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[In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs] by [DECORATIVE ARTS]

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Title: [In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]
Author: [DECORATIVE ARTS]
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: [Tokyo]: [Japan Art Society], [1905]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs] An Aesthetic Window into Japanese Decorative Tradition [DECORATIVE ARTS]. [In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]. [Tokyo: Japan Art Society, 37th Year of the Meiji (1905)]. Octavo (9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 242 x 140 mm). 154 pp. A unique scrapbook of over 500 charcoal rubbings on rice paper of Japanese miniature comb and hairpin (koagi) patterns tipped-in to the pages of three issues of Japanese Art Society Reports bound together. The original collector has crossed-out the original titles, publisher, etc., and provided their own manuscript title in black marking pen. Each page has two rubbed patterns, each pattern with upper and lower views of each comb, and the rubbings are remarkably sharp with even small details very clear. Publisher's original string-bound wrappers with losses but the integrity of interior of the book remains complete and intact. Early auction clipping for this item ("Kushi Hinagata") mounted to the inside of the rear (Japanese front) cover. Housed in a green silk drop-back box with traditional Japanese clasps with paper label on spine, lettered in Japanese. This kind of vernacular, studio-generated scrapbook - mixing printed art society documents with hundreds of individually made rubbings - is exceptionally rare. It offers not only an aesthetic window into Japanese decorative tradition but also a unique document of private study and preservation by an anonymous mid-century compiler. The art of Japanese hair decoration, or kushi, dates back hundreds of years and has rich and varied heritage. As with much Eastern art it served to "beautify items of everyday use, to make the commonplace extraordinary [and] to tell of the life and status of the wearers, who were geisha, courtesans, court ladies, and housewives" (Ziesnitz and Momoko, Combs and Hairpins, Daruma: Japanese Art and Antique Magazine, Summer 2002). And, indeed, this work is a testament to the beautiful and elegant diversity of this Japanese decorative art. A curious, attractive and visually arresting book, one with certain aesthetic merit, given the obsessive care and attention necessary to compile such a volume which, with its use of a marking pen, dates this compilation to sometime post-1952, the year that marking pens were introduced. A valuable historical, cultural, and artistic record as well as an object that, as much as its subject, renders the commonplace extraordinary, and takes its place along side of Hokusai's classic Imayo Kushi Hinagata (1823) as a key reference. "Women have always adorned themselves but perhaps none so subtly as the Japanese. You can reproduce the old hairstyles seen in painting and sculpture but their hair ornaments remind us of the coiffures on which they were worn. In other words, hair ornaments are tangible souvenirs of ancient hairstyles. "Hair ornaments were not mere accessories to feminine coiffure and attire. In keeping with the Japanese urge to beautify items of everyday use, to make the commonplace extraordinary, they were turned into artistic objects mirroring cultural and and social history. They tell of the life and status of their wearers, who were geisha, courtesans, court ladies, and housewives. "They give a glimpse of the exceptional beauty of Japanese art..." (Ziesnitz, Sharon. Combs and Hairpins. Daruma 35, vol. 9, No. 3, Summer 2002).

Rehnquist Court Justices Sign An Oversized Color Photograph by (REHNQUIST SUPREME COURT)

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

Title: Rehnquist Court Justices Sign An Oversized Color Photograph
Author: (REHNQUIST SUPREME COURT)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: REHNQUIST COURT (1986-2005). The Rehnquist Court was the period in the Supreme Court when William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice, lasting until his death in 2005. This Court often gave more power to the states through its rulings, promoting a policy of New Federalism. The Rehnquist Court is considered to be a relatively conservative court, with four of the justices during this court, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas, causing a shift towards the right. This court also holds the longest stretch where the same nine justices served together, serving eleven years from 1994 to 2005. This court consisted of the following judges: William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, William J. Brennan Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell Jr., John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer.PS. 15 x 13 . c. 1986-1987. Washington, D. C. A photograph of the Rehnquist Court signed by the 9 justices Thurgood Marshall, W J Brennan Jr, William H Rehnquist, Byron R. White, Harry A. Blackmun, Sandra D OConnor, Lewis F. Powell Jr, John Paul Stevens, and Antonin Scalia along the bottom margin of the photo. This photo pictures the original nine judges of the Rehnquist Court, having to be taken and signed between 1986 and 1987 as a result of Powell retiring in 1987. This photograph is in very fine condition and is professionally framed.

Street and Bridge at Simoda by HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)

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Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books

Title: Street and Bridge at Simoda
Author: HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1856. Tinted lithograph mounted on support sheet with printed letters as issued with small stab holes where previously bound. A finely observed street scene at Shimoda, Japan from Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition based on Wilhelm Heine's drawings during Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan, showing the newly accessible treaty port through its built environment, local movement, and everyday encounters. Heine's view presents a street near the gate at Shimoda, in Izu Province, shortly after the port's opening to American vessels under the Treaty of Kanagawa. The scene is organized around a small arched stone bridge with pale balustrades, set before a shrine approach marked by a large torii, stone lanterns, thatched and tiled buildings, and tall windswept trees. The composition balances architectural record with social observation, giving equal attention to the cut-stone bridge, the street's raised central path, the houses lining the road, and the figures who animate the foreground. At right, two bearers carry a traveller in a kago, the enclosed palanquin used in Japan where wheeled carriages were not part of ordinary travel. In the foreground, adults and children gather around a seated figure, likely an artist drawing in the street, while other figures pass across the bridge or stand beneath the torii. These small groups give the print a sense of immediacy: Shimoda appears as a functioning town observed at close range. Wilhelm Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant-folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year a second volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, among the best lithographers in the United States at that time. Bennett, p.53; McGrath American Color Plate Books 123.

Omduran by ZIEGLER, Philip

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Title: Omduran
Author: ZIEGLER, Philip
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: New York: Knopf, 1974. hardcover. very good(+). Black-and-white illustrations.. 237pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. A very good (+) copy.

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