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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Ussher (James, Bishop of Armagh) Gravissimae quæstionis, de Christianarum Ecclesiarum, in occidentis præsertim partibus, ab apostolicis temporibus ad nostram usque ætatem, collation: [a]⁴ A-3A⁴ 3B², lacking plate, very light even spotting, trimmed at head not affecting text, library stamps to title verso, ownership stamps to front free endpapers and title, later boards, rather worn, 4to, for Bonham Norton, 1613.

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Law.- Fleetwood (William) Annalium tam Regum Edwardi quinti, Richardi tertij, & Henrici septimi, first edition, black letter, text in Anglo-Norman, woodcut historiated initial, some minor marginal worming, occasional light staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, covers with arabesque centre-pieces flanked by initials 'EW', sympathetically rebacked, covers detached, corners repaired, some staining, [STC 11034], 8vo, Richard Tottell, 10th September, 1579.⁂ Fleetwood was Recorder of London from 1571 to 1591.

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Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, double column, title within woodcut border, lacking (B)2-11 and (D)6-7, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some browning and light foxing, closely trimmed, affecting some text, a few gatherings with worm holes to foot, final two leaves working loose, later diced calf, spine with red morocco labels, worn, upper joint split at head and foot, lacking lower cover, [STC 2300.4], London [but Holland], Robert Barker: by the assignes of John Bill, 1638 [?but c.1660]; with 2 other Bibles and a Book of Common Prayer, 17th and 18th century, 12mo & 8vo (4)

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NO RESERVE Bible, English. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues..., engraved title by J. Mynde (loss to lower margin, just affecting image), New Testament with separate letterpress title, ink inscription to foot of A6 crossed out, Oxford, Thomas Baskett, [1759], bound with The Whole Book of Psalms; Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, And Others..., lacking A-A3 and all after L, small hole to L affecting a few words, Eliz. James, for the Company of Stationers, 1748, both bound after a defective Book of Common Prayer, together 3 works in 1 vol., a few chips and short closed tears, occasional browning and light soiling, contemporary calf, quite worn, chips to spine ends, upper joint split at head and foot, 8vo.

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Edwards (Osman) Residential Rhymes. Sympathetically Dedicated to Foreigners in Japan, colour woodblock illustrations by Yoshimune, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, light creasing, a very good copy, [Sharf p.69], oblong 4to, Tokyo, Hasegawa, 1899.⁂ A scarce and lively work satirising the habit of foreigners in Japan. "Residential Rhymes is arguably Hasegawa's finest publication; Edwards's text has proven to be a classic summary of Meiji Japan." - Sharf, p.41.

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Bees.- Lawson (William) A new Orchard, and Garden; or, The best way for Planting, Grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard, 2 parts in 1, woodcut title vignette (repeated in text D1, with very small hole affecting image and two letters on verso), other woodcut illustrations including 10 of knot-gardens, lacking final 6 ff. (pp.125-134), several ff. towards end with light damp-staining to upper corner, occasional spotting or minor instances of soiling, nineteenth century half morocco, upper cover detached, spine and extremities rubbed, [Wing L730; cf. British Bee Books 20 for 1618 ed.], 4to, by W. Wilson, for John Harison, 1648.⁂ One of the many seventeenth-century editions. Part 2, The Country House-Wives Garden is the first gardening book for women; it has a separate title page, and includes a chapter entitled, The Husbandry of Bees (pp.98-107) with a woodcut of a frame for holding hives. The pages lacking at the end (pp.125-134) are the chapter by Simon Hayward, "The husdandmans fruitfull orchard" relating to picking, packing, transporting and preserving fruit.

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Boyle (Robert) Some considerations touching The Style of the H. Scriptures, third edition, ink ownership inscription to title, [Wing B4027], Henry Herringman, 1668 bound with Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God, [Wing B4035], Henry Herringman, 1665, together 2 works in 1, woodcut head-pieces and initials, occasional light spotting or browning, light trimming to upper margin affecting some headlines, twentieth century? calf, gilt with red morocco label, small 8vo.

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Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) De Institutione Oratoria libri duodecim, edited by Edmund Gibson, imprimatur leaf at beginning, occasional foxing and light browning, contemporary calf, stamped in blind, rubbed, joints and extremities worn, [Wing Q221], 4to, Oxford, Henry Cruttenden, 1693.⁂ Provenance: John Cotman (ink name on front pastedown and front free endpaper); another John Cotman (ink name on recto of imprimatur leaf).

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Shakespeare (William) Hamlet, spotting and some light browning, modern half calf, by J. Darby for A. Bettesworth, 1723; and 3 others relating to Shakespeare, v.s. (4)

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Akiyama (Aisaburo).- [Akiyama (Aisaburo)], "Miss Dulcie Harmony". Musical Japan, colour woodblock illustrations throughout by Chikanobu Hashimoto, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, some light creasing and soiling, oblong 8vo, Tokyo, Akiyama, 1895.⁂ Scarce introduction to a number of traditional Japanese instruments comprising: koto, samisen, taiko, tsuzumi, fuye, gekkin and kokyu. This issue with "Sold by Maruya & Co." to colophon.

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- The Goblin Spider, translated by Lafcadio Hearn, first edition, first printing with the 10 Hiyoshi-cho address, some chipping and fraying to upper cover, light soiling to lower cover, Tokyo, Hasegawa, 1899; The Wonderful Mallet, translated by Mrs. T. H. James, reprint, Tokyo, Hasegawa, [c.1903]; The Broken Images, translated by Mrs. T. H. James, first edition, Tokyo, Hasegawa, 1903, Japanese Fairy Tales Second Series Nos.1-3, colour woodblock illustrations, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, [Sharf p. 63], 12mo (3)⁂ A good set of the scarce, short-lived second series of fairy tales.

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Warton (Thomas) Poems on Several Occasions, first edition, woodcut tail-pieces, bookplates of Sir George Shuckburgh Bart. and H. Bradley Martin, some slight browning, rebacked, for R. Manby and H. S. Cox, 1748 § Bishop (Samuel) Feriae Poeticae: Sive Carmina Anglicana..., text in English and Latin, ink ownership inscription of subscriber J. Monro to front free endpaper, another of novelist Irene Osgood to head of title, joints split at head and foot, 1766, list of subscribers, some light foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo & 4to (3)

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Adam (Jules) Japanese Story-Tellers, translated by Osman Edwards, first edition, colour woodblock illustrations by Yoshimune, very occasional light soiling, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, some light rubbing and spotting, [Sharf p.69], small 4to, Tokyo, Hasegawa, 1899.⁂ This edition was published a few days prior to the French edition. It is likely that both editions were intended for exhibition at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition.

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Wilson (Lt. Col. Robert Thomas) History of the British Expedition to Egypt, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, very occasional light browning or foxing, modern half calf, red morocco spine label, uncut, a remarkably clean and handsome copy, lge 4to, 1802.

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Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Mancha, 4 vol., translated by Charles Jarvis, first edition, half-titles, coloured aquatint plates, some light foxing, modern purple half morocco, spine gilt, lightly scuffed, 1819.

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Egan (Pierce) Real Life in London; or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, 2 vol., first edition, mixed issues, etched aquatint frontispieces, additional engraved titles and plates after Thomas Rowlandson, Henry Alken and W. Heath, hand-colouring, some lightly spotted, several trimmed with a few shaving imprint, some torn and neatly repaired, modern red morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spines gilt, g.e., slightly rubbed at joints and extremities, a few very light scuffs to covers, [Tooley 198; Abbey, Life 280], 8vo, 1821-2.

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Florenz (Karl) Japanische Dramen. Terakoya und Asagao, first German edition, colour woodblock illustrations by Yoshimune, occasional very light foxing, label removed from title with some tearing, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, short tear to lower covers, light creasing and some spotting, some chipping to spine ends, [Sharf p. 73], small 4to, Leipzig, Amelang & Tokyo, Hasegawa, 1900.⁂ Florenz's popular introduction to Japanese theatre that ran to at least seven edition, scarce in first edition. Though composed in the author's native German, Hasegawa was keen to exhibit the work at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition and so gave precedence to the French translation. The Garman edition was published a little later, in September of the same year.

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Children's.- Belch (William) W. Belch's History of Fishes & Insects, 8ff., printed on one side only, each with hand-coloured engravings, some foxing and light offsetting, original orange wrappers with hand-coloured engraved label to upper cover, a few ink doodles, [c.1825] § Holloway (William) Scenes of Youth; or Rural Recollections and other Poems, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved vignettes, wax seal to front pastedown, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, 1803; and 28 others, children's, v.s. (30)

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Mather (James) An Account of the Ship Life-Boat, second edition, 2 plates, one folding, half-title upper corner torn away, stamps from "North & South American Coffee House, J. Davies, London" throughout, one or two embossed stamps from the "Institute of Essex", some finger-soiling and light marking, modern boards, 8vo, Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1830.

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NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) Oliver Twist, light foxing and finger-soiling, pencil inscriptions to half-title, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked, rubbed, light wear to extremities, 8vo, Paris, 1839.⁂ A rare early, possibly pirate, edition of Oliver Twist.

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Monthly Changes of Japanese Street-Scenes. Calendar for 1902, some light soiling, upper cover creased, [not in Sharf], 1901; Monthly Changes of Japanese Street-Scenes. Calendar for 1903, some minor insect damage to lower cover, [not in Sharf], 1902; The Month of Japanese Ladies Calendar for 1903, light soiling to margins, [Sharf p.74], 1902, colour woodblock illustrations, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, some light spotting and creasing, small 4to, Tokyo, Hasegawa (3)

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Dickens (Charles) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, first edition in six monthly parts, engraved portrait, additional pictorial title and 12 wood-engraved plates after Luke Fildes, lacking 12 pp. and single slip of rear advertisements (part 5 8pp. and slip; part 6 4pp.), though with the fragile "Cork Hat" slip to part 2 present, original publisher's blue-green pictorial wrappers after C. A. Collins, earliest issue of part 6 with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price on the upper wrappe, some very light toning, mainly to spines and extremities, parts 1-3 mainly with some small chips to spines or wear to edges, part 1 with some minor paper repairs to spine, housed within custom made cloth portfolio with flaps, inside calf-backed cloth box, spine a little sunned, head with small chip, [Eckel pp.96-98; Hatton & Cleaver pp.373-384], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1870.

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Trollope (Anthony) The American Senator, 3 vol., first edition in book form, vol. 1 ink ownership inscription to pastedown, vol. 3 p.223 torn with paper repairs (affecting text but without loss), some light spotting, vol. 3 endpapers renewed, original orange-ochre cloth (Sadleir's primary cloth), upper covers with remains of library labels, some soiling and surface wear, spines rather rubbed with some loss of decoration and lettering, ends and corners a little bumped, [Sadleir 46], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1877.

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Erotic literature.- [Pasha (Katoumbah)] Memoirs of a Russian Princess, number 1 of 250 copies for private circulation, light finger-soiling, original cloth, extremities bumped and creased, privately printed for the Kama Shastra Society of London, 1907 § The Diary of a Flagellee, contemporary cloth-backed boards, library stamps to title, Paris, 1925 § Reinhard (W.) Nell in Bridewell: Description of the System of Corporal Punishment in the Female Prisons of South Germany, first edition, one of 1000 copies, original black cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, extremities torn and frayed, 1934, 8vo (3)⁂ The last with flap reading: "probably the most stirring account of flagellation ever written...in Germany this book was twice suppressed by the government."

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NO RESERVE Heming (Col. Dempster) A Group of 28 typescripts from the author, some annotations, original cloth, boards or wrappers, some light creasing or browning, v.s., c.1905-1930s.. ⁂ Other material included are an excerpt from Household Words, March 25 1905 with a story under one of his many pseudonyms (this one being 'Tresham Quaines'), as well as a pamphlet of lyrics to a song, a manuscript notebook, a typescript work 'Manners Makyth Man' which recounts his days in Winchester School, and a collection of printed and original illustrations.

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Auden (W.H.) Letters from Iceland, proof copy, some light spotting to initial pages, and fore-edge, 1937; On the Frontier, proof copy, un-opened along top edge, a few pages with very small marginal tears, 1938; An Ariel Poem. Mountains, illustrated by Edward Bawden, one in colour, with original publisher's printed envelope, [1954?], all with original printed wrappers, the first two with toning and sunning, spine ends a little chipped, upper joint beginning to tear at ends, 8vo (3)

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Confectionery.- Carême (Antonin) The Royal Parisian pastrycook and confectioner, edited by John Porter, first edition in English, lithographed frontispiece and 8 plates of ornate cakes and jellies, all but 1 folding, lacking half-title, plate 3 outer margin trimmed just within border, folding plates with section of light browning, stained, some spotting, lightly browned, 20th century pale calf over contemporary marbled boards, spine in compartments and preserving original black and burgundy leather labels, boards scuffed, [Oxford p.168; Simon BG 284; cf. Vicaire 144 (first edition, 1815)], 8vo, F.J. Mason, 1834.⁂ Scarce first edition in English of Le Pâtissier Royal Parisien, Paris, 1815.

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Wine.- Nicolas. A good group of 19 fine wines lists, for the years 1949-1951, 1953-1962 (2 copies of 1954), 1964-1967 and 1969, colour illustrations by Léon Gischia, Van Dongen & others, many full-page, occasional offsetting, spotting or staining, original pictorial wrappers, some ring-bound, occasional spotting or mostly light staining, but generally in a good state of preservation, v.s., Paris, 1949-1969.

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Bread.- Parmentier (Antoine-Augustin) Le parfait boulanger ou traité complet sur la fabrication & le commerce du pain, first edition, title with woodcut arms, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, Mm3 short tear at foot, within text, but without loss, rudimentary paper repair in margin, Oo4&5 loose, spotting and mostly light staining, lightly browned, later mottled vellum, spine later gilt and with faded leather label, piece missing from foot of spine (loosely inserted), some staining and fading, [Bitting p.357; Cagle 374; Oberlé Fastes 813; Vicaire 656], Paris, Royal Printers, 1778; and an 18th century La Varenne, 8vo (2) ⁂ First edition of this comprehensive treatise on bread-making and the sale of the product. It includes a history of bread-making in the introduction. In 1780 Parmentier and Antoine Alexis Cadet de Vaux opened a free school of bakery in Paris.

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Doctorow (E. L. ) World's Fair,original cloth, spine ends a little toned, dust-jacket, some light creasing to folds, 1985; The Waterworks, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine and fold ends a little bumped, 1994 § Lurie (Alison) Foreign Affairs, modern red leather, gilt, g.e., 1984 § Oates (Joyce Carol) Mysteries of Winterthurn, modern brown leather, gilt, g.e., 1984, first editions, signed by the author on title or front endpaper; and 9 others literature, 8vo (13)

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Kimura (Shotaro) and Charlotte M. A. Peake, translators. Sword and Blossom Poems from the Japanese, 3 vol., first editions, first printings with roman typeface to vol. 1 "Post Scriptum" and 38 Yotsuya Honmura address to vol. 2 & 3 titles, colour woodblock illustrations by Kason, Koho, Shoso, Yoshimune, Baison and Gesso, vol. 3 with signed bookplate of Gordon Pomfrey to endpaper, bound Japanese-style, original pictorial paper-covered boards, some light chipping to spine ends and corners, moreso vol.2, light soiling to covers, [Sharf p. 70], 8vo, Tokyo, Hasegawa, 1907-10.⁂ A charming set of these poems printed on hosho paper. Sharf postulates that they were likely produced in the wake of Japan's 1905 victory over Russia. They proved especially popular in England, a staunch political ally of Japan's during this period and the host of the 1910 Anglo-Japanese Exhibition in London in 1910.

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Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, light scattered spotting, heavier to first and last few pages, one or two light annotations in pencil, original cloth, light marks to upper cover, extremities rubbed, spine faded, still an internally crisp and clean copy, 8vo, 1932.

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NO RESERVE Le Carré (John) The Little Drummer Girl, fourth impression, signed by the author, light tape-staining to endpapers, some light marking to boards, jacket with light sunning to spine, light creasing to head and foot, 1983; The Night Manager, first edition, signed by the author, light bumping to spine ends and corners, jacket with light sunning to head, light creasing to head and foot, 1993, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent examples, 8vo (2).

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Le Carré (John) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, fiftieth anniversary edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, some very light sunning to spine, two minor instances of light soiling to spine foot and upper cover, otherwise fine, 2013; The Mission Song, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth, some very light surface scuffing, dust-jacket, flaps a little curled, lower flap top corner creased, 2006; and 4 other first editions by the same, 8vo (6)

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NO RESERVE Poe (Edgar Allan) Histoires Extraordinaires, colour lithograph illustrations by Edmond-Maurice Pérot, most with captioned tissue-guards, original printed wrappers, small tears at spine ends, some very light surface soiling, Paris, 1940 § Mérimée (Prosper) Tamango, number 15 of 250 copies, colour lithograph illustrations by Guy Sabran, original printed wrappers, spine toned, slipcase, corners rubbed, Paris, 1945, 4to (2)

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Powell (Anthony) [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first American editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, some light toning to spines, light rubbing and some minor chipping to spine tips and corners, A Buyer's Market with tipped in title on English sheets, some splitting to gutter, jacket with $3.00 ink stamp to front flap, spine ends and corners a little chipped, split to head of upper joint, The Acceptance World price-clipped and with light toning to upper panel, At Lady Molly's price-clipped, a little rubbed, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant and The Kindly Ones, The Military Philosophers with browning to front endpapers, with light browning, but generally excellent copies overall, New York & Boston, 8vo, 1951-75.⁂ Rare as a set of first American editions.

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NO RESERVE Rhys (Jean) Wide Sargasso Sea, endpapers browned, edges spotted, jacket with closed tear running down upper joint, spine tips and corners rubbed, 1966 § Taylor (Peter) A Summons to Memphis, light toning to text margins, jacket sunned at spine and panels, 1987 § Swift (Graham) Mothering Sunday, 2016, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 7 others, similar, modern literature, 8vo (10)

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van Gulik (Robert) The Chinese Maze Murders, first edition, illustrations by the author, half-title, ink ownership inscription front endpaper, very light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine toned, some light spotting to lower panel, light wear to extremities, with original promotional wraparound banner, light surface soiling to lower panel and folds, 8vo, The Hauge and Bandung, 1956.

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NO RESERVE Waugh (Evelyn) Scott-King's Modern Europe, frontispiece, light marginal toning, jacket spine slightly browned, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, 1947; The Loved One, illustrations by Stuart Boyle, jacket price-clipped, 1948, first or first English editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and the first American editions of the same, 8vo (4)

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NO RESERVE Waugh (Evelyn) The Holy Places, jacket with 2 short tears to head with creasing, extremities rubbed, 1952; The Holy Places, jacket price-clipped, spine ends and corners chipped, New York, 1953, limited editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, light marking and toning to jackets, 4to (2)

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NO RESERVE Wodehouse (P.G.) Pigs Have Wings, first edition, scattered spotting, light fading to spine ends, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, tears and creasing to edges, small loss to edges, 1952; Bill the Conqueror, cracked hinges, original cloth, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1927; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (5)

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Akiyama (Aisaburo).- "Miss Dolly Belle". Ceremonial Japan, colour woodblock illustrations throughout, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, some light creasing and surface soiling, but a very good copy generally, oblong 8vo, Tokyo, Akiyama, [1896].⁂ A scarce and brightly-illustrated work that details a number of ceremonial activities of Japanese women comprising: Flower Arranging (Ike-bana), Miniature Gardens (Bon-seki), The Tea Ceremonial (Cha-no-yu), Poem Composing (Uta-no-kwai), Musical Conversazione (Ongaku-kwai) and Needle Work (Hari-Shigoto).

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Patton (Emily S.) Japanese Topsyturvydom, first edition, second printing with 17 Kami-Negishi address to colophon, colour woodblock illustrations throughout, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, tearing to upper wrapper, light creasing to extremities, [Sharf p.71], small 4to, , Tokyo, Hasegawa, [c.1911].

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Stein (Evaleen) Little Poems from Japanese Anthologies Rendered into English Verse, first edition, colour woodblock illustrations throughout, bound Japanese-style, original pictorial paper-covered boards, light toning to spine, some light wear to corners, very good otherwise, [not in Sharf], 8vo, Tokyo, Hasegawa, 1922.⁂ A rare work, produced in a similar format to the Sword and Blossom Poems series on hosho paper and with padded covers.

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Japanese Fairy Tale Series, translated by David Thompson, Kate James, James Hepburn and Basil Hall Chamberlain, 20 vol. comprising nos. 1-20, reprints, colour woodblock illustrations, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, no.1 with chipping, rubbing and fraying to upper cover, the rest with some occasional light creasing and the odd spot but near-fine generally, [Sharf pp 61-2], 12mo, Tokyo, Hasegawa, [c.1922].⁂ An excellent run of Hasegawa's signature series. The majority carry the Kami Negishi address and it is likely these were marketed and sold as a complete set by Hasegawa in the early 1920s. For more on this set and their dating relative to the changes of address see http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/hasegawa.shtml.

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Three Reflections. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 21, second printing with the 17 Kami Negishi address to advert at rear, Tokyo, Hasegawa, [c.1934]; The Flowers of Remembrance and Forgetfulness, Japanese Fairy Tales Series No. 22, first printing with the 10 Hiyoshicho address to upper cover, Tokyo, Hasegawa, [c.1896], first editions, translated by Mrs. T. H. James, colour woodblock illustrations, some light spotting, original pictorial wrappers, some light creasing, spotting and toning, [Sharf p.62], small 4to (2)⁂ A good pair of these scarce later titles. Kate James came to Japan as the wife of a British Navy officer. She gave birth to three daughters in quick succession whom she would entertain with Japanese fairy stories she had translated herself. She was introduced to Hasegawa by Basil Hall Chamberlain and would become his most prolific author.

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Kazumasa (Ogawa).- [Kurizuka (Ryōko)] "Mrs. R. Curizuka". Japanese Wedding Ceremonies Old and New, folding plate at start (with splitting to folds), colour woodblock illustrations, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, chipping to extremities, light rubbing and surface soiling, oblong 8vo, Tokyo, Ogawa Kazumasa, 1904.⁂ Rare and detailed account of traditional Japanese weddings. The author spent some time in America before returning to Japan where she campaigned vigorously both for her husband's political campaign and for women's rights in Japan.

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O. Kai & Co..- "The Japanese Parlor Magic", colour woodblock illustrations, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, red ink staining to upper cover, light foxing and creasing, 8vo, Yokohama, O. Kai & Co, [c.1890].⁂ Rare. O. Kai & Co. were a Japanese importer with offices in San Francisco and St. Louis.

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Ogawa (K.).- Takashima (Suteta) Illustrations of Japanese Life, 12 colour tinted photographic plates, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original decorative wrappers, light chipping and creased to extremities, oblong 4to, Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1903.

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NO RESERVE Oshima (Yosuke).- Japanese Customs, 3 vol., colour woodblock illustrations, some light toning, original stitched wrappers, 2 covers loose, chipped, Osaka, Oshima, 1870; and an duplicate of 1 volume, 12mo (4)

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Tanikawa (F.).- Guide for Yokohama Visitors, 24 colour-tinted photographic plates, some light finger-soiling, original boards, rather worn, oblong 8vo, [Yokohama], F. Tanikawa Stationary and Fancy Goods, [1890s].⁂ A rare group of Yokohama views, no copies on WorldCat or LibraryHub.

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Tomizo (Yamamoto).- Japanese Exhibition Catalogue, colour woodblock illustrations by Ito Kyoun, some light finger-soiling, bound and stitched Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, lower stitching defective, soiling and light creasing to covers, oblong 8vo, Tokyo, Yamamoto Tomizo, 1895.⁂ Rare. At 48 pages this work is the largest of its kind (with resultant issues with the stitching fairly commonplace). Published for a Tokyo exhibition of photographs of various parts of Japan.

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Toyodo (The).- The Japanese Months With Illustrations, fourth edition, colour woodblock illustrations by Shoun, Gessho and Matsutan, some occasional light foxing or toning, bound Japanese-style, original pictorial wrappers, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, some light rubbing and surface soiling, Tokyo, The Toyodo, 1909; and a copy of Japanese Children with the upper cover detached, 4to (2)⁂ Scarce.

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[Atkinson (Hoffman)] Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect, "Twenty Second Thousandth", original wrappers, light creasing and soiling, Yokohama, 1879; and 4 others, comprising the 1953 reissue of the same 3 guide/handbooks for Japan at the turn of the century, 8vo & 12mo (5)⁂ A humorous guide to Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, a dialect that developed in the late 19th century for communication between Japanese and foreigners. Though the booklet claims to be a later, revised and enlarged printing it seems likely that this claim is spurious and that this is in fact the first edition.

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Foujita (Tsuguharu).- Légendes Japonaises, limited edition on Velin, frontispiece, title vignette and 16 colour plates by Foujita, original pictorial wrappers, a little browned but a very good copy, Paris, [1922] § Yamata (Kikou) Les Huit Renommées, one of 300 copies on Velin, signed presentation inscription from the author to dedication p., illustrations by Foujita, light finger-soiling, upper hinge broken, original wrappers, chipped, browned and worn, Paris, 1927, 4to (2)

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Marpon & Flammarion.- Florian (Jean-Pierre Claris de) Fables Choisies, 2 vol., colour woodblock illustrations by Kadji-ta Han-ko, Kawa-nabe Kiyo-soui, Oka-koura Shiou-soui, Kano Tomo-nobou, bound and stitched Japanese-style, some separating along fore-edge, original pictorial wrappers, chipping and soiling, light creasing, oblong folio, Paris, Marpon & Flammarion, 1895.⁂ A charmingly illustrated work that includes a number of anthropomorphised animals engaged in illustrative activities such as a cat fixing her makeup and a monkey operating a magic lantern to a spectating group of animals dressed in kimonos.

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NO RESERVE Phosphatine Falieres.- Gautier (Judith) Aventures de Momotaro, Paris, [c.1900]; La Source d;or de la Santé, Paris, [c.1900], colour illustrations by R. Isayama, original stiff wrappers, light toning, oblong 8vo (2)

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Schoberl (Frédéric, editor) The World in Miniature: Japan, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light offsetting, occasional soiling, ink ownership inscriptions to title and frontispiece recto, contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, endpapers and spine label renewed, [Abbey, Travel 6; Tooley 281], 12mo, R.Ackermann, [1823].

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Thurston (Clara Bell) The Jingle of a Jap, colour illustrations by the author, bookplate and light browning to endpapers, original cloth, string affixed to upper cover through holes, light toning to spine, Boston, n.d. § Ayrton (M. Chaplin) Child-Life in Japan, illustrations, browning to endpapers, original cloth, wear to extremities, n.d.; and a small quantity of others, similar, mostly children's, including a group of Liebig chromolithographed cards with Japanese subjects, v.s. (sm. qty.)⁂ A good group with works mostly printed in the US and UK.

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Blyton (Enid) The Mountain of Adventure, first edition, illustrations, very light scattered spotting, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket, joints and spine ends very lightly rubbed or creased, but a remarkably crisp and excellent example overall, 8vo, 1949.⁂ A fantastically bright copy of Blyton's classic in the series, with fine cloth binding.

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