Boston Book Company

Ko^Kokkai Advertising and Commercial Art Vol. 16, #6

[ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN] · 1939

$285.00 (€258.57 | £215.72 | ¥45,496)

1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 6. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time o...

Fireside Travels

LOWELL, James Russell · 1864

$650.00 (€589.73 | £492.00 | ¥103,764)

1864. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY LOWELL, James Russell. FIRESIDE TRAVELS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. 324p. First edition. Unrecorded state as it has 5 blank pages before the list of Mr. Lowell's writings. Bound in terra cotta cloth which is somewhat faded. Gilt stamped s...

Album of 30 Fish on 12 Sheets

[CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS] · 0

$4,275.00 (€3,878.61 | £3,235.83 | ¥682,445)

18. [CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS]. ALBUM OF 30 FISH ON 12 SHEETS. Album of 12 sheets of pith, approximately 19 x 26 cm each, mounted onto pages within covers approx. 24.7 x 34.3 cm, covered in brocade with ties. A wonderful mid-19th century example of this realistic genre, which us...

Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to

STAUNTON, Sir George · 1797

$2,750.00 (€2,495.01 | £2,081.53 | ¥439,000)

1797. STAUNTON, Sir George. AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN.. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and...

Shu^Gyoku Sanpo^ Do^Jimon 5 Vols

y[MATHEMATICS] Murai Chu^zen · 1784

$12,500.00 (€11,340.96 | £9,461.48 | ¥1,995,454)

1784. [MATHEMATICS] Murai Chuzen. Shugyoku SANPO DOJIMON [CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS ABOUT MATHEMATICS] 5 vols. Kyoto, Tennojiya Ichirobei, Temmei 4 [1784]. 22.9 x 15.9 cm. Uniformly bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji with original printed covers and printed paper title labels. The ...

To^Sei Shinkomon Honcho^

[PAPER SAMPLES] · 0

$950.00 (€861.91 | £719.07 | ¥151,655)

18. [PAPER SAMPLES]. TO^SEI SHINKOMON HONCHO^. String-bound, Japanese -style, fukuro-toji. 28 X 21 cm, with 138 designs on 23 pages (6 per page). Stencil-printed "komon" designs. The blindstamped patterned covers are lovely and subtle. Interesting, skillfully printed tiny repe...

Nanburyo^ Gunson Ryakki

[HOKKAIDO^] Manuscript · 0

$515.00 (€467.25 | £389.81 | ¥82,213)

19. [HOKKAIDO^]. NANBURYO^ GUNSON RYAKKI. Manuscript. 2+ page introduction, 3 full pages of a delicately colored continuous map extending from Akita in northeast Honshu^ up to Matsumae in southern Hokkaido^. With another 28 pages of text detailing family names, places, feudal ...

Masaki Unry?Shi ?? ???

[papermaking sample book] · 1950

$350.00 (€317.55 | £264.92 | ¥55,873)

19. [papermaking sample book] Masaki Unry?shi ?? ??? Inogami Kabushiki Kaisha ??????? [Shikoku] C. 1950’s-60’s 15 x 22.5cm oblong, ribbon-bound collection of Japanese paper samples from the Inogami Paper company, Inogami Kabushiki Kaisha ???????, on Shikoku Island. Unry?shi ??...

Boston Stock Exchange

BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE · 1893

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

1893. BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE with brief sketches of prominent brokers, bankers, banks, and moneyed institutions of Boston, 1834-1893. Boston: Hunt & Bell, 1893. Bound in maroon cloth over deckled boards with gilt spine and front. Sunning and some soiling to covers. Color fronti...

Kami Wo Tsukuru Hitotachi

[PAPERMAKING] SERIZAWA Keisuke · 1950

$1,500.00 (€1,360.92 | £1,135.38 | ¥239,455)

1950. [PAPERMAKING] SERIZAWA Keisuke. KAMI WO TSUKURU HITOTACHI. Privately printed by Serizawa in Showa 25 [1950] in an edition of 50 copies. 30 x 28 cm. 7 pages, katazome prints in wrappers with a printed paper title label. Enclosed in a hand printed folding cover which is a ...

Bible: A Leaf from a Copy of the First Bible Printed in America

ELIOT, John · 1680

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

1680. ELIOT, John. THE FIRST AMERICAN BIBLE: A leaf from a copy of the Bible translated into the Indian Language by John Eliot. Presented with explanatory text by Wilma Corcoran, Zion Research Library, Boston University. Cambridge, MA: S.Green and M.Johnson, 1680. Second editi...

Suiseki Gafu

7459[EHON] Sato^ SUISEKI · 1814

$5,850.00 (€5,307.57 | £4,427.97 | ¥933,873)

1814. [EHON] Sato SUISEKI. SUISEKI GAFU. Bunka 11 [1814]. 25.6 X 18.8 cm. This copy of the first series of Suiseki's gafu of figures is a classic of the Shijo genre, universally praised. [See Mitchell pp 505,6; Hillier Vol.2, pp. 753-6; Holloway 51; Ryerson 379; Brown p.93] Th...

Ko^Cho^ Gafu

[EHON] Ueda KO^CHO^, artist · 1834

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

1834. [EHON] Ueda KOCHO, artist. KOCHO GAFU. Osaka: Honya Kichibei & Kawachiya Kihei, Tempo 5 [1834]. Two volumes, yellow covers with original title label, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. 25.4 x 17.9 cm. Each with 15 unnumbered sheets, lightly colored woodblock print...

Sansui Ryakuga Shiki Zen

[EHON] Keisai Masayoshi (Artist) · 1800

$975.00 (€884.60 | £738.00 | ¥155,645)

1800. [EHON] Keisai Masayoshi [Artist] SANSUI RYAKUGA SHIKI. Edo: Suwaraya Ichibei. Kansei 12 [1800]. 26.1 x 18.1 cm. Faded, chipped and soiled original light blue covers. The original title label is present, but much faded and abraded. Complete in one volume. 29 single-page a...

Asa Giri

[EHON] O^ta Saburo^, artist · 1912

$1,200.00 (€1,088.73 | £908.30 | ¥191,564)

1912. [EHON] Ota Saburo, artist. ASA GIRI Tokyo, Meiji 45 [1912]. 2 volumes, string-bound Japanese style, 19.1 x 13 cm. Each volume contains 35 color prints with a facing page of text. The prints appear to be a hybrid of lithography and color woodcut. [See Hillier's discussion...

In Praise of Japanese Beauty

[PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] MUDA Tomohiro, photo · 2006

$285.00 (€258.57 | £215.72 | ¥45,496)

2006. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] MUDA Tomohiro. IN PRAISE OF JAPANESE BEAUTY: Japanese Aesthetics Through the Lens of Tomohiro Muda. (Tokyo): Coherence, (2006). First edition. Illustrated throughout with Muda's color photographs of Japanese cultural treasures, venerable examples...

Yo^Ji Hyo^Jun Ehon Ohisama to Otsukisama

[CHILDREN'S - JAPAN] TAKEI Takeo, editor · 1940

$545.00 (€494.47 | £412.52 | ¥87,002)

1940. [CHILDREN'S - JAPAN] TAKEI Takeo, editor. Yoji Hyojun Ehon OHISAMA TO OTSUKISAMA. Tokyo, Showa 15 [1940]. Stiff wrappers, about 10" x 7", illustrated in color throughout. The covers and the twelve double-page spreads within are printed after work by several important art...

Sho^Gaku Kagaku Ehon Dai Go-Kan Kisen

[KODOMO NO KUNI]YAMASHITA Ken-ichi, illustrator · 1937

$325.00 (€294.87 | £246.00 | ¥51,882)

1937. [KODOMO NO KUNI] YAMASHITA Ken-ichi. SHOGAKU KAGAKU EHON Dai Go-kan KISEN. Tokyo: Tokyo-sha, Showa 12. Square 8vo. illustrated cloth. This child's book about steamships is #5 from the famous KODOMO NO KUNI series ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S ELEMENTARY SCIENCE BOOKS. Another w...

Pictorial Arts of Japan

ANDERSON, WILLIAM · 1886

$575.00 (€521.68 | £435.23 | ¥91,791)

1886. ANDERSON, William. THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF JAPAN. With a Brief Historical Sketch of the Associated Arts, and Some Remarks upon the Pictorial Art of the Chinese and Korean. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [n.d. circa 1890-1900]. Complete: 80 of 80 plates, some in co...

[19th Century Japan - Album of 42 Original Tinted Albumen Photographs of Japan, Alaska and Sir G. Baden-Powell and Sir G. Dawson Seal Expedition in 1891]

PHOTOGRAPHY 19TH CENTURY - JAPAN · 1891

$485.00 (€440.03 | £367.11 | ¥77,424)

[19th century Japan - Album of 42 original tinted albumen photographs of Japan, Alaska and Sir G. Baden-Powell and Sir G. Dawson seal expedition in 1891] N.p. N.d. [c. late 19th C, 1891] Oblong 14 x 18.5cm album, disbound, accordion style. Paper mache over wood boards with an ...