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SHO^KEI GAFU

SHO^KEI GAFU by [ALBUM, PAINTING] NAKAJIMA Yu^sho^

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Seller: Boston Book Company
Title
SHO^KEI GAFU
Author
[ALBUM, PAINTING] NAKAJIMA Yu^sho^
Seller
Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
18. [ALBUM, PAINTING] NAKAJIMA Yusho. SHOKEI GAFU Orihon folding painting album in gafu style, full of lovely views of Japan. 28 x 16.8 CM. Preliminary and final decorated pages, plus a 2 page table of contents and 42 double page color paintings ( each 28.2 X 33.4 CM) in a late Shijo Kyoto-school style by Nakajima Yusho (1837-1905), the son of Nakajima Raisho and a talented artist in his own right. In brocade covers with a brushed title label and enclosed in a clasped chitsu case. Lovely throughout, delicate colors, skilled brushwork.
A printed satirical fan

A printed satirical fan by [FAN — INCROYABLES and MERVEILLEUSES]

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Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.
Title
A printed satirical fan
Author
[FAN — INCROYABLES and MERVEILLEUSES]
Seller
Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
[France, 1799. Hand-colored etched folding paper fan, printed on recto of a single sheet, the etching showing two couples in a park, one pair with a young coachman in a small open carriage, with caption “Ma paole d’honneur! Elle est! Chamante!”, hand-colored in watercolor, within stencil-printed pink decorative border; mounted on original plain wooden sticks, the open leaf measuring approx. 130 x 460 mm., total fan height 275 mm. Condition: a few tiny holes, of which two within etched area, small repair on verso of an outer fold. *** A rare popular printed fan from the Directory period, satirizing the fashionable young men and women known as Incroyables and Merveilleuses, epithets based on their attitude of wide-eyed exclamation (à la “that’s awesome”). The frivolity of that period was an understandable reaction to the horrors of the Terror, and it expressed itself in costume as well as attitude. Both men and women often wore huge neck scarves and large hats, visible in this print, in which, however, the more famous eccentricities of their dress do not appear. For example, while gaily attired in bright pink and gauzy blue, the ladies are substantially clothed, the season being perhaps too chilly for the transparent gauzy dresses associated with the Merveilleuses. Thus the signature give-away of the identity of the young beaux and belles in this fan is not their clothing, but the caption: a byword of Incroyables and Merveilleuses, besides certain set phrases (like “Incredible,” “Marvelous,” or “my word of honor”), was a dropping of the letter R, or its pronunciation in the English style, instead of the traditional rolled R (supposedly to avoid the R of Revolution). Here parole becomes “paole” and charmante “chamante,” and strategically placed exclamation points convey their air of naive astonishment. They also lisped, so that their speech sounded like that of 3-year olds, providing ample fodder to satirists. In early 1797, the print publisher Louis Darcis published a pair of caricatures of Incroyables and Merveilleuses after Claude Vernet. These were widely copied and imitated in the decorative arts, including for the cheap, mass-produced paper fans that popped up during the Revolutionary years, replacing the traditional luxury market of bespoke fans. One commentator remarked that if these images could only convey the speech of these privileged youths, the ridicule would be all the more striking (Menal, para. 7). Evidently the publisher of this fan (which looks nothing like the Vernet prints) took this advice to heart. Cheap and mass-produced, perhaps, but now extremely rare: I locate no other copies of this fan. Cf. Cf. Sibylle Menal, “Les Incroyables de Carle Vernet: l’image comique et son contexte,” Fabula: Les colloques, Le rire: formes et fonctions du comique, online.
Mexicanos: Teneis Derecho Incontestable a Instruiros de los Procederes de un Cuerpo Depositario de Vuestra Confianza y Encargado de la Prosperidad Comun... [first line of text]

Mexicanos: Teneis Derecho Incontestable a Instruiros de los Procederes de un Cuerpo Depositario de Vuestra Confianza y Encargado de la Prosperidad Comun... [first line of text] by Andrade, José Antonio de

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Title
Mexicanos: Teneis Derecho Incontestable a Instruiros de los Procederes de un Cuerpo Depositario de Vuestra Confianza y Encargado de la Prosperidad Comun... [first line of text]
Author
Andrade, José Antonio de
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Mexico City: Imprenta Imperial de D. Alejandro Valdes, 1823. Very good.. 4,[2]pp. Loose sheets, neatly removed from a sammelband. Uneven left edge. Light dust soiling. An important and scarce document that seeks to ensure public support for the installation of a federal congress as part of a representative government in independent Mexico. This address to the Mexican people was published at the end of the turbulent reign of Agustin de Iturbide, who was proclaimed emperor and reigned briefly as such following independence from Spain. The text, published on March 6, 1823, urges the adoption of the Plan of Casa Mata, which called for the election of a new federal congress and a declaration that the installation of Iturbide as emperor six months previously be null and void. Throughout, it asserts the basic right of the people to influence the form of the national government, and for that government to reflect their will in a representative manner, while consistently denouncing the emperor and his supporters as the enemies of fundamental rights and liberties. With the support of the provincial governments, to whom the plan promised a degree of political independence, and republican leaders from the military, such as José Antonio Andrade and the other principal signatories to this document, Iturbide was forced to step down two weeks following the promulgation of this address. The reestablishment of the Mexican National Congress led to the adoption of the Constitution of 1824 and the inauguration of the First Mexican Republic. Rare; OCLC locates only two copies, at Yale and the British Library.
The Beautiful Fruit Gatherer [18th century English color mezzotint]

The Beautiful Fruit Gatherer [18th century English color mezzotint] by Anon.

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
The Beautiful Fruit Gatherer [18th century English color mezzotint]
Author
Anon.
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Good; vertical margins trimmed; colors are deep and solid; some bug (?) damage along the blank lower border and minor surface ru
Description
London: R[obert] Sayer and J Bennett, 1782. Edition Unknown.. Mounted on board at an early date.. Good; vertical margins trimmed; colors are deep and solid; some bug (?) damage along the blank lower border and minor surface rubbing.. Print. Stencil, hand and block printed color mezzotint meas. appx. 353 x 252 mm. A handsome decorative print depicting a woman in an elaborate garden collecting grapes. She is wearing a flowing white dress, apron, shawl and black hat adorned with flowers. Beside her is a basket of fruit. All are highlighted in hand-color differently applied, i.e., stencil or brush work. The firm of Sayer and Bennett were a prominent business of mapmakers during the 18th century benefitting from Sayer's prolonged association with Thomas Jefferys whom he rescued from bankruptcy in 1766. See Worms, British Map Engravers, pp. 585-588; see also Carol Wax, The Mezzotint - History and Technique for chapters on the history of technical developments and the marketplace in the 18th century. There is a similar figure of painted and decorated plaster in the garden of Antony House, Cornwall, UK.
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Monocotyledons. A Morphological Study by Arber, A

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Title
Monocotyledons. A Morphological Study
Author
Arber, A
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A good copy with some minor wear.
Description
Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1925. First Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth.. A good copy with some minor wear.. Royal 8vo. The text is illus. throughout. One Arber's more elusive titles. The work contains a excellent introductory essay on the history and science of plant morphology.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Angelou, Maya

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Title
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Author
Angelou, Maya
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
ISBN
9780375507472
Condition
Near Fine
Description
U.S.A.: Random House, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition as stated on copyright page. Inscribed by author on title page. Near fine book, darkening spots on front cover, rubbing on all corners of book and top and bottom edge of spine, folding on top and bottom edge of spine, fading on top and bottom edge of front cover, and small white mark on bottom edge of back cover. Near fine dust jacket, rubbing on corners of front and back jacket, black mark on bottom of front jacket, and wearing on top and bottom edge of spine.
The London Mystery Selection: Number Eighty-Five, Vol. 20, June 1970

The London Mystery Selection: Number Eighty-Five, Vol. 20, June 1970

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Title
The London Mystery Selection: Number Eighty-Five, Vol. 20, June 1970
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Crooks in Books/Hazell Watson & Viney, 1970. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Wrappers lightly soiled, pages age-toned, else very good. Stories by: G.E. Fox, Margaret Nisbet, C.C. Underwood, Gwenda Lewis, and more.
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The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume 1, Part Two (April 1948). by Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.

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The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume 1, Part Two (April 1948).
Author
Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1948. One of 2500 copies printed at The Asthoensen Press. Quarto, patterned boards, [iv], 113-216 pp. Illus., ads. Includes: Stephen Crane, War Correspondent, by Ames W. Williams; Almost Books, by Frederick R. Goff; Reflections on Rarity, by John Carter; Silhouette of a Librarian, by George Boas; Holbein’s Old Testament Woodcuts, by Philip Hofer; The Harmless Drudge, by Herbert W. Liebert; and A Ghost from a Barber Shop, by Carl J. Weber. Near-Fine, corners a bit bumped.

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