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Reticilla Americana & Juglans Nigra [Redstart with Black Walnut]

Reticilla Americana & Juglans Nigra [Redstart with Black Walnut] by CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749)

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Title
Reticilla Americana & Juglans Nigra [Redstart with Black Walnut]
Author
CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749)
Seller
Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Printed for Charles Marsh, Thomas Wilcox and Benjamin Stichall, 1754. hand-coloured etched plate on fine laid paper. A fine plate of the Redstart and Black Walnut from the second edition of the "most famous colorplate book of American plant and animal life ... a fundamental and original work for the study of American species" (Hunt). Trained as a botanist, Catesby travelled to Virginia in 1712 and remained there for seven years, sending back to England collections of plants and seeds. With the encouragement of Sir Hans Sloane and others, Catesby returned to America in 1722 to seek materials for his Natural History; he travelled extensively in Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas, sending back further specimens. His preface provides a lengthy account of the development of this work, including his decision to study with Joseph Goupy in order to learn to etch his copper plates himself to ensure accuracy and economy. The end result is encyclopaedic: Catesby provides information not only on the botany and ornithology of the area, but also on its history, climate, geology and anthropology. Catesby's plate pairs the American redstart, now Setophaga ruticilla, with the black walnut, Juglans nigra. The bird's old name, Ruticilla Americana, appears engraved at the lower left, while the walnut is named at the lower right. The male redstart, shown with black head and back, white underparts, and orange-red patches at the wing and tail, gives the plate its sharp visual accent against the heavy clusters of walnut fruit and long, tapering leaflets. The pairing shows Catesby's characteristic compression of bird and plant into a single decorative field: the redstart supplies movement and colour, while the walnut anchors the image in the useful trees of eastern North America. Cf. Anker 95; cf. Clark I:55; cf. Dunthorne 72; cf. Fine Bird Books (1990), p. 86; cf. Great Flower Books (1990), p.85; cf. Meisel III:340; cf. Nissen BBI 336, IVB 177; cf. Sabin 11509; cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1057; cf. Wood p. 282; cf. Amy Meyers and Margaret Pritchard, Empire's Nature, Mark Catesby's New World Vision, Williamsburg, 1998.
Busido. Disalin dengan merdéka dari oelasan Inazo Niitobe ... oléh Tun Sri Lanang

Busido. Disalin dengan merdéka dari oelasan Inazo Niitobe ... oléh Tun Sri Lanang by Nitobe, Inazō

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Busido. Disalin dengan merdéka dari oelasan Inazo Niitobe ... oléh Tun Sri Lanang
Author
Nitobe, Inazō
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Medan, [North Sumatra, Indonesia]: Poestaka Antara, 2604 [Japanese Imperial Year], [typ. S.J. Tapanoeli], 1944. First edition, approx. 7¼ x 5¼" (18 x 13 cm); pp. 42; stapled; original printed mauve wrappers; publisher's small rubberstamp on back wrapper; lightly faded, the text a little toned, else very good. Text in Indonesian. Although not otherwise stated, this is from the library of Professor Cyril Skinner (1924-1986) first Chair of Indonesian Languages at Monash University, and specialist in Malay and Thai literature. A rare Indonesian adaptation of Nitobe Inazo's Bushido: The Soul of Japan, originally written in English in 1900, ostensibly in Monterey, California (although the preface to the first edition notes it was written in Pennsylvania), here translated, and freely and greatly abbreviated by Tun Sri Lanang. Tun Sri Lanang is possibly a pseudonym, as Tun Sri Lanang, according to many online sources, was a noted administrator of the royal court of the Johor Sultanate who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries. This pamphlet was published in Medan during the Japanese Occupation in 1944. The work reflects the wartime proselytization of Japanese ethical and cultural ideals to Indonesian readers. In the Preliminary Checklist of Indonesian Imprints During the Japanese Period, it is noted as a free adaptation of Nitobe's influential study of bushido, which derives from a samurai moral code concerning samurai attitudes, behavior, and lifestyle. The preface, which is siged "Penjalin" (perhaps another pseudonym), seems to be a rebuke of Japan. If google translate is to be believed, the text reads in part (here paraphrased for clarification): This treatise I am copying explains some of the stupidity of Japan. By studying the reasons for this stupidity, we will surely become more aware of the stupidity of Dai Nippon. In our hearts, the height of the stupidity of that nation will be imprinted..." Inazō Nitobe (1862-1933) "was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer ... [He] devoted himself to women's education, helping to found the Tsuda Eigaku Juku and serving as the first president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and president of the Tokyo Women's College of Economics ... In 1884, Nitobe traveled to the United States where he stayed for three years, and studied economics and political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore, he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It was through a Quaker community in Philadelphia that he met Mary Patterson Elkinton, whom he eventually married ... Nitobe, however, is perhaps most famous in the west for his work Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900), which was one of the first major works on samurai ethics and Japanese culture written originally in English for Western readers" (Wikipedia). OCLC loactes just 3 copies: Univ. of Leiden, Univ. of Malaya, and Cornell.

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