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Manuscript on fine paper, with manuscript title label on upper cover: “Sōgen gyōbō shidai” 宗源行法次第 [“Order of the Ritual of the Original Source”]

Manuscript on fine paper, with manuscript title label on upper cover: “Sōgen gyōbō shidai” 宗源行法次第 [“Order of the Ritual of the Original Source”] by SHINRYŪIN, Bonshun 神龍院梵舜

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Manuscript on fine paper, with manuscript title label on upper cover: “Sōgen gyōbō shidai” 宗源行法次第 [“Order of the Ritual of the Original Source”]
Author
SHINRYŪIN, Bonshun 神龍院梵舜
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Ruled paper, 8 columns per page (or panel). Manuscript in orihon (accordion) format. One full-page diagram. Small 4to (179 x 160 mm.), orig. silk brocade over limp boards, gold front endpaper. [Japan]: on final leaf: 1615, but this is probably a slightly later copy. Manuscript album with incantations and instructions for the Shinto “ritual of the original source” (sōgen gyōbō 宗源行法) by Shinryūin Bonshun (1553-1632), a major religious figure at a pivotal moment in Japanese history. The “ritual of the original source” was one of the major ritual cycles of so-called Yoshida Shinto, a religious movement named after its founder, Yoshida Kanemoto 吉田兼倶 (1435-1511). Yoshida contributed to establishing Shinto as a religious system on a par with other intellectual currents then present in Japan. However, in the Shinto rituals of his school, as exhibited in our manuscript, the Japanese belief in kami remained intertwined with Chinese yin and yang cosmology as well as Buddhism. Shinryūin Bonshun was trained as a Buddhist monk. The temple that he directed, “the kami shrine temple of Toyo Province” (Toyokuni jingūji 豊国神宮寺) — today’s Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto — reflected this syncretism (“temple” being a Buddhist institution). Our album was written at a critical moment in the history of this temple and, indeed, of Japan. After the Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in 1598, Bonshun was involved in enshrining him in the new temple. However, after the destruction of the Toyotomi clan at the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1615, the temple was ordered destroyed, and its buildings were left to dilapidate. Ieyasu’s siege of the Toyotomis’ Osaka Castle began on the 26th day of the fourth month of 1615. The Preface to our manuscript is dated just two days later, on the 28th. Osaka fell early in the following month, and the days of Bonshun’s temple were numbered. This ritual manual promises to give insight into religious practice at this important temple on the eve of its demise. The classical Chinese text contains Japanese reading marks and glosses in red. Final two leaves with dampstaining. References Scheid, Bernhard. Der Eine und Einzige Weg der Götter: Yoshida Kanetomo und die Erfindung des Shinto. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001.
Letters from His Excellency George Washington, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P., containing an account of his Husbandry, with his Opinions on Various Questions in Agriculture; and Many Particulars of the Rural Economy of the United States

Letters from His Excellency George Washington, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P., containing an account of his Husbandry, with his Opinions on Various Questions in Agriculture; and Many Particulars of the Rural Economy of the United States by WASHINGTON, George

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Letters from His Excellency George Washington, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P., containing an account of his Husbandry, with his Opinions on Various Questions in Agriculture; and Many Particulars of the Rural Economy of the United States
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WASHINGTON, George
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128 pp. 8vo, cont. tree sheep (some browning due to the quality of the paper), red morocco lettering piece on spine. Alexandria: Printed by Cottom & Stewart, 1803. First collected edition and a very nice copy. The Young and Sinclair letters were originally published separately in 1801 and 1800, respectively. This is the first edition to contain both, published in Virginia within a few years of Washington’s death. These letters offer perhaps the best picture from his own pen of Washington as an agriculturist and plantation owner, seeking to improve both his own lands and those of his country through this correspondence with two of the leading British agricultural theorists. Fine copy. Stamp of the George Sverdrup Library, Augsburg College on paste-down endpapers. ❧ Church 1296. Howes W138.
Fables Fabuli Elegantis

Fables Fabuli Elegantis by Aesop, Aesopi

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Fables Fabuli Elegantis
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Aesop, Aesopi
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Tornaesium, 1605. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good early (1605) edition of Aesop's Fables. In protective case.
With Prejudice; The Memoirs of Marshal of The Royal Air Force Lord Tedder GCB

With Prejudice; The Memoirs of Marshal of The Royal Air Force Lord Tedder GCB by [WW2] TEDDER, Lord

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With Prejudice; The Memoirs of Marshal of The Royal Air Force Lord Tedder GCB
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[WW2] TEDDER, Lord
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Proof Copy. Publisher's orange card wraps titled in black to front wrap with details of publication. 704pp. Some light soiling to the bright orange card, a little light wear to the spine ends, some minor softening and wear to the corners, strong and tight; internally clean, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, with folding chart. A very good, solid example of the proof copy, with some light wear.
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Warm Bodies by [WORLD WAR II] MORRIS, Donald R.

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Warm Bodies
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[WORLD WAR II] MORRIS, Donald R.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); dark grey paper-covered boards and light grey cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],204,[4]pp; illus. Upper corners very gently tapped (though still sharp), else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently spine, sunned, lightly edgeworn, rear panel showing some rubbing, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. Humorous account of Morris's Naval service during World War II and in Korea before he joined the CIA. Basis for Norman Taurog's 1961 musical film All Hands On Deck, starring Buddy Hackett, Barbara Eden, and Dennis O'Keefe. 87112.
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ANTHROPOLOGIE A LA MARTINIQUE by Affergan, Francis

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ANTHROPOLOGIE A LA MARTINIQUE
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Affergan, Francis
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No Place: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. Published by Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, (1983). 265 pages, softbound. A NF copy in crisp white paper wrappers. .
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Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (Hardy, Cultivated.) by Apgar, Austin Craig.

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Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (Hardy, Cultivated.)
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Apgar, Austin Craig.
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New York: American Book Company, n.d. (1910). Book. 8vo, cloth; pp. 352, profusely illus. in text. Good..

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