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Manuscript document on paper, mounted onto an attractive hanging scroll, entitled in manuscript at beginning on outside: ネパール王族チャンドラシタランヂ氏招待状 ["Invitation from (?) [or] to (?) Chandra shitaranji (?) of the Nepalese royal family"] by NEPAL

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Title: Manuscript document on paper, mounted onto an attractive hanging scroll, entitled in manuscript at beginning on outside: ネパール王族チャンドラシタランヂ氏招待状 ["Invitation from (?) [or] to (?) Chandra shitaranji (?) of the Nepalese royal family"]
Author: NEPAL
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: One sheet (275 x 205 mm.), carefully mounted. [Nepal]: Vikrama Samvat 1982, Falgun 10 (equivalent to 21 February 1926). A rare government document showing growing international scholarly and religious interest during the early 20th century in the Kapilavastu (or Lumbini) archeological site, the birthplace of Buddha, located along present-day Nepal's western boundary with India. This is a purji (notice) from Palhi-Majhkhand goswara (provincial office) to Sitaram Kurmi, a jimidar (a local official) of mauja (an administrative division composed of several villages) Khungai in tappa (an administrative division composed of several mauja) Rupandehi. The government order instructs a local official to facilitate the visit of a certain Mr. Yemitar (Yamitaro? Yamataro?) from Japan, accompanied by three others, who were travelling from the Indian territories into the Nepal frontier. The inscription on the outside of the scroll almost certainly refers to Chandra Shumsher, then Prime Minister of Nepal (a hereditary executive position similar to the shogunate in Japan). The bearer of this document appears to have treated it as a proof of invitation, even though technically the document is an order from one Nepali government department to another. Since it bears the seal of the issuing government department, this document seems to be an authorized copy of the original document, used as proof and corroboration. Following the discovery of the 3rd-century BCE Ashokan inscriptions by Anton Führer and Rudra Shumsher in 1896, the Kapilavastu ruins had emerged as an important site for both pilgrimage and Buddhological research. The best-known Japanese scholar to visit this location was Kawaguchi Ekai, who was followed by Ōtani Kōzui, Shimizu Mokuji, Inoue Kōen, and Honda Eryū in the early years of the 20th century. Kawaguchi maintained close contact with Nepal's then Prime Minister, Chandra Shumsher Rana, who, in fact, acceded to the former's demand that ritual animal sacrifices at a Hindu temple near the site be stopped. While the identity of the leader of this particular 1926 expedition, spelled "Yemitar" according to Nepali orthography, is not clear from the document, it does offer a ground-level view of how the Nepali state, then ruled by the Rana military oligarchy, organized visits of international scholars and pilgrims. Such trips demanded not only diplomatic consensus between the British colonial state and Nepal's famously insular government but also coordination among numerous provincial officials. We learn from the order that its intended recipient, a local revenue officer named Sitaram Kurmi, had handled such visitors on several previous occasions. Interestingly, the document uses the Sanskrit word darśan, meaning auspicious vision of a deity in Indic religions, to describe the aim of the Japanese team's visit. Aided by the expansion of the Indian railway close to the Nepal frontier, and growing interest in the Kapilavastu site, a pilgrimage economy of sorts appears to have developed in the first decades of the 20th century. In addition to giving us a bureaucratic snapshot of this world, this document's value lies also in its rarity, since similar items are extant only in Nepal's guarded diplomatic archives, inaccessible to non-citizens. Fine condition. ❧ Buddhist India: An Illustrated Buddhist Quarterly and Buddhist Gazette, Vol. 1 (Jan 1927), pp. 1-80. Kai Weise, The Sacred Garden of Lumbini: Perceptions of Buddha's Birthplace (Paris: UNESCO, 2013). Richard M. Jaffe, Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism (Chicago: 2019).

Monumenta Hungariae Judaica - Magyar-Zsidó O Klevéltár. Vol. I: 1092-1539; Vol. II: 1540-1710; Vol. III: 1711-1740. 3-vol. set by Armin, Dr. Friss (Vols. I & II); Mandl Bernát (Vol. III)

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Title: Monumenta Hungariae Judaica - Magyar-Zsidó O Klevéltár. Vol. I: 1092-1539; Vol. II: 1540-1710; Vol. III: 1711-1740. 3-vol. set
Author: Armin, Dr. Friss (Vols. I & II); Mandl Bernát (Vol. III)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g
Description: Budapest: Wodianer F. És Fiai Bizománya, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XLI, [3], 524, XII, 566, [4], 919, [1]pp. Original olive cloth (1st vol.) and black cloth (Vol. II) with gold lettering on spines. Original printed wrappers (Vol. III). This set contains the first 3 volumes of this monumental anthology of the history of Hungarian Jews published before WWII. The other 2 volumes were published after the war which nearly annihilated Hungary's Jewish population. Indeed, of the original 825,000 Jews before the war, 260,000 Hungarian Jews survived and 565,000 perished. This work is an example of a Jewish attempt to practice the monumentalist style of historiography popular in Germany in the 19th century, which attempted to gather every relevant document on a given topic from government archives as a first step to analyzing them and creating a master narrative. Moderate rubbing and soiling on bindings. Gold lettering of first volume faded. Lower front corners slightly bumped (not affecting pages). Front hinge of second volume slightly starting. Wrappers of third volume age-toned and partly creased along edges. Very minor and sporadic age-toning along paper margin. Text in Hungarian, German and Latin. Bindings in overall good, wrappers in fair, interior in good+ condition.

Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, 2pp., on personalized stationery, "Greenfield" Manor Road, Sidmouth, S. Devon, England, February 15, 1937 by FLEMING, AMBROSE

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, 2pp., on personalized stationery, "Greenfield" Manor Road, Sidmouth, S. Devon, England, February 15, 1937
Author: FLEMING, AMBROSE
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: He writes in response to a request to write his biography. "Dear Madam, In reply to your kind letter of 14th asking to write a biography of me - I expect you are not aware that - in 1934 I published through Marshall Morgan & Co. of 11/12 Paternoster Building, London, my book Memories of a Scientific Life - price 5 (pounds) - in which I gave the full story of my career. and Sir Oliver Lodge wrote a Foreword to it. As this book has not yet sold out its first Edition I should not like to do anything to hinder its sale by the publication of another biography yet a while. It would hardly be fair to the publishers who have perhaps not yet recovered their outlay on it. In any event I could hardly give any more information about myself than is contained in these memories. I would suggest your obtaining a copy of it for reference...." He signs,in full, "Ambrose Fleming," and adds in a post script, "P.S. Perhaps some serial could be written without injury to the 'Memories.'" Oliver Lodge (1851-1940) was a physicist involved in the development of wireless telegraphy. He is credited with coining the term, "coherer." He was also a socialist and member of the Fabian Society, co-authoring "Public Service versus Private Expenditure" with Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Ball.

False WWII "Missing in Action" Notification for Well-known Ukrainian Monumentalist and Avant-garde Artist Aleksandr Antonovich Mordan' together with a Brochure Detailing His Life and Several of His Works by Colonel Andrei Gerkin (notice), et al; Diuzhenko, Iu. (brochure)

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Title: False WWII "Missing in Action" Notification for Well-known Ukrainian Monumentalist and Avant-garde Artist Aleksandr Antonovich Mordan' together with a Brochure Detailing His Life and Several of His Works
Author: Colonel Andrei Gerkin (notice), et al; Diuzhenko, Iu. (brochure)
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Description: Moscow: Kirovskii Raionnyi Voennyi Komissariat (notice); Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik, 1944. Softcover. Small sheet, printed with hand-filled notes (recto only); trimmed to 4 1/4 x 5 1/4; two faint intersecting fold lines through middle; small closed cuts to edges; few spots to verso only; overall good to very good condition. Brochure limited to 600 copies; 5 1/2 x 11 1/2; triple-folded; portrait frontis and several b&w illustrations from paintings; minor wear, near fine condition.Aleksandr Mordan' joined the Red Army after graduating from the Moscow Art Institute in early 1941. The "Missing in Action" notification was sent to his family - informing them that he was missing as of November 1941 - in October of 1944, 3 years (?!) after he had allegedly disappeared. Though research had been fruitless in determining exactly when and where he resurfaced, very much alive, Mordan' resumed working on his art until his death in 1983.The brochure gave a brief history of his life and several examples of his beautiful projects.

The Kolynos Company "Parley Voo by Col. Maude, F. N., and Scudamore, Frank

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Title: The Kolynos Company "Parley Voo
Author: Col. Maude, F. N., and Scudamore, Frank
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Condition: Fair
Description: 72057593498894288: New Haven: Kolynos Company, 1918. Soft cover. Fair. First edition, undated (c1918); small stapled booklet; pp. [3] including text to front cover verso, 4-38, [2] including text to back cover; original wraps; fading and creasing to wraps; cut to head of spine; page edges show fraying; fair to good condition. Subtitled: "Practical French and German Phrases and How to Pronounce Them." This booklet was distributed among American soldiers during WWI. The Kolynos Company were makers of Kolynos Dental Cream. The last page contains tips for the "soldier and his teeth," as well as tips on preventing "Trench Gingivitis." This copy was actually found in the pocket of an old army uniform, thus it most probably was used during the war.

Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signed) by Baum, L. Frank; Illustrated By Robert Sabuda

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Title: Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signed)
Author: Baum, L. Frank; Illustrated By Robert Sabuda
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780689817519
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Description: New York: Little Simon/Simon & Schuster, 2000 Pictorial boards, as new in publisher's original plastic sleeve (sleeve missing a piece at base of spine), with insert, opened only for Sabuda to sign. Includes a promotional Sabuda postcard.. Signed by Artist. 9th Printing. Fine/No Jacket As Issued.

Paulina, and Her Pets by Early American

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Title: Paulina, and Her Pets
Author: Early American
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Condition: Good
Description: New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 88 John Street, 1850 Lacking outer wrapper, small tear at top of title page, corners turned. A brief tale of a young girl and her kindness to animals. Illustrated with small engravings throughout.. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Engravings. 48mo.

The Art of the Hittites by AKURGAL, Ekrem

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Title: The Art of the Hittites
Author: AKURGAL, Ekrem
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
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Description: New York: Abrams, 1962. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 174 plates, 24 mounted color plates, map, in-text illustrations. 315 pages. Thick 4to, cloth, d.w. New York, Abrams, 1962. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.

Cecil Beaton: The New York Years by ALBRECHT, Donald

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Title: Cecil Beaton: The New York Years
Author: ALBRECHT, Donald
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Condition: fine
Description: New York: Rizzoli, 2011. hardcover. fine/fine. Numerous photographic illustrations in color and in black & white. 4to, turquoise boards, d.w. New York: Rizzoli, 2011. First Edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper.

Über die goldene Ader für unerfahrne in der Arzneiwissenschaft by Stunzer, Johann Kaspar

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Title: Über die goldene Ader für unerfahrne in der Arzneiwissenschaft
Author: Stunzer, Johann Kaspar
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good; two signatures torn out of title page.
Description: Vienna: M A Schmidt, 1783. First Edition. Modern parchment backed paper boards.. Good; two signatures torn out of title page.. 8vo, [8], [9] - 125 pp. Medication for the treatment of hemorrhoids. Blake p. 437 - later printing; Absent from Waring.

The Southern Workman, Vol. XLVI, No. 12 (December, 1917)

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Title: The Southern Workman, Vol. XLVI, No. 12 (December, 1917)
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
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Description: Hampton, Va: Hampton Institute, 1931. Paperback. Very Good. pp. [651]-696. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. The lead article in this issue is "The Driven People," by Flora Iliff (pages 657-662) which is about the Winnebago People who were displaced from their fertile lands in Wisconsin and moved again and again. A note on pages 691-692 reports on a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, before an audience of 3800 people by officers from the "Colored Officers Training Camp" at Fort Des Moines. A collection was taken which produced $280 for the NAACP.

This Heart, This Hunter [SIGNED] by Burnett, Hallie Southgate

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Title: This Heart, This Hunter [*SIGNED*]
Author: Burnett, Hallie Southgate
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Condition: Good+ in Fair dj
Description: New York: Henry Holt and Company. Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, light soiling/browning to page edges; jacket worn/rubbed, dampstained at spine, a few small tears, several internal tape repairs, paper loss at top of spine (no loss of text)]. INSCRIBED ("for Swanie / whose encouragement was important. / With love") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "At seventeen, Felicia Richardson, only daughter of the president of a small Southern college, was a sheltered, innocent child, but not too much a child to love richly and completely. Then she fell in love with Victor Cardwell, a GI student at the college ten years older than she and cynical about women and the world. This novel is about their first year of marriage -- the flowering it allowed Victor's ambition and Felicia's painful coming-of-age." The author was the co-editor, with her husband Whit Burnett, of Story magazine; the book's inscribee was the famed Hollywood literary agent H.N. Swanson, who brokered the movie rights to many novels and stories -- possibly even this one, although no film version was ever produced. Signed by Author .

The Followers of William Blake: An Exhibition at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery November 1, 1972 through January 31, 1973 by [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]

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Title: The Followers of William Blake: An Exhibition at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery November 1, 1972 through January 31, 1973
Author: [Blake, William. Exhibition Catalogue]
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1972. [San Marino, CA]: Henry E. Huntington, 1972. 12mo, 32pp. Illustrated. Red printed wrappers, stapled. Near fine. §.

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