JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.

FRENCH BOOKSELLERS’ CATALOGUES.

A collection of 24 catalogues, ca. 1769-99.

NARABAYASHI, Chinzan.

Manuscript on high quality mulberry paper, entitled “Geka Soden” or “Koi Geka Soden” or “Nanban Geka Soden” [trans.: “Complete Manual of Surgery” or “Red-Head Style Surgery Text”]. 134 finely drawn & colored illus., including multiple illus. on many of the leaves, some full-page. 38 leaves (two are blank); 38 leaves (two are blank); 25 leaves (two are blank). Three vols. Small oblong folio (235 x 325 mm.), orig. patterned wrappers, new stitching. Japan: Preface in first volume dated 1706.

HOKUSAI, artist & author.

Manpuku wagojin [trans.: Gods of Myriad Conjugal Delights].

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DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.

Here Begyneth a Littel Tome and Hathe to Name The Lincolne Nosegay: beynge a Brefe Table of Certaine Bokes in the Posession of Maister Thomas Frognall Dibdin Clerk. Which Bookes be to be sold to Him who shal gyve the moste for ye Same.

LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, Marquis de.

Traité de Mécanique Céleste.

BRAHE, Tycho.

Opera Omnia, sive Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata in duas partes distributa, quorum Prima De Restitutiones Motuum Solis & Lunae, Stellarumq; inerrantium tractat. Secunda autem De Mundi Aetherei Recentioribus Phaenomensis agit.

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A fine and handsomely illustrated cartographic manuscript (“Kaiji zu” or “Kairo zu” [trans.: “Nautical Charts”]) on rice paper, prepared by Tsugihei (or Wahei or Jirobei) Miyachi. 2 pp. of preliminary text, 27 finely colored double-page maps (strip maps bound up in consecutive order), 11 pp. of text. Large 8vo (312 x 225 mm.), self-wrappers (first four leaves with paper repair in lower outer corner, with some minor loss of text & image), old stitching.