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A group of drawings & Japanese internal government communiqués on foreign incursions by EARLY FOREIGN ENCOUNTERS

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Title: A group of drawings & Japanese internal government communiqués on foreign incursions
Author: EARLY FOREIGN ENCOUNTERS
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three large folded sheets & two lengthy letters with their original manuscript envelopes. Japan: ca. 1822-31. An exceptional collection of documents on two consequential early Western visits to Japan in the 1820s: the first landing of the Saracen at Uraga and the Takarajima incident. During this period, accounts of these incursions were kept top-secret as matters of Japanese national security. Pre-Commodore Perry materials, such as ours, are extremely scarce. This collection also contains well-rendered drawings of foreigners and their ships. The letters sent by government officials speak to the widespread anxiety throughout the country in the face of much more frequent sightings and occasional landings of Western ships. Historian David L. Howell writes in his article “Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan” that beginning in 1820 “the number of foreign vessels that approached the coast of Japan surged, the result of an influx of whalers working the so-called Japan Grounds, an area of the northwest Pacific rich in cetacean life…Whereas sightings of foreign vessels had been exceedingly rare throughout Japan before the whalers moved in, afterward they became almost commonplace” (p. 301). Two significant episodes are touched upon in this archive. The first involves the Saracen, an English whaler, which anchored at Uraga in 1822 (and would also reappear offshore in 1824). The Japanese did not allow the crew to disembark but provided the ailing men with supplies, following established policy. Our archive includes a contemporary ink drawing of the Saracen, annotated with information on the vessel’s crew of 34, and its appearance in Uraga Bay on 29 April 1822, and its eventual departure on 8 May. As Howell describes (p. 302), it was an entirely peaceful encounter, unlike the incident at Takarajima, which occurred two years later. “In the second month of 1825 [the shogunate proclaimed] an order known most commonly in English as the ‘shell and repel’ edict, but which I have rendered here as ‘don’t think twice.’ It supplanted an earlier order, issued in 1791 and revised in 1806, which had instructed local officials to provide foreign vessels with fresh water, food, and fuel, even as it admonished them to avoid trade and remain vigilant in the face of possible violence… “The shogunate formulated the new policy specifically in response to…a subsequent encounter with a British vessel. In the seventh month of 1824…men from another English whaler landed on Takarajima, a small island far to the southwest of Kyushu, which belonged to the Satsuma domain. The men tried to barter for cattle, but when that failed they mounted an armed attack on the island, which ended in the death of the leader of the English landing party and the loss of several heads of cattle.”–Howell, p. 309. The documentation of this incident includes a drawing depicting the slain Englishman, possibly named Stephen Josephson. It is a drawing typical of early Japanese encounters with Westerners. The artist has accentuated his “deep-set” eyes, red hair, large nose, and strange garb. The very tall subject is also holding a firearm. The remaining manuscripts in this collection include: –Two long written letters (ca. 1825) from a bakufu official reporting on an English ship that asked for water, firewood, and food and furthermore conducted “aggressive actions.” He expresses grave concern about the growing number of foreign ships sighted offshore. –An undated sheet recording the estimated distances from Nagasaki to foreign countries, cities, and islands, like Nanjing, Shandong, Fujian, Beijing, Yunnan, Taiwan, Luzon, Cambodia, Sumatra, Jakarta, Madagascar, England, Portugal, Holland, and Russia. –Manuscript copy of an illustration and text from Oranda sanbutsu zuko (1798), a book by Motoyoshi To about the curiosities and wonders of Holland. An image of a Dutch ship is closely reproduced here on the sheet. Overall, the collection has been well preserved, but there is some minor worming to the drawings. ❧ David L. Howell, “Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan,” The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer 2014), pp. 295-327.

Ronald Reagan Praises Queen Elizabeth II: ""Her Majesty is truly a Queen and a warm, gracious lady I much admire and respect"" by Ronald Reagan

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Title: Ronald Reagan Praises Queen Elizabeth II: ""Her Majesty is truly a Queen and a warm, gracious lady I much admire and respect""
Author: Ronald Reagan
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 26/07/1982. A great letter linking two of the dominant global figures of the 20th centuryRonald Reagan took office in January 1981 and one of the first congratulatory notes he received was from Queen Elizabeth II. Their correspondence began immediately; both shared a love of horses, ranching, and traditional entertainment (horsemanship, pageantry), helping build rapport.In June 1982, Reagan visited the UK and became the first sitting US President to stay overnight at Windsor Castle. The Queen and Reagan rode horses together and a major banquet was held at Buckingham Palace in his honor.Just months later, the Queen reciprocated and in March 1983 she visited the Reagan Ranch. This was part of the 200th anniversary of the end of the Revolutionary War. It was a great moment in British-American relations.Typed letter signed, on White House letterhead, July 26, 1982, to Mr. FW Perryman of Middlesex, UK. ""Thank you very much for sending me the cartoon. I hadn't seen it and am happy to have it.""May I say Her Majesty is truly a Queen and a warm, gracious lady I much admire and respect.”This is the only letter of Reagan relating to his admiration of Queen Elizabeth II that we have seen.

Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les ovaires by NEGRIER, Charles

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Title: Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les ovaires
Author: NEGRIER, Charles
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris, 1840. FIRST EDITION. 11 full-page lithographed plates. Contemporary gilt red sheep-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Old bookseller label of A. Maloine. Light foxing, but otherwise a good copy. [With:] Recueil de faits pour server a l’histoire des ovaires et des affections hystériques de la femme. Angers: Cosnier and Lachèse 1858. 8vo. viii, 176 pp. First editions of these two landmark medical texts on the human ovaries which shifted the clinical opinion of the uterus being the most important organ of the female reproductive system. In the first, Negrier asserts for the first time the link between menstruation and ovulation and describes the shrunken and atrophied nature of the ovaries in women who have ceased menstruation through case studies. He examined the organs after the women’s deaths from unrelated causes; these accounts represent the first thorough documentation of normal post-menopausal ovaries. The second text attempts to link hysteria to ovarian function. Negrier states that the inflammation and contracting of the ovary during menses causes mood swings, abdominal discomfort, depression, and nervousness: “Death would be preferable to this painful existence to this state of perpetual nervous troubles; with this erotic madness, sometimes appalling and distressing stupidity is associated, which makes miserable young girls populate our hospitals” (p. 159, tr.). Charles Negrier (1792-1862) was a French physician who coined the term menopause. His career began as a military surgeon, but he later returned to his hometown of Angers to teach at l’École de Médecine et Pharmacie. Moore, “Women’s Ageing and Medical Hygiene” in The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing (2022), 176-221.

Electron spectroscopy for solids, surfaces, liquids and free molecules. Offset typescript by Siegbahn, Kai

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Title: Electron spectroscopy for solids, surfaces, liquids and free molecules. Offset typescript
Author: Siegbahn, Kai
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Uppsala: Uppsala University Institute of Physics, 1976. [1], 104ff. Includes illustrations and diagrams. 300 x 214 mm. Original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip. Fine apart from small tears in front wrapper. Siegbahn won a share of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981 for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy. In the present paper Siegbahn presented a review of electron microscopy illustrated by spectra excited in different modes. From the library of Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè (physics, 1959).

LITTLE SONGS OF LONG AGO "MORE OLD NURSERY RHYMES by (LEMAIR, H. WILLEBEEK) Moffat, Alfred

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Title: LITTLE SONGS OF LONG AGO "MORE OLD NURSERY RHYMES
Author: (LEMAIR, H. WILLEBEEK) Moffat, Alfred
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: London., Augener Ltd., 1912. Oblong quarto. Light brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with oval colored pictorial onlay at center of upper board.. Dust jacket edges lightly split, with a couple of internal tape repairs, excellent condition considering there are few of this book with a dust jacket. Internally fine. 64pp. Illustrated in color throughout, the title and list of contents within colored decorated border. First edition. A companion volume to OUR OLD NURSERY RHYMES. Includes Old King Cole, Simple Simon, and other nursery favorites. H. Willebeek Le Mair (Baroness H. van Tuyll van Serooskerken) was a Dutch designer and illustrator, who trained at the Rotterdam Academy from 1909-11. This is one of her earliest books.

Der Freischütz Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen Gedichtet von Fr. Kind ... Partitur. Einzig rechtmäßige mit der Handschrift des Componisten neu-revidirte Original-Ausgabe. Eigenthum der Verlagshandlung... S. 3512. Pr. 12 Thlr. [Full score] by WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826

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Title: Der Freischütz Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen Gedichtet von Fr. Kind ... Partitur. Einzig rechtmäßige mit der Handschrift des Componisten neu-revidirte Original-Ausgabe. Eigenthum der Verlagshandlung... S. 3512. Pr. 12 Thlr. [Full score]
Author: WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Berlin: in der Schlesingerschen Buch u. Musikhandlung [PN S. 3512], 1849. Folio. Half contemporary black cloth with matching textured paper boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt with titling gilt, decorative endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso table of contents), 3-262 pp. Engraved throughout. With names of characters in contemporary manuscript following listing of each selection in the table of contents. Handstamp of Judith Bauer in Vienna to blank upper outer corner of first page of music. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; lacking front free endpaper. Occasional foxing, slightly heavier to first few leaves; some minor stains; small paper defect to pp. 244 and 245, just touching notation in three instances. OCLC 497840338 First Edition, later issue. WeV C.7. Jähns 277. Hoboken 15, 349 (issue with text "gleichlautende Original-Ausgabe" to title). Hirsch II, 966. Fuld p. 237. "With Der Freischütz [Weber] produced a work that competed successfully with popular French and Italian operas not only in Germany but in other countries as well. The impact of Der Freischütz on opera of the 1820s, 30s, and 40s is evident, as it inspired a spate of gothic works like the vampire operas of Marschner and Lindpaintner, and even as late a work as Der fliegende Holländer owes much to it; outside Germany, its success as Robin des Bois prepared the way for Meyerbeer's Robert le diable." Paul Corneilson et al. in Grove Music Online.

Arnold Schoenberg Briefe. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Erwin Stein by [SCHOENBERG]. Stein, Erwin

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Title: Arnold Schoenberg Briefe. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Erwin Stein
Author: [SCHOENBERG]. Stein, Erwin
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Original publisher's full blue cloth. 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso facsimile), 1f. (recto portrait of Schoenberg, verso blank), 7-309, [i] (copyright statement) pp., 1f. (recto publisher's catalogue, verso blank). Dustjacket slightly faded and defective. Occasional minor internal defects.

Urban Romantic: The Photographs of George Tice by George Tice

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Title: Urban Romantic: The Photographs of George Tice
Author: George Tice
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1982. Cloth. Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED BY GEORGE TICE on the half-title. An immaculate copy to boot of the 1982 1st trade edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Square quarto, Tice's wonderful black-and-white photography thruout.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN STUDIOS ART DEPARTMENT (1923) Publicity photo by Samuel Goldwyn

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Title: SAMUEL GOLDWYN STUDIOS ART DEPARTMENT (1923) Publicity photo
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: About Fine
Description: Samuel Goldwyn. No binding. About Fine. [Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Studios, 1923]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin print photo. Minor wear at the bottom left edge corner, about fine. Very rare view of the Goldwyn Studios scenic art department from the studio's first days, being established in 1923. Artists are seen constructing miniatures in cardboard for study of sets designed for full-scale build. There is a typed blurb on the verso, as well as an ink stamp date of Sep. 18, 1923.

Vietnam U.S. Imperialism and Us, Strike by Gilbarg, Daniel

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Title: Vietnam U.S. Imperialism and Us, Strike
Author: Gilbarg, Daniel
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Boston]: [New England Free Press], [ca. 1969] 40pp. Original cream stapled wrappers, white interior pages, printed in black. Very good, with light toning to wrappers, wrappers slightly crooked, a tiny spot of staining and partially erased notes in pencil to rear wrapper, and a few annotations in pencil to text. Overall, a sharp copy. In an opening note, the author writes that this publication "is part of our strike to abolish ROTC, end Harvard's expansion into Cambridge and Boston, and to set up a Black Studies Department in accord with the demands of the Afro. It specifically deals with the relations of these demands (mainly ROTC) to the war in Vietnam and American Imperialism." The pamphlet is divided into three parts: "The War on the Campus," "The War in Vietnam," and "Vietnam and U.S. Imperialism." The 1969 Harvard strike centered on a number of concerns by Harvard students and members of the Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), most notably rent increases and Harvard expansion, the prominent role of the ROTC on campus (and, more generally, Harvard's involvement in the Vietnam War), and the lack of a Black Studies department at Harvard. On April 9th, 1969, several hundred protesting students occupied University Hall. Harvard president Nathan Pusey called in the police to remove the protesters, and a violent clash ensued, which resulted in many student arrests and injuries. This event was followed by an eight-day strike by students and faculty. In the wake of the strike, the ROTC was demoted to an extracurricular activity and eventually phased out of Harvard completely for the remainder of the Vietnam War, and a Department of Afro-American Studies (later re-named the department of African and African American Studies) was established. . Original Wrappers. Very Good.

Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk

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Title: Nights of Plague
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780525656890
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First Edition/First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only slight rubbing to the board and jacket edges, else as new and unread. An exceptional copy of this novel by the Nobel Prize winning author. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

The Supernatural Reader by Conklin, Groff and Lucy

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Title: The Supernatural Reader
Author: Conklin, Groff and Lucy
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Edited by Groff and Lucy Conklin. Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($3.95), faintly rubbed and a few spots of rubbing on the back panel. Green cloth. Square and firmly bound, a few spots of soiling at the fore-edge, clean otherwise. A collection of weird and grotesque tales from the likes of Dunsany, M.R. James, Saki, May Sinclair, Stephen Grendon, F. Marion Crawford, and others.

Rangeley Lake Hotel, Rangeley Maine

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Title: Rangeley Lake Hotel, Rangeley Maine
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: Augusta, ME: Roy Flynt Service. [circa 1935]. 9" x 4" green and black folded brochure (18" x 12" sheet folded into 9" x 4"), printed on both sides, numerous b&w illus. An illustrated brochure for the Rangeley Hotel and cottages, with images of daily social and sporting traditions on one side, and cottages on verso. CONDITION: Very good, clean, crisp, slight wear on edges.

The Other Side by Woodson, Jacqueline

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Title: The Other Side
Author: Woodson, Jacqueline
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780399231162
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpaginated. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

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