Color illus. to recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard. Los Angeles: Claire S. Copley Gallery, 1975.
The rare postcard invitation for Ader’s final exhibition. The artist set off from Cape Cod for his fateful cross-Atlantic voyage on 9 July 1975. In excellent condition.
|| Brigitte Kölle, ed., Bas Jan Ader: I’m searching … (2025), pp. 168-69 & 175. More
1 p.l., xxiv, 74 pp. 8vo, self-wrappers, stitched as issued (stitching loose), leaves uncut. Paris: Regnault-Lalande, 1811.
The rare catalogue of this joint sale of the collections of Ozanne (1728-1811) and Coïny (1761-1809), which took place 2-11 December 1811. The former, a distinguished marine artist and engineer, collaborated with Duhamel du Monceau on several illustrated works and taught naval architecture and navigation to the sons of the royal family. Le Tellier de Courtanvaux used one of Ozanne’s ships as a platform to test Pierre Le Roy’s marine chronometer.
A student of Suvée and J.P. Lebas, Coïny exhibited at the Salon... More
36 detailed hand-drawn scenes throughout, employing many ink washes in various colors. [45] folding leaves, i.e., [90] pp. Large orihon (accordion format: 277 x 199 mm.), blue silk covers over boards (a little rubbed), endpapers decorated with sprinkled golden leaf. Japan: “1855.”
A most remarkable orihon, containing the earliest impressions of Americans and Russians, recorded by a Japanese artist in 1855. This work was created immediately in the aftermath of both countries’ expeditions to forcefully open Japan.
This is the first time we have handled a “Black Ship” item in book format instead of an emaki (picture scroll). All of... More
Printed on one side. Card. Milan: Françoise Lambert, 1971.
Invitation card for Brouwn’s first solo show with Françoise Lambert, the artist’s second solo exhibition in Italy. In fine condition.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005).
Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2010), p. 369. More
14 black & white illus. [10] pp. 4to (270 x 215 mm.), printed softcover. Eindhoven: prins bernhard fonds, 1980.
Rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) catalogue, published to mark the artist receiving the David Röell-Prijs from the Prins Bernhard Fonds in 1980; printed in an unknown edition size. It contains reproductions of this way brouwn drawings from 1964 and 1 m, 1 step (1980). The text by museum director Rudi Fuchs is in English.
In near fine condition. Ownership stamp on title-page.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
[Dejima]: 2 October 1806.
Dejima (or Deshima, lit. “island sticking out [into Nagasaki Bay]” was a small artificial island built a short distance into the harbor of Nagasaki in order to provide warehouse and living facilities for the Portuguese and, later, the Dutch traders. Connected to the mainland by a small bridge, it enabled Japanese authorities to limit the foreigners’ access to the rest of the country, maintaining the Japan’s isolationist policies while facilitating the lucrative trade with the West.
In 1798, the building containing the office and living quarters of the director of Dejima burned down. A temporary building... More
Engraved frontis. port. of Harris, 14 engraved plates (some folding, one with a short tear without loss) & numerous woodcut illus. in the text. Title in red & black. [463] leaves; [386] leaves. Two vols. Folio, cont. panelled calf (extremities a little worn, some browning as is usual with this book), red morocco lettering pieces on spines (Vol. I label recent & sympathetically done). London: 1704-10.
First edition of the first technical encyclopedia in any language and a landmark in the history of technology. “This was the first general scientific encyclopedia, and for it Harris drew upon some of the... More
3 p.l. (lacking the first leaf, a blank; title a little soiled), 143, 152-66 pp. Small 4to, cont. English limp vellum. London: N. Okes for N. Bourne, 1623.
First edition of one of the great early English accounts of the exploration of the interior of Africa and the first to be published separately (others appear in collections); it is a classic account of the search for gold.
Ghana, the earliest known empire of the western Sudan, first entered the historical consciousness of North Africa near the end of the eighth century but probably originated long before. Famous to North Africans... More
![Item ID: 10348 [“Treatise on the Barbarians in Nagasaki”]. KIYŌ BANSHI...](https://jonathanahill.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10348.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718898153)
Manuscript on paper. Eight fine brush & color-wash full-page illus. & nine smaller illus. in the text. 35 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers with the orig. title-slip, orig. stitching. [Japan]: 1853.
A manuscript copy of a rare work, never published, on the Russian expedition, led by Vice-Admiral Evfimi Vasilevich Putiatin (1803-83), to Japan in 1853. We find no copy of a work with this title in WorldCat, and only two copies in Japan.
The paintings of individual members of the Russian delegation are uncommonly finely rendered with very skillful gradations of color and tone.
Around the same... More
68 single-page illus., 25 double-page illus., & several other illus. which continue for three or four pages, all finely handcolored. 16 vols. Large 8vo (280 x 187 mm.), orig. gold speckled blue wrappers (occasional minor worming), stitched as issued, orig. block printed title label on each upper cover. N.p.: ca. 1818.
An early copy of this famous and sensational text, which circulated in manuscript in Japan throughout the 19th century. Its account of travels outside of Japan remained effectively a “clandestine” work until it was ultimately published in 1899. The earliest surviving manuscript is dated 1807.
This beautiful and richly... More
Numerous fine woodcut diagrams & tables in the text. 68 unnumbered leaves. Small folio, attractive antique calf (title a little dusty), panelled in gilt & blind. [Nuremberg: J. Stuchs, 1514].
First edition of a very scarce and little-known book (because of its rarity, I think), which is of great importance in the history of cartography, navigation, and astronomy. It contains, amongst much else, the first published direct translation of any part of Ptolemy’s Geography from the original Greek. It also includes the first publication of Johannes Werner’s map projection, a development and correction of the two projections used by Ptolemy... More
Engraved calligraphic title, xii, 199 pp. 8vo, orig. cloth-backed printed slick orange boards (a little worn). Berlin: September 1805.
This is apparently the first catalogue of globes, maps, and printed geographical works issued by Schropp (1751-1817), the leading publisher and bookseller in cartographical materials in Berlin of his time. Approximately 2500 items are listed, all priced. Due to Schropp’s successes, the manufacture of globes shifted from Nuremberg to Berlin.
Very good copy. WorldCat lists no copy outside of Germany. More