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Fine illustrated Ginzan emaki (illustrated silver mining handscroll), entitled in manuscript at beginning “Tanshū Ikuno Ginzan ezu” 但州生野銀山繪圖 (“[current] Hyōgo Prefecture, Ikuno Silver Mine, Illustrated”)

Fine illustrated Ginzan emaki (illustrated silver mining handscroll), entitled in manuscript at beginning “Tanshū Ikuno Ginzan ezu” 但州生野銀山繪圖 (“[current] Hyōgo Prefecture, Ikuno Silver Mine, Illustrated”) by IKUNO SILVER MINE SCROLL

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Fine illustrated Ginzan emaki (illustrated silver mining handscroll), entitled in manuscript at beginning “Tanshū Ikuno Ginzan ezu” 但州生野銀山繪圖 (“[current] Hyōgo Prefecture, Ikuno Silver Mine, Illustrated”)
Author
IKUNO SILVER MINE SCROLL
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
18 fine paintings of the extraction of the ore, smelting, and the administrative & commercial activities associated with the mine. Scroll on paper (311 x 12,170 mm.), inner front endpaper with decorative square-cut gold applications, outer side with silk brocade covering, wooden core roller, backed with mica-embossed paper. [Japan]: “copied 1892.” An uncommonly well-illustrated scroll depicting the mining and refining activities of the Ikuno silver mine, depicting the technology of mining used in the late 18th century. Silver was mined at the Ikuno Ginzan (Ikuno Silver Mine) from the 9th century until the late 20th century and was an important source of income for the central government. The main tunnel of the mine is 2.6 km long and extends 1 km. deep. Along with silver, lead, copper, zinc, and gold were extracted. There were several entrances to the mine, and more than 20,000 residents of Ikuno were in some way involved in the local mining industry. One of the most productive periods for the mine was the 18th century, when, in some months, the production of silver reached about 562 kilograms. Our scroll was created by the artist Andō Kōga 安藤広雅 (see below) and provides an accurate representation of the complicated workings, both below and above ground, taking place at the Ikuno mine during the late 18th century. The 18 paintings are beautifully rendered in fine colors. Each image is preceded by a manuscript explanation. The first image depicts the annual New Year’s celebrations on the 2nd of January with a procession of local miners, government dignitaries, drummers, and children approaching a shrine, carrying a symbolic celebratory feast of porgy, sake, and mochi; banners (one with banknotes tied to it); and other offerings, in a ceremony that would ensure good business luck for the year. Priests are waiting for the procession to arrive. The second image depicts the entrance to the mine, in front of which is the governmental hut (Yokohikiba) where the ore, carried in straw sacks (kamasu), was deposited. Some of the men are carrying waste rubble from the mine. Carpenters (yamadome daiku) are at work constructing wooden supports. Other men (tetsudai horiko) are carrying the supports into the mine. Two representatives of the government are observing the miners carrying out the ore. Tally sheets for keeping track of production are hanging in the office. Our third painting is a bucolic rendering of the mine entrance, with men entering the mine carrying empty baskets. Several are talking to a government official. The foreman of the miners is reporting details of the production. The following image shows a cross-section of the mine with miners using picks to dislodge the ore. Below, men are forcing water out of the mine in long drainage channels by a submerged Archimedes screw (suijōrin), introduced into Japanese mining in the early 17th century. The mine shafts are extremely claustrophobic, the workers hunched over, making their way through the shafts. Next is a series of above-ground images of winning precious metals from the ore (konashi). In the first painting, we see men (dobehori) pulverizing and sifting ore, separating it into various constituents, principally gold and silver. The following image shows a man roasting the ore, preparing it for the later smelting. During the roasting, the ore is heated, converting sulfides and other minerals into oxides, which are then later reduced with charcoal in the smelting. The man is shielded from the heat by a straw mat hanging from his shoulders and a woven face protector. Two women, on the opposite side of the furnace, are pumping the bellows. In the next painting, we see two removing the refined ore from the furnace after it cools. The next image shows two women and a child sifting through the mine’s waste water, which flows into a nearby stream, looking for gold and silver. From the caption, we learn they will sell their findings to the smelters. The next step in concentrating the ore is illustrated with a man furiously pumping the bellows of a furnace and the smelter (fukidaiku) removing the refined ore. Then we have a detailed painting of the actual smelting. A boy is pumping the bellows of a large furnace. The next image depicts another small furnace for further refining of the ore, in which the silver is removed and placed into a disc-like mold. This is followed by a depiction of melting the silver and molding it into small oval-shaped discs. The next image depicts a group of ten government officials, including the head of the mining operations, observing the weighing of the refined silver discs. Several officials are making notes, and others are making calculations using an abacus. In the following image, workers are packing the partially refined byproducts — copper, lead, and gold ores — observed by government officials. The next image depicts the refined silver being carried to Osaka by horse, surrounded by guards carrying banners. A high government official is carried in a palanquin. The following image shows government representatives of the mine selling partially refined ores to precious metals dealers in an outdoor setting. One of the officials is seated at a desk, taking notes with an abacus handy. The method of bidding is secretive: a buyer places his hand up the covered arm of an official, counting out his bid with his fingers. The next image depicts the auction of silver at Osaka. Government officials are observing. The final image depicts men carrying the auctioned silver, escorted by government officials, into what is surely Osaka Castle. At the end, we find this inscription (in trans.): “Scenes from the Silver Mine, the process of deriving the silver, in the era of Kansei [1789-1800]. Copied in 1892 by artist Andō Kōga.” In fine and fresh condition, preserved in a wooden box. ❧ For a wonderful account of mining in Sado Island (which can be applied to our Ikuno scroll), see Hamish Todd’s “The British Library’s Sado Mining Scrolls” in The British Library Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 130-43.
Le Bout de L'Oreille

Le Bout de L'Oreille by COMBA, Pierre-Paul

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Le Bout de L'Oreille
Author
COMBA, Pierre-Paul
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David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, 1855. Whisperings in the Ear" "A Little Bit of One's True Self" COMBA, Pierre-Paul. Le Bout de L'Oreille par Comba. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, [ca. 1855]. First edition. Folio (12 15/16 x 10 inches; 338 x 254 mm.). Pictorial hand colored lithograph title and eighteen fine and amusing hand colored lithograph plates. Mid twentieth century red cloth over boards, smooth spine with maroon morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. A fine copy. Extremely scarce: According to OCLC there are no copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. COMBA, Pierre-Paul (1833-1872) was an artist of Italian descent. We have been unable to locate any other examples of this fine work. We do however know of two other works by him: Paris et ses Parisiens; Types et Moeurs. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, 1850 (15 hand colored lithographs) and Coqueau et Coquette: Album Comique. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, 1855 (18 lithographs). The Plates: 1. Ma Moutarde après Diner! My Mustard after Dinner! 2. La belle Plume fait le bel oiseau. The beautiful Feather makes the beautiful bird. 3. Il ne faut pas tans de chiens après un os. It doesn't take so many dogs after a bone. 4. Un homme sans abri. Est un oiseau sans nid. A homeless man. Is a bird without a nest. 5. La Sauce coûte plus, que le Poisson!!... The Sauce costs more, than the Fish!!... 6. Des Larmes de Crocodile! Crocodile Tears! 7. C'est le chemindu Paradis, on n'y va qu'un par un!! This is the way to Paradise, we only go one by one!! 8. Nous Mannequin! Ah bah!... Les Femmes sont parfaitement comme les roses qui habillent et deshabillent, elles sont à la fois le Paradis des yeux, l'Enfer de l'âme, et le Purgatoire de la bourse. We Model! Ah bah!... Women are perfectly like the roses which dress and undress, they are at the same time the Paradise of the eyes, the Hell of the soul, and the Purgatory of the purse. 9. Et tu pleure ça, ma belle biche, fais comme moi, envoie ton mari à l'ecole de l'Arithméthique et fais lui apprendre la Multipplication. And you cry over that, my beautiful doe, do like me, send your husband to the school of Arithmethics and teach him Multiplication. 10. Il vaut mieux s'adresser à Dieu qu'à ses Saints... It is better to address God than to his Saints... 11. Faire venir l'eau à la bouche! Make your mouth water! 12. Mordre à l'Hameçon! Take the bait! 13. Qui aime Bertrand, aime son Chien... Who loves Bertrand, loves his Dog... 14. Que le mari soit vieux, repoussant comme le diable, ou qu'il dépense tout son bien au litre, sa femme doit le traiter comme son mâitre, son Souverain, son Dieu!! Si son mari s'absente, elle doit jeuner, coucher sur la terre, et s'abstenir de toute toilette, il n'y a pas d'autre Dieu sur la terre pour une creature féminine que son mari. Whether the husband is old, repulsive as the devil, or spends all his wealth by the liter, his wife must treat him as her master, her Sovereign, her God!! If her husband is absent, she must fast, sleep on the earth, and abstain from any toilet, there is no other God on earth for a female creature than her husband. 15. Faire le Chien couchant. Do the Sleeping Dog. 16. Tout Chien qui aboie, ne mord pas. Any dog that barks does not bite. 17. Ah! Ah! V'la le beau Monsieur à cheval et sa Dame qui sortent de leur chateau, font ils leur tête!! Ne les insulte point, Paillard, tu ne sais pas, ce que tu peux devenir. Ah! Ah! Here is the handsome gentleman on horseback and his lady coming out of their castle, are they acting up!! Don't insult them, Paillard, you don't know what you can become. 18. ...Oh! c'est tout au plus si vous avez quatre pieds... C'est vrai mon cher ami, la votre en a un, qui en vaut quatre. ...Oh! it's at most if you have four feet... It's true my dear friend, yours has one, which is worth four.
Woodcut portrait of Vesalius attributed to Tobias Stimmer (1539-84). Matted. 13x9. cm

Woodcut portrait of Vesalius attributed to Tobias Stimmer (1539-84). Matted. 13x9. cm by Vesalius, Andreas

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Woodcut portrait of Vesalius attributed to Tobias Stimmer (1539-84). Matted. 13x9. cm
Author
Vesalius, Andreas
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Posthumous portrait of Vesalius attributed to celebrated Swiss artist Tobias Stimmer, or, alternatively, to Stimmer's brother J. Christoph Stimmer or to Stimmer's pupil Christoph Maurer. Mounted and matted. 13 x 9cm. Fine apart from faint show-through from ms. on verso. With black letter caption reading "Andreas Vesalius/Medicus und Kais. Carls des fünfften Leibartz. m. 1564." This version of the portrait with German caption was published in Nikolaus Reusner's "Contrafacturbuch" (1587), the German version of his "Icones sive imagines virorum literis illustrium" (1587). See Spielmann, "Iconography of Andreas Vesalius," pp. 148-51.
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Department of the Army Program for Dissemination of Atomic Energy Information for ORC and NG Organizations, Phase II and III. by United States Army; Sixth Army

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Department of the Army Program for Dissemination of Atomic Energy Information for ORC and NG Organizations, Phase II and III.
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United States Army; Sixth Army
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Presidio of San Francisco, California: Headquarters Sixth Army, 1950. Paperback. Near Fine. Staple-bound text block; 4to; pagination varies (approx. pp. 100), typed, mimeographed text and illustrations, and "RESTRICTED" printed on every page. Two courses, offering a summary of the discoveries leading to development of atomic energy, and the administrative organization for its control in the United states, a comparison of atomic bomb and TNT bomb explosions, types of atomic bomb explosions, effects of known atomic bomb explosions and probable targets for atomic bombs. Also addresses the establishment of the Manhattan engineering district, public law 585, atomic energy act of 1946, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and military liason committee. Disturbing stuff, with pictures of bomb victims. The whole a little age-toned, but near fine. OCLC locates only 3 copies.
Violet Beatrice Wenner [Cover title]

Violet Beatrice Wenner [Cover title]

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Violet Beatrice Wenner [Cover title]
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
N.P.: N.P., 1954. Very good. 6½” x 5”. Stapled wrappers. Pp. [24]. Very good: wrappers gently split above and below staples but holding; a touch of light creasing and spotting. Inscribed by the author on front cover. This is an apparently unrecorded exhibition catalog of works by a lesser-known artist, Baroness Violet Beatrice Wenner. It holds fine examples of the artist's work, effusive commentary from national newspapers and a heartfelt inscription to a friend with new year's wishes for 1955. Violet Beatrice Wenner was born to Swiss parents in Manchester, England in 1884. She studied with prolific children's book creator Sir Walter Crane in England and Austrian portraitist Heinrich von Angeli, and was also a talented and touring harpist. Wenner married Baron Von Sternenfels, adjutant general to the king of Battenberg in 1911, but moved to the United States after their divorce in 1922, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1931. Working from her home in Chicago in oils, pastels, charcoal and pen and ink, the Baroness painted portraits of many crowned heads of Europe and prominent Americans such as Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, scientists and entertainment stars. She was a charter member of the Arts Club of Chicago and a director of the American Outdoor Art League, had a large collection of crystal and porcelain from the Napoleon III era that she sold to a Florida museum, and died in Chicago in 1970. This book features 14 examples of Wenner's portraits, including those of “Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt” and United States Air Corps pilot Ross Beason, Jr., “killed in action 1944. Painting to hang in the Ross Beason Jr. Memorial Hall, Culver Military Academy.” There are paintings of notable Chicago businessmen and their wives, Illinois Governor Len Small, Colonel George A. Whiting and stage actor Alan Mowbray. The book also ran blurbs from national newspapers lauding her “fine” and “charming” works, exhibitions and her studio, “a veritable social and artistic centre.” The artist herself inscribed this copy “To a dear new Friend – from hers too – with all best wishes for a New Year full of realization of her Dreams” and included her signature, Chicago address and telephone number. No holdings of this booklet were located in OCLC or online. OCLC shows only an exhibition catalog of portraits by the Baroness from the 1920s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and an artist file on Wenner at the Cleveland, Ohio Museum of Art.
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THE OUTER REACHES by ANTHOLOGY Derleth, August Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, L. Sprague De Camp, David Keller, HenryKuttner, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, Frank Belnap Long, Clifford Simak, Clark Ashton Smith, Tede Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Donald Wandrei

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THE OUTER REACHES
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ANTHOLOGY Derleth, August Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, L. Sprague De Camp, David Keller, HenryKuttner, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, Frank Belnap Long, Clifford Simak, Clark Ashton Smith, Tede Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Donald Wandrei
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THE OUTER REACHES, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951, first edition, fine in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. Contributions by August Derleth, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, L. Sprague De Camp, David Keller, HenryKuttner, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, Frank Belnap Long, Clifford Simak, Clark Ashton Smith, Tede Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Donald Wandrei et.al. Within the author chooses their own favorites and explain why.
The Discovery of the Oregon Trail; Robert Stuart's Narratives

The Discovery of the Oregon Trail; Robert Stuart's Narratives by Rollins, Philip Ashton

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The Discovery of the Oregon Trail; Robert Stuart's Narratives
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Rollins, Philip Ashton
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Edward Everstadt & Sons, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. LArge 8vo. cxxxvii,, (2), 391, (1) pp. Red cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated with maps and plates. Index. Gilt spine title a bit faded else thsi is a fine copy. .
Regia Marina - Italian Battleships of WWII
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Regia Marina - Italian Battleships of WWII by Bagnasco, Erminio; Grossman, Mark

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Regia Marina - Italian Battleships of WWII
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Bagnasco, Erminio; Grossman, Mark
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780933126756
Condition
Good
Description
Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1986. paperback. Good. 8x0x11. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Rear top corner creased, otherwise in very good condition.
The Wasting of Rural New York State: Factory Farms and Public Health

The Wasting of Rural New York State: Factory Farms and Public Health

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The Wasting of Rural New York State: Factory Farms and Public Health
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Albany, NY: Citizens’ Environmental Coalition; the Sierra Club, 2005. 29p., staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition.

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