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Umi Vol. 10, #10

[OCEAN LINERS] OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA · 1940

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

1940. [OCEAN LINERS] Osaka Shosen Kaisha. UMI Vol. 10, #10. Osaka, Showa 15 [1940]. 34+ pp. 25.6 x 18 cm. Though OSK was later bought out by Mitsui after the war, at the time they published "THE SEA" as their monthly magazine, they had routes girdling the world. As a rival of ...

Umi Vol. 10, #5

[OCEAN LINERS] OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA · 1940

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

1940. [OCEAN LINERS] Osaka Shosen Kaisha. UMI Vol. 10, #5. Osaka, Showa 15 [1940]. 42+ pp. 25.6 x 18 cm. Though OSK was later bought out by Mitsui after the war, at the time they published "THE SEA" as their monthly magazine, they had routes girdling the world. As a rival of N...

Umi Vol. 12, #5

[OCEAN LINERS] OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA · 1942

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,569)

1942. [OCEAN LINERS] Osaka Shosen Kaisha. UMI Vol. 12, #5. Osaka, Showa 17 [1942]. 24+ pp. 25.6 x 18 cm. Though OSK was later bought out by Mitsui after the war, at the time they published "THE SEA" as their monthly magazine, they had routes girdling the world. As a rival of N...

Umi Vol. 11, #12

[OCEAN LINERS] OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA · 1941

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,569)

1941. [OCEAN LINERS] Osaka Shosen Kaisha. UMI Vol. 11, #12. Osaka, Showa 16 [1941]. 24+ pp. 25.6 x 18 cm. Though OSK was later bought out by Mitsui after the war, at the time they published "THE SEA" as their monthly magazine, they had routes girdling the world. As a rival of ...

Umi Vol. 12, #11

[OCEAN LINERS] OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA · 1942

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,569)

1942. [OCEAN LINERS] Osaka Shosen Kaisha. UMI Vol. 12, #11. Osaka, Showa 17 [1942]. 24+ pp. 25.6 x 18 cm. Though OSK was later bought out by Mitsui after the the war, at the time they published "THE SEA" as their monthly magazine, they had routes girdling the world. As a rival...

Contemporary Japanese Prints

KAWAKITA, MICHIAKI · 1967

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

1967. KAWAKITA, Michiaki. CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PRINTS. Translated by John Bester. Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1967, 1970). "Third Printing". Folio-size tan cloth; xii + 47 tipped-in color plates + 97-176pp. b&w plates + notes. Original wrap-around band. Just about fine in...

Prize Thesis. An Experimental Inquiry, Concerning the Presence of

PERCY, JOHN · 1839

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,945)

1839. PERCY, JOHN. PRIZE THESIS. AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY, CONCERNING THE PRESENCE OF ALCOHOL IN THE VENTRICLES OF THE BRAIN, AFTER POISONING BY THAT LIQUID; TOGETHER WITH EXPERIMENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF ALCOHOL: FOR WHICH, A GOLD MEDAL WAS AWARDED BY T...

Zhong-Guo Min-Jian Jian-Zhi [Chinese Folk Papercuts]

[Paper-cuts, Chinese] · 1970

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

19. [Paper-cuts, Chinese]. ZHONG-GUO MIN-JIAN JIAN-ZHI [CHINESE FOLK ART PAPER CUTS], n.p. n.d. circa 1970s. There is a folded book catalogue from Ting Wen Book Company of Taipei dated 1980 enclosed, but that may have nothing to do with this portfolio's publication. In any eve...

Ceramic Art of Korea

GOMPERTZ, G.ST.G.M. · 1961

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

1961. [CERAMICS] GOMPERTZ, G.ST.G.M. and KIM, Chewon. [ed]. THE CERAMIC ART OF CHINA. London: Faber and Faber, (1961). First edition, with a typed letter from Gompertz to Melvin McGovern, signed by Gompertz. Also the book is signed by Gompertz. 4to, grey cloth; 222pp. with 100...

Byzantine Enamels

WESSEL, Klaus · 1967

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

1967. WESSEL, Klaus. BYZANTINE ENAMELS from the 5th to the 13th century. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, (1967). 4to. purple cloth decorated in gilt; color and black & white illustrations. Some neat ink underlining throughout; else, a solid, very good copy, in the dus...

Reports on the Abolition of Corporal Punishment in the Public Schools

EDUCATION · 1868

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

1868. [EDUCATION] COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. REPORTS ON THE ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAY, 1868. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1868. 48 pp. 8vo. green sewn wrappers printed in black. Light creasing to front cover through fi...

History of the Great Fire in Boston

CONWELL, Col. Russell H. · 1873

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,569)

1873. CONWELL, Col. Russell H. HISTORY OF THE GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON. November 9 and 10, 1872. Boston: B.B. Russell, etc..1873. First edition. 8vo. green cloth, lettered and decorated. Small library bookplate on pastedown, only mark. Just minor scuffing to cloth; overall, a brig...

History of the Town of Plymouth, from Its First Settlement in 1620

THACHER, James · 1835

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

1835. THACHER, James. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN 1620, TO THE PRESENT TIME: WITH A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ABORIGINES OF NEW ENGLAND, AND THEIR WARS WITH THE ENGLISH, &C. Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon. 2nd edition. 401 pp. 12mo. rebound in green...

Personal Reminiscences

FORBES, Robert B. · 1882

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,945)

1882. FORBES, Robert B. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES .. TO WHICH IS ADDED RAMBLING RECOLLECTIONS CONNECTED WITH CHINA. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1882. Second edition, revised. xii + 412 + 7 pp. + [1] pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth worn, rubbed, spine chipped at heel...

Program of Experimental Hypnosis

LYONS, Kenneth M. · 1956

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

1956. LYONS, Kenneth M. director. A PROGRAM OF EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS: I. REINCARNATION, II. TELEPATHY, III. CLAIRVOYANCE. N.p. n.d. Photocopies of transcripts of four sessions, either in typescript or in manuscript, that record age and past-life regression through hypnosis. Th...

Les Estampes Japonaises

SEIDLITZ, W. DE · 1911

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

1911. SEIDLITZ, W. de. LES ESTAMPES JAPONAISES. Traduction de P. Andre Lemoisne. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1911. 4to, viii + 272 pp. with 16 color plates, 133 b&w. Red wrappers, split at spine, front cover detached and taped on; shaken. Text and plates are clean and quite fre...

Yokohama Ukiyoe: Essentials and Meanings

TAMBA, Tsuneo · 1962

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

1962. TAMBA, Tsuneo. YOKOHAMA UKIYOE: Essentials and Meanings. (Tokyo): The Asahi Shimbun Press, 1962. 4to. black cloth; 234 pp.; 7 pp. supplementary pamphlet in English laid in. Color and black and white illustrations. Very good in DW. Unusual and important reference. .

Images from the Floating World, the Japanese Print

Lane, Richard · 1978

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

1978. Lane, Richard. IMAGES FROM THE FLOATING WORLD. The Japanese Print. NY: Putnam, (1978). 4to. blue cloth, 364pp. This copy is of the original edition, a much superior production to the remainder. Fine in dust jacket. .

Grammatica Hebraea

ROORDA, Tacone · 1831

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

1831. ROORDA, Tacone. GRAMMATICA HEBRAEA. Lugduni Batavarum, apud S. et J. Luchtmans, 1831. Complete in two volumes, written in Latin. 8vo. blue stiff wrappers. Free endpapers cut in first volume, and chipped in second. Wrappers detaching in vol.1. As is. .

Psychedelic Review

LEE, Paul A. and Ralph Metzner, eds · 1963

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

1963. LEE, Paul A. and Ralph Metzner, eds. THE PSYCHEDELIC REVIEW. Volume 1, No. 2, Fall 1963. Cambridge, MA: The Psychedelic Review, 1963. Wrappers. Slight soil to wraps, else fine. .