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NANSEN BUSHU BANKOKU SHOKA NO ZU: BUDDHIST MAP OF THE UNIVERSE According to Zuda by HOTAN, Priest. [ZUDA ROKASHI]

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Title: NANSEN BUSHU BANKOKU SHOKA NO ZU: BUDDHIST MAP OF THE UNIVERSE According to Zuda
Author: HOTAN, Priest. [ZUDA ROKASHI]
Seller: Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB - AN ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY (United States)
Description: [Kyoto 1710, Nagata Chohbei]. Blue original paper covers, title slip, covers rubbed: some blue loss, woodblock printed 1 m. 44.5 x 1 m. 20 cm. accordion folded, very good impres- sion, excellent registry, white hand-made paper,clean solid. . *** *** *** . . . AN EARLY BUDDHIST MAP OF THE WORLD . . . ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS EARLY MAPS . . . A GRAND & DELUXE WALL MAP . *** An excellent fine early example of a woodblock printed map, with Chinese text. This is the first Japanese world map drawn according to Buddhist cosmology & the prototype for all other later Buddhist world maps done in Japan until the end of the 19th century. . *** THE ARTIST AND AUTHOR: Hotan [aka Zuda Rokashi 1654-1728], was the author, artist, editor, scholar and Buddhist priest, he was also the famous founder of Kegonji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto. He was an eminent Buddhist priest and scholar who reconciled new information from the West with Chinese sources. The work is signed "Rokashi," which means "mapmaker and editor." . *** This map gave the hitherto isolated Japanese "a way to see a wider view of the world, but one that they could easily understand...his map was widely acclaimed for the numerous place names he furnished for Indian & Asian areas.. very rare in Western maps..." Quoted from Namba, see below. . *** The map is centered on Jambudvipa the mythological heart of Buddhist cosmography in India. This very vital spot is noted by a horned animal who's breath is a long spiral of flame emanating from the most sacred & holy Buddhist place on the earth. Europe appears as a string of islands. A land bridge connects China with an unnamed continent to its East, which "must undoubtedly be a reflection of America" in the opinion of the celebrated Japanese scholars. . *** Per Rudolph [see below], on p.92, she states: "This map is descended from a line of Japanese manuscript maps based on the journey of the Chinese priest Xuangzang's pilgrimage to India in search of scriptures. Scholars believe that the maps were originally copied out as a from of devotion--a pilgrimage of the spirit if not the body--and that later versions like this, which includes South America, demonstrate an attempt to reconcile sacred geography with the examples of European cartography that were reaching Japan through Dutch traders and, via China, Jesuit missionaries." . *** WHAT ONE MODERN CARTOGRAPHIC SCHOLAR SAYS: Cartographic scholars Prof. Oda discuss the Northern most Japanese island of Ezo where the Ainu lived is located on this map just slightly South of the mystery continent which is actually American. Africa is a diminutive land mass. To the far West is a small island empire identified as "Country of Western Women" along with other mountainous island kingdoms, likely England, Scotland and Ireland. The map text includes a list of Buddhist Sutras, Chinese histories, literary classics &c. All drawn by Hotan, which "Illustrates the fusion of Buddhist dogma and Western geographical knowledge." See Oda below. . *** PROTYPE MAP: The basic outlines of the map are copied from a Buddhist prototype, the Gotenjiku Zu [MAP OF THE FIVE INDIES], whose characteristic features was the shield-shaped continent of Jambu-dvipa. Jambu-dvipa was the habitable world according to the Buddhist cosmographical view. In this example the sacred lake of Anavatapta can be seen in the centre, from which flow four rivers in a whirlpool pattern. Jambu-dvipa can be equated topographically with the Indian peninsula, Lake Anavatapta symbolizes Lake Manasarovar in the Himalayas and the four rivers represent the Ganges, Oxus, Indus and Tarim. In order to preserve the traditional Buddhist outlines and at the same time incorporate the new knowledge of Western geography, the European and American countries are shown as small islands on the periphery of Jambu-dvipa. Although an amalgam of discordant ideas, the map became one of the most popular and widely circulated works of the day and served as a model for all later Buddhist maps." Quoted from Jones, see below. . *** RARITY: This is the first Japanese map to show Europe, Africa and America. . This is an important early Buddhist relic and classic, considered a land-mark of early Buddhist cartography. Maps of this subject and Deluxe size are RARE and were seldom printed, they are not commonly found on the open market. Early Buddhist maps of this Deluxe grandeur and caliber are always quite R A R E ! . *** CONDITION: By and large, very good condition, a few old tiny worm holes, most neatly mended, two very small and faint stains, otherwise a very clean solid copy. Entirely hand-printed by woodblocks on very white hand-made Kozo fiber Washi paper. In the original covers, scuffed and edges worn, but the subtle original blind-stamped traditional Buddhist swastika design still there. Printed on several sheets of Japanese Washi, hand-made paper, then joined to make a Deluxe and grand size work. Folded by the publisher. . *** . BIBLIOGRAPHY: Being a famous work there are many scholarly studies and cartographic references on this marvelous Deluxe size map. * Shintaro Ayusawa: WORLD MAPS MADE IN JAPAN'S AGE OF NATIONAL ISOLATION, in Imago Mundi 10, [1953], pp.123-8. On page 124 he cites the map and says " World maps representing Buddhist cosmology. The earliest map of this type is the NANSENBUSHU BANKOKU SHOKA NO ZU" and is also illustrated as his figure 2, which is this exact map we now offer. * BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA. LIST item 1710.1, and the illustration facing p.21 matches this exact item. * H. Cortazzi: ISLES OF GOLD, p.38 and plate 48 again matches ours, but that one he cites found in Kobe City Museum is with [later] hand-coloring and is a poor and stained copy with loss. Ours is a much better copy. * Muroga and Unno: IMAGO MUNDI, vol. 16, 1962, pp.49-69, illustrated as figure 9, Hotan p.62-63.. * K. Unno, Cartography in Japan, 1994, pp. 346-477 and illustration 11.59. * M. Namba et al.: OLD MAPS IN JAPAN, p.13, plate 8. * Yolande Jones et al: CHINESE AND JAPANESE MAPS: In a British Library Exhibition 1974, see 2nd page of Japanese listings, and J3. * T. Oda et al.: THE WORLD IN JAPANESE MAPS UNTIL THE MID-19TH CENTURY, plate 6, page pp. 20-21. * THE COMPASS FOR MAP COLLECTORS, an antiquarian map dealer's catalogue, February 1988 as item number 1. * J.B. Harley & David Woodward: CARTOGRAPHY IN THE TRADITIONAL EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN SOCIETIES, volume 2, book 2: pp.427-429, fig. 11.59 & color plate #29. Ahead of title: The History of Cartography. * K. Yamashita, JAPANESE MAPS OF THE EDO PERIOD, pp.32-33, + illustration. * H. Kerlen: CATALOGUE OF PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE BOOKS & MAPS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS, p.19, no. 44. * M. Ramming: Imago Mundi, v.10, pp.123-127, [1954], "Remarks to reproduced Japanese maps", Imago Mundi, v.10, p. 128. The map reproduced as fig. 2, facing p. 124. Map is described as " ... prototype of Buddhist world maps." on p.124 "... whose main distinctive feature is their completely unscientific character." see p.128. . --..: RAMMING, M.: THE EVOLUTION OF CARTOGRAPHY IN JAPAN, Imago Mundi II, p.19 he cites: "...the author himself tells us, he consulted over a hundred authorities." Raming also cites Kurita, see below. * Ayusawa Shintaro: THE TYPES OF WORLD MAPS MADEIN JAPAN'S AGE OF NATIONAL ISOLATION. [Imago Mundi GAI I31, v.10: p.123-128]; the last page has an article by M. Ramming: note 2 discusses this map, He notes the map was reprinted by the "book dealer Bundaiken Uhei...another almost analogous edition of the same map, also dated 1710, but published by Chobei Nagata in Kyoto is reproduced in Beans List, 1951..." XVIIC. * KSM: Chizu. * Deborah Rudolph: IMPRESSIONS OF THE EAST: p.92., illustrated as NANZENBUSHU BANKOKU SHOKA NO ZU, 1710. * KOBE CITY MUSEUM. [KOBE SHI RITSU HAKUBUTSU KAN.]: AKIOKA KO CHIZU KOLEKUSHYON MEI HIN TEN: EXHIBITION OF THE AKIOKA: COLLECTION OF FAMOUS OLD MAPS: plate number 2, page 45. * BRITISH MUSEUM; maps 5.d.11 for another example. * [JONES, Yolande]. et al. CHINESE & JAPANESE MAPS: An Exhibition Organised by the British Library at the British Museum 1 February-31 December 1974, item J3, * FRENCH, Calvin L.: THROUGH CLOSED DOORS: Westerm Influence on Japanese Art 1636-1853 figure 3, p.11. * KURITA, Mototsugu.: NIHON KOBAN CHIZU SHU SEI: COLLECTION OF OLD JAPANESE MAPS, plate number 3, text: pp.9-12. * *** Not in L. Roberts: A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS. ***.

[Archive of Documents and Related Material Involving the National Ideal Benefit Society] by [African Americana]: [Virginia]: [Holmes, A.W.]

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Title: [Archive of Documents and Related Material Involving the National Ideal Benefit Society]
Author: [African Americana]: [Virginia]: [Holmes, A.W.]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
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Description: [Mainly Richmond and Norfolk, Va, 1932. Very good.. Fifteen documents, two printed publications, one 8-x-10-inch photograph, and a handful of ephemeral items. Varying levels of toning and wear, old folds, minor occasional chipping. An informative archive of over thirty items providing a snapshot into the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS) in Richmond, Virginia. The NIBS was a prominent African-American insurance cooperative founded in Richmond in 1912 and very active in the state in the first half of the 20th century, though some incarnation of the organization survives today. The material in the present archive emanates from over the course of a decade in the 1920s and 1930s, and centers around the founder and Supreme Master of the National Ideal Benefit Society, Alexander Watson Holmes. In fact, almost all of the documents are one-page letters and other business correspondence sent to Holmes by various entities, including the Reliable Mutual Aid Insurance Company, the Norfolk and Western Railway Company (concerning organizational travel to their annual convention -- not overtly but almost certainly related to segregated travel), the Journal and Guide (an African-American newspaper in Norfolk), Ellwood D. Downing of the American Tennis Association (the oldest African-American sports organization in the United States), William M. Cooper of the Negro Organization Society, Richmond's Commercial Bank & Trust Company, chapters of the organization regarding membership issues and other business, and more. The documents also include an eight-page folio typed contract from 1931, transferring the membership of another African-American fraternal organization, the Independent Order of St. Luke, to the National Ideal Benefit Society; this document is signed on the last two pages by numerous members of both organizations, including Holmes and the Grand Chief of the Supreme Grand Council of St. Luke, Alice C. Allen. The collection also includes two retained documents authored by Holmes himself. The collection also includes an 8-x-10 sepia-toned photograph of a group of officers of the National Ideal Benefit Society likely from the 1920s, including A.W. Holmes, as well as two printed publications. The first of these publications is the Supreme Lodge of the National Ideal Benefit Society's Official Proceedings 1913 to 1921, which prints the organization's annual convention minuted for those years. The second publication, somewhat incongruously, is titled, Minutes Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the Supreme Lodge of the National Ideal Benefit Society Incorporated from August 1990 (certainly a later incarnation of the organization). The ephemeral items include an invoice from the Philadelphia Tribune (an African-American newspaper), three returned checks from the NIBS to various vendors, including the Richmond Planet, a long-running African-American newspaper founded by thirteen former Richmond slaves in 1882, eight blank partially-printed membership cards, and a sheet containing four blank partially-printed receipts for the Supreme Lodge of NIBS. From the University of Virginia's biographical note on the organization: "National Ideal Benefit Society was a very successful African-American owned insurance company. Alexander Watson (A.W.) Holmes was born on 15 June 1861 in Louisa County, Virginia. His parents, Anthony and Martha Holmes, were slaves living on or near a tobacco plantation called Frederick Hall. Following emancipation Holmes attended school as the opportunity arose and began earning wages at fourteen, initially working in a factory. Anthony Holmes eventually purchased a farm, which the younger Holmes inherited. A.W. Holmes spent most of his adult life in Richmond, Virginia. He belonged to or led various African American charitable organizations, including the Twilight Foundation and the True Reformers, and was a member of the deaconry of the First Baptist Church. In 1912 he became the first Supreme Master of the National Ideal Benefit Society, an African American insurance cooperative whose benefits aided the sick and indigent and provided assistance with the burial of the dead. A Junior Department organized by Holmes's wife Mary sought to train children in the principles and benefits of the society. By 1928, NIBS was stated to have almost 40,000 members in chapters in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. A.W. Holmes died in 1935 after 23 years at the head of the organization." The present collection offers numerous avenues for research and scholarship that deepens the population of known material from the National Ideal Benefit Society. Currently Notre Dame and the University of Virginia hold collections of records from the NIBS, but the unique nature of most of the present group provides material certainly not present in either institution.

De acia dissertatio ad Cornelius Celsus by RODE (RHODIUS), Johann

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Title: De acia dissertatio ad Cornelius Celsus
Author: RODE (RHODIUS), Johann
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Patavia: Paul Frambotti, 1639. FIRST EDITION. With 4 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary calf; minor spotting throughout. Inscribed by the author on title. First edition of Rode's acclaimed study on the nature of the fibula and other forms of surgical sutures used by the ancients. This treatise is based on the works of Celsus, one of the first medical historians. The six pages of ancient and contemporary authorities are of special interest, as are the illustrations of the various sutures with notes on the collections from which they were copied. Among a few of the numerous authors cited are Aldus Manutius, Agricola, Fabricius, Fallopius, Fuchs, Eustachius, Spigelius, Tagliacozzi, and Vesalius. Rode (1587-1659), a Danish physician, studied at Marburg and Padua, where he was ultimately appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens.

The Cock's Tail Murder by Austin, Hugh

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Title: The Cock's Tail Murder
Author: Austin, Hugh
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Crime Club - Doubleday & Co, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo., 275pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of this quite scarce mystery. Bound in black cloth with titles in black upon a red background on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout save a touch of off-setting to rear end-paper. Mild wear to spine ends and. Small bump to top front tip. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00), has some tiny nicks to the spine ends and tips. Some creases on the top rear edge. Mild rubbing. Still fresh and bright and difficult to find in any condition A very pretty collectable copy.

The Tokyo-Montana Express by Brautigan, Richard

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Title: The Tokyo-Montana Express
Author: Brautigan, Richard
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780440087700
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 258pp. Beautiful First Edition, Stated First Printing. Bound in 1/4 blue cloth over cream paper-covered boards with gilt spine titles. Train motif stamped in gilt on front board. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($10.95), has a touch of rubbing to crown and top tips but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.

The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875 by Anderson, Patricia

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Title: The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875
Author: Anderson, Patricia
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780295962146
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984. Limited Edition. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 8x5x0. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies. Spine toned. 1984 Large Softcover. 88 pp. A collection of art focusing on the Erie Canal, more specifically on the Rochester area.

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