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Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled “Hansho [or Bansho] kai” [“Ryukyu Potatoes Explained”] by SWEET POTATOES

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Title: Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled “Hansho [or Bansho] kai” [“Ryukyu Potatoes Explained”]
Author: SWEET POTATOES
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Six pages of color paintings of species of sweet potatoes. 14 folding leaves. 8vo (267 x 190 mm.), orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers, stitched as issued, manuscript title label on upper cover. [Japan]: late Edo. Sweet potatoes are one of the glories of the Japanese table. The author of the text of this finely illustrated manuscript was the Nagasaki resident Tokitane Kohiga, mathematician and scholar of materia medica. The text was written in October 1805, and this is surely a later copy. The sweet potatoes of Ryukyu (today, Okinawa) are famous. The potatoes came from China and began to be cultivated in Ryukyu in the early 17th century. By 1611, their cultivation extended to the Satsuma Domain and, several years later, these sweet potatoes appeared in Nagasaki. Sweet potatoes have remained an important crop throughout Japan, especially in times of famine. Kohiga describes the importance of the sweet potato in the Japanese diet and comments that its cultivation was widespread, not only in Japan but in many other places, including the Philippines, China, and “the Western world.” He comments on their superb nutritional value and provides extensive details on cultivation, stating that sweet potatoes grow equally well in rich and poor soil. Kohiga gives instructions on how to successfully store the crop after the harvest. This is followed by many recipes, including how to process sweet potatoes into flour for dumplings, and how to make shochu, the alcoholic beverage, from fermented sweet potatoes. The stems and skins of the potatoes were fed to horses and cows. The fine illustrations depict six species of the sweet potato, showing each one’s leaf, the entire potato, and a cross-section. The six species are: Shiro imo, Mitsuba imo, Ninjin imo, Sakura imo, Satsuma imo, and Kitsunae imo. For each one, the author furnishes comments on its names, size, weight, ease of cultivation, taste and texture, appearance when cooked, best cooking methods, and recipes for particularly good dishes. Following the illustrations, the author provides four additional detailed regional recipes. An example is for the Mitsuba imo: julienne the potato, season with sesame oil, mix with flour and seasonings, and deep fry in oil. Fine copy. Minor worming.

[Photograph Album Featuring the Chiba Iron and Steel Works, Given as a Gift to a Visiting American Businessman in the Mid-20th Century] by [Japan Photographica]. [Kawasaki Steel Corporation]

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Title: [Photograph Album Featuring the Chiba Iron and Steel Works, Given as a Gift to a Visiting American Businessman in the Mid-20th Century]
Author: [Japan Photographica]. [Kawasaki Steel Corporation]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: [Chiba, Japan, 1957. Very good plus.. Title leaf, plus [18] leaves, illustrated with forty-three large photographs, between 4 x 6 and 8 x 10 inches, including a few small panoramic images, most with typed captions mounted beneath the pictures. Oblong folio. Contemporary light brown leather. Minor scuffing and edge wear. A unique photograph album created for an American businessman named Richard F. Quandt, "In Remembrance of Your Visit to Chiba Iron and Steel Works on May 14, 1957," according to the printed dedication on the title leaf. The printed message is signed by the founder of Kawasaki Steel, Yataro Nishiyama. The album is populated by over forty photographs featuring the construction and operation of Kawasaki Steel's new integrated steel mill in Chiba City, Japan. The photographs picture the staff of Chiba Works, a schematic of the plant, aerial views of the plant, images of the blast furnace, coke oven, ore yard, and other exteriors. Some of the exterior shots include small panoramas of the plant's construction, most notably a three-panel panorama showing the "Entire View of Hot & Cold Strip Mill Plant's Construction Work." The interior photographs document the heat control center, open heart furnaces, soaking pits, and several candid shots of Mr. Quandt touring the plant with the managers of Kawasaki Steel. According to his 1974 obituary in The New York Times, Richard Frederick Quandt was a Hungarian-born businessman who emigrated to the United States after World War II. He first worked for the Hambro Trading Company in 1949. At the time he visited the Chiba Iron and Steel Works, he was serving as a loan officer for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the lending arm of the World Bank. He was quite likely visiting the Chiba Works at the request of their principal, Yataro Nishiyama, in search of funding for the steel mill. Nishiyama was an engineer who built Kawasaki Steel into one of the most important steel manufacturing companies in Japan in the ensuing decades. A wonderful and informative photographic artifact of American economic diplomacy in postwar Japan.

The Ladies' Handbook of Fancy Needlework and Embroidery .... - OFFERED WITH - ... Plain Needlework .... - OFFERED WITH - ... Millinery and Dressmaking .... by An American Lady"

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Title: The Ladies' Handbook of Fancy Needlework and Embroidery .... - OFFERED WITH - ... Plain Needlework .... - OFFERED WITH - ... Millinery and Dressmaking ....
Author: An American Lady"
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good; moderate wear to the bindings.
Description: New York: J S Redfield, 1844. First Edition.. Original publisher's gilt stamped, limp green cloth.. Good; moderate wear to the bindings.. 12mo, I - 60, 4 (adverts) pp.; II - 60 pp.; III - 60, 4 (adverts) pp. A series of books of instruction in the sewing arts. The use of an "American Lady" as author seems to be a convenience (?) to avoid copyright claims. An uncommon trio.

A Night in the Luxembourg by de Gourmont, Remy

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Title: A Night in the Luxembourg
Author: de Gourmont, Remy
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Modern Library, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Introduction by Arthur Ransome. Binding Style 4. Good, lacking the jacket. Green leatherette, rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, bookseller ticket on the front endpaper, a few faint creases to the upper-right corner of the pages, clean otherwise.

The Music Guide to Italy by BRODY, Elaine and Claire Brook

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Title: The Music Guide to Italy
Author: BRODY, Elaine and Claire Brook
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978. Octavo. Full red cloth. 233 pp. In dustjacket. Binding very slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; dustjacket worn.

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