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Broadside on paper (228 x 334 mm.), mounted on a hanging scroll, printed with wooden movable type, entitled Mito Nariaki kyo hekisho [Words for the Students by the Honorable Nariaki of Mito] by SHOKA SONJUKU MOVABLE TYPE BROADSIDE

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Title: Broadside on paper (228 x 334 mm.), mounted on a hanging scroll, printed with wooden movable type, entitled Mito Nariaki kyo hekisho [Words for the Students by the Honorable Nariaki of Mito]
Author: SHOKA SONJUKU MOVABLE TYPE BROADSIDE
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Shoka Sonjuku Academy, Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture: Printed by (in trans.) “movable [type],” 1858. An extremely rare and unusual example of movable wooden type printing in Japan. Movable type books enjoyed a considerable popularity in Japan in the first four decades of the 17th century, but gradually this technology withered away in favor of xylography. The use of wooden movable type was revived again in the late 18th century for small private editions, oftentimes to print controversial texts and issued sub rosa. The texts of some of these works might have faced censorship if commercially published. These kinds of movable type printings from after 1653 are called mokkatsujiban (for a fascinating discussion, see Kornicki, The Book in Japan, pp. 159-63). The present broadside is just such an example. It was printed at the famous Shoka Sonjuku (“village school under the pines”), in the castle town of Hagi in Yamaguchi Prefecture. This school produced, in a two-year period, some 70 future leaders who contributed to the Meiji Restoration and the development of modern Japan, including two prime ministers. Its dynamic principal and main teacher at that time was the magnetic Shoin Yoshida (1830-59), educator, scholar, and political activist. He had studied Western and Chinese military strategy and science and openly supported the emperor against the shogunate. In 1854, he and a friend, Jusuke Kaneko, tried to stow away on Commodore Perry’s flagship, the Powhatan, anchored off Shimoda. Perry refused, and the two young men were imprisoned by the shogunal authorities. Kaneko soon died, but Yoshida was released in January 1856 and, while under house arrest, soon became principal of the Shoka Sonjuku, which was owned by his uncle. During his brief tenure there, Shoin attracted an extraordinary group of future leaders. Through lectures and his many writings (memorials, proposals, and letters to his students), he “deplored the superficiality of upper samurai life at a time of national danger, and proposed that the domain ignore rank, and even status, in its appointments. If the country was to be opened he wanted the bakufu to do it actively and purposefully, rather than, as it seemed, cravenly and hesitantly. Students should be sent abroad to each country; Japan should have a fleet, and trade, and become a presence on the world stage instead of remaining a victim.”–Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan, p. 293. However, during the Ansei purge in 1859, Yoshida was arrested and beheaded. He is considered one of the intellectual fathers of modern Japan. This broadside, printed by movable type at the school, contains two dangerous texts, both very much in the Mitogaku tradition, one of the driving forces behind the Meiji Restoration. On the right side, we find five instructions of moral guidance by Nariaki Tokugawa (1800-60), the one-time lord of Mito fiefdom, who supported loyalty to the emperor, war with foreigners, and devotion to the sonno-joi movement (“revere the emperor, expel the foreigners”). Nariaki had founded his own academy, the Kodokan, to foster practical Western learning in order to defend the nation. Shoin’s earlier studies at Kodokan had reinforced his ideas of the future of Japan. The five apothegms of Nariaki all concern the need to appreciate the military and its soldiers: one must be grateful to them and their sacrifices for the comforts civilians enjoy. The Japanese should thank the soldiers for food, clothes, homes, comfortable living conditions, and traditional social relations, all of which the members of the military had given up, in service to their country. These maxims are dated Spring 1854. On the opposite side of the broadside, which is divided by a “pillar,” are Shoin Yoshida’s responses. In essence, he writes: “The incompetent government and their confusions must be ignored. Discipline yourself, behave ethically as an example to your family, and this behavior will spread to others. My students must learn from the words of Nariaki. Printed by movable [type].” At the start of Shoin’s comments is printed the zodiac date of “Winter 1857,” and at the close, the date “Good Day January 1858.” At the end, “Shoka Sonjuku” is printed. PROVENANCE: This broadside has several manuscript notes in one hand. The first states (in trans.): “Selected and written by Nijuikkai sensei [=Shoin Yoshida].” Around the borders of the broadside, the same annotator has written, again in translation: “Mito Nariaki’s words in movable type. January 1858. Hagi. Shoka Sonjuku ban [edition].” Accompanying this broadside is a sheet of notes by the next unnamed owner, who has written (in abbreviated & rough trans.): “Purchased from the family of Shoin’s disciple Chuzaburo Terashima [he was one of the closest followers of Shoin and died in the Hamaguri Gate Rebellion of 1864]. In the article in the journal Sonjuku sakumon ichido, dated 12 April 1858, we learn that the Shoka Sonjuku Academy was equipped with a wooden movable type press that was primitive and imperfect but highly valued. This broadside is rare and probably the only surviving example. Let us consider its historical and technological importance.” We know that Shoin’s responses printed here are included in his collected works, Yoshida Shoin zenshu, printed in Tokyo in 1934-36 in ten volumes. Our scroll is preserved in a wooden box, which has the inscription on the lid of Mr. Mori, the chief bibliographer to the great Japanese bookseller Shigeo Sorimachi. Mori has written (in trans.): “Words for the Students by Nariaki Tokugawa. Hagi. Shoka Sonjuku. Katsujiban [movable type].” In fine condition. ❧ Maida Stelmar Coaldrake, “Yoshida Shoin (1830-1859) and the Shoka Sonjuku” (online Ph.D. thesis, 1985).

Cortile of the Palazzo Farnese by ROME. ARCHITECTURE. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484-1536), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), architects

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Title: Cortile of the Palazzo Farnese
Author: ROME. ARCHITECTURE. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484-1536), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), architects
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Rome: Nicoli van Aelst, Roma formis, “1560”, but ca. 1585-, 1612. THIRD STATE, of FOUR. The first state had no explanatory text. The second, with the text and “Formis Antoni Lafrerij Sequani MDLX”. In this third state, the Lafréry address has been erased, though the date “MDLX” has been preserved, and Nicolas van Aeslt’s publishing information has been engraved at the lower left. A fourth state, described by Rubach (n. 376), has Gio. Battista de Rossi’s address (in place of van Aelst’s). Hardcover. Fine. A fine example of a late impression, the sheet untrimmed. Light marginal soiling. Early fold visible on verso but no crease visible on the recto. Watermark "fleur-de-lis in a circle" A view of the cortile of Palazzo Farnese. Construction of the palazzo, designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484-1536), with modifications and additions by Michelangelo, began in 1517. By the time of its completion in 1589, Jacopo Vignola and Giacomo Della Porta had also worked on the project. The courtyard is partly the work of Sangallo, who designed the ground floor and first floor, while the second floor was built according to the designs of Michelangelo, who took over the project upon Sangallo’s death in 1546. Of the two ancient statues of Hercules shown in the cortile, the one on the right is the famed Farnese Hercules, now in Naples, which caused a sensation upon its discover in 1546. The inscription reads: “Palatij Farnesij Romae non procul a reliquiis Theatri Pompei olim e solidissimo Tiburtino lapide non minore architecturae commendatione ab Antonio Sa[n]gallo inchoati, quam stupendo artificio per Michaelem Angelum omnibus numeris consumati, quantum artificio diligentia assequi potuit, interioris partis expressio, atq[ue] in intimo eius ambulacro duarum Herculis statuar[um] icones.” Translation: “An image of the interior part, with two statues of Hercules in its lower portico, of Palazzo Farnese in Rome, located not far from the remains of what was in the past the theater of Pompey; begun -in very solid travertine stone- by Antonio Sangallo with no less architectural art than when finished, with astonishing craft and all possible diligence, by Michelangelo.” The publisher, Nicolas van Aelst, emigrated to Rome from his native Brussels in the mid 1580s. He “established his home and workshop in a house situated between the now vanished church of San Biagio della Fossa and the church of Santa Maria della Pace, near Piazza Navona. The building was the property of the church of Santa Maria dell’Anima, to whom the printed paid an annual rent of 30 scudi.” Van Aelst died at Rome on 19 July 1613. For more, see Lorizzo, “Nicolas van Aelst's Will and a List of his Plates”, Print Quarterly , March 2014, Vol. 31, No. 1 (March 2014), pp. 3-20. In 1585, Claudio Duchetti produced a copy of this plate. That version was subsequently printed by Orlandi (1602) and Van Schoel.

Catalogue: Equipment and Supplies for Bottlers, Flavors by [Trade Catalogue - H.C. Schranck Co. (Milwaukee, Wisc.)]

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Title: Catalogue: Equipment and Supplies for Bottlers, Flavors
Author: [Trade Catalogue - H.C. Schranck Co. (Milwaukee, Wisc.)]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Milwaukee: H.C. Schranck Co, 1910. Oblong octavo (22.5 x 29 cm.), [61 pages, numbered 969-1030]. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue for H.C. Schrank Co., of Milwaukee, a manufacturer and distributor of equipment and supplies for bottlers. The catalogue covers a wide range of equipment, from carbonating machines to fillers and bottlers, crowning and filling machines, cappers, water stills, and labeling machines. Supplies include wooden boxes for bottles, siphon bottles and siphon-related parts, bottle brushes, faucets, taps, jars and pots for flavors and syrups, copper measures and graduating cups, corks and caps, aprons, boots, and finger protectors, and much more. Sample labels, printed in three colors, occupy the center portion of the catalogue. Internally with some light stains and rubbing to edges. Attractively re-bound with new endpapers, and the original printed cover inlaid into the new, marbled boards. Overall very good. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Romaine or Noling].

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick; Chris Skinner [illus.]; Andrew Archer [illus.]

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Title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & A Scanner Darkly
Author: Philip K. Dick; Chris Skinner [illus.]; Andrew Archer [illus.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Folio Society, 2021. Near Fine. London: Folio Society, 2021. Third Printing. Octavo (25.4cm); illustrated boards with green cloth spine; [xii],189pp;[x],255pp; housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards clean and square with light bumping to corners. Slipcase sturdy and solid with a bit of dust-soiling to bottom edge. The two novels bound tete-beche, in a nod to the Ace Doubles series many of Dick's novels first appeared in. Both served as basis for films: Sheep as Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction noir Blade Runner, and Scanner as the 2006 Richard Linklater film of the same name.

20Th Century Typewriting: Complete Course

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Title: 20Th Century Typewriting: Complete Course
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: South-Western, 1952. Very Good. 6th ed. Very good plus. Text edges faded/ cloth lightly faded, bumped at edges.

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