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Washington DC: Richie & Heiss, Printers, 1845. Very good. 8vo. 5, [3] pp. (last 3 pages blank). Single sheet folded twice (splitting along folds), uncut. AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS BY RESIDENTS IN THE OREGON TERRITORY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A GOVERNMENT. The writers draw attention to the vast commercial opportunities, as well as the threat from the British ("a haughty government, on a foreign continent, [that] asserts her right to possess herself of Oregon"). The authors gloss over the impediment of the Rocky Mountains which -- we are informed -- ascend gradually and "present little more obstruction than a cornfield." These "memorialists" further request that the Wallamette valley be surveyed; mail routes established (to arrive and depart "monthly"); land officers appointed; navy yards built on the Columbia River; protection from the "numerous Indian tribes which surround us"; the purchase of territories they may wish to sell; agents with authority "to regulate intercourse between whites and Indians."… Read More

Hannover: Totalkunstbetrieb Timm Ulrichs, 3 Hannover 1, Postfach 6043, 1971. Very good. 2 mimeograph sheets (295 x 210) printed in blue, folded twice (vertically and horizontally). Fading along fold, slightly age-toned). Preserved in a mylar sleeve. Rare: not in KVK or OCLC. This mimeographed list is one of the EARLIEST bibliographies of Ulrichs' graphic work, compiled (and originally typed?) by the artist himself as a vehicle of sale, and remains of the greatest interest to Ulrichs scholars and students of Concrete Art. We have not been able to determine if this "Liste" has been reprinted or reproduced in any form. We have handled Ulrichs' "List 2" and the present list, issued sometime afterwards, differs significantly from it. In our copy, five items are marked with a red arrow in red ink. In a conscious (and characteristic) gesture of rejection, Urichs completely withdrew from the art market in the 1970s, and thus the present leaflet would have been rendered obsolete within only a few years.… Read More

Kanda, Tokyo: Hasegawa Chūbei, 1885. First Edition. Good. 8vo (182 x 119 mm). 19 double leaves (the makura preface has been woodblock-printed in color), COMPLETE. Condition notes: a number of fukurotoji leaf edges split, text with light browning, thumbing, and a few marks to leaves, small hole to margin of leaf 14. Original four-hole (yotsumetoji) binding in the traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji), original wrappers (worn, soiled, creased, and with some chips and marks). Original mounted daisen title panel (tear and chips to upper pastedown). A complete but well worn copy, priced accordingly. Preserved in a mylar sleeve. IDIOSYNCRATIC ATTEMPTS AT HUMOR EXPRESSING THE PSYCHIC CRISIS OF JAPAN IN THE THROES OF "MODERNIZATION," AS WESTERN CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY BECAME MORE AND MORE PREVALANT. This collection of nineteen humorous rakugo stories was marketed to Japanese "common readers," for scholars most elusive audience in Japan (and elsewhere) as many publications such as the present… Read More