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Ye ban zhong sheng 夜半鐘聲 [The Sound of Bells at Midnight] [or] Jie guan fan ren kou chu yang lun 戒拐販人口出洋論 [An Argument Against Human Trafficking Abroad] by TAN JINGMIZI 譚警迷子

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Title: Ye ban zhong sheng 夜半鐘聲 [The Sound of Bells at Midnight] [or] Jie guan fan ren kou chu yang lun 戒拐販人口出洋論 [An Argument Against Human Trafficking Abroad]
Author: TAN JINGMIZI 譚警迷子
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Description: Woodblock-printed. 17 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers with printed title-slip on upper cover, new stitching. Yokohama: Chūka kaikan, 1872. First edition of this rare work criticizing the Chinese-Cuba "coolie" trade, with numerous eyewitness accounts of the laborers' suffering. It was published in Yokohama by a person from Shunyi Shijiang 順邑獅江 (in Guangdong) under the alias Tan Jingmizi. Our first edition, published by the Chinese Association in Yokohama, is very rare: we find only two copies in WorldCat (accession no. 32041293), at Harvard and Cornell. Part of the pamphlet was reprinted a year later in the Shanghai-based newspaper Shenbao 申報, which published some of the earliest labor reportage in China. "To supplement a dwindling slave labor force on their sugar plantations, Cuban planters turned to south China's Fujian and especially Guangdong provinces. From 1847 to 1874 they recruited 141,000 male laborers (125,000 of whom arrived in Cuba alive). Slave-like work and living conditions on plantations, with proximity to large numbers of slaves notwithstanding, Chinese coolies were not permanent or lifelong slaves"-Hu-DeHart, "From Slavery to Freedom," p. 31. In her recent study, literary historian Ping Zhu observes that the year 1872 marked the publication of some of the earliest labor reportage in China, including five essays by the well-known merchant-scholar Zheng Guanying 鄭觀應 (1842-1922) on the Chinese laborers that appeared in the newspaper Shenbao (founded in the same year). A few months later, on 14 February, 1883, Shenbao published a longer essay on its front page, titled Argument Against Human Trafficking Abroad. "The author was listed as Shunyi Shi[jiang] Tanjingmizi 順邑獅[江]譚警迷子, but it seems to be a collective work because the editorial uses the plural subject 'we' (yudeng 余等) and claims that those 'truthful words' (zhenyan 真言) were written after they traveled around the world and witnessed the outrageous deeds done to Chinese coolies. Crafted in the classical parallel prose style...the authors used a string of metaphors (rats, fish, ants, dogs, snakes, cows, horses, and shrimp) to portray the miserable conditions of the Chinese coolies."-Ping Zhu, "Tales of Chinese Coolies in Late Qing Labor Reportage," pp. 205-6. In these essays that appeared in the Shenbao, Ping Zhu comments that the "Chinese authors consistently exposed the sufferings endured by Chinese overseas workers, both during the voyage and while on foreign soil, calling for intervention to rectify these injustices and uphold basic humanity. Considering that Chinese overseas laborers constituted the first cohort of the Chinese working class in the modern sense, these writings can be regarded as the earliest labor reportage in China and as precursors to the reportage literature that would be championed by leftist writers in the 1930s"-ibid., pp. 194-95. The February 1873 article she mentions, in fact, was a partial reprint of our pamphlet, first published in Yokohama a few months earlier, around the mid-autumn of 1872. Our first edition of the pamphlet includes not only that essay but also a longer collection of first-person testimonies (jianwen shilu 見聞實錄) by the laborers themselves, including their names, places of origin, and the date of their escape from tranport ships. These laborers tell of how they were tricked into indentured servitude not only by foreigners but also by their own relatives and friends, how their hands were forced to sign contracts and, soon after, into chains. Humiliated and abused on the ships, some of their peers died, while others threw themselves into the sea. The author(s) of the pamphlet, who were members of the Chinese Association (J. Chūka kaikan 中華会館) in Yokohama, learned about the human trafficking schemes when the transport ships passed by the Yokohama port, and the cases of escapees were brought to the attention of Japanese and British authorities. Appalled by the stories they heard, the Chinese Association raised funds in 1871 for a lawsuit against the traffickers, securing the freedom of over 200 laborers aboard, who were subsequently sent back to Shanghai. This pamphlet was completed a few months later, communicating the gravity of the trafficking to others in Yokohama, with plans to disseminate copies in Guangdong and Fujian, the home of the Chinese Association members and the laborers alike. Although the Chinese Association planned to print thousands of copies of the pamphlet for distribution in China and Japan, very few copies of this important document in transpacific labor history survive today. As mentioned above, we find only two copies in WorldCat. Our copy is in very good condition, with only light staining and worming in the margins. The name of Yoshijima Toshiaki 吉島俊明 (fl. ca. 1900), professor of Japanese in colonial Taiwan, is handwritten on the upper cover, and the red collector's seal on f. 1 reads 鄭俊之印. Fine condition. A bit of worming at beginning, mostly marginal. Preserved in a chitsu. ❧ Evelyn Hu-DeHart, "From Slavery to Freedom: Chinese Coolies on the Sugar Plantations of Nineteenth Century Cuba," Labour History 113 (2017), pp. 31-51. Ping Zhu, "Tales of Chinese Coolies in Late Qing Labor Reportage," in Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World (Michigan, 2026), pp. 195-214.

Yakjungpyeon 約中篇 [Discourse on Moderation] by YI, Sang-jŏng 李象靖

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Title: Yakjungpyeon 約中篇 [Discourse on Moderation]
Author: YI, Sang-jŏng 李象靖
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Description: 46 folding leaves. Small folio (316 x 213 mm.), orig. yellow-brown semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. Ch’ŏngsong 靑松: Pugang Sŏdang 鳧江書堂, 1849. First edition of a fascinating late-Chosŏn treatise by Yi Sang-jŏng (1711-81), elaborating on how to control one’s emotions. Yi was a prominent scholar who followed the legacy of Toegye Yi Hwang 李滉 (1502-70), the most important Neo-Confucian scholar in Korea. A scholar and government official, Yi was known for his moral integrity, learning, and devotion to Confucian principles in state administration. He held a number of important posts including Chief Censor, Minister of Rites, and Senior Advisor to the king. Yakjungpyeon is organized into 66 discrete entries. It investigates how human emotions (the “Seven Fundamental Feelings” — joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, and desire) should be managed in daily life. Beginning with the theme of “the mind before emotions arise” 喜怒哀樂未發之中 — a concept central to the reading of Neo-Confucian mind theory by the Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi (1130-1200) — the text guides readers through moral and psychological challenges. Yi gathers classical sources to argue that emotions are natural and inevitable for human beings and should not be criticized or repressed. However, he warns that these emotions’ unchecked influences can disrupt rational judgment and moral pursuits, and stresses the necessity of cultivating the ability to regulate them. Throughout sections devoted to each emotion, Yi provides examples and explorations of matters such as the importance of not holding onto anger after it arises, the need to reduce selfish desires (and how to tell if a desire is selfish), the pitfalls of inattention, and the roots of fear. While maintaining the Confucian emphasis on propriety, rather than prescribing a single standard for the proper state of emotion, Yi insists that the “middle way” 中道 is the goal of self-cultivation. The colophon, written by Yi’s grandson Ryu Chi-myung 柳致明 (1777-1861), dated 1849, notes that Yi Sang-jŏng originally wrote the work in 1749. Very good copy. Marginal dampstaining throughout. We find no copy outside of Korea.

Yija hakkyu 李子學則 [Master Yi’s School Rules] by YI, I 李珥

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Title: Yija hakkyu 李子學則 [Master Yi’s School Rules]
Author: YI, I 李珥
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Description: 19 folding leaves. Large 8vo (293 x 189 mm.), orig. brown patterned semi-stiff wrappers, orig. stitching. Jeollanam-do: Chukkok chŏngsa , 1929. An exceedingly rare edition of Yi I’s Ŭnp’yŏng chŏngsa hakkyu (or Eunpyeong jeongsa hakkyu) 隱屏精舍學規 [School Rules for the Hidden Study Hall], Ŭnp’yŏng chŏngsa yaksok 隱屏精舍約束 [Compact for the Hidden Study Hall], and related texts as an independent work on “school rules.” We find no other copy in WorldCat, the Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System, or in other catalogues available to us. The copy at the Academy of Korean Studies (Jangseogak, MF35/8172) appears to be from a different edition, as the catalogue gives no publisher. These texts are usually found as a part of Yi’s collected works. Yi I (Yi Yulgok 栗谷, 1536-84) was an official and one of the most influential Neo-Confucian thinkers of the Chosŏn period. The first text of this collection is titled “school regulations” (hakkyo kyubŏm 學校規範) and is dated 1582. In his “school rules,” written in 1578 (muin 戊寅), we read about his vision for a school open to all and free from the utilitarian demand to study for the civil service examinations. Yi writes: “First rule: Enrolling. Anyone can enroll, no matter if they are gentry or commoner. The only requirement is to have the will to study.” Other rules govern the students’ conduct when at school: “After a meal, or while swimming in the pool, you should still observe things and penetrate their principle, and talk and inform each other about meanings and principles. To play games or talk about trivial things in not permitted.” Yi made clear that the school was intended for disinterested scholarship alone, and not as preparation for an official career: “those who wish to prepare for the civil service examinations must go practice elsewhere.” The collection gives vivid insights into the pedagogical ideas of one of Chosŏn Korea’s key thinkers. This edition was published at the Chukkok chŏngsa 竹谷精舍 academy in South Jeolla province of today’s South Korea in 1929. The academy, whose name appears on the title-page with the zodiacal date, was run by An Kyu-yong 安圭容 (1873-1959). It published several works of Confucianism. Fine copy. References Paeksan 백산. “Chŏnnam posŏng: Chukkok chŏngsa” 전남 보성. 죽곡정사(竹谷精舍). https://live112.tistory.com/4908 Digital Jangseogak. https://jsg.aks.ac.kr/ Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System 한국고문헌종합목록. https://www.nl.go.kr/korcis/index.do.

The Carpenter’s Treasure; a Collection of Designs for Temples, with their Plans, Gates, Doors, Rails, and Bridges, in the Gothic taste, With the Centres at Large, for Striking Gothic Curves And Mouldings; And some Specimens of Rails, in the Chinese Taste: forming a complete System for Rural Decorations…A New Edition by WALLIS, N.

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Title: The Carpenter’s Treasure; a Collection of Designs for Temples, with their Plans, Gates, Doors, Rails, and Bridges, in the Gothic taste, With the Centres at Large, for Striking Gothic Curves And Mouldings; And some Specimens of Rails, in the Chinese Taste: forming a complete System for Rural Decorations…A New Edition
Author: WALLIS, N.
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Description: 16 engraved plates. Title leaf. 8vo, orig. blue wrappers bound in later cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut. London: Printed for I. & J. Taylor, n.d. [but early 1790s]. First edition, later issue. Wallis (fl. 1771-73), who described himself as an architect, is known only as the author of three pattern-books. When the present book was first issued, it was accompanied by one leaf of Taylor ads. As copies were sold off over a period of many years, a new title-page was printed to accompany the already printed plates with the Taylors’ new address (“Nearly opposite Great Turn-Stile, Holborn”), along with the most recently printed Taylor catalogue. This copy is accompanied by a 16-page Taylor catalogue datable to about 1800 (they were now located at No. 59 High Holborn). Nice copy. Bookplate of Edmond L. Lincoln. ❧ Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785, no. 902.

Livres Minuscules. La plus Grande Bibliothèque des plus Petits Livres du Monde. Collection de M. Georges Salomon...Extrait de La Nature by TISSANDIER, Gaston

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Title: Livres Minuscules. La plus Grande Bibliothèque des plus Petits Livres du Monde. Collection de M. Georges Salomon...Extrait de La Nature
Author: TISSANDIER, Gaston
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Illus. in the text. 2 p.l., 20 pp. Small 4to, orig. printed wrappers bound in cont. red straight-grained morocco (upper cover with the slightest abrasions), single gilt fillet round sides, flat spine gilt, t.e.g. Paris: G. Masson, 1894. First edition of this very uncommon bibliography of miniature books, based on the celebrated collection of Georges Salomon. He formed the largest 19th-century collection of such books, numbering about 700 volumes. They were later dispersed; many of them found their way into the library of Arthur A. Houghton Jr. and were sold at auction in 1979. This copy, specially bound in fine red straight-grained morocco, comes from the library of the Tissandier Brothers. Fine copy. ❧ Besterman 3975-76.

Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania. October 8th to November 21st, 1965. (Andy Warhol) by Warhol, Andy. Green, Samuel Adams (introduction). Birillo, Ben (book design)

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Title: Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania. October 8th to November 21st, 1965. (Andy Warhol)
Author: Warhol, Andy. Green, Samuel Adams (introduction). Birillo, Ben (book design)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Catalog of Warhol's first museum show, with the compliments card of Sam Green, who curated it. 8vo, illustrated stiff covers, black cloth backstrip, perfect bound, 27 full page illustrations. Housed in a phase box with an enameled medallion - with the Warhol image of Campbell soup cans, similar to the cover of the catalog - in a round silver mount on the front slot, designed and crafted by Wesley Tanner.

Sweet Stories for Little Folks, Tit Bit Story Series by [ANONYMOUS]

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Title: Sweet Stories for Little Folks, Tit Bit Story Series
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Condition: Very good +
Description: New York and London: Thos. Nelson & Sons and S.W. Partridge & Co, 1886. Wraps. Very good +. New York: Thos. Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker St., and London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row 48mo (3 ½" x 2 15/16"); [22]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, title on front, series and publisher on rear wrapper; gift inscription on verso front wrapper dated 1886; color illustrated fp, small silhouette vignette on title page; text and 12 illustrations printed in green; light crease to front wrapper, light hand soiling; very good plus. OCLC locates 5 copies. A small sized book containing eleven blurbs with corresponding illustrations on the facing page. Two of the themes are religious. Three of the illustrations are silhouettes. Most likely written and first published in the U.K. as some of the text has British subject matter.

The Shepherd's Manual, A Practical Treatise on The Sheep. Designed Especially for American Shepherds, New Edition. Revised and Enlarged by STEWART, Henry

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Title: The Shepherd's Manual, A Practical Treatise on The Sheep. Designed Especially for American Shepherds, New Edition. Revised and Enlarged
Author: STEWART, Henry
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Good +
Description: New York: Orange Judd Company, 1907. Cloth. Good +. 12mo; 276 + 12pp ads; maroon cloth over board with gilt stamped title, author and publisher to spine; illustrated and tables; rear cover, bottom pp208-276 and the ads have damp staining to corner with staining from the maroon cover, acidic offset burn to pp 32-3 from paper inserted; good plus. Extensive chapter coverage of sheep as an industrial product, management of a flock, ewes and lambs, breeding, structure and uses of wool, and the anatomy and diseases of sheep.

High Falcon & Other Poems by Adams, Leonie

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Title: High Falcon & Other Poems
Author: Adams, Leonie
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Description: The John Day Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition with no subsequent printings. Full brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, under beige dust jacket with blue lettering & design. Dust jacket has some toning, two small holes to edge of rear flap.

The Peptic Ulcer Individual: A Study in Heredity, Physique, and Personality [Inscribed & Signed] by WRETMARK, Gerdt

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Title: The Peptic Ulcer Individual: A Study in Heredity, Physique, and Personality [Inscribed & Signed]
Author: WRETMARK, Gerdt
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Description: Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's wrappers; 183pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on upper cover. Small soil spot to upper cover, else Fine. Acta Psychiatrica 84.

Very Much a Lady; The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Hermann Tarnower by ALEXANDER, Shana

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Title: Very Much a Lady; The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Hermann Tarnower
Author: ALEXANDER, Shana
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Description: Boston: Little Brown, 1983. hardcover. very good/very good. Illus. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. Boston, (1983).

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