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Da Tang Xi yu ji 大唐西域記 (J.: Daitō saiiki ki) [The Great Tang Record of the Western Regions] by XUANZANG 玄奘

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Title: Da Tang Xi yu ji 大唐西域記 (J.: Daitō saiiki ki) [The Great Tang Record of the Western Regions]
Author: XUANZANG 玄奘
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Movable type printing. Ten columns per page, 20 characters per column. 52; 42; 42; 49; 50; 57 folding leaves. 12 parts in six vols. 8vo (284 x 190 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), new stitching. [Japan]: [early 17th century]. An extremely rare early Japanese movable type edition of one of the most important sources on Sino-Indian cross-cultural exchange in the first millennium CE. Xuanzang (596-664), its author, “set off on his unauthorized journey to India at age 24 in 627 and returned 18 years later in 645. In all he is reckoned to have covered 25,146 km and brought back more than 650 Buddhist texts” (Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, enlarged 6th ed., Vol. 2, p. 1396). His deeds, travelogue, and Buddhist translations made him one of the most famous figures in Buddhism in China and neighboring countries. Our book is a very fine example of early Japanese movable type printing that was formerly in one of the most important Japanese book collections of the 20th century, formed by Frank Hawley. “Why was Xuanzang such a hallowed figure in East Asian Buddhism? He spent almost seventeen years, from 629 to 645, on a pilgrimage to India to visit Buddhism’s sacred sites, to learn its truths from Indian masters, and to seek its authentic texts. He endured the hardship of twice crossing the deserts and mountains of Central Asia, bringing back from India a total of six hundred and fifty-seven Buddhist texts, as well as sacred images and the Buddha’s relics. Upon returning to Chang’an, the Tang capital, he dedicated the rest of his life to translating the scriptures he had collected. His translation of the monumental Yogacara texts became the doctrinal foundation of the Faxiang 法相 sect, which was later to be a major school of Nara Buddhism in Japan” (Dorothy C. Wong, “The Making of a Saint: Images of Xuanzang in East Asia,” Early Medieval China 8 [2002], p. 44). “The most noteworthy aspects of [Xuanzang’s] account are the general discussions of India presented in fascicle two...and the details of the Chinese monk’s interaction with the Indian ruler Harṣvardhana that appear in fascicle five...the Chinese monk explains the geography and climate, the measurement system, and the concept of time in India. Xuanzang then provides a glimpse of urban life and architecture and narrates in detail the existing caste system, the educational requirements for the Brahmins, the teaching of Buddhist doctrines, legal and economic practices, social and cultural norms, and the eating habits of the natives, and lists the natural and manufactured products of India. After this overview of India, Xuanzang proceeds to give a detailed account of the kingdoms and towns he visited in India, including, in fascicle five, the city of Kanauj, the capital of King Harṣavardhana’s empire.” Xuanzang’s meeting with Harṣavardhana “resulted in the establishment of diplomatic relations between Kanauj and the Tang court. The contribution of the Chinese pilgrim to the initiation of official exchanges is fully acknowledged by the official scribes of the Tang dynasty” (Tansen Sen, “The Travel Records of Chinese Pilgrims Faxian, Xuanzang, and Yijing: Sources for Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Ancient China and Ancient India,” Education about Asia 11.3 [2006], pp. 29-30). Xuanzang furthermore recorded other dialogues with Indian individuals. “Such dialogues between Xuanzang and Indians make the account of his travels unique and significant for the study of cross-cultural perspectives. It not only offers the views on India and the Indian society of the Chinese pilgrim, it also provides rare glimpses into the Indian perception and knowledge of China, seldom available in contemporary Indian sources. Xuanzang’s account is also exceptional because of his meticulous records of Buddhist sites such as Bamiyan and Nalanda. These notices have already aided the work of modern archeologists and historians of medieval South Asia” (Sen, 30). Our book is an early Japanese example of kokatsujiban 古活字版, which denotes movable type books from before the mid-17th century. The beginning of movable type printing in this period can be traced to Hideyoshi’s invasion of Korea, where movable type was widely used. Books printed with the technology, as well as the type itself, were brought back to Japan and used there. Buddhist temples participated in this otherwise secularly oriented activity: “a number of temples, some of which already had a history of blockprinting, experimented with movable type to print mostly Buddhist works in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries” (Peter Kornicki, The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century [Hawaii: 2001], p. 131). Our book likely was published in one of these temples in this period. Our book was previously in the collection of Frank Hawley (1906-61), carrying his seal hōrei bunko 寶玲文庫. Hawley was an important book collector and an “outstanding scholar who greatly contributed to Japanese studies.” He “possessed an uncanny knowledge of books and books about books.” Toward the end of his life, Hawley’s finances declined, and he was compelled to sell off most of his collection (R.H. van Gulik, “In Memoriam. Frank Hawley (1906-1961),” Monumenta Nipponica 16.3-4 [1960/61]: pp. 214-16). Very good copy, with some worming, preserved in a new chitsu. ❧ Not in Kawase, Sorimachi, NIJL, or WorldCat.

[SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE BINDINGS 1794]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. - WITH: The Psalms of David in Metre... Allowed by the Kirk of Scotland by Bible, English. 1787

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Title: [SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE BINDINGS 1794]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. - WITH: The Psalms of David in Metre... Allowed by the Kirk of Scotland
Author: Bible, English. 1787
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid, 1787. Very good. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo (211 x 130 mm). Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8, complete. PSALMS: A-E8, complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif, smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (in vol. 1 the front joint expertly repaired and tape removed from inner hinges). Preserved in a protective cloth case. INNOVATIVE AND HIGHLY UNUSUAL SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE ROCOCO BINDINGS, COMBINING CHINOISERIE AND NEOCLASSICAL ELEMENTS, EXHIBITING THE INDEPENDENCE OF SCOTTISH WORK AT THIS TIME. The present example is a striking hybrid of late 18th-century decorative art in Britain, the likes of which we have not encountered hitherto. Here "oriental" birds and peacocks are juxtaposed with patriotic depictions of Britannia (uncharacteristically surmounted by a fleur-de-lis), bold anchors, columns, sunbursts, dripping garlands, flowers, sheaves of wheat, and urns. Presented in the Chippendale style, the present binder, who is as yet unnamed, introduces rococo ornaments while enclosing all of the above with an unmistakably neoclassical greek-key roll. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROCOCO BINDINGS OF THIS QUALITY ARE RARE, PARTICULARLY THOSE EXECUTED IN SCOTLAND. Rococo book arts in Scotland have been almost completely unexplored on account of the paltry number of examples with which we are able to study. Robert Adam's designs for the bindings of his "Ruins of Spalatro" (1764) is a bold statement of the neoclassical for he was justly celebrated. But we now know that Adam was not exclusively "Grecian." David Pullins' heroic archival research in Sir John Soane's Museum has shown that Adam received three previously unexamined commissions for a seemingly antithetical kind of decoration, which he calls "neoclassical chinoiserie," specifically Adam's drawings for an unrealized chinoiserie looking-glass, dated 1769, for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood. (SOURCE: "Robert Adam's Neoclassical Chinoiserie" in: West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, online). We would argue that the present bindings exhibit such a blend of Chippendale, chinoiserie, rococo, and neoclassical. For a general note on English "Chippendale" and "Chinoiserie" bindings, see G.D. Hobson "English Bindings of J.R. Abbey" p. 126. ¶ Our bindings may be linked to four others -- all greatly inferior -- which share the large "eagle" tool in common (as noted by Mirjam Foot): 1. British Library, Davis 253 (Bible, Edinburgh, 1790 = Henry Davis Gift, Vol. II, No. 283); 2. National Library of Scotland, F.4.e.9 (Bible + Psalms, Edinburgh: Assigns of A. Kincaid, 1789); 3. Washington Cathedral Library (Bible, Edinburgh, 1789); 4. Glasgow University Library, DXC 48-48A (Bible, Cambridge, 1792 + Psalms, Glasgow, 1793). PROVENANCE: red morocco bookplate of "MARION MALLOCH 1794" inside both volumes -- sold by us to a private collector in 2007 -- bought back by us in 2023. ¶ REFERENCES: ESTC 91765, Darlow & Moule 1319; ESTC 91766.

The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Acosta, Oscar Zeta

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Title: The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Oscar Zeta Acosta on the front pastedown and inscribed, "For Norm from Oscar of the Old S.F. Ex. Oct' '73 S.F." 258 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth decorated in blind and lettered in white on the spine. Very Good+ with light soiling to cloth and minor foxing to bottom edge. Trivial waviness to gatherings throughout. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight wear at extremities and minor rubbing. Small tear to front panel at top edge. The scarce semi-autobiographical Chicano Movement-themed novel signed by Acosta -- familiar to many as Hunter S. Thompson's close friend and attorney in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "Dr. Gonzo," played by Benicio del Toro in the 1998 film.

ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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Title: ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES
Author: WILLIAMS, Tennessee
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: About Fine in a close to Very Good slipcase with some loss of paper at the very bottom edge and some splitting, but still intact
Description: [New York]: New Directions, (1948). First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine in a close to Very Good slipcase with some loss of paper at the very bottom edge and some splitting, but still intact. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Crandell A8.I.a. Second State of the First Printing with the title page on a stub. Less than 50 copies of the first state exist. Interestingly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "Yes, suh, two arms is/better, boy!/Tennessee/and a foot or two/don't hurt, neither!"

COLLECTED POEMS by Auster, Paul

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Title: COLLECTED POEMS
Author: Auster, Paul
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9781585674046
Condition: Fine
Description: Woodstock & NY: The Overlook Press, 2004. First edition, first prnt. Introduction by Norman Finkelstein. Signed by Auster on the title page. Spine topedge with small wrinkle; otherwise, a bright, tight copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cober. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Das Leipziger Medizinische Viertel, Eingeleitet von Karl Sudjoff, Biograpische Beitrage by Weiser, Franz Louis Martin, editor

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Title: Das Leipziger Medizinische Viertel, Eingeleitet von Karl Sudjoff, Biograpische Beitrage
Author: Weiser, Franz Louis Martin, editor
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Leipzig: Verlag von Alfred Lorentz, 1914. Hardcover. Good. illustrations, viii, 146p. xvip. Original boards. 32cm. No jacket. Moderate soiling and wear on cover. Bottom fifth of backstrip cover chipped off. Former owner's name. Contents sound and clean. German text.

Michigan Vs. the Boys by Allen, Carrie S.

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Title: Michigan Vs. the Boys
Author: Allen, Carrie S.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781525301483
Condition: Very good
Description: Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2023. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

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