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Contemporary Japanese rendition of the signing of the treaty at Kanagawa

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Title: Contemporary Japanese rendition of the signing of the treaty at Kanagawa
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: N.p., n.d. [Japan, 1854. Pictorial record of US Commodore Matthew Perry's second visit to Japan in 1854, and the signing of the famous treaty at Kanagawa. Approx. 41" x 34½", watercolor and ink on paper; old folds, several insignificant breaks at the creases; some show-through from a large Japanese character on the verso; otherwise in very good condition. A contemporary rendering of the signing of the treaty, showing Perry's nine black ships in the harbor (Perry's flagship the Steamer Mississippi, Steamer Powhatan, Steamer Susquehanna, Sloop-of-war Macedonian, Sloop-of-war Plymouth, Sloop-of-war Saratoga, Sloop-of-war Vandalia, Storeship Southampton, and Storeship Lexington); the surrounding harborfront, the cordoned security area and treaty house prepared on the shore at Yokohama where the treaty was signed, formations and drills by the US Marines, accompanied by a military band, Japanese warriors, assorted American and Japanese small craft along the shore, and other details. In July 1853 Perry arrived in Japan with four warships. He was bearing a letter from President Millard Fillmore requesting the establishment of trade relations with Japan. Perry left shortly afterwards, stating that he would return in a year to hear Japan's answer. Eight months later Perry returned with nine warships - a considerable show of force and firepower. After initial resistance, Perry was permitted to land at Kanagawa, near the site of present-day Yokohama on March 8. The Convention of Kanagawa was signed on March 31. According to the terms of the treaty, Japan would protect stranded seamen and open two ports for refueling and provisioning American ships: Shimoda and Hakodate. Japan also gave the United States the right to appoint consuls to live in these port cities, a privilege not previously granted to foreign nations. This treaty was not a commercial treaty, and it did not guarantee the right to trade with Japan. Still, in addition to providing for distressed American ships in Japanese waters, it contained a most-favored-nation clause, so that all future concessions Japan granted to other foreign powers would also be granted to the United States. As a result, Perry's treaty provided an opening that would allow future American contact and trade with Japan. Much of the following comes from John W. Dower's excellent online "Visualizing Cultures" project, which uses visual materials to reexamine the experience of Japan and China in the modern world. His "Black Ships & Samurai" is the most detailed English-language account of Perry's visits and the pictorial works to which they gave rise is the online resource at https[:]//visualizingcultures[.]mit[.]edu/black_ships_and_samurai/index[.]html. "On the Japanese side, there was no official visual record of these encounters, although we know from accounts of the time that boatloads of Japanese artists and illustrators rushed out to draw the "black ships" from virtually the moment they appeared off Uraga. What we have instead of a consolidated official collection is a scattered treasury of graphic renderings of various aspects of the startling foreign intrusion ... Japanese artists, moreover, rendered their impressions through forms of expression that differed from the lithographs, woodcuts, paintings, and photographs that Europeans and Americans of the time relied on in delineating the visual world. Vivacious woodblock prints, cruder runs of black-and-white "kawaraban" broadsheets, and drawings and brushwork in a conspicuously "Japanese" manner constituted the primary vehicles through which the great encounters of 1853 and 1854 were conveyed to a wider audience in Japan. Some of this artwork spilled over into the realm of caricature and cartoon ... Other artists, meanwhile, rendered the foreign intrusion from afar with panoramic views of the American squadrons anchored in Japanese waters. Such graphics, done in both color and black-and-white, often were designed to convey detail concerning not only the black ships but also the surrounding terrain" (as here). "There was, moreover, no counterpart on the Japanese side to the official artists employed by Perry-and thus no Japanese attempt to create a sustained visual (or written) narrative of these momentous interactions. What we have instead are representations by a variety of artists, most of whose names are unknown. Their artistic conventions differed from those of the Westerners. Their works were reproduced and disseminated not as lithographs and engravings or fine-line woodcuts, but largely as brightly colored woodblock prints as well as black-and-white broadsheets (kawaraban). They also painted in formats such as unfolding "horizontal scrolls" (emaki) that had no counterpart in the West. It was common for such scrolls to be 20 or 30 feet long, and in some cases they inspired variant copies.

Picasso. Toros. Portfolio with 15 pochoirs + one Signed and Numbered Lithograph by Picasso. 1960. by Pablo Neruda

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Title: Picasso. Toros. Portfolio with 15 pochoirs + one Signed and Numbered Lithograph by Picasso. 1960.
Author: Pablo Neruda
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso. Edition Au Vent d Arles, Paris 1960. Portfolio with 15 pochoirs of Picasso original wash drawings, reproduced by Daniel Jacomet, portraying bullfighting and flamenco dancing. This copy also includes one lithograph on Richard de Bas wove dated "le 14.12.60." and is signed and numbered in pencil by Picasso. The lithograph depicts a lancing scene, and the same image was used on the poster for the exhibition in April-May, 1961, at Galerie Bellechasse, to present the 15 original wash drawings reproduced in the album. The drawings were done between July 1959 and June 1960, they accompany a Pablo Neruda poem titled 'Toro', translated by Jean Marcenac. Limited numbered edition of 520 copies printed in Velin d Arches paper, of which this is one of 50 with the signed and numbered lithograph. Each print is also numbered in pencil. Portfolio and signed lithograph bear a different number. Loose as issued, bound in a red satin portfolio, lightly worn, with a drawing after Picasso in black, linen flaps and tie-strings. Ref: Cramer 107.

Life on the Mississippi by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Title: Life on the Mississippi
Author: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American edition. Very Good +. First State, with the image of Twain in flames on p. 441 and with "The St. Louis Hotel" caption on p. 443. In the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt vignettes on the front board and spine. A Very Good+ copy with the front inner hinge expertly repaired, slight wear at the spine ends and corners, otherwise an attractive copy. Previous owner's name: W. H. Blight stamped on the front end paper. The author's first-hand look at navigating the Mississippi by riverboat and the changes to that area many years after the Civil War. Written concurrently with Huckleberry Finn and sharing several themes and even a few passages with that masterpiece. "The material offered by observations on the journey is various beyond enumeration, and much of it is extremely amusing. Hoaxes and exaggerations palmed off by pilots and other natives along the way upon supposed ignorant strangers; stories of gamblers and obsolete robbers; glimpses of character and manners; descriptions of scenery and places; statistics of trade; Indian legends; extracts from the comments of foreign travelers, -- all these occur, interspersed with two or three stories of either humorous or tragic import, or of both together" (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1883). Very Good +.

Catalogue No. 4 - Spring, 1977: Editions by Artists by ART METROPOLE, bookseller

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Title: Catalogue No. 4 - Spring, 1977: Editions by Artists
Author: ART METROPOLE, bookseller
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Many black & white text illus. throughout. 4to (267 x 205 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers, staple-bound, with stamp & postmarked. [Toronto: Spring 1977]. One of the rarest Art Metropole catalogues, this is a landmark catalogue because of its extensive offerings from international artists. Established by the collective General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz & Jorge Zontal) in 1974, Art Metropole was the first large-scale distributor of artists' books and publications in North America - two years before Printed Matter opened. On the inside of the upper wrapper, Art Metropole is announced as an "archive/agency established to document, collect, publish and disperse information on the activities of artists working in new contexts and multiple media formats, including publications, recordings, multiples, film and video." The catalogue is then divided into Publications, Periodicals, Records, Special Editions, Video, and Film. Among the listings, we find rare books and works by or about Armleder, Baldessari, Barry, H. & B. Becher, Beuys, Brecht, Buren, Dibbets, Ehrenberg, Filliou, General Idea, Haacke, Higgins, Knowles, Kosuth, LeWitt, Matta-Clark, Oldenburg, Piper, Polke, Y. Rainer, Ruscha, Siegelaub, Snow, Spoerri, Tot, Valoch, Weiner, Yokoo, etc., etc. In excellent condition A page from Michael Snow's Cover to Cover is on the upper wrapper. ❧ See "Art Metropole's Publications and Events History with Related Ephemera, January 1971 - April 2006," on the National Gallery of Canada website.

Stempelplaats: Exposiçáo Internacional de Desenhos com Carimbos de Borracha (15-30 July 1978) by VAN BARNEVELD, Aart, curator

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Title: Stempelplaats: Exposiçáo Internacional de Desenhos com Carimbos de Borracha (15-30 July 1978)
Author: VAN BARNEVELD, Aart, curator
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Text illus. [12] pp. Oblong 8vo, staple-bound. Recife: Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 1978. A rare exhibition catalogue of stamp art; we know of three examples in North American institutions (as of March 2025). Organized by Aart van Barneveld, director of Stempelplaats, the show was part of unicap’s first Festival de Inverno. The catalogue includes a short text by van Barneveld (in Portuguese), a list of participants, and reproductions of stamps contributed by Ivald Granato, Ulises Carrión, Ray DiPalma, Henryk Bzdok, Ben Vautier, Paulo Bruscky, etc. In fine condition.

The Spy Unmasked; Or, Memoirs of Enoch Crosby, Alias Harvey Birch, The Hero of Mr. Cooper's Tale of the Neutral Ground: Being an Authentic Account of the Secret Services Which He Rendered His Country During the Revolutionary War. (Taken from his own lips, in short-hand.) Comprising Many Interesting Facts and Anecdotes, Never Before Published by Barnum, H.L. (Cooper, James Fenimore)

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Title: The Spy Unmasked; Or, Memoirs of Enoch Crosby, Alias Harvey Birch, The Hero of Mr. Cooper's Tale of the Neutral Ground: Being an Authentic Account of the Secret Services Which He Rendered His Country During the Revolutionary War. (Taken from his own lips, in short-hand.) Comprising Many Interesting Facts and Anecdotes, Never Before Published
Author: Barnum, H.L. (Cooper, James Fenimore)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: NY: Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1828. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. A totally unsophisticated copy in its original binding. Cloth spine with paper title label over paper covered boards. 8vo, xvi, 3-296 (4), with frontispiece engraving of Harvey Birch and 5 plates (incl map of Westchester County in text. Basis for James Fenimore Cooper's THE SPY; Enoch Crosby (1750-1835) was spy for the Americans during the Revolutionary War, working for John Jay. Front cover very loosely held by a few strings oif original binding, evidence of where prelims were once taped at hinge. Foxed throughout. Old (original signature) in period script on rear pastedown of Sarah Fowler "of Southport Conn formerly Fairfield...

Latter Day Saints Millennial Star vol 33, 1871

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Title: Latter Day Saints Millennial Star vol 33, 1871
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: A. Carrington, 1871. Good. Latter Day Saints Millennial Star vol 33, 1871. Liverpool: A. Carrington, 1871. 824pp. 8vo. Book condition: Good. Spine badly rubbed and scuffed with small pieces lacking at edges. Corners rubbed and bumped. Hinges soft. Previous owner name sticker in ink on front free flyleaf. Contents otherwise good, clean and tight. Collated complete.

The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier, Henri; Francoise Delisle (trans.); Havelock Ellis (introduction); Alvin Lustig (jacket design)

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Title: The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Author: Alain-Fournier, Henri; Francoise Delisle (trans.); Havelock Ellis (introduction); Alvin Lustig (jacket design)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g+
Description: New York: New Directions, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. g+. Octavo. xix, 306pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over light green cloth with black lettering on cover. Translated by Françoise Delisle; introduction by Havelock Ellis; cover design by Alvin Lustig. Reprint of the first American edition, originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1928. No printed date, other than the original retained "1928", likely printed circa 1946. "No other writer has so surely captured the poignancy, the mystery, the "out-of-this-world" quality of the first love that grows out of childhood's longing for the unknown. In France The Wanderer is a recognized classic, having gone through some eighty printings and been translated into many other languages" (publisher). DJ with minor wear along edges, small chips and tears; jacket price clipped and protected by Brodart. Binding with minor wear along edges. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper. Block lightly age-toned with very few pencil marks in margins. DJ, binding and interior in overall good+ condition.

Chance. A Tale in Two Parts by Conrad, Joseph

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Title: Chance. A Tale in Two Parts
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Small Octavo. Second issue, with 1914 corrected on title page, title page without double rule border, half-title without ship device. (Cagel p. 77) Bound in original dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Neat owner's name on FEP; minor wear at extremities. 468 pp.

The Arts in Early American History: Needs and Opportunities for Study (Needs and Opportunities for Study Series) by Whitehill, Walter Muir [Essay]; Garrett, Wendell D. and Jane N. [Bibliography]

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Title: The Arts in Early American History: Needs and Opportunities for Study (Needs and Opportunities for Study Series)
Author: Whitehill, Walter Muir [Essay]; Garrett, Wendell D. and Jane N. [Bibliography]
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1965. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x0. No jacket. Spine and boards very lightly toned. 1965 Hard Cover. xv, 170 pp. Essay by Walter Muir Whitehill. Bibliography by Wendell D. Garrett and Jane N. Garrett. CONTENTS: Foreword; An Unexploited Historical Resource; A Bibliography of the Arts in Early American History; Writings on the Arts in Early America, 1876-1964; General Works; Architecture; Topography; Painting; Sculpture and Carving; Graphic Arts; Medals, Seals, and Heraldic Devices; Crafts; Furniture; Silver; Pewter; Other Metals and Wooden Ware; Pottery; Glass; Lighting Devices; Wall Decoration; Folk Art; Textiles; Serial Publications; Index.

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