ANESAKI, Masaharu

Art, Life, and Nature in Japan

Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper .

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N° du livre: 020178

Catalogue: Japan

Mots-clés: Travel, Japan, Illustrated Books Japan Nonfiction Travel Illustrated Books

[JAPAN] CRASSET, Jean

Aussfuhrliche Geschicht Der in Dem Aussersten Welt-Theil Gelegenen Japonesischen Kirch

Augsburg, Franz Antoni Alger, 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") with two parts bound together in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps lacking but catches present, title on spine label stamped in blind; [24], 534, [2], 559, [1] pages. Title in red and black, engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates. The First German Edition of this history of the Jesuit Mission in Japan. While Christianity in Japan flourished for a brief period in the mid 1500s, the religion was banned in 1620 and existed only underground. The Catholic church took some exception to Crasset's work, saying that he "attributed the origin of the persecution of 1597 to the imprudence of the friars in making their religious ceremonies too public" (Catholic Encyclopedia IV, 468). Nineteenth century signature to front fly leaf and early signature to title, some very light staining in various places throughout (mostly only visible in margins); expected soiling to binding. A clean and attractive Near Fine example .

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N° du livre: 018990

Catalogue: Japan

Mots-clés: 17th Century, Illustrated Books, Japan, Religion,18th Century Japan Missionaries 17th Century Illustrated Books

[JAPAN]

Meiji Period Photo Album with 50 Hand-Colored Albumen Photographs Including the Aftermath of the Great Earthquake of 1891

@1892. Hardcover. Oblong Folio (13-1/2" x 10-1/2") in worn decorative cloth over heavy wooden boards and leather spine, with tissue guards for the photos. A personalized travel album from 19th century Japan with 50 hand-colored 10" x 7-5/8" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages with titles in the negative and occasionally in manuscript below the image (all in English). This was the album of Frank Leslie Coombs (1853-1934) who was a United States Minister (ambassador) to Japan from June 1892 to August 1893. Most images found within this album depict peaceful scenes of landscapes, temples, tea houses, and roads. Five images, however, illustrate the aftermath of the Mino-Owari earthquake, also known as the Great Earthquake of 1891. With a magnitude of 8.0, this quake left significant damage, some of it recorded here. Images include views of twisted bridges, crumpled buildings, and the town of Osaka burned to the ground. Cardboard pages in album have a slight wave; prints have light toning along edges and light silvering, a few prints with light soiling and foxing affecting content; all prints have good exposure. Heavy fraying and wear to covers, spine dry with moderate chipping and a tear along one edge. Covers Fair but overall the photographs themselves are Very Good .

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N° du livre: 019216

Catalogue: Japan

Mots-clés: 19th Century, Illustrated Books, Japan, Travel, Natural Disasters, 19th Century Photography, Color Photography Japan Color Photography 19th Century Photography Illustrated Books

[JAPAN]

Meiji Period Photo Album with 50 Hand-Colored Albumen Photographs

@1892. Hardcover. Oblong Folio (14" x 10-1/2") with a black morocco leather spine with gilt designs and exquisite black enamel painted and onlaid covers. Containing 50 hand-colored 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages titled in the negative in English and with small color drawings of figures in the margins of each page. Images include cityscapes, landmarks, and scenes of daily life and rituals in mid-to-late Meiji period Japan. Places shown include Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, Nagoya, Enoshima, the shrines of Nikko, and two views of Mt. Fuji. Occupational scenes include women spinning cotton, men striking wheat, a rice plantation, men transporting rice bales on horseback, a samurai, a Shinto priest, Shinto pilgrims, a "blind shampooer," a pottery shop, a shoe shop, a grocery, a cloth store, "reading at home," "gathering the cocoons," "playing at ball," and more. Albums such as this were sold to overseas visitors to Japan, ca 1880s- early 1900s, who would choose their favorite scenes from the photography studio's stock and whether to pay extra for hand-coloring, fine binding, and artistic covers. We have offered a handful of examples over the years, and this is easily the finest in content, with more occupational and daily life scenes as opposed to the standard landmarks, as well as special touches such as the small hand-painted characters in the margins of each page, and also in the finest condition. Housed in a clamshell box with decorative cloth covers and likely the original tin container used for shipment to America. Photographs are Fine and bright with tissue guards. Both boxes in nice shape. The front cover of the album with a horizontal crack about 3 inches from the bottom and extending across most of the cover doing little to detract from the lovely decorative scene. Overall a beautiful example, uncommon in such nice condition .

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N° du livre: 019217

Catalogue: Japan

Mots-clés: 19th Century, Illustrated Books, Japan, Travel, 19th Century Photography, Color Photography Japan Color Photography 19th Century Photography Illustrated Books

[JAPAN] KAEMPFER, Engelbert

The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State and Government of That Empire... Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam

London, for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio (8-1/2" x 13-3/4) volumes in contemporary calf leather, neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine labels. First edition in English, second issue (with the additional appendix in volume 2), translated from the German by J. G. Scheuchzer. Titles printed in red and black with additional engraved titles and 45 mostly double-page or folding plates and maps. Kaempfer's HISTORY OF JAPAN "was for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer; an account of his journey; a history and description of Japan and its fauna; a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendices, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy" (DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY). Kaempfer was a physician for the Dutch East India Company's trading settlement at Nagasaki in the late 17th century. Sir Hans Sloane acquired the manuscript after Kaempfer's death, and arranged for it to be translated into English for this edition. Of significance is the fine folding map of Japan, "Imperium Japonicum in Sexaginta et Octo Provincias Divisum... Light dampstaining in second volume. Generally clean and bright, Near Fine Cordier, JAPONICA pages 414-15; Cox I: 332; Garrison-Morton 6374.11; See Nissen BBI 1019 note; Wellcome III: 376.

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N° du livre: 019215

Catalogue: Japan

Mots-clés: 18th Century, Illustrated Books, Japan, Travel, Natural History Japan Natural History 18th Century Illustrated Books

YULE, Emma Sarepta

In Japan: Without Clock or Calendar

Boston, The Stratford Company, (1935). First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt lettered. With 37 illustrations from photographs. Apparently the only edition of this book, never reprinted. Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper .

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N° du livre: 012146

Catalogue: Japan

Mots-clés: Travel, Japan, Illustrated Books Japan Nonfiction Travel Illustrated Books