JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC

KABUKI ACTORS.

A vast collection of ca. 2500 photographic postcards (ehagaki) of kabuki actors in costume, along with a large selection of kabuki-related vernacular photographs.

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SACCO, Luigi.

Trattato di Vaccinazione con Osservazioni sul Giavardo e Vajuolo Pecorino.

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LOTUS SUTRA SCROLL.

Manuscript sutra scroll on indigo-dyed paper of the “Gokito-kyo Hokkekyo” (“The Gokito-kyo Lotus Sutra”).

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WHALING SCROLL, Wakayama Prefecture, Taiji.

Manuscript scroll on paper entitled “Kujirakata shosha zue” [“Genuine copied illustrations of the whaling techniques of Taiji revealed from the source”].

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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.