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Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of Vol. I: “Hakuhō shinpen” 舶砲新編 [“New Writings on Naval Artillery”] by CALTEN, J.N., author; FUJII, Saburō 藤井三郎, trans

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Title: Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of Vol. I: “Hakuhō shinpen” 舶砲新編 [“New Writings on Naval Artillery”]
Author: CALTEN, J.N., author; FUJII, Saburō 藤井三郎, trans
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Ten pages of manuscript illus. in the first vol. plus a number of graphs & tables in the text. 724 folding leaves. Eleven parts in 12 vols. 8vo (265 x 185 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: 1847. The most complete copy known of one of the two Japanese translations of J. N. Calten’s Leiddraad bij het Onderrigt de Zee-Artillerie (Dutch eds.: 1832, 1842, and 1847). In the second quarter of the 19th century, Japan had an urgent need to update its artillery and learn more about the artillery of its international adversaries. Artillery had been used in the warfare that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 17th century, but with the advent of peace, such weaponry had been strictly controlled. In the early 19th century, the European powers became more active in the waters around Japan, seeking access to Japanese ports, and several armed encounters with European ships resulted. The shogunal government sponsored the translation of European works on artillery and ordered new coastal batteries built. As the Dutch were already present in Japan as the only European nation allowed to trade, and a number of Japanese scholars were proficient in Dutch, books in that language, such as Calten’s, were translated first (Éric Seizelet, “La naissance de l’artillerie japonaise moderne à la fin de l’époque d’Edo (1830-1868),” Revue historique, no. 702 [2022]: pp. 319-60). The first volume contains a glossary of Dutch and Japanese terms, a discussion of weights and measures, illustrations of gunpowder-making tools and concepts of ballistics, and a section on calculating. This introductory volume, containing a grand index, is signed and dated by the translator, Fujii, in 1847. The first section of the manuscript proper opens with a translation of Calten’s original Preface, dated 1831. A discussion about gunpowder follows. The second section concerns guns and their different kinds (cannon, howitzers, etc.). Other sections cover gun carriages, munitions (solid cannonballs, grapeshot, etc.), tools and other necessities, handguns and rifles, and, crucially, the efficient operation of guns. These sections feature a number of ballistic calculations, graphs, and tables with data for different types of guns. The text ends with a discussion of the defense and attack of coastal positions. Calten was a captain and professor of military science in the Dutch navy. Fujii (style name Tadashi 質) initially worked at the bakufu’s astronomical bureau in Edo but later returned to Kaga domain in the Chūbu region of Honshu. In 1840, he contributed to the work Eibunkan 英文鑑 [Mirror of the English Language]. This appears to be the most complete surviving copy of this text; NIJL lists a number of manuscripts, and all are far more incomplete. Our set seems to lack sections of Parts 3 and 9. Calten’s book had been separately translated by Udagawa Yōan 宇田川榕庵 in 1843. Whereas Udagawa’s translation was eventually printed in 1854, Fujii’s remained in manuscript form and was never published. Fine set, preserved in a chitsu, unimportant and mostly marginal worming, occasionally touching characters.

Exhibition flyer: Andre Cadere Al Banco, Brescia, Maggio 1975 by (CADERE, André)

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Title: Exhibition flyer: Andre Cadere Al Banco, Brescia, Maggio 1975
Author: (CADERE, André)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Black & white photographic illus. A4 sheet, printed on one side. Brescia: banco, 1975. Rare flyer for Cadere’s exhibition with Massimo Minini, the photograph was taken in front of the gallerist’s space. According to Lynda Morris, this was sent as banco’s mailing for the Kunstmarkt Basel. In excellent condition. || Lynda Morris, ed., Documenting Cadere 1972-1978 (2013), pp. 78-79 (pictured p. 78).

Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by STEDMAN, Captain J. G.

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Title: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: STEDMAN, Captain J. G.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. BLAKE, William. With Eighty-Three Plates and Maps, of Which Sixteen are Engraved by Blake STEDMAN, Captain J.G. Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadruple, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. Illustrated with 80 elegant engravings, from drawings made by the author. London: Printed by J. Johnson, 1796. First edition, among Blake's finest work as a book illustrator. Two quarto volumes (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches; 265 x 206 mm). xviii, 407 (ie 415 as usual), [1, blank], [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank]; iv, 404, [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank] pp. Plates watermarked 1794. Complete with eighty-three etched plates including frontispiece (first volume), both title pages with etched vignettes and eighty plates of which sixteen were engraved by Blake and five are folding (maps and plates). All after Stedman. Pages 111 & 112 of volume I misbound between pages 104 & 105. This copy with a faint "Blake" signature in Volume 1 vignette on the title-page, bottom left just above the protruding cannon, which is not present in volume 2. Later editions do not have this. Contemporary full mottled calf. Volume I with repairs to head and tail of the spine and the front and rear joints. Volume II with invisible rebacking, preserving original spine. Boards tooled in gilt. Each volume with two black morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled brown. Marbled endpapers. Green silk bookmarks in each volume. Overall a very good set and internally very clean. "Stedman, an officer in the Scots Brigade in Holland, volunteered for service against the negroes in Dutch Guiana. While out there he to all intents married the subject of Number 9 [facing p. 95], Joanna, a Mulatto, and had a son by her, who became a midshipman in the British Navy, but died young. The author emerges as a most interesting and sympathetic character. As Lowndes rightly says the book is as entertaining as a romance. It will be noticed that William Blake engraved thirteen plates, while three plates were engraved by Bartolozzi". "Many of the plates, it will be noticed, were engraved by [William] Blake, who had learnt his trade from Basire, to whom he was apprenticed for seven years from August 1772. As Keynes says in his bibliography From 1791 until 1800 Blake did much of his work as a journeyman engraver for the booksellers" (Abbey). Keynes eventually decided that Blake was responsible for sixteen of the plates. "Both text and plates made a strong impression on reviewers. The Analytical Review, XXIV (Sept. 1796), said 'The numerous plates...are neatly engraved, and are, we have great reason to believe, faithful and correct delineations of objects described in the work.' The Critical Review (jan. 1797) praised the engravings as being 'in a style of uncommon elegance'" (Bentley). Bentley 499A. Cox II, p. 285; Abbey, Travel, 719. Sabin 91075. Cundall, West Indies, 1715. Ray England 2. HBS 66086. $5,500.

Boy by DAHL Roald

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Title: Boy
Author: DAHL Roald
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1984. First Edition. Signed. DAHL, Roald. Boy. Tales of Childhood. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4800.First edition of Dahl's lively first autobiography, boldly inscribed by him across the entire half title: ""To Douglas Love Roald Dahl.""The funny and often macabre tales in Boy, Roald Dahl's first autobiography, recall his childhood in boarding school, the excitement of summer vacations, the drama of The Great Mouse Plot and much more. These lively stories ""feel as if they have been told as family folklore, honed down to essential incident and sharp detail. They have the intense drama and simplicity of the fairy tale, and its unequivocal extremes of good and evil"" (New York Times). Precedes the American signed limited edition. Connolly, 103. Silvey, 185. Faint crease to dust jacket front panel. A fine inscribed copy.

Symphonie (C moll) [No. 1] für Groſses Orchester ... Op. 68. Partitur. [Full score] by BRAHMS, Johannes 1833-1897

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Title: Symphonie (C moll) [No. 1] für Groſses Orchester ... Op. 68. Partitur. [Full score]
Author: BRAHMS, Johannes 1833-1897
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Berlin: Verlag und Eigenthum von N. Simrock [PN 7957], 1877. Folio. Half black morocco with black cloth boards, titling gilt to spine, original publisher's blue printed wrappers bound in at conclusion. 1f. (recto title, verso publisher's note regarding performance rights), 3-100 pp. Title lithographed, with "Lith. Anst. v. C.G. Röder, Leipzig" to foot; music engraved. With distributors to title London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.; New-York: G. Schirmer; St. Petersburg: A. Büttner; Basel, Zürich, Luzern, St. Galllen u. Strassburg bei Gebrüder Hug; and handstamp "49, Gt. Portland Street, London, W." to foot. Wrappers worn and with small edge tears and chips; small London bookseller's label to lower inner corner of front pastedown. Uniformly browned, slightly heavier at edges; occasional small stains, edge tears, and chips; slightly brittle at edges. First Edition, first issue. Hofmann p. 147. McCorkle p. 292. Deutsch p. 256. Fuld p. 551. "In his article 'Neue Bahnen,' Schumann hinted that it was Brahms's destiny to compose for orchestra. By the time of Brahms's death in 1897, this prediction had been fulfilled with the creation of two serenades, four concertos, a set of variations, two overtures and four symphonies." Walter Frisch in Grove Music Online "Finally, there is a new splendour and character in the attitude to orchestral sound. Despite all the striking and effective scoring in the early orchestral pieces and the choral works of the later 1860s, it is in this Symphony that Brahms proclaims himself a master of that greatest of instruments, the symphony orchestra." McDonald: Brahms, p. 250.

LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES by Ardizzone, Edward

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Title: LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES
Author: Ardizzone, Edward
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus in good dust jacket.
Description: London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1937. Very good plus in good dust jacket.. First US edition of Edward Ardizzone's second book, the story of a lonely girl who befriends a lonely old man - a rare title in the original dust jacket. LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES is a companion in size and format to Ardizzone's first book, LITTLE TIM AND THE BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN. This is a particularly rare title in his much-lauded picture book oeuvre. 13'' x 9''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($2.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [64] pages, printed one side only. Jacket with several moderate to large chips with attendant edgewear, a few tiny holes; several small tape repairs to verso. Binding with light edgewear. Leaves with scattered foxing; offsetting to endpapers. Sound.

Magritte by Sylvester, David

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Title: Magritte
Author: Sylvester, David
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: [Antwerp:] Menil Foundation/Fonds Mercator, [1992] Revised and enlarged edition, published in September, 1992. First published in May 1992 by Mercatorfonds for Thames and Hudson, London. Dark blue cloth with spine stamped in black. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in near fine d.j. A couple of small nicks in d.j.

The Big Love by Aadland, (Mrs.) Florence, as told to Tedd Thomey

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Title: The Big Love
Author: Aadland, (Mrs.) Florence, as told to Tedd Thomey
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Warner Books. Near Fine. 1986 (c.1961). Reprint (1st ptg. thus). Softcover. [nice tight copy (uncreased spine), extremely light wear here and there at edges and spine extremities]. Mass Market PB One of the classic Hollywood tell-alls, "the true story of Errol Flynn's love affair with 15-year-old Bev Aadland -- told by her mother." Originally published as a paperback original in 1961, this reprint edition features a new afterword by "as told to" co-author Thomey. Introduction (reprinted from the original edition) by William Styron, who says "one may declare it a masterpiece without hesitation." .

(Exhibition catalog): Paul Klee: Paintings, Gouaches & Drawings

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Title: (Exhibition catalog): Paul Klee: Paintings, Gouaches & Drawings
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Marisa Del Re Gallery, Inc, 1983. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in black paper wrappers with a tear at the top of the spine, a stain along the foredge of the first four pages, ink date stamp on the front endpaper, and light edgewear. Text is in English and Italian. Exhibition catalog. With a letter from the gallery addressed to the poet Michael Benedikt.

Selected Poems by Blake, William. Gardner, Stanley (editor)

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Title: Selected Poems
Author: Blake, William. Gardner, Stanley (editor)
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1962. London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1962. 8vo, 188pp. Frontispiece. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to backstrip, some sunning. Very good. § First edition. Bentley, BB, A315.

Two Cities by WIDEMAN, John Edgar

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Title: Two Cities
Author: WIDEMAN, John Edgar
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780395857304
Description: Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 242 pages. A mid career novel from this African American writer. A very near fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

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