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Chinjyou-zukishu. With Kohyakujou-zu. With Ushikubo Kageharu by JAPANESE MILITARY MANUSCRIPTS

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Title
Chinjyou-zukishu. With Kohyakujou-zu. With Ushikubo Kageharu
Author
JAPANESE MILITARY MANUSCRIPTS
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1769. JAPANESE MILITARY MANUSCRIPTS. Ushikubo Kageharu Castle Map. By Ushikubo Kageharu, reworked by Yoshida Gizaemon. 2 ff, and folded map. 27 x 20 cm (folded), with a foldout 27 x 600 cm, wrappers, housed in a new chitsu case. ca. 1769-1777. AND Kohyakujou-zu. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in black and white. 28 x 40 cm, stab bound in wrappers. AND Chinjyou-zukishu. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in colour. 27 x 19.5 cm, stab bound in wrappers. N.p.; n.d. An extraordinary group of detailed eighteenth century maps and plans depicting castles, and related Paraphernalia". Ushikubo Kageharu Castle Map shows the layout of a castle and an attack route. Kohyakujou-zu 100 diagrams of an unknown castle. Oblong binding has been folded in half. Chinjyou-zukishu contains information on battle maps and castle secrets from the Warring States Period, as well as flags, banners, and horse banners used in battle. Contains two intact volvelles.
Manuel du Voyageur a Paris

Manuel du Voyageur a Paris by MERCIER de COMPIEGNE, Claude-Francois-Xavier; PARI

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Manuel du Voyageur a Paris
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MERCIER de COMPIEGNE, Claude-Francois-Xavier; PARI
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Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1801. PARIS. Manuel du Voyageur a Paris. By Claude-Francois-Xavier Mercier de Compiegne. [20], 352 pp. 12mo, 140 x 87 mm., bound in original wrappers and paper label, later glassine cover. Paris: Favre, An 1X [1801]. A lovely copy of this extremely detailed Napoleonic guide to Paris for 1801. This little book is a mine of information on Paris at the very beginning of the nineteenth century, with descriptions of a vast variety of buildings, cultural entities such as the opera and theatres, and also commercial enterprises. A very good copy in unsophisticated condition. OCLC only lists two copies in libraries worldwide.
Dieses Briefschen bestes Kind wird Dir heut zugeschicht ....

Dieses Briefschen bestes Kind wird Dir heut zugeschicht .... by PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN BROADSHEET - CHILDREN

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Title
Dieses Briefschen bestes Kind wird Dir heut zugeschicht ....
Author
PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN BROADSHEET - CHILDREN
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Good with some marginal tears; overall toning; blank vertical margin irregularly trimmed (no loss); partial separation of some o
Description
[Pennsylvania]: Unknown publisher., [ca.1790]. Edition Unknown.. As issued.. Good with some marginal tears; overall toning; blank vertical margin irregularly trimmed (no loss); partial separation of some old folds; overall toning.. Broadsheet. It meas. appx. 348 x 210 mm. A rare and unusual PA German broadsheet with contemporary green and red color highlights. The broadsheet is adorned with woodcuts of angels with the verse and text printed within a large and ornate framework of flower and leaf blocks. The flowers and architectural ornamentation are highlighted in red with green wash. The broadsheet also bears a printed address or 'seal' on the verso (also in highlighted color); the address text is a variant of the located copy. It appears as if the broadside was meant to be rolled and presented so that the seal would appear as an address to the recipient. The text lauds the birth of a child and the hopes for the dearly loved new life with assurances of a mother's love. In text, presentation, and printing the broadside is dramatic. It is printed on laid paper. There is a watermark that is most difficult to discern because of the over printing and coloring. It does appear, however, to be #PM 46 in Gravell. This is the Berks County, PA. paper mill of Isaac Copeland that ceased business in 1790. None of the illus. or decorative blocks used in the broadside are known to Reilly. The broadsheet meas. appx. 8.5 x 14 inches. Gottingen German Broadsides Database #912; absent from Evans, Arndt, S & S etc. The presentation is derivative in form from the German "Taufenpatenbrief or Godparent's letter" broadsheets of the 18th century. "It was customary in Germany for godparents to send their godchildren painted, handwritten, or printed good luck wishes on the occasion of their baptisms. These folded paper objects often contained small coins, and served as both a certificate of blessing and as religious instruction for young children: illustrated with scenes related to the meaning of baptism, they were preserved for the child's edification when he or she reached an appropriate age. In the 18th century printers developed a gamut of formats for these delightful paper-toy documents, which are now understandably rare." (See: Taufenpatenbrief or Godparent's letter, 1781, published by the Graphic Arts Collection at the Firestone Library at Princeton: https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2017/02/02/taufenpatenbrief-or-godparents-letter-1781/). See also Spamer, Das kleine Andachtsbild.
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Anarchy of the Ranters. WITH: Epistle to... Quakers by FRANKLIN Benjamin BARCLAY Robert

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Title
Anarchy of the Ranters. WITH: Epistle to... Quakers
Author
FRANKLIN Benjamin BARCLAY Robert
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1757. First Edition. (FRANKLIN PRINTING) BARCLAY, Robert. The Anarchy of the Ranters. BOUND WITH: PIKE, Joseph. An Epistle to the National Meeting of Friends in Dublin. Philadelphia: Reprinted, and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1757. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 7 inches), contemporary full brown speckled sheep rebacked, red morocco spine label; custom cloth slipcase, pp. viii, 111, (1); (2), 23, (1). $4800.First American edition of this collection of two key Quaker works, published by the printing firm of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall “on behalf of the Society of Friends” (Miller 655), featuring Scottish-born Barclay’s influential Treatise on Christian Discipline, issued under its original title of Anarchy of the Ranters (1676)—“one of the most impressive theological writings of the century”—with An Epistle (1726) by Irish-born Quaker Pike, rare in contemporary sheep.By the mid 1750s Benjamin Franklin had become a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, effectively beginning his career in revolutionary politics and furthering his position, with David Hall, as a preeminent printer in the colony. The Assembly was then ""dominated by Quakers, who… were often at odds with the family of the Proprietors""— thereby sharing much of Franklin's growing dispute with the Penns over the Assembly's powers (Isaacson, 154). This scarce publication of two major Quaker works, printed by Franklin and Hall ""on behalf of the Society of Friends,"" speaks to the political ties between Franklin and the Quakers, as well as the signal importance of these writings (Miller 655). Authored by Scottish-born Robert Barclay, Anarchy was first published in Latin in 1676 and in English in 1678 (as A Treatise on Christian Discipline). It remains ""one of the earliest formal statements of the position of the Society of Friends, and in many ways it remains the most important and impressive of Quaker manifestos. It stands in its own right, however, as one of the major theological works of an age much given to theological writing"" (Magill, Masterpieces, 527). Barclay, who served from 1682-88 as governor of East Jersey, a colony within present-day New Jersey, here refutes attacks on Quaker practices by contrasting ""the internal government of the Quakers with the anarchy of the Ranters [radicals during the English Civil War], and the hierarchy of the Romanists."" Initially controversial, Barclay's Anarchy soon ""rose into such favor among the Society of Friends, that its title was changed, at one of its yearly meetings, to A Treatise on Christian Discipline (1678) and it became the standard authority"" (Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society III:442). To critic Leslie Stephen, this work is ""one of the most impressive theological writings of the century."" Accompanying Barclay's Anarchy is Irish Quaker Joseph Pike's Epistle to the National Meeting of Friends in Dublin. Pike, like Barclay, had accompanied William Penn on a European trip and was well known to Quaker founder George Fox, who described Pike as ""zealous for truth, and sharp against apostates"" (Leadbeater, Biographical Notices, 174). The year this work was published, Franklin would depart Philadelphia for London in early April, after a meeting with Hall in which he ""drew a red line over all such accounts in this book, as are either settled or not like to be recovered"" (Hawke, 158). Pike's Epistle, also known as Dress and Worldly Compliance, first appeared in Dublin in 1726: in an edition similarly collected with Barclay's Anarchy. Franklin and Hall also published each work in separate editions the same year, no priority established. As issued with separate title pages showing the same imprint, separate pagination and continuous signatures. Miller 655. Campbell 591. Evans 8008. Allibone I:117-20. Lowndes, 113. See Evans 7840, 11661; Sabin 3363, 62825; Hildeburn 1516; Wing B718, B720. Interior generally fresh with light marginal dampstaining.
[Collection of Playbills from the Gran Teatro Payret in Cuba]

[Collection of Playbills from the Gran Teatro Payret in Cuba] by [Cuba]. [Theatre]

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Title
[Collection of Playbills from the Gran Teatro Payret in Cuba]
Author
[Cuba]. [Theatre]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Good plus.
Description
[Havana]: Moises V. Codina, 1908. Good plus.. Seven broadsides, each approximately 22 x 7.25 inches, plus one double bill, measuring about 22 x 15 inches. One broadside printed in red and black. Previously folded. Scattered , shallow tears from edges, not affecting text, with some tape repairs on blank versos. A group of eight playbills spanning eight consecutive days in July 1908 that advertise performances and events at the Gran Teatro Payret in Havana. The theater was built by its namesake, Jaoquin Payret in 1877 on a corner across from the Villanueva Railway Station (now the Capitolio Nacional de la Habana), and initially focused on opera and high-class performing arts to compete directly with other established theaters in the Cuban capital. The building had five floors and a capacity of 2,300, but the upper balconies collapsed in 1882, after which the theater changed hands and began to showcase more varied, popular offerings. These playbills publicize an array of performers, including the ballet dancer Millas; a cabaret artist, Eline Oreo; a magician and telepath, Sidney Richards; Troupe Montrose, a group of acrobats, an Italian dance troupe, Les Casettas; two clowns named Pito and Chocolate; and many others. Notably, the programming also includes a heavy rotation of short and feature films, such as La Electricidad Liquida (1907); El Inagarrables Pick Pocket (1908); Victima de la Ciencia (1907); En Chine: Voyage sur le Canal Impérial (1908); and Venganza del Dervich (1907). The playbill for Thursday, July 16, with its headline and date in red, proclaims the debut of Trouppe Merodia, a seven-person group of acrobats and cyclists, as well as the Cuban premiere of a film titled La Caza de Oso (The Bear Hunt). The theater was closed by hurricane damage in 1926, but reopened as a cinema in 1935, and in the following years became known as the "Cathedral of Spanish Cinema." The building again fell into disuse and disrepair in the decades following the Cuban Revolution, but was restored in 2008. A very interesting group that gives a great sense of day-to-day operations at one of Cuba's most important and historic theaters.
A Dish of Apples (Signed limited edition)

A Dish of Apples (Signed limited edition) by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Eden Phillpotts

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Title
A Dish of Apples (Signed limited edition)
Author
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Eden Phillpotts
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. First thus. Fine. Edition deluxe, number 77 of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. A fine copy. Small quarto (10 x 7 5/8 in; 254 x 193 mm). 75, (3) pp. Illustrated with three full-page mounted illustrations in color with tissue guards and twenty-three drawings in black and white. Publisher's cream cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial end papers, top edge gilt. Eden Phillpotts' A Dish of Apples is a poetry collection celebrating the seasonal and pastoral, with a particular emphasis on the fruits of harvesttime. Phillpotts (1861-1960) was an English novelist, poetry, and dramatist known for his Dartmoor cycle and the novel Widecombe Fair. Fred Gettings sees the painting-like illustrations in this book as evidence of Rackham's maturing style, although readers will still delight in his mischievous elves and fairies amongst bucolic scenery. Phillpotts wrote of Rackham's illustrations: "I am immensely pleased at the charm & originality of your most attractive drawings. The humor of them especially drew me" (Hudson). Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell, p. 54. Riall, p. 144. Gettings, p. 179. Hudson, p. 170. Fine.
Bad Seed (First Edition, signed by Patty McCormack)

Bad Seed (First Edition, signed by Patty McCormack) by Maxwell Anderson

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Title
Bad Seed (First Edition, signed by Patty McCormack)
Author
Maxwell Anderson
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. First Edition. First Edition of the play. SIGNED on the title page by actress Patty McCormack, who played Rhoda, the titular "bad seed," both on Broadway and in the 1956 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Based on the 1954 novel by William March. McCormack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. About Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket.
Ko^gei O^yo^ ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues

Ko^gei O^yo^ ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues by [DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor

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Title
Ko^gei O^yo^ ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues
Author
[DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor
Seller
Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1894. [DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor. Ko^gei O^yo^ ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues. No.'s 20-26, To^kyo^, Meiji 26-27 [1893-4]. 24.5 x 16.6 cm. Stab-bound wrapper's in woodblock printed paper covers. Haruna Shigeharu (1847-1913) was a pottery painter born into the upper classes in Ishikawa prefecture, here using his artistic and design skills to organize and edit this "PRACTICAL ARTS DESIGN MAGAZINE", full of black and white design ideas and articles on such topics as the Columbian Exposition, etc. Very unusual periodical, here in very good condition, inside and out. A short but continuous run.
Remembering Laughter

Remembering Laughter by Stegner, Wallace

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Remembering Laughter
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Stegner, Wallace
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($1.25), lightly toned and rubbed, a crease at the top of the front panel. Blue cloth, faded at the top edge matching the fold in the dust jacket. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author.
Tao Te Ching (In Dustjacket)

Tao Te Ching (In Dustjacket) by Lao Tzu

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Tao Te Ching (In Dustjacket)
Author
Lao Tzu
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1982. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A handsome copy of this 1982 edition, translated by D.C. Lau. In its less common hardback and also including the publisher's dustjacket. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with fading along the spine. Octavo, part of the Chinese University Press's "Chinese Classics" series.
Praxis: Journal of Writing (Issue #1, Vol. #1)

Praxis: Journal of Writing (Issue #1, Vol. #1)

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Praxis: Journal of Writing (Issue #1, Vol. #1)
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Praxis, Inc, 2000. Original wraps. Fine. A crisp, very sharp copy of Issue #1, Volume #1 (Detail: Specificity in Architecture). Clean and Fine in its pictorial wrappers. A "journal of writing + building
[AMERICANA] SERVICE RECORDS OF EXISTING CAST IRON MAINS LAID IN THE 17th, 18th AND 19th CENTURIES

[AMERICANA] SERVICE RECORDS OF EXISTING CAST IRON MAINS LAID IN THE 17th, 18th AND 19th CENTURIES by [Cast Iron Pipe Research Association]

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Title
[AMERICANA] SERVICE RECORDS OF EXISTING CAST IRON MAINS LAID IN THE 17th, 18th AND 19th CENTURIES
Author
[Cast Iron Pipe Research Association]
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
Chicago: The Association, 1934. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good binding. 32 unnumbered pages, including the title leaf. With pictorial map endpapers; the front being: “In these important cities the original Cast Iron Mains are still in service”; the rear being “An historical record of Cast Iron Gas Mains in the United States”, showing the age of the oldest cast iron mains still in service in various cities. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. An uncommon item with less 10 copies located on OCLC. Very Good binding.
They Eat Shit + Die (Signed)

They Eat Shit + Die (Signed) by WILLIAMS, Sue

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They Eat Shit + Die (Signed)
Author
WILLIAMS, Sue
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780982100639
Description
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Art Institute, 2010. Second edition. Softcover. [36 pages.] A new edition for an exhibition that ran September 18 through October 23, 2010. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some slight sunning to the spine. Signed and inscribed by Sue Williams on the title page and additionally signed by Nate Lowman. A very nice copy as the recipients were prominent Chicago art collectors.
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The History of the Jews in London by Adler, Elkan Nathan

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The History of the Jews in London
Author
Adler, Elkan Nathan
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g
Description
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1930. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 255 pp. In English. Blue Cloth. Some age wear on spine, small tear where title page is attached and slight yellowing of pages, otherwise book in good condition. From the "Jewish Communities Series
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RICHARD TUCKER, A BIOGRAPHY by Drake, J.A.

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RICHARD TUCKER, A BIOGRAPHY
Author
Drake, J.A.
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Includes discography

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