4to (250x176 mm). 157, [3] pages. Original publisher's wrappers. A good copy, uncut and mostly unopened, leaves slightly uniformly browned. Provenance: Giuseppe Flores d'Arcais, considered the founder of the school of personalized pedagogy (his large signature on the front cover and the label of his library on the spine). First edition of the first book by the famous Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco. Il problema estetico in San Tommaso consists of an enlargement of Eco's thesis developed with the historian and philosopher Luigi Pareyson (1918-1981) on the theme of the complex and original aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Umberto Eco, a native of Alexandria, graduated in 1954 from the University of Turin with a thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas. After teaching at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Milan, at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and at the Polytechnic of Milan, in 1975 he was appointed professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. Eco was awarded many honorary titles by universities from all over the world. Since 1989 he was the president of the International Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies and since 1994 of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. Contributor to many Italian newspapers and magazines such as "Il Corriere della Sera", "La Repubblica" and "L'Espresso", in his long career and vast bibliography he dealt in particular with aesthetics, artistic avant-garde, linguistics, and mass communication. After the extraordinary success of his debut novel Il nome della rosa (1980), Eco published other works of fiction, among which Foucault's Pendulum (1988), The Island of the Day Before (1994), Baudolino (2000), and The Prague Cemetery (2010) (cf. P.E. Bondanella, The Cambridge Companion to Umberto Eco, Cambridge, 2013; S.G. Beardsworth & R.E. Auxier, eds., The philosophy of Umberto Eco, Chicago, 2017). Giuseppe Flores d'Arcais (1908-2004) was among the pioneers in the teaching of the history of entertainment and audiovisuals. Graduating from Padua with a degree in musical aesthetics in 1929, Flores d'Arcais, who joined Fascism as a young man, was not only a professor of pedagogy but also of didactics, aesthetics, philosophy, history of theater, of which he held one of the first chairs in Italy (1959-1972), and method and didactics of audiovisual arts until his retirement (1983). He greatly contributed to giving didactic dignity to the disciplines of entertainment, radio communication and cinema, to whose interaction he dedicated his first course "The Problem of Relations between Cinema and Theater". He gave equal space to the history of theater and cinema, supplementing courses on Luigi Pirandello and the birth of filmaking with sections devoted to the European cinema between 1930 and 1960 or Neorealism. He was a full member of the Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, and a corresponding member of the Istituto Veneto. In addition to his many pedagogical writings, mention should also be made of Il film nella scuola (1963) and Note per una estetica del cinema (in: "Rivista del cinematografo", 1, 1953, pp. 6-10) (cf. A.M. Bernardinis, Scritti di Giuseppe Flores D'Arcais, in: "Studi in onore di Giuseppe Flores d'Arcais", Padua, 1985, pp. XXXVII-LXXVII). Considering that Eco and Flores d'Arcais knew each other well and copies of later Eco's pubblications bearing Eco's dedication to him are known, it is possible that Eco himself gave this copy to Flores d'Arcais, but did not dedicate it to him as at the time the latter was already a reknown professor while Eco had graduated from university only a few years earlier. L. Gambetti-F. Vezzosi, La letteratura italiana del Novecento. Repertorio delle prime edizioni, Genoa, 1997, p. 188.

HANDMADE by (ARTIST'S BOOK). D'ARBELOFF, NATALIE

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Title: HANDMADE
Author: (ARTIST'S BOOK). D'ARBELOFF, NATALIE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: [London]: Natalie d'Arbeloff, 1987. A UNIQUE COPY. 275 x 324 mm. (10 7/8 x 12 3/4"). [7] leaves of handmade paper. Embossed plastic covers with 3-D collages of gloves, tools, and other everyday items, the upper cover stained brown, the lower cover blue, backed with beige buckram stitched together with white string. In the original apricot-colored burlap envelope, the upper cover with the outline of a hand embroidered in tan, the flap similarly embroidered with the word "HANDMADE," Velcro closures. Each leaf with embossed, printed, or collage images of hands. Final leaf signed by the artist in pencil and dated 1986. ◆In mint condition. This unique work by noted book artist Natalie d'Arbeloff is handmade in every sense of the word. As she notes on her website, "The cover was made from objects which happened to be lying around the workshop of a friend who had a vacuum-forming machine which I wanted to try. The hand motif is repeated in different ways on each page with collage, blind-embossing and monoprinting on handmade paper." D'Arbeloff (b. 1929) is a London-based painter, printmaker, cartoonist, graphic novelist, book artist, and teacher. Her work is represented in the Library of Congress, the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Vatican Library, among others. Now in her nineties, she remains a full-time working artist..

Mildred Pierce by Cain, James M.

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Title: Mildred Pierce
Author: Cain, James M.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated first edition in unclipped jacket. Wear to corners and head of spine. Slight bumping to corners of bright turquoise covers. Top edge stained grey, slightly faded. Previous owner's initials and date in pencil on the endpaper, along with an evocative phrase from the novel "as far as a snail can hop". Label from the San Francisco booksellers Paul Elder & Co. [viii], 388, [2]pp. "The locale of this book is California, and the Californian will find much in it that is familiar to him; the characters, however, are imaginary, as are the situations, and in one instance, a whole neighborhood; they do not represent, and are not intended to represent, actual persons, events or places.

Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices on the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages... by BUCHANAN, REV. Claudius

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Title: Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices on the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages...
Author: BUCHANAN, REV. Claudius
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Burlington: Stephen C. Ustick, 1812. Later edition. Contemporary brown calf, gilt tooling on spine, edges and spine worn; tear to upper corner of p. 11 (one word of text missing), text leaves browned with some foxing, stain through last 40 leaves. Ownership inscription on fly-leaf. Rare edition of an influential work. It contains sometimes lurid accounts of religious and cultural practices in India, including, for example, a section on “Immolation of females.” First published in 1811, the work Christian researches in Asia was issued in several editions in England and the United States in the ensuing two years. It was also translated into several languages. According to the Oxford DNB, “Buchanan’s writings were considered authoritative in America and helped to stimulate the American missionary movement and to shape American attitudes towards non-Christians.” The sermons included with each edition vary somewhat. This particular edition, published by Stephen Ustick in Burlington, New Jersey, appears to be relatively rare, with OCLC listing just 6 known copies in libraries. Buchanan (1766-1815) was born in Scotland, and became an East India Company chaplain. He traveled extensively in India and wrote compellingly on what he observed.

British-Soviet Pamirs Expedition, 1962 (Letterhead Stationery) by [Lowe, George]

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Title: British-Soviet Pamirs Expedition, 1962 (Letterhead Stationery)
Author: [Lowe, George]
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: The Alpine Club, no date [circa 1962] From the library of mountaineer George Lowe. Single white leaf, lettered in black. Fine, with only some faint creasing to the extremities, otherwise clean and completely unused. A fresh piece of Himalayan mountaineering ephemera. This piece of letterhead stationery is an example of the sheets used for the 1962 British-Soviet Pamirs Expedition, a collaborative effort sported by the Alpine Club, the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and the Mountaineering Federation of the U.S.S.R. After the successful 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, George Lowe, along with his former climbing teammate Wilfrid Noyce, again followed expedition leader John Hunt into the Himalayas for this expedition. Unfortunately, the British-Soviet Pamirs Expedition was the final excursion for Noyce and fellow Ian Smith, who fell to their deaths while descending form the summit of Mt. Garmo.. Fine.

Haru ni nattara [Do You Know What I'll Do?] by ZOLOTOW, Charlotte. Garth Williams, illustrated by

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Title: Haru ni nattara [Do You Know What I'll Do?]
Author: ZOLOTOW, Charlotte. Garth Williams, illustrated by
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9784198616779
Condition: Very Good
Description: (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second Japanese edition with a new translation. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Translated by Yuko Obia. slim small quarto. Text in Japanese. Pictorial boards in dust jacket. binding gently bumped at the corners and spine ends and sunned at the top and bottom edges, bright and very good or better in a heavily sunned, near very good dust jacket with corresponding bumping and two very light tidemarks along the bottom edge.

[John Wayne - The Champion of Western Play, Legend of the Live American]

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Title: [John Wayne - The Champion of Western Play, Legend of the Live American]
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ISBN: 9784826100335
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Japan): [Haga Bookstore]. Near Fine. [1975]. First Edition. Softcover. 4826100337 . [very slight surface- and edge-wear to covers only]. (Cine Album 33) Series Trade PB (B&W and color photographs) Nice, slick-paper album -- essentially a Japanese version of a "Films of" volume (albeit in smaller format) -- with hundreds of photos of the Duke (mostly film stills, but also including some portraits, off-camera shots, etc.). The text is entirely in Japanese except for the English-language film titles (titles only) as they appear in the chronological rundown of his filmography that comprises the bulk of the book. (The English-language title and other publication information was obtained through an Internet search of the ISBN, although the date was obvious enough since the last film covered by the book is Wayne's penultimate screen appearance, ROOSTER COGBURN.) .

Petroleum Branch. by American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Petroleum Development and Technology.

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Title: Petroleum Branch.
Author: American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Petroleum Development and Technology.
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Description: Dallas:: AIMME, 1953., 1953. Series: Transactions of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, vol. 198. 4to. xi, 344 pp. Illus. throughout. Cloth. Ownership signature. Fine. Contains numerous papers on drilling and producing equipment, drilling fluids and cement, electric logging, fluid injection, physical properties, natural gas technology, reservoir engineering, etc.

The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses by Service, Robert W.

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Title: The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses
Author: Service, Robert W.
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Description: Barse and Hopkins, 1907. Good. Service, Robert W.. The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses. NY: Barse and Hopkins, 1907. 99pp. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Good with rubbing, bumping and soiling. Front free endsheet removed and former owner's notes on rear endsheet.

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