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Manufacturers & Exporters of Japan Vegetable Wax ...
Kitagumi [190-?]. 38x51cm printed broadside in English and Japanese within a colour border.
¶ A dignified but not unfriendly advertisement - or perhaps a label or wrapper for export - befitting the purest and whitest wax in the market. Company founder Kochi Torajiro must have used squillions of what he made from wax to build the Garyu-sanso, maybe the most understated, modest showoff piece of design and craftsmanship ever.
¶ A dignified but not unfriendly advertisement - or perhaps a label or wrapper for export - befitting the purest and whitest wax in the market. Company founder Kochi Torajiro must have used squillions of what he made from wax to build the Garyu-sanso, maybe the most understated, modest showoff piece of design and craftsmanship ever.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11076
AUD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 US$ 50.03 | £UK 39.5 | JP¥ 7894]
Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising technology manufactures wax c20th Japan hikifuda
![Tobari Kogan., [Sosaku Hanga to Hanga no Tsukurikata] How to Make Prints by Kogan Tohari : Drawn, blok-cut & printed by author [sic].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Tobari10926.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sosaku Hanga to Hanga no Tsukurikata] How to Make Prints by Kogan Tohari : Drawn, blok-cut & printed by author [sic].
Tokyo, Hangasha 1922 (Taisho 11). 21x14cm publisher's printed card wrapper with mounted illustration (wear to spine with an old tape mark, stain on the back, other signs of use); 10 mounted b/w photo illustrations, one b/w illustration and six mounted woodcuts, being three blocks with five colours, the key block in black, the complete print all in black, and the finished colour print. A somewhat dishevelled cover but not bad; mild browning, all rather good and fresh inside. The wrappers look like they have been cut back from the page edges but they are folded and that's how the book was issued.
¶ An idiosyncratic book printed on tan stiff card which, while browned, is not as browned as it might appear in photos. The prints themselves are crisp and bright. The half-tone illustrations do Tobari's work no favours but I guess they gave some vague indication of his work. He produced so few prints that more than half of them are here. Tobari has made for this lesson a smaller version of his mysterious print of acrobats: is it political commentary? religious? all just show biz? He was a founding member of the sosaku hanga - creative prints - movement which cut all and any middle men between the artist and final print. I'm embarrassed to admit that I knew nothing of him until recently when I watched three of his prints that I admired and coveted - one of them the acrobats - sell for a few tens of thousands of dollars. So I have learnt that he is hardly a well kept secret but I haven't learnt much about him except that he studied and caught TB in America and was established as a Rodinesque sculptor before turning to print making and that he died youngish, in 1927. He didn't have time to become a grand old man of art like his colleagues Koshiro Onchi, Maekawa Senpan and Kawakami Sumio. Onchi was dismissive of, almost venomous about, Tobari in his 1953 book on modern prints. Tobari was too technically skilled and too emotional and Onchi, for all his achievement, could not produce the exquisite and moving portrait represented by the grey blur on the cover of this book. This is pretty rare; Worldcat finds only the V&A and BL entries outside Japan.
¶ An idiosyncratic book printed on tan stiff card which, while browned, is not as browned as it might appear in photos. The prints themselves are crisp and bright. The half-tone illustrations do Tobari's work no favours but I guess they gave some vague indication of his work. He produced so few prints that more than half of them are here. Tobari has made for this lesson a smaller version of his mysterious print of acrobats: is it political commentary? religious? all just show biz? He was a founding member of the sosaku hanga - creative prints - movement which cut all and any middle men between the artist and final print. I'm embarrassed to admit that I knew nothing of him until recently when I watched three of his prints that I admired and coveted - one of them the acrobats - sell for a few tens of thousands of dollars. So I have learnt that he is hardly a well kept secret but I haven't learnt much about him except that he studied and caught TB in America and was established as a Rodinesque sculptor before turning to print making and that he died youngish, in 1927. He didn't have time to become a grand old man of art like his colleagues Koshiro Onchi, Maekawa Senpan and Kawakami Sumio. Onchi was dismissive of, almost venomous about, Tobari in his 1953 book on modern prints. Tobari was too technically skilled and too emotional and Onchi, for all his achievement, could not produce the exquisite and moving portrait represented by the grey blur on the cover of this book. This is pretty rare; Worldcat finds only the V&A and BL entries outside Japan.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10926
AUD 2500.00 [Appr.: EURO 1553.25 US$ 1667.65 | £UK 1312 | JP¥ 263146]
Keywords: art technique prints print making c20th Japan modernism sosaku woodcuts meiji
Iron and Steel Manufacture. ... iron and steel in the Paris Exhibition of 1867; ... the state and progress of the manufacture during ... 1867 & 1868 ... descriptions of many of the principal iron and steel works in Great Britain, the continent of Europe, and the United States.
London, Mackenzie; NY, Virtue [1869]. folio modern half calf; xii,270pp, frontispiece and 64 plates numbered to 63 with one bis, many double page. A stain in the top corner towards the end, but still a very decent copy.
¶ A proper great lump of Victorian technology, with marvelous machine plates, and probably even useful as a source of information. Kohn saw it as "work of utility rather than ambition", working this up from a series of articles in 'Engineering' with the help of some pretty impressive assistants and sources: Colburn, Maw, Fairbairn and Vickers. This exists with a mildly different title that leaves out the United States. As Virtue in New York shares the imprint of this issue the omission has been fixed in large clear type. I'm sure the contents are identical.
¶ A proper great lump of Victorian technology, with marvelous machine plates, and probably even useful as a source of information. Kohn saw it as "work of utility rather than ambition", working this up from a series of articles in 'Engineering' with the help of some pretty impressive assistants and sources: Colburn, Maw, Fairbairn and Vickers. This exists with a mildly different title that leaves out the United States. As Virtue in New York shares the imprint of this issue the omission has been fixed in large clear type. I'm sure the contents are identical.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8664
AUD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 404 US$ 433.59 | £UK 341.25 | JP¥ 68418]
Keywords: engineering technology c19th metal metallurgy machines manufactures industry
![Kuriki Kojiro., [Kyokun Manga Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Kuriki10412.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Kyokun Manga Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shogaku 1927 (Showa 2). Colour broadside 54x78cm. Some splodges and a small hole, not a bad copy.
¶ The new years gift from the boy's first grade magazine of the Shogaku stable. A bright sugoroku in which, as I see it, most of the fun is what we are warned against. The title was used for more than one sugoroku.
¶ The new years gift from the boy's first grade magazine of the Shogaku stable. A bright sugoroku in which, as I see it, most of the fun is what we are warned against. The title was used for more than one sugoroku.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10412
AUD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 202 US$ 216.79 | £UK 170.75 | JP¥ 34209]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games c20th Japan paper pastimes illustration modernism Asia children education school
![Kuriki Kojiro., [Oshogatsu Asobi Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Kuriki10295.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Oshogatsu Asobi Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shogaku 1930 (Showa 5). Colour broadside 54x78cm. A bit of browning and short tears in the folds; pretty good.
¶ The new years gift from the girl's kindergarten magazine of the Shogaku stable. A cheerful sugoroku in which a girl gets to have fun - remarkable enough in itself. And yes, there is a zeppelin down in that corner. The small adverts for the various magazines down the left margin are maybe playing pieces.
¶ The new years gift from the girl's kindergarten magazine of the Shogaku stable. A cheerful sugoroku in which a girl gets to have fun - remarkable enough in itself. And yes, there is a zeppelin down in that corner. The small adverts for the various magazines down the left margin are maybe playing pieces.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10295
AUD 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 341.75 US$ 366.88 | £UK 288.75 | JP¥ 57892]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games c20th Japan paper pastimes illustration modernism Asia children
![Izumi Kojiro., [Wayo Kagu Hinagata].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Izumi11116.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Wayo Kagu Hinagata].
Osaka, Matama Seikado 1902 (Meiji 35). Two volumes 12x18cm, publisher's wrappers with title labels; semi measured drawings throughout. Minor signs of use, rather good.
¶ A nifty pattern book of Japanese and western furniture designs, clear enough that a decent carpenter/joiner could build straight from the book. There are several designs for display and shopfittings among the bureaus, tripod tables, screens and tansu.
¶ A nifty pattern book of Japanese and western furniture designs, clear enough that a decent carpenter/joiner could build straight from the book. There are several designs for display and shopfittings among the bureaus, tripod tables, screens and tansu.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11116
AUD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 155.5 US$ 166.77 | £UK 131.25 | JP¥ 26315]
Keywords: applied arts architecture interiors furniture design building trades pattern books carpentry Japan c20th meiji
![Otake Kokkan., [Shin'an Sei-Ro Senkyoku Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Otake10780.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shin'an Sei-Ro Senkyoku Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Hakubunkan 1905 (Meiji 38). Colour broadside 55x79cm. A few pinholes; rather good.
¶ The new year gift from the magazine Shashin Gaho. This may be muted and delicate at first glance but there is plenty of turmoil on land and sea. And it looks to me you could learn all you really need to know about the Russo-Japanese war. There's a lot packed in. Otake was a well regarded, prize winning, Nihonga painter who was firm about maintaining Japanese tradition but like many such artists was a busy producer of prints and illustrator of magazines, books and advertisements.
¶ The new year gift from the magazine Shashin Gaho. This may be muted and delicate at first glance but there is plenty of turmoil on land and sea. And it looks to me you could learn all you really need to know about the Russo-Japanese war. There's a lot packed in. Otake was a well regarded, prize winning, Nihonga painter who was firm about maintaining Japanese tradition but like many such artists was a busy producer of prints and illustrator of magazines, books and advertisements.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10780
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 186.5 US$ 200.12 | £UK 157.5 | JP¥ 31578]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games c20th Japan paper pastimes illustration modernism Asia children education school meiji
![Otake Kokkan., [Shogaku Kyoka Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Otake10419.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shogaku Kyoka Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shonen Sekei 1907 (Meiji 40). Colour broadside 78x54cm. Quite a nice copy.
¶ School life for small boys and girls; this was the new year gift from the boys' magazine Shonen Sekai. Boys and girls learn to read but then their ways seem to part: boys learn about rats while girls do flowers, boys learn to count while girls sew, boys write while girls fold paper. Otake by 1907 was a well regarded, prize winning, Nihonga painter who was firm about maintaining Japanese tradition but like many such artists was a busy producer of prints and illustrator of magazines, books and advertisements.
¶ School life for small boys and girls; this was the new year gift from the boys' magazine Shonen Sekai. Boys and girls learn to read but then their ways seem to part: boys learn about rats while girls do flowers, boys learn to count while girls sew, boys write while girls fold paper. Otake by 1907 was a well regarded, prize winning, Nihonga painter who was firm about maintaining Japanese tradition but like many such artists was a busy producer of prints and illustrator of magazines, books and advertisements.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10419
AUD 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 239.25 US$ 256.82 | £UK 202.25 | JP¥ 40525]
Keywords: sugoroku graphic art paper games c20th Japan paper pastimes illustration modernism Asia children education school meiji
Diary of the Late Rajah of Kolhapoor, during his visit to Europe in 1870. Edited by Capt. Edward W. West.
London, Smith Elder 1872. Octavo green morocco by Mansell, elaborately decorated, with the arms of the Maharaja on the front cover; chromolitho portrait, a mounted litho portrait and a mounted woodbury type. Some scattered spots; a handsome, fresh copy. With a printed presentation leaf finished by hand presenting the book to Saville Lumley - John Savile Lumley the diplomat, not the younger illustrator.
¶ The special presentation issue of a book that was doubtless a privately funded production in the first place; the uncoloured litho portrait doesn't seem to be included in the more prosaic issue. Upon the Raja's succession in 1866, at the age of 16, West was appointed his governor and the first thing he did was remove him from the "pernicious moral atmosphere ever to be found in a native Palace." His education then seems to consist of learning billiards, croquet and a bit of cricket; he was given "selections of books" and encouraged to read newspapers. Thus prepared they set off to see England, the first reigning Hindu prince to do so, in 1870. Having conquered England, socially, he died in Florence and, after some fast politicking to sidestep Florentine law, was cremated on the banks of the Arno. The woodburytype is a portrait of a splendidly befrocked but anxious looking child, his eight year old successor.
¶ The special presentation issue of a book that was doubtless a privately funded production in the first place; the uncoloured litho portrait doesn't seem to be included in the more prosaic issue. Upon the Raja's succession in 1866, at the age of 16, West was appointed his governor and the first thing he did was remove him from the "pernicious moral atmosphere ever to be found in a native Palace." His education then seems to consist of learning billiards, croquet and a bit of cricket; he was given "selections of books" and encouraged to read newspapers. Thus prepared they set off to see England, the first reigning Hindu prince to do so, in 1870. Having conquered England, socially, he died in Florence and, after some fast politicking to sidestep Florentine law, was cremated on the banks of the Arno. The woodburytype is a portrait of a splendidly befrocked but anxious looking child, his eight year old successor.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9280
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 310.75 US$ 333.53 | £UK 262.5 | JP¥ 52629]
Keywords: travel Asia India England Europe c19th social history association
![Takeda Korai., [Yamato Rasha Yokohama Bidan].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Takeda10837.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Yamato Rasha Yokohama Bidan].
Tokyo? Kinjudo 1881 (Meiji 14). Three volumes 18x12cm, publisher's colour woodblock wrappers; 18 pages in each volume, illustrated by Chikanobu throughout with three frontispieces, a single page and a double page plate in colour in the first volume. Understandable thumbing but rather good with a laid down, chewed but mostly complete colour woodcut outer wrapper (fukuro).
¶ Slight maybe but there's a novel, or a play at least, just in those front covers. Yamato Rasha is, I'm told, a soap of women's lives with western men in Yokohama. Even I can tell, from the pictures, that they were lives filled with conflict, devious schemes, jealousy, violence by footwear ... busy indeed. There is a modern reprint but I find only one entry in worldcat for the original outside Japan.
¶ Slight maybe but there's a novel, or a play at least, just in those front covers. Yamato Rasha is, I'm told, a soap of women's lives with western men in Yokohama. Even I can tell, from the pictures, that they were lives filled with conflict, devious schemes, jealousy, violence by footwear ... busy indeed. There is a modern reprint but I find only one entry in worldcat for the original outside Japan.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10837
AUD 1350.00 [Appr.: EURO 838.75 US$ 900.53 | £UK 708.5 | JP¥ 142099]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th Japan westernisation modernism graphic art illustration feminism women thrillers meiji
Kryolith Kids Alphabet.
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co [Chicago printed]. 1907. 21x18cm colour illustrated publisher's wrapper; 28pp, colour illustrations throughout by Art Williamson. A short tear in the bottom edge of one leaf, minimal signs of use, rather good.
¶ A charming ABC extolling Kryolith - made into lye, caustic soda, sold as Lewis Lye - and the multitude of ways it makes life easier, healthier, more beautiful. Cryolite seems to have come from one source, a deposit on the Greenland coast which, once that lode was turned into lye or used in the production of aluminium, pretty much vanished from our lives.
¶ A charming ABC extolling Kryolith - made into lye, caustic soda, sold as Lewis Lye - and the multitude of ways it makes life easier, healthier, more beautiful. Cryolite seems to have come from one source, a deposit on the Greenland coast which, once that lode was turned into lye or used in the production of aluminium, pretty much vanished from our lives.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11114
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 186.5 US$ 200.12 | £UK 157.5 | JP¥ 31578]
Keywords: graphic art advertising trade catalogues children juvenile education ABC 20th America
![Baido Kunimasa [Utagawa Kunimasa IV]., [Meiji Kiken Kagami].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Meiji9985.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Meiji Kiken Kagami].
Tokyo, Hoeidi 1888 (Meiji 21). 12x9cm publisher's wrapper with title label (ink inscription on the back cover); 15 double folded leaves giving one single page, one gatefold quadruple page, and 15 double page woodcuts. Actually all but a couple of leaves are quadruple folded - the printed leaves around double folded leaves of heavier paper making the book tougher, made to be handled often.
¶ A nifty little book, a portrait gallery of eminent figures of the Meiji. But captured in action, not the studio poses of so many 'Eminent Men' galleries. These are woodcuts but they are, with true modernity, cut to resemble engravings. Worldcat finds only the NDL copy.
¶ A nifty little book, a portrait gallery of eminent figures of the Meiji. But captured in action, not the studio poses of so many 'Eminent Men' galleries. These are woodcuts but they are, with true modernity, cut to resemble engravings. Worldcat finds only the NDL copy.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9985
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 186.5 US$ 200.12 | £UK 157.5 | JP¥ 31578]
Keywords: social history Japan Asia c19th modernism progress graphic art illustration reform meiji
Smile Extra Choicest Spring Leaf Japan Tea.
n.p. n.d. (early c20th?) Colour woodcut 39x34cm. An outstanding, crisply impressed copy.
¶ A fabulous and puzzling large label - ranji - for export tea chests that would do any sixties' album cover proud. I have learnt that woodcut printing survived for tea labels after other printing went litho because exporters didn't want the ink smell contaminating their tea. Printing quality was high, this was international advertising, but the labels that survive are of course remainders or samples. I take this to be a sample - the paper is good quality and heavy and the printing immaculate - for a label maybe never used. I have looked through hundreds of labels online without finding any Smile Tea. Can an expert put me straight? This has what a label needs: bright colours, bold contrast, lively typography and an arresting design. But it doesn't have what other tea labels have: a pretty picture that foreigners will immediately recognise as Japan. No elaborately kimonoed beauty, no Fuji, no lucky god. No kimonoed beauty on a tea plantation terrace with a lucky god in attendance and Fuji in the distance. What we have is a happy but somehow sinister character. With those ears he is surely a wrestler. But bald? Was there a happy bald wrestler famous enough in Japan that someone thought he might translate to the outside world? An ex-wrestler who became famous as the eternally cheerful muscle for the mob?
¶ A fabulous and puzzling large label - ranji - for export tea chests that would do any sixties' album cover proud. I have learnt that woodcut printing survived for tea labels after other printing went litho because exporters didn't want the ink smell contaminating their tea. Printing quality was high, this was international advertising, but the labels that survive are of course remainders or samples. I take this to be a sample - the paper is good quality and heavy and the printing immaculate - for a label maybe never used. I have looked through hundreds of labels online without finding any Smile Tea. Can an expert put me straight? This has what a label needs: bright colours, bold contrast, lively typography and an arresting design. But it doesn't have what other tea labels have: a pretty picture that foreigners will immediately recognise as Japan. No elaborately kimonoed beauty, no Fuji, no lucky god. No kimonoed beauty on a tea plantation terrace with a lucky god in attendance and Fuji in the distance. What we have is a happy but somehow sinister character. With those ears he is surely a wrestler. But bald? Was there a happy bald wrestler famous enough in Japan that someone thought he might translate to the outside world? An ex-wrestler who became famous as the eternally cheerful muscle for the mob?
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10068
AUD 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 140 US$ 150.09 | £UK 118.25 | JP¥ 23683]
Keywords: graphic art advertising labels tea food ranji c20th Japan
Jacque-Emile Laboureur.
Musee du Dessin et de l'Estampe Originale 1987. Small square quarto publisher's stiff wrapper (a splodge on the front cover); profusely illustrated, much in colour.
¶ One of 100 copies with an engraving printed from one of Laboureur's original plates: Pecheurs au carrelet, 1925.
¶ One of 100 copies with an engraving printed from one of Laboureur's original plates: Pecheurs au carrelet, 1925.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9433
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 62.25 US$ 66.71 | £UK 52.5 | JP¥ 10526]
Keywords: graphic art engraving illustration c20th France modernism exhibition catalogue monograph
![LAFITTE, J.P. [Jean Baptiste Pierre]., The Red Doctor. Translated from the French ... by Huon d'Aramis.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Lafitte10176.jpg "Click to enlarge")
The Red Doctor. Translated from the French ... by Huon d'Aramis.
Philadelphia, Lippincott 1866. Octavo publishers patterned cloth. Some natural browning and some splodges; a rather good copy.
¶ First edition in English of this proper sensation novel. It begins with a "frantic and horrible" murder and impersonation in chapter one and picks up speed after that. It is a novel about Mesmer of course, what else could it be after that introduction. The best description is a contemporary review found by Robert Eldridge: "This singular farrago of mystery, murder, and mesmerism belongs to the sensation school of modern French fiction ... it contains an abundance of highly-wrought and exciting passages, which, in spite of their violation of truth, probability, or even possibility, absorb the reader’s attention until, to his surprise, he finds himself at the very last page." (The Nation, Sept 20 1866). Huon d'Aramis, translator of at least one other French book, must be a pseudonym but whose I don't know.
¶ First edition in English of this proper sensation novel. It begins with a "frantic and horrible" murder and impersonation in chapter one and picks up speed after that. It is a novel about Mesmer of course, what else could it be after that introduction. The best description is a contemporary review found by Robert Eldridge: "This singular farrago of mystery, murder, and mesmerism belongs to the sensation school of modern French fiction ... it contains an abundance of highly-wrought and exciting passages, which, in spite of their violation of truth, probability, or even possibility, absorb the reader’s attention until, to his surprise, he finds himself at the very last page." (The Nation, Sept 20 1866). Huon d'Aramis, translator of at least one other French book, must be a pseudonym but whose I don't know.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10176
AUD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 171 US$ 183.44 | £UK 144.5 | JP¥ 28946]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th France America thrillers mesmer mesmerism crime
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