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Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1862. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. scattered foxing, with a faint dampstain along top edge.. [225]-240 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w steel engravings and a b/w plan. 4to. The Holy Week in Jerusalem

Madrid, 1930. First edition. Paper wrappers. A good copy, spine torn, wrappers rubbed.. Unpaged [Approx. 120 pp]. 8vo. Includes photos and articles on the 1930 Tour de France, bull fighting, fashion, and more.

Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1975. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. 32 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and reproductions. Sm. 4to. Also includes: "The Sea Journal of Captain Ebenezer Hooker Mix, 1817-1818," by Phyllis Kihn ; "Ecclesiastical Crisis in Colonial Windsor," by William J. Uricchio ; and book reviews.

n.p.: Privately Printed, 1948. Cloth. Edges heavily chipped otherwise very good.. [8], 49 leaves. Illus. with 98 duotone drawings on colored paper. Sm. 4to. "Collection of Drawings of Flower Arrangements" by Yamagushi, Volume I of the Cultural People of the Orient. Includes 2 testimonials from Americans. A nice album of early post-war drawings.

Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in an edgeworn dust jacket.. xvii, 226 pp. Illus. with 65 tables. 8vo.

Tokyo: Chuo Academic Research Institute, 1997. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy.. ii, 302 pp. 4to. Philologica Asiatica. Monograph Series 11.

Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1968. Shinpan. (Revised edition). Illustrated paper-covered boards. A fine copy. As new. In a rubbed slipcase.. 236 pp. Illus. with 12 color & b/w photos. 8vo. Tea Ceremony. Text in Japanese.

n.p.: Nihon Mingeikan: [Japanese Folk-Craft Museum], 1961. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with scuffed and sunned wrappers.. Unpaged [34 pp]. Illus. with 2 color and 37 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. In Japanese and English. Collection of the Japanese Folk-Craft Museum. 39 objects. An uncommon item. Soetsu Yanagi was founder of the folkcraft movement.

Tokyo: Japan Institute of Pacific Studies / International Publishing Co., 1948. First edition. Paper wrappers. A good+ copy, browned and chipped along extremities.. 41 pp. 8vo. Japan Institute of Pacific Studies.

Taipei: Dept. of Compilation of Encyclopaedia Sinica, 1957. First edition. Paper wrappers. About very good, few tiny chips to the wrappers and spine, wrappers soiled.. 59, 6 pp. 1 folding plate. 4to. Text in Chinese with a synopsis in English of methods used in the compilation of Encyclopaedia Sinica, with the single Chinese character [qie] as example. One folding color plate illustrating the Encyclopedia.

Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, Univ. of California, 1971. First edition. Paper wrappers. Shelfwear else a near fine unopened (uncut) copy.. Illus. with 1 color folding map. Sm. 4to. No. 19 in the series of Keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members. Ferol Egan, intro. and notes.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.. viii, 298 pp. Illus. with 6 color photos. 8vo. Signed by the author.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1970. First American edition. Cloth. Edges faintly darkened else a near fine copy in a good to very good dust jacket with dampstain to lower spine and joints and a chip to the rear panel. Still a quite attractive copy.. 260 pp. 8vo. Miriam Arad, trans. Author's first book in English translation. Contains five stories: A poet's continuing silence; Three days and a child; Facing the forests; Flood tide; A long hot day, his despair, his wife, and his daughter.

[Chicago]: Published by Ludowici-Celadon Company for Distribution Among the members of the Architectural Profession, 1930. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. 15 pp. Illus. with 19 b/w photos & 1 measured drawing. Sm. 4to.

[Hong-Kong]: [Royal Asiatic Society], 1935. First edition. Removed. A very good copy removed from original binding.. [467-474] pp. 8vo.

[Hong-Kong]: [Royal Asiatic Society], 1933. First edition. Removed. A very good copy removed from original binding, a few leaves loose.. [657-685] pp. Illus. with 4 b/w plates. 8vo.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear on lower edge of front panel.. 198 pp. Illus. with 85 color plates, 15 b/w figures and additional color and b/w reproductions. Folio. Publisher's errata laid in of missing image. Bibliography. Chronology. List of artists. An important contribution to the study of Japanese folk and popular art, this is a descriptive catalogue of 85 items from a traveling exhibition of Yokohama prints (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), a genre of ukiyo-e that flourished from 1859 to the 1870's, that "were produced to satisfy Japanese curiosity about foreigners and foreign cultures at a time when some foreigners arrived at Yokohama, an international port newly opened after over two hundred years of national seclusion," (Keiko Suzuki, Asian Folklore Studies 1992, p 148).

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1963. First edition. Cloth. Lacking a single plate, otherwise content and binding near fine in a very good dust jacket.. 216 pp. Illus. with 11 (of 12) tipped-in color plates and 396 color and b/w reproductions, and 1 map. Folio (35 cm). Sekai bijutsu taikei 8. The first volume of what would eventually cover three volumes. Text in Japanese. Chronology. List of artists.

New York: Division of Franchises, 1937. First edition. Later cloth spine. morocco over cloth boards, gilt title and rules. Spine tape reinforced, wear and tears at joints, corners worn, some soiling on top edge, contents and illus. very good.. xii, 623 pp. Illus. with folding maps and diagrams. Sm. 4to.

New York, 1789. Very good, minor tearing to folds, light soiling and ink staining.. [4 pp.] bifolium. 7 x 12 inches. The first section is titled "Abstract of the Tax Laws as they respect the City of New York," begins with marginal note: "Duty of Assessors. Act for the... collection of taxes in the city and County of New York passed in March 1788" and includes separate summaries of the responsibilities of the Assessors; the Mayor, Recorder, and Alderman; and the Common Council. The second section is titled "Taxes for 1789" and includes" Act for raising the monies by tax for the maintenance of the poor and defraying the contingent expenses in the City & County of New York - passed 2nd July 1789. which ordered the raising £6000 on real estates real & personal within the City & County of New York to be applied to the support and maintenance of the poor, The Bridwell municipal prison, criminals, repairing roads - and cleaning and improving the streets. Also An act to empower the Mayor Recorder &… Read More