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1882. Nō Kyōgen Gashū 能狂言画集 Kawabata Gyokushō 川端玉章, artist Fukuendō 福延堂, publisher. Meiji 15 [1882]. An orihon folding album 17.6 x 12.1 cm, bound in cloth. There are 19 double page color woodblock printed images of scenes from Nō and Kyōgen drama. Each scene is identified. Early Meiji era printing in saturated colors, an early work by Gyokushō. The title slip is missing. Overall very good condition. .
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[Nō Kyōgen Gashū 能狂言画集
by Kawabata Gyokushō 川端玉章, artist
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NACHTLEGENDEN AUS DER VENDEE
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1964. COUDRAIN, Brigitte. NACHTLEGENDEN AUS DER VENDEE. Stuttgart: Manus Presse, 1964. No. 26 of 100 copies, 9 signed etchings. Folio, loose plates as issued, wrappers, in tan cloth clamshell box stamped in black. Light soil to cloth, cloth splitting at top and bottom of front cover of box. Contents fine.
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NAFPLION
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1971. ANTONAKATOU, Diana. NAFPLION. Athens: [n.p.], (1971). 4to., tan cloth with dust jacket. Text in Greek, English and French. Illustrated in color and black and white. Near fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket.
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NAGASAKI KIKO^ SHASEICHO
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1866. KAWAMURA UKOKU. NAGASAKI KIKO SHASEICHO 42 double page [image size 25.3 x 29.2 cm] paintings in sumi with slight color, painted by Ukoku in 1866. There are also 8 double page paintings in a different hand and one double page of calligraphy dated to Taisho 11 [1922]. Ukoku [1838-1906] was born a member of the samurai class and became an important member of the Meiji government. He was known as a teacher of nanga-style art later in life, but this scroll depicts scenes from a journey he took on behalf of the Bakufu in the closing days of the old Tokugawa regime in the late 1860's. His "sketchbook" of the journey is dated the third month of 1866. We know from his biography that he was sent on a mission to Nagasaki at that time. Besides having many students, fulfilling the Nanga amateur painter ideal, he also eventually served as a justice in the Japanese Supreme Court. His life is a superb example of the interaction of tradition and modernity, vocation and skilled avocation of a truly cultured…
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NAGASAKI BUNKEN ROKU 長崎文献錄
by [EHON] Hirokawa Kai 廣川獬
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[EHON] Hirokawa Kai 廣川獬. NAGASAKI BUNKEN ROKU 長崎文献錄. Kyōto, Hishiya Magobei, Bunsei Gannen [1817]. 5 vols. in 3, string bound Japanese-style fukuro toji, 25.7 x 17.7 cm, original paper title labels, grey covers. The second printing after the first appearance in 1800. This "RECORD OF THINGS HEARD AND SEEN IN NAGASAKI" details a trip to Nagasaki undertaken by Kai, a scholar of Dutch medicine. This book has been described by Boxer as "one of the principal sources of information about Deshima and its occupants at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century". Not only about the Dutch, but also the Chinese, strange tales and monsters from abroad, etc.,etc. See Hillier pp. 511,2 & Boxer JAN COMPAGNIE IN JAPAN, p.132. In overall good condition, the b+w woodcuts are in good impression. Complete.
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NAKAGAWA KAZUMASA GASHU^
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1926. NAKAGAWA Kazumasa, artist. NAKAGAWA KAZUMASA GASHU^. To^kyo^, Atorie-sha. Taisho^ 15 [1926]. Large decorated cloth 8vo, western-bound. Many color reproductions of Nakagawa's Western--style oil paintings, as well as textual cuts. Very good overall, in the original slipcase.
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NAKAGAWA ZUANSHU^
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1917. [DESIGN] NAKAGAWA Yoshinaga, designer. NAKAGAWA ZUANSHU^. Nagoya, Fukada Zuan Kenkyu^sho, Taisho^ 6 [1917]. Wonderful portfolio of lithographed designs in a Deco idiom. Reminiscent of the early work of Sugiura Hisui but with its own unique quirky sense of boldness and fun. Animal and vegetal themes for the most part. Very unusual. Complete as issued.
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NAKCOKV ES KERETV ENHVTECESKV. MUSKOKEE, OR CREEK FIRST READER
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1856. ROBERTSON, W. S., and David Winslett. NAKCOKV ES KERETV ENHVTECESKV. Muskokee [sic], or Creek First Reader. New York: Mission House, 1856. First edition. The text is comprised of Muscogee (Creek) - English word lists and short readings in the Muscogee language, frequently illustrated with small, charming cuts of animals and objects and biblical scenes. 12mo. 48 pp. Contemporary binding of leather backed brown cloth boards, with gilt-stamped title to upper board. Early ink inscription on front pastedown. The backstrip is rubbed, has loss at either end, and is split along one joint - although the board is still firmly attached. The boards are crisp and clean except for a small spot of soiling on the lower board. The gilt title is quite bright. Scant light foxing on initial and closing leaves; otherwise the text is clean. Very good. (Sabin 72019). Rare.
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NAKED AND THE DEAD
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1958. (MAILER, Norman). THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. Original film poster. Warner Brothers, 1958. Folded as issued. A lovely clean, bright copy.
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NAME AND FAMILY OF PHELPS
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1984. THE NAME AND FAMILY OF PHELPS. [New York]: Roots Research Bureau, 1984. Manuscript # 2064. 13,7 pp. 4to., velo binding (black wrappers). Several Roots Research informational pages laid in. Very good plus.
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NAMI-KO
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1905. TOKUTOMI, Kenjiro. NAMI-KO. A realistic novel. Translated from the Japanese by Sakae Shioya and E. F. Edgett. Tokyo: The Yurakusha, 1905. Later printing. 12mo., olive wrappers printed in white, 376 pp.. Dogeared, sunned, with wear to the perimeters, foxing to a few pages, and ink ownership to the ffep.
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NANBURYO^ GUNSON RYAKKI
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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 allotments (koku, villages, etc.) dates of founding (mostly in the Genroku period). All done in a clear hand. Bound fukuro-toji, Japanese-style with a hand-brushed title label. Probably done in the mid 19th century (Bakumatsu era?). Very good condition, in a custom made clasped chitsu case with a hand-brushed title label.
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NARA
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19. [GUIDEBOOK] NARA. Single sheet tri-fold pamphlet measuring approx. 7" x 4". Nara: The Nara Hotel, [n.d.], (c.1915). Front panel illustrated in white and lettered in red. Includes six pages of text and a map. A very good copy slightly browned at exterior, light creasing at lower edge.
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NARA PICTURE BOOKS
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FAE. SHIMIZU, Yutaka. NARA PICTURE BOOKS. Translated by Richard Zumwinkle. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1960. First American edition, 1/750 copies. IV + 46 pp. + 4 color and 6 b&w plates; with tipped in paper samples. Large 8vo, silk-covered wrappers, string bound. Browning, else very good in printed dust jacket and slipcase.
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NARADA NO TAFU 奈良乃太布
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1960. [KATAZOME] OKAMURA Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門. NARADA NO TAFU 奈良乃太布. Shôwa 35 [1960]. String-bound Japanese-style, privately printed in 50 copies. 31.1 x 19.7 cm., Okamura (1916-2002) was a student of Serizawa Keisuke and embraced his interest in traditional Japanese folk arts, papermaking and stencil printing (katazome). This lovely monograph on Japanese bark-cloth from the town of Narada in Yamanashi Prefecture has two samples and is illustrated throughout with colorful and lively katazome. Signed by the author and artist, Okamura. Fine condition, in the original folding case with printed title label.
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NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION ACROSS THE GREAT SOUTH-WESTERN PRAIRIES
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1845. KENDALL, George W. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION ACROSS THE GREAT SOUTH-WESTERN PRAIRIES, FROM TEXAS TO SANTA FE; with an account of the disasters which befel the expedition from want of food and the attack of hostile indians; the final capture of the Texans and their sufferings on a march of two thousand miles as prisoners of war, and in the prisons and lazarettos of Mexico. In two volumes. London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1845. Second British edition. Two octavo volumes: xii,[13]-432; viii,[13]-436 pp. Frontispiece in each volume and a folding map in V. 1 of "Texas and part of Mexico & the United States. Showing the route of the first Santa Fe Expedition." Publisher's binding of green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Cloth is lightly sunned on spines and sides show slight rubbing. The upper board of the first volume is detached and the volume should be recased. Upper joint of the second volume is split and the board, which is barely attached by threads, needs to be rehinged, though the…
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NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION ... TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN
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1856. (PERRY, M. C.) HAWKS, Francis L. NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1852, 1853, AND 1854, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE M. C. PERRY, UNITED STATES NAVY, BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. vii pp. + errata slip + 624 pp. + 78 plates (incl. frontispiece) engraved on wood and steel, and 9 maps. 8vo., three quarter calf with gilt spine, raised bands, marbled edges and marbled paper covered boards. Moderate shelfwear to edges, heel and crown. Gilt spine slightly cracked, rubbed. Light wear to boards. Light foxing to frontispiece and occasional text/plates. Maps excellent, but for a short closed tear to edge of map facing p. 95. Sabin 30968 lists 89 plates; but there is no plate list present to indicate exactly how many plates should be present. This volume does not include the suppressed "bathing scene" plate. Very good plus.
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NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION ... TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN
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1856. (PERRY, M. C.) HAWKS, Francis L. NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1852, 1853, AND 1854, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE M. C. PERRY, UNITED STATES NAVY, BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. vii pp. + errata slip + 624 pp. + 78 plates (incl. frontispiece) engraved on wood and steel, and 9 maps. 8vo., original brown publisher's cloth. Sabin 30968 lists 89 plates; but there is no plate list present to indicate exactly how many plates should be present. This volume does not include the suppressed "bathing scene" plate. There is a bit of fading else this a beautiful fresh copy. Fine.
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NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII, OR OWHYHEE; WITH REMARKS ON THE
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1826. ELLIS, William. NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII, OR OWHYHEE; WITH REMARKS ON THE HISTORY, TRADITIONS, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND LANGUAGE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. London: H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson, 1826. [8] + 442 pp. 8vo., 3/4 green leather with gilt red morroco spine label and marbled paper covered boards. Folding frontispiece engraving (map of Hawaii) engr. by J. Tyrer. Ex-library with no external markings (bookplate only). Moderate rubbing and shelfwear to boards, spine lightened, a few scrapes to raised bands. Slight offset tanning to endpapers.B/w engraved plates, minor foxing to edges, and occasional light foxing in the text. A solidly pleasing copy.
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A NARRATIVE OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY TO CHINA, IN THE YEARS 1792, 1793
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1795. ANDERSON, Aeneas. A NARRATIVE OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY TO CHINA, IN THE YEARS 1792, 1793, AND 1794; CONTAINING THE VARIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE EMBASSY, WITH ACCOUNTS OF CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THE CHINESE; AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, TOWNS, CITIES, &C. &C. London: Printed for J. Debrett...1795. [a2, b4-c4, B4-2Q4] 278 pp. + [2] + [24] pp. 4to., original calf boards, corners and edges worn, backstrip missing, half bound with cloth tape, of which the top 5 inches is missing. Owner's nautical bookplate to front pastedown, with small clipping noting the American edition tipped in. Small auction sticker affixed to blank verso facing title page. Minimal foxing in the text. Appendix: Remarks on Board his Majesty's Ship the Lion, in the Yellow Sea. (Cordier 2386) An account of the important Macartney Embassy to China. Complete, sold with all faults of condition.
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