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Manuscript sutra soshokukyō 装飾経 scroll on indigo-dyed paper of the “Gokitō kyō” 御祈祷経 (“The Gokitō kyō Lotus Sutra”); first line of text: 末法一乗行者息災延命所願成就祈祷経文, “Mappō ichijō gyōja sokusai enmei shogan jōju kitōkyōbun” [“Selections from the Lotus Sutra”] by LOTUS SUTRA SCROLL

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Title: Manuscript sutra soshokukyō 装飾経 scroll on indigo-dyed paper of the “Gokitō kyō” 御祈祷経 (“The Gokitō kyō Lotus Sutra”); first line of text: 末法一乗行者息災延命所願成就祈祷経文, “Mappō ichijō gyōja sokusai enmei shogan jōju kitōkyōbun” [“Selections from the Lotus Sutra”]
Author: LOTUS SUTRA SCROLL
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Fine frontispiece at beginning & “afterpiece” scene at end. Scroll (210 x 9560 mm.), written in gold ink, with embellishments in gold & silver, on indigo-dyed paper, verso of scroll with various seasonal nature scenes finely painted in gold. [Japan]: at end (in trans.): “copied on 28 April 1782 by 義泉 [“Gisen”].” This devotional scroll, its brilliant gold and silver colors gleaning against from dark indigo paper, is a soshokukyō (lavishly produced sutra manuscript). The paper was repeatedly soaked in a dark blue dye, creating a depth of color suggestive of precious lapis lazuli. The paintings are of the highest quality, and the text has been copied in gold ink with borders decorated in both gold and silver pigments. The use of gold paint to write the texts of the sutra was considered an act of reverence toward the Buddha’s teachings and can also be seen as a representation of the shining bright body of the Buddha himself. Our beautiful scroll contains a selection of texts — known as the Gokitō kyō Lotus Sutra — taken from the much larger Lotus Sutra, the most influential scripture of Mahayana Buddhism. Highly regarded in a number of Asian countries, including China, Korea, and Japan, where it has been traditionally practiced, the Gokitō kyō Lotus Sutra was produced by the Kempon Hokke shū 顕本法華宗 branch of Nichiren Buddhism, which was based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese monk Nichiren 日蓮 (1222-82). The brushwork throughout this scroll is of a very high and refined level. On the inside of the endpaper is a magnificent scene in dark green and rich gold and silver depicting a dreamy landscape and sea with a crane and turtle, symbolizing longevity. The gold has been applied in many layers and using complex techniques. This is followed by a painting, very rare in sutras, of 30 portraits of gods and Buddhist practitioners, framed on each side by protective gods and a pair of lions. All are finely depicted in gold and all with red lips, sitting in front of bamboo screens. Throughout the scroll, including the above scene, the text is framed above and below by decorative and varied patterns in rich gold and some silver. A full line of text contains 14-16 characters. The text is finely written throughout in a calligraphic hand in gold. At the beginning, our handsome scroll has fine silk endpapers on the outer side, employing gold thread, depicting four of the Bagua (the Eight Trigrams), representing the fundamental principles of reality and other motifs. At the end, we learn about the traditional transmission of this text, including ownership and scribes, whose first names are given in a four-column statement of when this scroll was copied and by whom. The first copy was made in 1537, using the source scroll owned by the chief of Echigo province. In 1657, it was copied again. And in 1714, it was copied, and ours is a copy of that scroll. We learn that the best way to produce such a scroll is to be “fast, sit still, be calm, and concentrate.” Following this, we find a remarkable and long (167 x 490 mm.) scene, painted in blue, gold, and red, of various Buddhist divinities and devotees with a seated Buddha. A ray of light extends from Buddha’s forehead and illumines the vast assembly, gathered to hear his teachings. The reverse or outer side of the scroll is equally finely painted with various seasonal nature scenes, framed at top and bottom with rich gold- and silver-speckled borders employing squares of cut gold and silver foil. The attached cord, used to tie the sutra together, consists of woven persimmon and gold threads, ending with three tassels with persimmon and gold threads. The cord and tassels are attached to the scroll with a finely decorated metal lotus flower clasp. The roller is made of clear crystal, its ends covered by metal caps with lotus flower and vine patterns. In fine and fresh condition. The scroll is preserved in a corded silk brocade wrapper within a fine lacquer box decorated with two family crests (the first with eight wisteria flowers framing a flower in the center; the second with a Konoe peony) in gold on the upper cover and attached tassels. There is some worming in the later part of the scroll, but it is not offensive.

Horatio Nelson Informs One of His Admirals of the Decisive Victory of Lord Keith Over a French Squadron, in the Struggle for Control of the Mediterranean by Horatio Nelson

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Title: Horatio Nelson Informs One of His Admirals of the Decisive Victory of Lord Keith Over a French Squadron, in the Struggle for Control of the Mediterranean
Author: Horatio Nelson
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 12/07/1799. A remarkable and unpublished letter from the collection of Dr. Otto O. Fisher, who bought primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, so this not been offered for sale in nearly a centuryAt the start of 1799 the Royal Navy exercised dominance in European waters. In Northern Europe the Channel Fleet enforced a blockade against the French Atlantic Fleet, based at Brest. Although the Brest fleet was strong, numbering 25 ships with five more nearing completion, it had suffered a series of defeats that had left it demoralized. In Southern Europe the French position was altogether more desperate. In the summer of 1798 the French Mediterranean Fleet had departed its base of Toulon escorting a large fleet of transports carrying an army under Napoleon for his invasion of Egypt. To intercept the French expedition to Egypt, the Admiralty ordered John Jervis, the Earl St. Vincent to dispatch a fleet of his own under Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson. Nelson tracked the French across the Mediterranean but was unable to discover the invasion fleet until after the troops were ashore. On August 1, 1798 Nelson attacked the French fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay. The ensuing Battle of the Nile was a crushing victory for Nelson: eleven of the 13 French ships of the line were captured or destroyed and Napoleon's army was trapped in Egypt.In early 1799 the French Directory ordered the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, Vice-Admiral Bruix, to take his fleet to sea, with the express intention of ending British dominance in the Mediterranean and relieving the army trapped in Egypt.Lord Keith was second in command to the Earl of St. Vincent. It was for a long time a thankless post, for St. Vincent was at once half incapacitated by ill-health and very arbitrary, while the hero Horatio Nelson, who considered that Keith's appointment was a personal slight to himself and his own expectations, was peevish and insubordinate. On May 9 Keith received orders from St. Vincent to abandon his present position blockading Cádiz and pursue Bruix into the Mediterranean, and so he sailed for Gibraltar. On June 19, the advance squadron of Keith's fleet encountered a squadron of French frigates. This force, consisting of the frigates Junon and L’Alceste, plus a number of other ships besides. These were under the command of Admiral Perree. The squadron had been protecting French coastal supply convoys during Bonaparte's Syrian campaign. Ordered to return to France, the squadron had departed Jaffa on May 17 and had almost reached Toulon when it was discovered by Keith’s force.Perrée's force was unable to outrun Keith's advance squadron. Faced with overwhelming opposition, the French squadron surrendered, all five ships subsequently being commissioned into the Royal Navy, although Junon, renamed HMS Princess Charlotte, was considered to be a more valuable prize than all of the others together. On June 20 Keith arrived off Toulon to find that the French fleet was not in the harbor. He went to Genoa, where he learned that the French fleet had departed over a month ago, Keith turned back towards Menorca.On July 9, 1799, Keith wrote Nelson asking for assistance in his pursuit of the French fleet. “I came in here yesterday to get some water and had not anchored an hour I heard the Combined [French and Spanish] Fleets had left Carthagena and steered to the West…If this Island is left without Ships it will fall. Spaniards will send their Armament with two Ships of the Line, Frigates and Boats, a great many of which are at the different Ports opposite to convoy cover the landing .You must therefore either come or send [Admiral Thomas] Duckworth to govern himself as circumstances offer until I can determine to a certainty the intentions of the Enemy.” Nelson was displeased if not angry with this order, and had no intention of leaving Naples Bay at a time when politics there - the departure of the pro-French rebels who had just surrendered - had him fully occupied. He had committed to the Queen and King of Naples that he would not leave Naples vulnerable to attack, and the French Atlantic fleet had just entered the Mediterranean; plus Lady Hamilton was with him onboard. Duckworth had been detached with four sail of the line to Lord Nelson at Palermo. He was sent by Nelson to Keith in July pursuant to this letter, when Nelson refused to adhere to Keith’s order to join him with his entire force.Autograph letter signed, Naples Bay, July 12, 1799, to Admiral Duckworth, informing him of Keith’s taking of the French squadron, and seeking to mollify Duckworth’s fragile ego. “I was so vexed last night that I could only cry. Lord Keith has [sighted] the French fleet. He was off Leghorn and they off Barcelona. St. Vincent [has] gone home in the Argo.” In fact, in July 1799, the HMS Argo carried Admiral the Earl St. Vincent home from Gibraltar at the end of his time in command of the Mediterranean fleet. Nelson continued, “I have quantities of new orders and expectations. I may have, my dear admiral, been wanting in little attentions in not having made you personal visits, but I will do it after breakfast, or may dine here today. The Junon, L’Alceste…and two corvettes are taken by Lord Keith…” Apparently Nelson had failed to visit Duckworth, who was seemingly offended, particularly as Nelson had likely informed him he was being sent away in a note and not in person.

A Time When by McCaffrey, Anne

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Title: A Time When
Author: McCaffrey, Anne
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: n.p.: Nesfa Press, 1975. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo, (6), 76,(1) pp. plus the 8 page Dragondex at the end compiled and designed bny Wendy Glasser. Blue cloth, spine printed in silver. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine as well. Signed by Anne McCaffrey on the page facing the title. No. 401 of 800 copies. Hargreaves, p. 156-157. .

Rawhide Rawlins Rides Again, Or, Behind the Swinging Doors; A Collection of Charlie Russell's Favorite Stories by Russell, C. M.

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Title: Rawhide Rawlins Rides Again, Or, Behind the Swinging Doors; A Collection of Charlie Russell's Favorite Stories
Author: Russell, C. M.
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Pasadena: Trail's End Publishing Co. n.d., n.d.. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (62)pp. Full tan polished calf, gilt title on the upper board,m and gilt vignette on the rear board. Illustrations by C. M. Russell and others, including Joe De Young. A fine copy, unopened. One of 300 numbered copies of which this is No. 256. The colophon states that the plates were destroyed after printing. .

Business and Protective Law for Women by Lineman, Mab Copland

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Title: Business and Protective Law for Women
Author: Lineman, Mab Copland
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Coast Printing Company, 1926. First edition. Near Fine. Second issue, with the Laws Becoming Effective July 29, 1927 tipped in behind the contents leaf. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. A touch of sunning to spine; front board slightly bowed. Contemporary ownership signature of Mabel Scudder to front endpaper else fresh and unmarked internally. A pleasing copy of this important post-suffrage reference book, written by a woman who lectured extensively at universities in Southern California and was invested in helping newly enfranchised women navigate the landscape of business and property ownership. Scarce in institutions and the trade, this is the only first edition copy on the market. An attorney specializing in business and protective law, Mab Copland Lineman was committed to using her expertise to assist women in developing fiscal and employment security. Admitted to the Los Angeles Bar in 1917 -- two years before the 19th Amendment granted US women the right to vote -- she became a popular lecturer at the University of California and the first state chairman for the Business and Insurance California Federation of Women's Clubs. A news report from 1927 declares of one of her lectures, "It was a revelation that law, a subject supposed to be dry as dust, could be so enlivened and painted in such magic colors...But Mab Copland Lineman bears a charmed tongue...The value of the study of the law was explained as teaching not only the rights of others, but the gifts of analysis and expression. Mortgages and trust deeds were defined and explained as were separate and community property and the rights of husband and wife, as such, under California laws" (Santa Anita Register). Near the time of this book's publication, she was serving as the attorney for female teachers in Los Angeles as they worked toward securing wage increases, retirement accounts, and other benefits already secured by their male colleagues; and she was the president of the Women's Breakfast Club, which assisted in job training and provided childcare for working women. Business and Protective Law for Women was part of her effort to educate the women of California about their rights (and the limitations of their rights) in a political climate that had undergone much fluctuation. Though California women had gained the right to vote in state and local elections prior to the 19th Amendment, 1920 brought great changes to their property ownership, employment, and custody rights. Unable to consult a lawyer on all issues, women needed a reference guide that walked them through everything from writing and depositing checks, composing property purchase agreements, and inheriting from or composing wills. "This book is not designed or intended for use by lawyers," she writes in the preface, "nor is it intended to make lawyers of the women who read it." Rather, offputting and confusing terms have been simplified, familiar terminology has been deployed, and Lineman's aim was to aid California women in positioning themselves as well as possible in the modern world. The original owner, Mabel Bosher Scudder (1874-1951) was born in New York but ultimately moved to California with her husband and daughter; the US Census records of 1930 and 1940 show them living in Claremont and Los Angeles. Near Fine.

Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout. Atlas only by Adams, Robert

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Title: Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout. Atlas only
Author: Adams, Robert
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London: John Churchill, 1857. Adams, Robert (1791-1875). Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout, or chronic rheumatic arthritis, on all the articulations, with descriptive and explanatory statements. [4], 31pp. 11 lithographed plates (some in color). London: John Churchill, 1857. 370 x 279 mm. Original cloth over limp boards, minor fading and chipping, upper portion of spine worn and splitting, front cover corners bent. Minor foxing and offsetting but very good. First Edition of the atlas accompanying Adams's Treatise on Rheumatic Gout, containing excellent and detailed illustrations of the effects of chronic rheumatic arthritis on the joints. The binding has "Second edition" stamped on the front cover, but the title-page is dated 1857, the year of the first edition. A second edition was issued in 1873. See Garrison-Morton.com 4496. .

French Costumes [together with eight hand-colored cards of French costume pasted onto the endpapers] by Varagnac, Andre, preface; Designed by E. Lepage-Medvey; Translated by Mary Chamot

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Title: French Costumes [together with eight hand-colored cards of French costume pasted onto the endpapers]
Author: Varagnac, Andre, preface; Designed by E. Lepage-Medvey; Translated by Mary Chamot
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Paris, New York: The Hyperion Press, 1939. First Edition thus. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 16 pp of text (pp 7 to 23) followed by 40 brightly colored plates (13 by 9 inches, or 31 by 23 cm) on hard card stock showing traditional dress of the various regions of France. Each plate is accompanied with a separate sheet of light paper with a caption. As an extra bonus a prior owner pasted (lightly) eight cards with hand-colored images of women in French peasant dress. These cards are 9 by 13 cm. The print technology used for the plates coming with the book was photo lithography. The text comes with a still useful bibliography of costume books. This copy is disbound but otherwise the plates are all in fine condition. Minor wear, creases and like to some of the caption sheets. DJ with minor corner chips and now protected with mylar. As to the cards, they have some minor soilage (light fingerprint, dust, etc.). One has a small corner chip. Presumably they came in two envelopes which are also pasted to the rear endpaper.

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Uncle Lemon's Spring. by YOLEN, Jane.

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Title: Uncle Lemon's Spring.
Author: YOLEN, Jane.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780525418306
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: NY:: Dutton,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 052541830X . First printing. Near fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket. .

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The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878–1914. by AGOCS, Sandor.

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Title: The Troubled Origins of the Italian Catholic Labor Movement, 1878–1914.
Author: AGOCS, Sandor.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780814319383
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: Detroit:: Wayne State University Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0814319386 . First printing. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, else fine in a near fine dust jacket. .

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