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1.	AESOP : [ARMENIAN] EZOVSKI ARAKNERE
[Aesop's Fables] Translated from the 
French by Father Minas-Bezushkian, Venezia,  Island of St. Lazare Monastery 
Press, 1827. [4], 540 Pp.19.5 cm., Engraved Frontispiece of Aesop and the 
animals, and added, engraved title page. 14 inserted etched plates, six 
scenes on each plate. The unsigned plates are particularly charming and 
provincial in character.   It was first translated and printed in 
1818.  Second Edition in Armenian, but the First Illustrated 
Edition.  Unnoted in OCLC, RLIN, KVK, BL, BN, HLS, LC, CIC, Melvyl. 
Original full calf, gilt decorative borders and spine with puce Mro. title 
label, AEG. A Very Good copy, some wear to corners and at crown and foot of 
spine. $1750.00

2.	ANDERSON, H. C. (Hans Christian)  :  FAIRY TALES BY HAND CHRISTIAN 
ANDERSON. ILLUSTRATED BY 10 LARGE DESIGNS IN COLOUR AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 
BY E.V.B. Newly translated by H.L.D.[Harry Leigh Douglas] Ward and Augusta 
Plesner ...  New York, Scribner & Welford, ND,1880[?].  vi, 76 Pp. col. 
ill. 32 cm.  Half-title. E.V. B. is the HONORABLE ELEANOR VERE 
BOYLE.[GordonBesides being an excellent translation, this edition features 
the lovely illustrations which are Pre-Raphaelite in quality of  the Hon. 
Eleanor Vere Boyle, wife of the Reverend Richard Boyle lived in the 
Maidenhead area and exhibited figure subjects at the Grosvenor Gallery and 
elsewhere from 1878-81. She Illustrated  several children's books using the 
initials EVB. Most of them were printed in color by chromo- lithography, as 
here,  by Emrik & Singer, Chromolith. East London. See Dictionary of 
Victorian Painters.  Original glazed, pictorial boards, showing another 
design not repeated within, corners worn, inner rear hinge repaired. 
Inscribed on the Fr. Fr. EP "Miss Lizzie Mullan Christmas 1885" in a large 
round hand. ]. Both the English and this American issue are rare. Unnoted 
by OCLC,  Melvyl, CIC, H, Y, KVK, NYPL, BL,  COPAC, Opie, Osborne[ the last 
four lacking the English Edition]. An About Very Good copy.  $750.00

3.	ANON.  : A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT EXTRACTED 
FROM THE HOLY BIBLE AND ADAPTED TO THE CAPACITIES : whereby the Reader may 
be enabled, in an Easy, Pleasant, and Speedy manner, to become learned in 
the SACRED SCRIPTURES : interspersed with suitable reflections : and 
adorned with 120 curious Copper-Plate Cuts, lively representing each 
History.  The Seventh Edition, corrected.  Published:  London : Printed by 
Assignment from W. Baker, for John Staples, At the Bible and Star, 
Fronting  Stationers-Hall. [ND] [Price Bound Two Shillings]   [68] p., [31] 
leaves of plates,  with two etchings on each side for a total of 120 Genre 
scenes, plus a full page portrait of George the III as Frontispiece.  This 
is a juvenile series of bible stories with a series of lovely small 
etchings printed two per side, exactly the right size for copying in thumb 
bibles, which indeed was done many times over. The portrait of King George 
still bears the engraved  rubric "Sold by W & D. Baker at the Bible  and 
Star Near Ludgate London."    The Bodleian Library has a Fifth Edition of 
1750 and the British Museum has a 6th Edition of 1750.  I surmise that this 
must be an edition of 1751 or very little later.  Since the ESTC does not 
locate any copies of this issue, it is unique. The ninth edition by a 
different publisher [see below] is assigned the date of 1780.  The total 
number of copies not in England is 5.  UCLA possesses a copy of the ninth 
edition, London : printed for Thomas Caslon, [1780?], ESTC N55585.  A 
defective copy at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane 1742, ESTCT 
204345, 1734 at Duke ESTC N55584,  Harvard and UCLA have 1726, 
ESTCT119124.  Original calf, both joints restored, Now Very Good with all 
plates and text clean and unfoxed. $1275.00

4.	ANON: GERMAN RELIGIOUS HARLEQUINADE. When  fully folded the largest 
single side has this text : EIN BRIEF / AN MICH UBD DICH / IST CITO 
ABZUGEBEN / DAS PORTO IST GERING, NIMM IHN BEGIERIG / AN. / Der Inhalt 
zielt auf Dich auf mich / und Jedermann. / Der Ort wohin er soll, der ist 
und heiszt / Herz merkseben./ ( A letter to me and you is delivered in a 
hurry. The postage is small, receive it eagerly. The content aims to you, 
to me and to everyone. The place where it shall go is named the heart, pay 
attention well!) It is etched throughout on both sides of a sheet 262 mm. x 
21 mm.  NP., Npub., But Germany ca. 1770-1800.  When the sheet is not at 
all unfolded, you see the text on one side and on the other side a naked 
man in Eden, surrounded by and petting animals, sitting on a bower under a 
tree.  Partially unfolded you see the crucifixion, more unfolded you get 
the Edenic couple, now fallen playing at the foot of Jesus' cross. There is 
some verse with the scene of the crucifixion with Adam and Eve in front of 
it. When you lift up one side of that, you see a fully and formally clothed 
couple, who are of course saying very pessimistic things about life and 
looking forward to their death. When wholly unfolded the image on the 
inside shows a man and women skeletal from the waist down standing with 
spades to dig their own graves with a lighted candle an hourglass and a 
skull behind them which a snake is going in and out of. Below them is a 
dead man whose body is surrounded by snakes. Unnoted at KVK, OCLC, NUC, 
COPAC, BN, GBV, Etc. Fine/Very Good.  $2250.00

5.	AUSTIN, NICHOLS 7 CO. [SCENES OF TEA PRODUCTION] New York, Austin 
Nichols & Co., Tea Importers. [Yokohama (?)] Ca. 1891-1900, 92 x 46 ½ 
cm.  Broadside elephant folio color wood block print. Folds into silk 
brocade boards.   Divided in twelve equal sections, ll prints captioned," 
Picking Tea"-"Tea Firing Premises Yokohama"-"Shipping Tea By Empress of 
India", Etc. All have "Crown Japan Tea" logo. Each 6 3/8" x 9 1/2" plus 
margins. They include Meiji western buildings, a steam ship which carried 
the tea, named "The Empress of India," after Queens Victoria [Who died in 
1901] . The twelfth print is a Title Page with the name and address of the 
import company. The artistic style of these prints is close to "Yokohama'e" 
or Yokohama style woodcuts.  Their production began in the 1860s.  The firm 
was founded in New York in 1855, but did not start using the name 
"Austin-Nichols" until 1879 [cf. History of Austin Nichols & co, ND NY A.& 
N.]. The first copyright A&N tea was called "Sunbeam", thus our tea was 
produced later than 1879. The taste for Japonisme in the arts reached our 
shores in 1876 [cf. Japonisme Comes to America, Meech & Weisberg], thus 
Nichols would have been well positioned during this taste to have such 
advertising matter produced for them. In 1891, the S.S. Empress of India, 
on which the tea is shown being shipped,  began service out of Vancouver 
[Canadian Pcfc. RR.].  Japonoiserie became only a high art style, after 
about 1900. Unnoted in any American print collection [MFA Bos., Met, NYPL, 
Chic .Mu., Wrc. Mus., KC, Freer, SFMu., Clev.Mu.] or in RLIn, OCLC, other 
American libraries.  Tiny damage to blank margin where attached to board, 
OW F/F. $3,250.00

6.	GRANDVILLE, J. J. : EINE ANDERE WELT VON PLINIUS DER JUENGSTE 
1847  XIII, 261 Pp.  28cm, Verlagsbuchhandlung von Karl B Lorck, 
Leipzig.  An excellent translation of Un autre monde by OSKAR LUDWIG 
B.WOLFF.  Grandville was the pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard.  The 
illustrations re-engraved and the plates are hand colored with the same 
skill as the Paris original edition. Period marbled boards and EPs, ¼ calf, 
gilt decorated spine, Mro. title label gilt. The very lightest and merest 
touch of water stain on the first few and the last few leaves otherwise a 
VG to Fine copy. With 32 hand colored plates. "Seltene erste Ausgabe des 
weniger bekannten Werkes von Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff. Mit den 
Holzschnitten nach Grandville, die als besonders charakteristisch und als 
"Schöpfungen seiner überreichen, ja vielleicht auch überreizten Phantasie" 
gelten." (compare Rümann S. 162).- Sander 214; Holzmann-Bohatta 219. The 
German edition was the only full scale publication in the same format as 
the French original.  This is a work which appealed as much in Germany, and 
to the German imagination as it did to the French. It is quite a bit 
scarcer than the French original. $1050.00

7.	GRANVILLEe, J.J.  LES FLEURS ANIMEES ; Intro. par Alph. Karr, texte par 
Taxile Delord Paris: Gabriel de  Gonet, 1847. Two volumes, 4to, blue gilt 
cloth with extensive and beautiful gilt pictorial covers and spine with 
bindings, AEG, 262, 238p.  Cloth a little rubbed with a little foxing on 
the first and last sheets and on the plate guards. With 50  hand-colored 
plates plus 2 hand-colored title pages, each plate depicting  Grandville's 
wonderful anthropomorphic flowers. Ray says  "After  Une Autre Monde the 
fifty two engravings of Les Fleurs Animees are the chief example of 
Grandville's effort to penetrate to the meaning of objects like an 
'Intellectual miner'." His first biographer said: "The Fleurs Animees are 
the very thought of Grandville; they were his favorite work, the work into 
the execution of which he put all that was in him of poetic and gracious 
originality." Carteret 286, Ray, Pp. 278-279 & plate, Gumuchian 2799 & 
plate p.226. A little foxing. almost nothing on the plates or text, on the 
plates very faintly and in the margins. Very clean, VG +. In the  original 
gilt decorated cloth after Grandville by Boneteuil, but with one spine 
replaced and the new title in manuscript. $1800.00

8.	HU, ZHENGYAN; XUEGANG ZHANG  : [TEN BAMBOO HALL] SHI ZHU ZHAI SHU HUA 
PU. N.P., 16 vols in 8, 1879. Chinese wrappers ("butterfly" binding). 
Printed title slips on each cover. In a cloth case  with title label. Begun 
by Hu, it was completed by Xuegang from materials left behind at the 
author's death. Although this classic work was first published in the 17th 
century these are excellent impressions, printed in the 19th century from 
recut wooden blocks, printed in color with all of the old skills. OCLC 
notes 5 Locs. of copies of this issue at the Freer Gallery, Harvard 
Yenching, Stanford, UCLA and the Occidental College Lib.  It is in near 
fine condition. One wrapper had been torn and has been professionally 
repaired, one part shows a trace of foxing, OW near mint.It was a classic 
not only in China, but also in Japan. It has all of the 166 illustrations 
called for in the 1879 edition by Paine, and apparently in the same order. 
Although it is very difficult to collate and there may be some slight 
variations in order. Nowadays the work is very scarce, complete and in such 
lovely condition. $1,650.00

9.	KAWABATA, GYOKUSHO: SHUGA HYAKUDAI [ONE HUNDRED SUBJECTS FOR LESSONS IN 
PAINTING] Dai 5-. Tokyo : Yoshikawa Hanshichi ; Kyoto-shi : Unsodo, Meiji 
31, 1898. V Vols. 1-5, each with 12 double page plates in color : chiefly 
ill. ; 25 cm. They are in folding album [Gahon] form inside stiff yellow 
covers with centrally located printed title slip. Gyokusho was one of the 
three most famous and respected Shijo masters during his lifetime. He died 
in 1913. He was at first self taught and later studied with Nakajima Raisho 
and Oda Kaisen as well as later seeking instruction in Western style 
painting. His own style was a combination  of all three, Shijo, Nanga and 
Western style. The title of this book is metaphoric only. He is allowed by 
it to show his work in every subject and mood. Since he was a master of 
many different genres, this is the best way to see his work. The plates are 
spectacular. Copies of this book are to be found at the LC, Ryerson 
collection 426, Mitchell possessed only volume 4. Brown P. 202. This copy 
is mint with the original printed overslip [dust jacket], which has been 
torn. The books and their contents are astonishingly Fine. $2000.00

10.	SNOECK, C. A. : PROMENADE AUX ALPES [TREK ACROSS THE ALPS] / par C. A. 
Snoeck. [Renaix](Belgium), 1824. - III, 108 Pp. 24 x 20 cm. Privately 
printed by the author, with a hand colored vignette of the author on the 
go, with his knapsack and mountain trekking gear, giving us a shy glance, 
on the title page and 12 inserted full page views of scenery, towns and 
mountain villages, 6 hand colored costume plates and a hand colored folding 
map [of the tour] all after drawings by the author, on stone by Mentius, 
lithographed by the Calcographie Royal de J. Goubaud.  There also is an 
inserted Swiss folk song called "Ranz des Vaches", with a translation into 
standard French below, on an inserted, lithographed sheet. On the rear free 
EP, and an inserted lined sheet, Andrea Someana has listed distances from 
Ghent to a series of destinations in France and Italy. Below and on the 
next page are the names of a longer series of towns and villages in 
Switzerland, where he stayed [the name of the hotel or other accommodation] 
as well as specific instructions in traveling. He made this trip in 
1833.  This is all neatly and precisely done, and is quite charming. He 
writes in French and Italian.  An extremely rare book and itself a charming 
and lovely production.. No copies in American, French or Swiss libraries, 
but there is a copy in Germany in the Bibliothek des Deutschen 
Alpenvereins, and another copy, undated [lacking the title page, or a later 
issue?] in the Scottish national library in Edinburgh. Otherwise unlocated 
in Germany or the UK. Plates uniformly fresh, all the color plates in 
perfect state.  A few of the landscape plates have a little very light 
water margin in the outer lower corner.  Original cloth, corners worn, 
backstrip Rpd., Very Good copy. $2350.00

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