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201 black & white illus on rectos only. [207] leaves. Thick oblong 4to (210 x 242 mm.), orig. cloth, title on spine. Berlin: Edition Block, 1978. The scarce artist's book documenting On Kawara's telegrams affirming "I am still alive"; this is one of 450 numbered copies from Serie A, all of which are bound in cloth and housed in a slipcase. Arranged chronologically and reproduced at their original size, the telegrams of this project were sent from December 1969 until 31 December 1977. We find messages sent to Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Sol LeWitt, Teresa O'Connor, Germano Celant, Adriaan van Ravesteijn, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Tommaso Trini, Konrad Fischer, Hiroko Hiraoka, Klaus Honnef, Ken Friedman, Yvon Lambert, Zedenek Felix, René Denizot, Radoslav Putar, Jost Herbig, Paula Cooper, Johannes Gachnang, Rene Block, etc. In fine condition. Colophon numbered: "A5." ❧ A. Moeglin-Delcroix, Esthétique du Livre d'artiste: Introduction à l'art contemporain (2nd ed.: 2012), Bibliographie des Livres et… Read More

201 black & white illus on rectos only. [207] leaves. Thick oblong 4to (210 x 242 mm.), orig. cloth, title on spine. Berlin: Edition Block, 1978. The scarce artist's book documenting On Kawara's telegrams affirming "I am still alive"; this is one of 450 numbered copies from Serie A, all of which are bound in cloth and housed in a slipcase. Arranged chronologically and reproduced at their original size, the telegrams of this project were sent from December 1969 until 31 December 1977. We find messages sent to Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Sol LeWitt, Teresa O'Connor, Germano Celant, Adriaan van Ravesteijn, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Tommaso Trini, Konrad Fischer, Hiroko Hiraoka, Klaus Honnef, Ken Friedman, Yvon Lambert, Zedenek Felix, René Denizot, Radoslav Putar, Jost Herbig, Paula Cooper, Johannes Gachnang, Rene Block, etc. In fine condition. Ownership inscription and embossed stamp of "Lars Hall" of Stockholm to first blank leaf recto. Colophon numbered "A69." ❧ A. Moeglin-Delcroix, Esthétique du… Read More

Color illus. throughout. Total of 3272 pp. 6 vols. Thick & large 4to, uniform beige cloth, titles on spines. Brussels: mfc-michèle didier, 2017. Scarce posthumous compendium of On Kawara's I Read series, one of 50 numbered copies (+ 10 H.C.). This work is unrecorded on WorldCat, but we located a copy at the Museum of Modern Art (NY). The Guggenheim's exhibition catalogue Silence (p. 109) describes the original work: "Like a number of Kawara's works, I Read is collected in common, office-supply, three-ring binders covered in blue-gray cloth. Inside, plastic sleeves each hold one or more newspaper clippings, glued onto one or both sides of a single sheet of lined notebook paper. Clippings are labeled, typically in red ballpoint pen, with the name and date of the newspaper from which they came; ink is also used to circle, underline, outline, or otherwise annotate particular sentences or paragraphs. Often cuttings that are too large for a single pager are folded over, so that unless removed from its… Read More

Many illus. Unpaginated. Four vols. Large 4to (280 x 215 mm.), orig. gray printed wrappers, titles on spines, housed in publisher's cardboard box with orig. printed labels on outside & inside. Köln: Buchhandlung Walther König, 1992. The scarce facsimile of On Kawara's I Went, I Met, I Read, and Journal series for the year 1969, published by Walther König on the occasion of Kawara's receiving the Kunstpreis Aachen. Kawara (29,771 days, i.e., 1932-2014) centered his artistic practice on the documentation of daily life: where he went, the people he met, and what he read. These notes were then compiled into three unique sets of binders. By the end of these pieces, I Met (1968-79) and I Went (1968-79) amounted to 4772 pages in 24 binders, and I Read (1966-95) totaled 3272 pages in 18 binders. Kawara's Journal filled 48 volumes, recorded from 1966 to 2013. The present volumes reproduce Kawara's life in 1969, which he spent in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Manaus, Panama City,… Read More

11 columns per page, 20 characters per column. Written in Chinese with manuscript Japanese reading marks. 52 folding leaves. Large 8vo (290 x 205 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers somewhat worn & rubbed), manuscript title-label on upper cover, new stitching. From the colophon: "Kyoto: Kotetsu shoin, 1608." A very rare movable type edition - not in WorldCat or NIJL - of one of the "two priceless records of the earlier stages of the Chinese language."-Edwin G. Pulleyblank, "Qieyun and Yunjing: The Essential Foundation for Chinese Historical Linguistics" in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, No. 2 (April-June 1998), p. 213. The Yunjing, along with its predecessor, the Qieyun, were the standard pronunciation guides of the Early Middle Chinese and Middle Chinese periods. The original motivation to compile these guides to pronunciation was religious: Chinese monks turned their attention to the analysis of the sounds of their own language as recitations of chants depended for their… Read More

Ten columns per page, 20 characters per column. The first leaf in Japanese, the remainder in Chinese. 1 p.l., 52 folding leaves. 8vo (275 x 173 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers quite rubbed & and somewhat worn), old stitching. From the colophon: "Kyoto: Tahara Ninzaemon, 1641." A very rare early edition - not in WorldCat or NIJL - of one of the "two priceless records of the earlier stages of the Chinese language."-Edwin G. Pulleyblank, "Qieyun and Yunjing: The Essential Foundation for Chinese Historical Linguistics" in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, No. 2 (April-June 1998), p. 213. The Yunjing, along with its predecessor, the Qieyun, were the standard pronunciation guides of the Early Middle Chinese and Middle Chinese periods. The original motivation to compile these guides to pronunciation was religious: Chinese monks turned their attention to the analysis of the sounds of their own language as recitations of chants depended for their effectiveness on correct pronunciation. The… Read More

Ten columns per page, 20 characters per column. 52 folding leaves. Large 8vo (280 x 203 mm.), later wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: colophon dated "1564." The earliest surviving edition of one of the "two priceless records of the earlier stages of the Chinese language."-Edwin G. Pulleyblank, "Qieyun and Yunjing: The Essential Foundation for Chinese Historical Linguistics" in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, No. 2 (April-June 1998), p. 213. The Yunjing, along with its predecessor, the Qieyun, were the standard pronunciation guides of the Early Middle Chinese and Middle Chinese periods. This is a very rare book, with only three (or, perhaps, two) other known copies. The original motivation to compile these guides to pronunciation was religious: Chinese monks turned their attention to the analysis of the sounds of their own language as recitations of chants depended for their effectiveness on correct pronunciation. The need for rhyming tables soon extended to scholarly and… Read More

19 stapled sheets, printed on rectos only. [San Francisco]: n.d.<br /> <P> A rare list by Steven Leiber, this one presents the works of the Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) in chronological order. It includes books, prints, sculptural poems, correspondence art, etc. The list is not priced. Fine.

No illus. 189, [1] p. Large 4to, orig. printed dust-jacket, softcover. Eindhoven: van Abbemuseum; Barcelona: MACBA; Geneva: MAMCO, 2008.<br /> <P> The Ian Wilson (1940-2020) catalogue raisonné, now scarce. A sharply designed catalogue of Wilson's discussions and artists' books, which opens with an essay by Anne Rorimer. It was published in conjunction with this exhibition held at the van Abbemuseum, Barcelona's MACBA, and Geneva's MAMCO (2008-9).<br /> <P> As new.

Several diagrams and manipulations of the text. 2 p.l., 420 leaves (printed on rectos only) & colophon. 8vo (173 x 120 mm.), orig. white cloth over boards, red embossed title on upper cover & spine (extremities a trifle worn). N.p.: A. R. Penck & Michael Werner, 1976. First edition, a rare artist's book by A. R. Penck (1939-2017). Penck (a.k.a. Ralf Winkler) created several artist's books in the 1970s. The present publication is based on an enigmatic manuscript composed by the artist; it was type-set by Ilka Schellenburg. A sampling of Penck's statements and entreaties: "I am 2 books"; "I am a lot of letters"; "I am a square"; "I am spelled correctly"; "I am nonsense"; "Who are you?"; "I am between me and You"; "I am text and you are image"; "Please read properly"; "What are you for?"; "I am here"; and "Did you read it?" "It can be thought of as the epitome of the self-referencing work for it is the book that speaks; on the contrary, the book, as it were, concerns a prosopopoeia of the book which,… Read More

Many illus. 181 pp. Large 4to, printed softcover, title on spine. Bielefeld: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1999. Scarce exhibition catalogue, which also serves as a catalogue raisonné of Lueg's groundbreaking paintings. This traveling show was staged at P.S. 1 (12 September-31 October 1999); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (14 November 1999-16 January 2000); and S.M.A.K. (30 January-2 April 2000). In excellent condition.

Five illus. (one in color). Single long folded sheet forming [8] pp. Torino: 1972. Unrecorded by WorldCat, catalogue for a group exhibition at Galleria Narciso. The following artists participated: Leon Bakst, Walter Crane, Alphonse Mucha, Emile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Nikolai Kalmakoff, Alphonse Osbert, Hans Schmithals, John William Waterhouse, etc. Near fine. The gallery's 110th catalogue.

Color cover illus. & illus. throughout. [24] pp. 8vo, printed softcover. Lucerne, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1980.<br /> <P> Scarce Daniel Buren (b. 1938) exhibition catalogue, published in conjunction with his exhibition-installation at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Buren reprised his use of striped sails, a medium he had first employed on Wannsee Lake outside of Berlin in 1975. An exhibition at the Akademie der Künste followed that installation. The present 1980 show was preceded by a work in situ on Lake Lucerne (3 May).<br /> <P> The catalogue is printed in parallel German and French and contains diagrams and photographs of the sails and the exhibition installation.<br /> <P> In fine condition. We locate copies at: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty, Stanford, Boston Public Library, Clark Art Institute, Art Institute Chicago, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.<br /> <P> ❧ Daniel Buren's website,… Read More

Many finely drawn illustrations in brush, ink, & colors. Scroll (285 x 9310 mm.), 23 joined sheets (some inoffensive worming, carefully repaired). Japan: copied before 1857. A finely illustrated scroll, created in the witty and refined realistic style of Yamato-e and Ukiyo-e brush work, depicting the route taken - a distance of about 4 km. - by pleasure-seekers from Ryogoku Bridge to Shin Yoshiwara, the center of prostitution in the city of Edo. By the 18th century, it was the home to some 1750 women. This was an extremely busy section with a strong commercial tradition in what is today's central Tokyo. Our scroll is an early copy of the original scroll; we do not know if that earlier scroll still exists. It was created by Bunyo Tozaka (1783-1852), a prominent Nanga-style artist who studied with Buncho Tani and specialized in kachoga (pictures of flowers and butterflies). The author of the notes was Hirokata Yashiro (1758-1841), the influential historian of Japan and great book collector (he had… Read More

Scroll (365 x 5560 mm.), with gold endpaper at beginning, on a wooden roller. [Japan]: at end, in trans.: "this secret information was given by Shichibei Itsuki to Shingobei Saijo in 1769." The spear (yari) was one of the primary weapons used in the feudal period of Japan. Many variations of the head of the spear were developed, some for thrusting by foot soldiers and some for slashing, designed for men on horseback. This finely illustrated scroll describes the teachings of the Oshima ryu (school) of fighting with a spear (sojutsu). The Oshima ryu traces its origins to the 16th century and the first prominent teacher was Yoshitsuna Oshima (1588-1657). He taught the fiefdom lord of Kii Wakayama, Yorinobu Tokugawa (1602-71), the tenth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa. The school continued for several centuries, with branches throughout Japan. The scroll is beautifully heightened with gold and silver motifs of mist throughout. It begins with a history of the school and its essential tenets and disciplines… Read More

30 folding leaves. 8vo (273 x 200 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers frayed & a little soiled), stitched as issued. [Japan]: late Edo. Stone lanterns, which originated in China, were first used in Japan to illuminate pathways in Buddhist temples. In late 16th-century Japan, tea ceremonies were often held at night, necessitating the illumination of the stone paths. Accordingly, tea masters such as Takeno Joo, Sen no Rikyu, and Furuta Oribe introduced stone lanterns to the design of tea gardens. Our manuscript contains 60 fine drawings of stone lanterns of various styles, ranging from highly ornate to very simple examples. Many of them were favored or designed by the great tea masters of the late 16th century and include ancient lanterns formerly used at shrines and temples. Each of the 60 lanterns has descriptive notes with details of the measurements of all the parts of the lantern (these include the jirin, hibukuro, kasa, and tama sections), locations in famous tea gardens or temples, and motifs… Read More

16 fine full-page brush & ink illus. 24 folding leaves. 8vo (243 x 169 mm.), orig. wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: late Edo. A fascinating manuscript. Murai (1733-1815), was a member of one of the leading Japanese families specializing in surgery. A renowned Chinese lute player, he was physician to the Kumamoto fiefdom. Murai studied under Todo Yoshimasu (1702-73), one of the most innovative practitioners of his time. Both Yoshimasu and Murai were leaders in the development of Japanese "Kampo," the study and transformation of traditional Chinese medicine in Japan, which began in the 7th century and slowly modified itself into its own unique system of diagnosis and therapy. One of the basic Chinese texts used by Japanese doctors was the classic Shang han lun 傷寒論 [Treatise on Cold Damage] by Zhang Zhongjing (fl. late 2nd century CE); it was carefully studied by Japanese physicians as late as 1850 (see Mestler, A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books, II, p. 469). It is a book of therapeutic… Read More

Scroll on paper (340 x 15,130 mm.), silk brocade outer endpaper at beginning, wooden core roller. [Kyoto]: late Edo copy. The Aoi Matsuri is one of the three most famous annual festivals in Kyoto; it now takes place on 15 of May each year and is held by the important Kamo shrines, the Kamigamo Shrine and Shimogamo Shrine. The festival's origins can be traced to rites performed in the sixth century to appease the gods and to pray for bountiful harvests. It became a more formal annual ritual in the eighth century (Heian era), when Kyoto became the capital and Emperor Kanmu (735-806) recognized the importance of the Kamo shrines to the city's prosperity. The procession starts at the southern gate of the Imperial Palace and makes it way towards the Shimogamo Shrine and finally arrives at the Kamigano Shrine, about eight kilometers away, where shrine rites are performed. The procession participants include the Saiodai (a young woman of the imperial house who has undergone several purification… Read More

Written throughout in a neat hand. Hundreds of brush & ink illus. throughout, many with color washes & metallic pigments. Ca. 800 folding leaves. Ten vols. Large 8vo (298 x 210 mm.), An important and extremely extensive manuscript on the reconstruction and restoration of the Emperor's Residence and other buildings of the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Portions of the palace complex, along with many artworks, had been destroyed or were badly damaged in the great Kyoto fire of May 1854. This palace was prone to fires, having been destroyed and rebuilt eight times, six of them during the 250-year-long peace of the Edo period. Following the 1854 fire, an administrative agency to oversee this reconstruction was created in Kyoto at the beginning of the Ansei era, with Asano Nagayoshi (1816-80) as director. He was a painter and former pupil of Tsubaki Chinzan. A high-ranking retainer of the shogunate, he served as City Magistrate of Kyoto. Our manuscript amounts to the official report of the works. Our finely… Read More

39 fine double-page landscape paintings. 40 folding leaves. Small 4to (265 x 190 mm.), in orihon (accordion) format, orig. boards. [Japan]: on final opening (in trans.): "Copied in the summer of 1833 by [last name indecipherable] Hairi, a resident of Washu sakurai [part of today's Nara]." There are nearly 900 Imperial tombs in 457 locations in Japan, ranging from simple burial mounds to cemeteries to small temples. This manuscript contains landscape images of a selection of 34 Imperial burial sites, along with four famous landscapes and one ancient imperial residence area, all located in Yamato Province (today's Nara Prefecture). Each of the sites, with surrounding grounds, moats and lakes, and plantings, is beautifully depicted in rich pigments, using the Chinese "wrinkled rock" style of illustration. The sites range from mounds, planted with just a few trees, to sites for cremated bodies, to more complex sites where several emperors are buried. Each illustration has notes on which emperor (or… Read More