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Finely decorated woodblock-printed kasuga-ban scroll (春日版装飾経) of Vol. VI of the Lotus Sutra [S. Saddharmapundarikasutra; J. Myohorengekyo 妙法蓮華経] by LOTUS SUTRA

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Title: Finely decorated woodblock-printed kasuga-ban scroll (春日版装飾経) of Vol. VI of the Lotus Sutra [S. Saddharmapundarikasutra; J. Myohorengekyo 妙法蓮華経]
Author: LOTUS SUTRA
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 17 characters per column; 25 columns per sheet, 21.5 joined sheets. Scroll (275 x 10,740 mm.), outer front endpaper with nature motifs (quite faded), inner endpaper with dense patterns of applied squares of silver. Columns of text vertically ruled in gold (kinkai) throughout, borders on top & bottom decorated with densely applied cut squares of gold & silver, wooden core roller. Japan: mid- to late Kamakura era (ca. 1250-1333). A luxuriously produced kasuga-ban edition of Vol. VI of the Lotus Sutra, originally translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva and completed in 406 CE. The Lotus Sutra is the most influential of all sutra and “was highly influential in East Asia, inspiring both a range of devotional practices as well as the creation of new Buddhist schools that had no Indian analogues.”–Buswell & Lopez, eds., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, p. 730. For several Japanese schools of Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra remains their central text and is considered the only valid Buddhist sutra for the degenerate age. This handsome scroll has been printed on high-quality paper (gampi, or mulberry fibers) and printed in bold, thick strokes using black sumi ink, typical of Kamakura and Muromachi kasuga-ban printings (kasuga-ban is a general term for publications of the Nara monasteries; see below). Kumarajiva (344-413), Buddhist monk, scholar, missionary, and translator, who came from the Silk Road kingdom of Kucha, was famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vendantic learning. He was the greatest translator of Buddhist scripture from Sanskrit into Chinese, and it was largely owing to his efforts and influence that Buddhist religious and philosophical ideas were disseminated in China. Following many years of study in Kucha and Kashmir, he arrived in Chang’an (now Xi’an) in 401 with a great reputation. He became known as “teacher of the nation.” There, he headed a famous school of translators, and together they translated many important texts into Chinese, including the Vimalakirti, the Diamond, the Lotus, and the Amitabha sutras. PROVENANCE: At the end of the scroll is an annotation by Zonshun 存舜, a priest at the Jissō ji 實相寺, a temple in what is today’s Gunma Prefecture, stating that this scroll was dedicated to the temple. Our scroll has a distinguished 20th-century provenance: from the library of Frank Hawley, with his seal. Hawley was one of the most discerning collectors of Japanese books and manuscripts. His stamp appears at the beginning of the text. See R.H. van Gulik’s “In Memoriam. Frank Hawley (1906-1961)” in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 16, No. 3/4 (Oct. 1960-Jan. 1961), pp. 434-47. This scroll passed on to the great bookseller Sorimachi Shigeo, the “H.P. Kraus of Japan,” who in turn sold it to Donald and Mary Hyde (her sale: Christie’s NY, 7 October 1988, lot 56, $33,000). With the seals of Sorimachi and Hyde. Very fine and fresh condition, preserved in a modern wooden box with brush inscription of the title by Sorimachi’s bibliographer, Mr. Mori. ❧ K.B. Gardner, “Centres of Printing in Medieval Japan: late Heian to early Edo period” in British Library Occasional Papers 11. Japanese Studies (ed. by Yu-Ying Brown), London: 1990, p. 159–“The term Kasuga-ban became used more loosely, in a wider sense, to denote publications of the Nara monasteries in general, not only of the Kofukuji. The printing of Kasuga-ban in this broader sense flourished throughout the Kamakura period and up to the end of Muromachi (ca. 1570).”.

The Ring of the Nibelungen by Wagner, Richard

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Title: The Ring of the Nibelungen
Author: Wagner, Richard
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Schott's, 1877. First English language edition. First trade edition (and 1st combined edition) in English (translated by Alfred Forman) of The Rhein-Gold, The Walkyrie, Siegfried, and Dusk of the Gods, preceded only by privately printed separate issues of the 4 individual parts (1873-1875) to secure copyright, which had a total of just 238 pages. This is the complete librettos, with 351 pages of snugly printed tiny type, containing all the dialogue and stage directions for all 4 parts. Half cloth, marbled boards, printed paper label. Near fine condition with the series half-title and title page, as well as all 4 half-titles. Ex-Edw. Schuberth & Co. (oval stamp to half-title).

Orokaiva Society by Williams, Francis Edgar, 1893-1943

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Title: Orokaiva Society
Author: Williams, Francis Edgar, 1893-1943
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Oxford University Press, 1930. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. frontis, photos, illustrations, folding map, index, xxiii, 355p. Original black cloth. dj (price-clipped). 22 cm.

Letter from Cortland van Rensselaer to Thomas E. Vermilye, written on the prospectus for a lithographic portrait of John Calvin

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Title: Letter from Cortland van Rensselaer to Thomas E. Vermilye, written on the prospectus for a lithographic portrait of John Calvin
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: New York, NY: n.p., 1844. unbound. Lithography. 4to. unbound. (4) pages. A.L.s., dated December 30, 1844, from van Rensselaer to a Dutch Reformed minister, accompanying a gift of "John Calvin's Last Farewell to the Four Syndics and Senators of Geneva," described by the prospectus, an imprint of E. Carey, Geneva, New York. Not accompanied by the portrait itself. The writer extols Calvin as "that great light" of Presbyterianism, Protestantism, and "I may as well add, of Christendom." The letter was creased, with some tearing along the creases on the back page.

Three Poems by Winters, Yvor

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Seller: De Wolfe and Wood

Title: Three Poems
Author: Winters, Yvor
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Cummington Press, mlm. Paper wraps. Small Press-Will Ransom. Winters, Yvor. Three Poems. The Cummington Press, mlm. 8 pages with marbled wraps. With library record label of Will Ransom. Very good condition.

Engraved Portrait by Robert Cooper after W. Derby by Caesar, Julius

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Engraved Portrait by Robert Cooper after W. Derby
Author: Caesar, Julius
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Plate:238x150 mm. Margin: 280x195 mm. Very faint foxing, light soiling, small spout in top margin.

Scientific American, New York, July 27, 1895., Volume LXXII,, No. 4

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Title: Scientific American, New York, July 27, 1895., Volume LXXII,, No. 4
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1895. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Folio (16 ¼" x 11 ¼"); pp50-64; illustrated wrapper; 3" split at tail of wrapper fold, small closed tears and chipping to wrapper edges, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good minus. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufactures. Contents include: The Lake Steamer North Land; Prevention of Electrolytic Action Upon Water and Gas Mains; Wire Rope 1900 Years Old; Terrestrial Helium; Bicycle an Aid to Science and Art; Electrical Items Worth Remembering; How Electricity Sets Fires; Cycle Notes; Holcomb's Banjo or Guitar; High Speed Navigation; the Wheel Versus the Pedestrian; Barathon's Propeller Life Buoy; Eastman's Bob Sled; Aerial Navigation [Caballero's Air Vessel]; the International Exposition at Atlanta with a Map: Plan of Piedmont Park; Paper Sails; Do Gulls Follow Ships; To Prevent Drifting Sands; Remarkable Lakes in British Columbia; Experiment on Thermo-Electric Currents; the Cornell Crew in England; Bicycle Insurance Risks; Corrosion of Aluminum; a Sectional Side Launch Dock; Razor Sharpener; Mount Ranier, Washington; the New Torpedo Boats; a Novelty in Optical Lanterns; Photographing Oil Paintings; Retouching Surfaces; the Paradise Birds Recently Discovered in New Guinea; and Index of Inventions.

Irrwege der Naturlehre; Die Unhaltbarkeit der heutigen Anschauungen und deren Folgen. by ZACHARIAS, Johannes.

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Title: Irrwege der Naturlehre; Die Unhaltbarkeit der heutigen Anschauungen und deren Folgen.
Author: ZACHARIAS, Johannes.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Hamburg:: Hephaestos, 1912., 1912. 8vo. 44 pp. Mostly unopened. Printed wrappers; edge worn, some browning. Translated: The erroneous paths of natural science; the untenability of today's views and their consequences.

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