TWO Original CHINESE TELEGRAPH CODE BOOKS. One published by: Hsin-Min. Telegraphic Code Company, Shanghai, "in the fourth year of the Republic of China" (1915). The other published by Feng Minde Code Book Publishing Office / Asian Lithographic Bureau, Hong Kong, "in the 26th year of the Republic of China" (1937).

TEXT IN CHINESE.

The 1915 book has 16 +150 + [16] pages. The 1937 book has 431 pages.

Condition:

The covers of the 1915 book are worn at the corners and spine ends, have rubbing and scrapes to the spine folds and edges, but are still solid and doing their job well; internally the pages are age toned, and the binding is a bit shaky, otherwise bright, clean, clear and unmarked. Overall a presentable copy.

The covers of the 1937 book have wear at the top of the spine, otherwise the covers and all the inner pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

These Original, Vintage, Republic of China Telegraph Code Books are quite hard-to-find.

SPRINGFIELD ILLUSTRATED. :Photolithographs by James Dwyer Gill, early Publisher and Art Dealer in Springfield, Massachusetts.

A portfolio of 31 photolithograph plates (of 32 - lacking the last plate), each with a 6.5x8.5 inch image printed on a 11x14 heavy-stock sheet, and each with a protective tissue guard. Below each photolithograph image is printed "JAMES D. GILL. SPRINGFIELD, MASS." on the left side, and "LINOTYPE PRINTING CO., NEW YORK." on the right side. Someone (perhaps James Gill) has hand numbered each plate at the bottom right corner. In addition to the 31 photolithographs there are two introductory text sheets: a Preface sheet and an Index sheet. The plates are loose as issued and are held between a front and a rear cloth covered board. The boards' original string ties are lacking.

Condition: The boards holding the plates have spotting and wear, and are lacking their ties (as noted above), but are original and the gilt on the front board is bright. The two prelim text sheets have edge chips, a few small spots, and one has a two inch closed tear at the top. The 31 lithograph sheets are solid with just a bit of edgewear and a spot here and there (one has a small edge chip) All the sheets are lightly age toned, as normal. A few of the tissue guards are creased and one has tears and is laid-on loose. Most important, the IMAGES OF SPRINGFIELD ARE ALL LOVELY, clean, sharp and clear.

From the Preface sheet:

"This portfolio of thirty-two views [was] taken in the city of Springfield. // In preparation and execution of this work great care has been taken to have it of such excellence as to deserve the unqualified approbation of the most critical. // Judicious selections of subjects were made, embracing singly or in agreeable groups many of the important buildings and points of interest of the locality. The aim being to produce a series of views in every way reliable, whether in respect to fidelity of portraiture, artistic arrangements, or quality of finish. The aim I believe has been obtained. // "Springfield Illustrated" is published to meet a demand for local views of much higher order of artistic merit than have heretofore appeared. The process is that of Photolithotype... // Respectfully, James D. Gill, 1882."

RARE. Copies hardly ever show up for sale. OCLC only lists two holdings, one at the State Library of Massachusetts, and one at the Western Reserve Historical Society Library.

About JAMES DWYER GILL (from the Smithsonian Institution and Frick Collection websites):

******James Dwyer Gill, b.1849 d.1937, was a Springfield, Massachusetts, art dealer, collector, stationer, bookseller, and publisher. He was one of the first dealers to specialize in American art and sold paintings, engravings and photographs. He exhibited work by, among others, Col. James Fairman, Frederick E. Church, James M. Hart, Walter Shirlaw, Edgar M. Ward, J. G. Brown, A. F. Bellows, A. H. Wyant, M. F. H de Haas, Winslow Homer, F. A Bridgman, and George Inness.

He published a number of city "view" books, the most notable being that of his home town, Springfield, Massachusetts, titled: "Springfield, Illustrated", published in 1882.******

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MARIA LANI. Text by JEAN COCTEAU, Max Rambo and Waldemar George.

ILLUSTRATED with 52 PLATES of DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, and a Frontispiece Photograph, of MARIA LANI, the remarkable and unique ARTIST'S MUSE (and some would say Scam Artist) of the late 1920s. The artworks were by many important artists of the period.

PARIS: Editions des Quatre Chemins, 1929. First edition. French Text.

Limited Edition. This is number 78 of 525 copies, likely a "Hors Commerce" copy with "H C" handwritten beside the ink stamped number 78.

Tan wrappers, French folds, burgundy and black titling to the front cover, 9x11 inches (23x28 cm). Pagination: [2] Half-Title and Limitation Page, [6] Frontispiece Plate and Introductory Pages, 7-21 Text Essays, 51 numbered PLATES each printed on its own leaf, [2] List of Plates and Colophon Page.

The 51 artist plates are of artworks (paintings, drawings, sculptures) of Maria Lani by 51 noted artists of the period. The artists include Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Chirico, Cocteau, Matisse, Léger, Man Ray, Marval, Orloff, Max Jacob, Dufy, Rouault, Soutine, among many others. A page at the rear lists all the 51 artists.

CONDITION: The covers are toned, have some edgewear including some small closed tears, a few creases from handling, and most notably a well-worn spine that is now taped (not an uncommon feature as the issue is known for its weak glue binding). Internally, the pages are lightly toned, there is an approximately 1/4 inch piece of binding tape along the gutter edge of the blank backside of each plate, and an offset mirror image along the gutter margin of the facing plates - this is how the plates were mounted and is normal to all copies; there is just a bit of foxing found on the blank backsides and on a couple plates, the binding is shaky and is split between each plate, the plates could easily come out with a tug but currently all plates but one are still holding on by the sewn binding (plate 32 is loose but laid-in its proper place). Despite the flaws this is one of the nicer copies I have seen because the plates, which are the heart of this book, are all present, bright, clean, and clear.

About MARIA LANI (from Vanity Fair website):

******Maria Lani Was the Muse of Modernist Masters - Then She Vanished Without a Trace

Ninety years ago, an enigmatic actress and model swept through Paris, transfixing Cocteau, Matisse, Chagall, and dozens more of the day's visual artists. When she disappeared from the public eye, a myth emerged in her wake. Was she really who she said she was?****** (Please see the full Vanity Fair article by typing into the search bar: "Maria Lani Was the Muse of Modernist Masters Then She Vanished Without a Trace".)

About MARIA LANI (from Wikipedia):

Maria Lani (nee Maria Jeleniewicz), b.1895 d.1954, was an aspiring film actress and artists' model. In the late 1920s she was portrayed in paintings and sculpture by over fifty artists, including Bonnard, Chagall, Cocteau, Derain, Matisse, Rouault, and Suzanne Valadon.

Maria Lani was born in Kolno, Poland. She went to Paris in the spring of 1928 and falsely proclaimed herself to be a silent film star who had worked in Berlin. She claimed to be working on a film which required multiple portraits as part of the plot. She befriended Jean Cocteau and other artists, many of whom made portraits of her.

A limited edition book about Lani and the portraits was published in 1929 by Éditions des Quatre Chemins. It included fifty-one plates of artworks modeled by Maria Lani.

The film never materialized, but the portraits were exhibited as a group in Europe and the United States, and Lani kept them in her possession. She died in 1954 and was buried in a pauper's grave.******

1869 FILTRATION OF RIVER WATERS FOR THE SUPPLY OF CITIES AS PRACTISED IN EUROPE, by James P. Kirkwood. Published by D. Van Nostrand, Publishers, New York, 1869. First Edition.

Copy of HIRAM BISSELL who was President of HARTFORD'S WATER COMMISSION from 1854 to 1873 and OVERSAW THE CONSTRUCTION OF HARTFORD'S WATER WORKS SYSTEM.

The book is SIGNED by Hiram Bissell at the top of the title page: "Hiram Bissell / Hartford, Conn." Also, laid-in the book is a MANUSCRIPT LETTER by Hiram Bissell on "Office of Water Commissioners" letterhead. The letter reads in part:

"Hartford Jany 28 1856 / To the Mayor Aldermen, and County of Common Council of The City of Hartford / The Water Commissioners...recommend to the Hon. Court of Common Council the payment of The Woodruff & Beach Iron Works bill of extras...$3851.57. / Respectfully Submitted / Hiram Bissell / President Pro Tem".

(Woodruff & Beach Iron Works of Hartford built many items for Hartford Water Works, including some massive iron pumps.)

Hardcover book, 9x11.5 inches, 178 pages of text followed by 30 PLATES, many double-page, one in color. The plates are drawings of a variety of European city water works systems, including: London, Liverpool, Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin, Marselles, Lyons, Genoa, and others.

Condition: The covers are disbound (loose but present), the cloth spine edges and spine ends are scraped and chipped, nonetheless the covers are original. Internally nice, the endpapers have a few small scrapes, the pages are lightly toned, there is some foxing to the plates mainly on their blank backsides, overall the pages are complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A nice, complete copy in disbound but present covers.

RARE TRUE 1869 FIRST EDITION with all the PLATES. Unique with the SIGNATURE and LETTER of HIRAM BISSELL, who oversaw the construction of Hartford's Water Works in the mid 1800s.

An important book that may have been partly responsible for the design of Hartford's water system

About HIRAM BISSELL of HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT (from "Water for Hartford: The Story of the Hartford Water Works", published by the Wesleyan Press, 2010).

******HOW THREE MEN BROUGHT CLEAN WATER TO HARTFORD, ON A MASSIVE SCALE. As good health is inextricably wedded to pure drinking water, understanding delivery systems is almost as important as the water itself. Water for Hartford chronicles the century-long effort, beginning in the 1850s, to construct a viable, efficient water system. The story of Hartford's water works is a fascinating one, for it recalls the hard work, great sacrifice, and extraordinary engineering feats necessary to deliver wholesome drinking water to a growing urban center.

The story of its construction is the story of three men - HIRAM BISSELL, Ezra Clark, and Caleb Saville. Readers are transported back in time and given a firsthand glimpse of what these champions of a water system faced on a daily basis: unforgiving geography, venal politicians, and an often indifferent public. The book culminates in the exhilaration of these men having built a water works from scratch to deliver clean, safe drinking water to the masses. These men understood that their decisions and actions would affect millions of people for decades to come.******

About HIRAM BISSELL and the HARTFORD WATER WORKS SYSTEM (from the Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut, published 1901):

******Hiram Bissell, b.1819 d.1888, was elected Water Commissioner in 1854 and, in 1856, was made President, in which capacity he served for seventeen years, retiring in 1873. He oversaw the entire system of Hartford's system of water works.******

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THE BATTLES OF CHANCELLORSVILLE AND GETTYSBURG, by CAPT. A. H. NELSON [Captain Alanson H. Nelson], 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Self Published / Capt. A. H. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1899. First Edition.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Signed & Inscribed by Captain Nelson to Captain Jack Wendell on the page facing the title page: "Minneapolis Minn. / May 7th, 1920 / Compliments of the Author / Captain A. H. Nelson / To his comrade / Captain Jack Wendell." At the bottom of this page are two ink stamps of "A. C. Wendell" (perhaps a son of Captain Jack Wendell?). One of the ink stamps states "A. C. Wendell / P.O. Clerk / Minneapolis"; the other: "Comrade A. C. Wendell / Co. K, 39th & Co. D, 46th Wis. Infantry / Minneapolis, Minn."

Hardcovers, cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the front cover (the titling on the spine is almost completely rubbed away / gone), 5x7 inches, 183 pages. Errata slip pasted on the blank area of an early page.

Illustrated with six full page line-maps, plus an illustration of Nelson's broken sword captioned: "Capt. A.H. Nelson's Sword / Shot away by a fragment of shell - Sunday, May 3rd, 1863 - at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va."

EX-LIBRARY with a shelving number on the front cover, "Atascadero Elementary School" stamps on the endpapers and title page, and a card pocket and return date slip on the rear endpapers. Ex-lib aside, the covers are worn but solid, the front cover gilt titling is bright, the spine titling has been rubbed away and is barely visible; internally, the pages are toned as normal, the inner hinge is cracked at a number of places but holding with the sewn binding.

Just as Capt. A. H. Nelson survived the Civil War, this book survived an early burial. Laid-in at the rear is a slip of paper that reads: "George found this book in the Atascadero dump along with many others discarded by Atascadero School. It is Autographed by its Author, Captain A. H. Nelson". Thank goodness for book collecting dumpster divers!

Though the book can be found with an unsigned "Compliments of the Author" inscription, the actual SIGNATURE, INSCRIPTION and PRESENTATION by Civil War CAPTAIN ALANSON H. NELSON makes this book quite exceptional.

About CAPT. ALANSON H. NELSON (from the Find A Grave website):

******Alanson H. Nelson, b.1828 d.1921. His father, William Nelson, enlisted in the Regular Army and was killed in the Seminole war. On August 1, 1861, A.H. Nelson enlisted in the Fifty-Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, leaving his wife and seven small children. He and Capt. Chase organized Company K to the number of thirty men and he was made a First Lieutenant. When the Company arrived in Harrisburg, Penn., A.H. Nelson was ordered make up the remainder of the Company, which he did, enlisting fifty-five more men. The company was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. At the death of Capt. Chase on June 17, 1862, A.H. Nelson was promoted to Commander. He led his Company through seventeen hard fought and historic battles of the Virginia campaigns. In the absence of the field officers Capt. Nelson, being the senior Captain, took command of the regiment for a period of eighteen months. He received his discharge in November, 1864.******

About CAPT. A. H. NELSON (from an Internet Civil War site):

******Captain Alanson H. Nelson, Company E, 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

The 57th Pennsylvania was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Colonel Peter Sides, who was wounded on July 2. Captain Alanson H. Nelson then took command. The 57th brought 207 men to the field, losing 11 men killed, 46 wounded and 58 missing.

The 57th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment served in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War from December of 1861 until June of 1865. It lost 12 officers and 149 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 217 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. There is a monument to the 57th Pennsylvania on the Gettysburg battlefield.******

Manuscript Document Signed (or marked) by eight parties, addressed "Right Worshipful," comprising depositions in several different notarial hands. Concerns two parcels of land adjoining Harsfold Manor, "Willms the freehold" and "Willms the copyhold", apparently involved in some sort of dispute.

Folio, single-sheet folded to make four pages, writing on the front page and one of the inner pages.

ENGLAND: No date, but circa 1600.

GOOD condition, folds from where the document was once folded to a small size, some small tears and holes to the spine fold and some of the folds but holding together well, some wear to the edges, light soiling, overall amazingly solid and bright with writing that is bold and clear. Note that this early English handwriting is difficult to read.

1950 Linus Pauling & Robert B Corey - TWO HYDROGEN-BONDED SPIRAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE POLYPEPTIDE CHAIN - First Printed Disclosure of their Important RESEARCH FINDINGS;

Plus

Linus Pauling, Philip A. Baughan, and J. H. Sturdivant - THE DETERMINATION of the STRUCTURES of COMPLEX-MOLECULES and IONS from X-RAY DIFFRACTION by THEIR SOLUTIONS: The STRUCTURES of the GROUPS...

Both in this complete, original volume of THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. LXXII [72], September-December 1950.

EASTON Pennsylvania: Mace Printing Company, 1950.

Contains the first notification by Linus Pauling and Robert B. Corey of their discovery of the "TWO HYDROGEN-BONDED SPIRAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE POLYPEPTIDE CHAIN". This was a stunning announcement with far reaching scientific implications. The brief letter announcing their research findings is on page 5349. It was a "Big Bang" announcement, so to speak, that led to incredible developments in the scientific and medical fields.

Also contains a paper by Linus Pauling, Philip A. Baughan, and J. H. Sturdivant titled: THE DETERMINATION of the STRUCTURES of COMPLEX-MOLECULES and IONS from X-RAY DIFFRACTION by THEIR SOLUTIONS: The STRUCTURES of the GROUPS... This paper is on pages 5477- 5486.

Hardcovers, burgundy cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the spine, 8x10 inches, thick with over 2000 pages (numbered 3835-5891). The complete Volume 72. Filled with MANY scientific papers and letters in addition to those by Linus Pauling and his group, but none as IMPACTFUL.

Laid-in is a note by a previous owner that reads: "NOTE : This is Linus Pauling's first work on structure of Proteins. Very Important."

NEAR FINE condition: The initials "J. E. R." are gilt embossed at the bottom of the cover's spine (perhaps a previous owner who had the work professionally bound), the title page has a 1 inch closed tear, otherwise the volume is just lightly used, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A very nice, solid and presentable copy; rarely found in this condition.

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RAMALLAH - Its HISTORY and Its GENEALOGIES / UNVEILING the ANCESTORS and LINEAGES in the CITY of RAMALLAH, by AZIZ SHAHEEN. In Arabic, with a section in English.

Published by Birzeit University, Birzeit, "Israeli Occupied West Bank of Jordan",1982.

Hardcovers, dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the spine, 9x12 inches (23x30.5 cm).

There are 877 pages in ARABIC, including all the genealogies, titled: "UNVEILING the ANCESTORS and LINEAGES in the CITY of RAMALLAH".

There is also a 77 page English section written by Naseeb Shaheen that opens on the backside of the book titled: "RAMALLAH: Its History and Its Genealogies". This section is illustrated with b&w photographs.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some rubbing and light soiling, one cover corner is bumped, otherwise the covers are solid and well bound; internally, there are pencil page numbers in Roman Numerals written below the printed Arabic page numbers (neat and helpful), else internally fine, tight, bright, clean, and clear. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.

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39 UPSTATE NEW YORK FARMING and BEEKEEPING FAMILY DIARIES - ABRAM HUNT FAMILY of RODMAN, NEW YORK 1864-1918 Successful Farm with 200 Hives

The years of the 39 DIARIES are: 1864, 1871, 1874-1878 (5), 1880, 1882-1884 (3), 1887-1888 (2), 1890-1897 (8), 1899-1913 (15), 1916-1918 (3). There are also a few pieces of ephemera, folk remedies written on scraps of paper, laid in, including a quite detailed 1896 recipe for dandelion wine.

Most of the diaries are in the hand of ABRUM HUNT, 1830-1912, the owner of the farm and apiary and the patriarch of the family. After Abrum Hunt's death in 1912 his wife, "Mrs. A. Hunt", carried on the diaries from 1913-1918, She died in 1919, and so ended the diaries.

This collection of 39 single family diaries is the most comprehensive daily record of a 19th and early 20th century upstate New York family farm and apiary that I have ever seen.

Planting oats, planting corn, planting everything, cultivating, cutting wood, building fences, fixing barns, painting everything, spreading manure, digging potatoes, oiling harnesses, rolling oats, waiting for rain, dealing with floods, freezing freezing freezing weather, impossible to stay warm, shoeing horses, cleaning pastures, draining swamps, feeding everything, killing "beef", selling turkeys, calves, bulls, attending many funerals, and LOTS OF BEES BEES BEES, selling honey, building frames, painting hives, taking "swarms" into the cellar for winter, harvesting honey and pollen, busy busy bees.

Abram Hunt was a successful farmer and beekeeper who seemed to hold a special affection for his bees. In fact, even his last entry on April 30, 1912, less than two weeks before his death on May 12, 1912, was about his bees: "Feeding the Bees / they brought in lots of pollen today". Pride in his bees until the end.

CONDITION: The 39 diaries vary in condition, a number are poor, with disbound covers, missing pages, stains, etc; some are fair, with foxing, loose covers, some waviness and soiling; many are good, with normal age toning, handling, wear and use. What is impressive about these diaries is the handwriting in the daily entries is almost always fully legible. Abrum Hunt, the patriarch, wrote with a clear hand so future generations (us) could read what he had to say.

July 3, 1904: "Bees, Bees, Bees, and lots of them / that & milking is all I can do. More rain."

May 7, 1891: "Cultivated in the Oats in Swamp & Rolled It / Done Now."

About ABRAM HUNT (from his obituary in the 17 May 1912 Watertown Daily Times):

******ABRAM HUNT of RODMAN [New York] DIES OF HIS INJURIES. HE WAS TRAMPLED ON BY A HORSE.

Watertown Daily Times, Rodman, New York, May 17. Abram Hunt, one of the earliest residents of Rodman, died at his home on Sunday morning, May 12. He was 81 years old. Some ten days ago he went to his horse barn to feed grain to his horses as usual, and while in the stalls a horse became frightened and commenced rearing and kicking. Mr. Hunt fell under its feet and was trampled and he shortly passed away.

Mr. Hunt was born on Oct. 18, 1830. and was nearly a lifelong resident of this town, living on his farm near the village of Rodman for 60 years. He was an enterprising and successful farmer. On March 25, 1853, Mr. Hunt was married to Miss Betsey Jane Parker of Toronto, who has been a most worthy aid and helpmate in their long married life.

Mr. Hunt was a fine musician, especially on the violin, and was in frequent demand at numerous parties. HE WAS ESPECIALLY FOND OF KEEPING BUSY BEES AND HAD SOME 200 HIVES IN HIS CARE. Besides his wife, Mr. Hunt Is survived by four children [including] Charles Hunt of Rodman, New York, and Mrs. Clara Hunt Howard, the well known singer of Wausau, Wisconsin.*****

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WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT DR. SUN'S MAUSOLEUM - PAINTED BY ONG SCHAN TCHOW.

HONG KONG: Yik Mui Art Association, 1939. From the copyright page: "First Edition, Printed January 1939...Engraved and Printed by The Asiatic Litho. Printing Press / 390, King's Road, Hong Kong."

Hardcovers, cord binding, 10.5x15 inches oblong. Pagination: [1] Title Page / Table of Contents, [4] Preface Pages, [2] Comment Pages, [20] Twenty Plates of Chrysanthemum Watercolors side-by-side with Calligraphic Poems. Each leaf is printed on one side only.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some rubs, a few scrapes and wear to the top of the spine, otherwise they are solid and doing their job well; internally the pages are complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

SCARCE and IMPORTANT WORK by the CHINESE / HONG KONG ARTIST ONG SCHAN TCHOW. This book almost never comes up for sale, the last copy I am aware of was incomplete - missing plates.

About ONG SCHAN TCHOW (from Wikipedia):

******Ong Schan Tchow, b.1900 d.1945, was born in the Longyan prefecture, Southern Fujian Province, China. He was known for Chinese ink wash painting, color paintings of flowers (Chrysanthemums in particular), and Calligraphy. He was one of the first Chinese artists to study in Paris and one of the early artists to integrate traditional Chinese and Western art techniques,

In Paris, Ong studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In addition, he obtained a Master of Arts in Law, French and Political Science from the University of Paris.

In Nanjing Ong produced one of his MONUMENTAL WORKS - a compilation of paintings of chrysanthemums with accompanying poems and commentary from well known persons. This compilation was succinctly called the "BOOK OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS" [and un-succinctly titled WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT DR. SUN'S MAUSOLEUM]. The book contained paintings of the vast variety of Chrysanthemums planted at the newly completed mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the "Father of Modern China", at Nanjing, the former Capital of China.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Professor Ong exhibited his works extensively and gave all the proceeds to the war relief effort. The war destroyed many of his paintings but he managed to salvage some important works. The advancing Japanese army forced him to move his exhibitions to Hong Kong and later to Singapore and Malaysia.

Ong died in 1945, at the age of 45, while exhibiting his works in Ipoh, Malaysia. In the Annals of Longyan, Ong is considered one of her most famous citizens.******

THE JAPANESE BOX - Limited to only 1500 Sets, this being number 695. Edited by Christoph Schifferli. Designed by Gerhard Steidl and Karl Lagerfeld.

Published by EDITION 7L, PARIS, 2001; Distributed by STEIDL, GÖTTINGEN. ISBN 10: 3882433019 ISBN 13: 978-3882433012

The production of THE JAPANESE BOX was conceived of by printer Gerhard Steidl and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld to celebrate the avant-garde of Japanese photography of the late 1960s and early 1970s. A vanguard of that movement was the publication of PROVOKE magazine by Takuma Nakahira in 1968.

Includes a select group of facsimile reprints of six rare photographic publications of the Japanese Provoke era, plus a descriptive introductory pamphlet by Schifferli. The publications are handsomely presented in a specially designed wooden box with metal clasps. The books inside the box are nested in black crepe paper, and there are two thick rubber bands, one with the printed words "The Japanese Box". The inside of the box's lid is a label with the limitation and printing information. The box set with its original cardboard shipping box.

From the Foreword: THE JAPANESE BOX presents six publications by a remarkable group of Japanese photographers and writers whose work was a response to the climate of political and moral unrest in Tokyo around 1968. The publications include three issues of PROVOKE (1968-1969) plus For A Language To Come by Takuma Nakahira (1970), Sentimental Journey by Nobuyoshi Araki (1971), and A Farewell To Photography by Daido Moriyama 1972).

VERY GOOD condition, just lightly used. The covers of some of the issues have a few scrapes and rubs, internally all are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The specially designed wooden box is excellent, the inner crepe paper remains intact, the thick rubber bands have split and are disintegrating with age, as rubber bands are wont to do.

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HERESIES : A FEMINIST PUBLICATION ON ART AND POLITICS. Numbers 1 - 26 (a complete run but for the last issue, #27). Twenty-six numbers in twenty-five volumes, numbers 18 and 19 being a double issue. Issue #5 is the second edition, with the variant cover, all others are first editions.

NEW YORK: The HERESIES COLLECTIVE, 1977-1992.

Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches (but for numbers 14 and 15 that are 10x12 inches and side stapled), approx. 100 pages per issue.

The collection belonged to Anne Taylor Gibson and Annie Cheatham. Anne Taylor Gibson's signature is on the first page of the first issue, and issue #20 has "Annie Cheatham's Copy" written at the top of the first page. Laid into issue #20 are two relevant items. One is a 5 page article by Betty Friedan that was folded and sent to Ann Gibson by Annie Cheatham (based on her return address). The second item is a handwritten note to Anne from another woman thanking her for the loan of these issues, it is written on a lovely 1983 postcard from the Women's Peace Encampment at Seneca Army Depot. The back cover of this issue is of a man proudly displaying his tee shirt that says "Nuke The Bitches - The Women's Peace Encampment". Yikes.

All 26 numbers / 25 issues are in generally GOOD condition, there is some edge, spine end, and corner wear here and there to the covers, a few articles have some underlining and a bit of yellow highlighting, there is foxing to the page edges (page edges of the closed issues), the first issue has some clear tape repair to its bottom corner and a couple rusty paper clips to a couple pages; overall the issues are just lightly used, complete, bright, clean, and clear. A solid, nearly complete run (lacking only the last issue) of this hard-to-find feminist publication of the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Included is a second copy (duplicate) of the double 18/19 issue.

About HERESIES (from Wikipedia):

******HERESIES was a feminist magazine published from 1977 to 1993, organized by a collective known as the Heresies Collective based in New York City. Each of the 27 issues (including the 18/19 double issue) was collectively edited by a group of volunteers interested in a single topic under the guidance of the "mother collective"; each issue had its own style and perspective. Subjects included feminist theory, art, politics, patterns of communication, lesbian art and artists, women's traditional arts and crafts, and politics of aesthetics, violence against women, working women, women from peripheral nations, women and music, sex, film, activism, racism, postmodernism, and coming of age.

The journal was seen not only as a major contribution to the feminist art scene, but as a forum for feminist thinking that experimented with an editorial format that asked contributors to grapple with hierarchical and societal issues of difference. And it created a public discourse in feminist thought and expression. Initial members of the Heresies Collective included Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Elizabeth Hess, Ellen Lanyon, Arlene Ladden, Lucy R. Lippard, Marty Pottenger, Miriam Schapiro and May Stevens.******

About the SENECA WOMEN'S ENCAMPMENT FOR A FUTURE OF PEACE (from Wikipedia):

******The Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice was a women only peace camp formed to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca Army Depot to Europe in the fall of 1983.

The camp took place mainly during the summer of 1983, from July 4 through Labor Day, concluding with a Labor Day Action honoring workers and highlighting the inflation and job loss that militarism brings. Thousands of women came to participate and rally against nuclear weapons and the patriarchal society that created and used those weapons.******

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Printed by a Wilmington printer -

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Owned by a Noted Wilmington resident -

GOLDSMITH'S ROMAN HISTORY, ABRIDGED BY HIMSELF, For The Use Of Schools. Fourth American Edition.

WILMINGTON: Published by the Rev. William Pryce; Printed by Joseph Jones, Printer: 1806.

BOUND and SOLD by J. WILSON of WILMINGTON, with his: "SOLD BY J. WILSON, Bookbinder, Bookseller, and Stationer, Wilmington, Del." woodcut binder's ticket on the front pastedown. The ticket measures 1.25 x 2 inches.

OWNED by WILMINGTON resident, EDWARD TATNALL, with his SIGNATURE and place, BRANDYWINE, on the title page. From Wikipedia: "Edward Tatnall, b.1782 d.1856, was an American miller and railroad executive based in Wilmington, Delaware. He was a son of Joseph Tatnall, a prominent miller and banker in Wilmington. He was a director of the Delaware and Maryland Railroad and of the Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad, two of the four railroads that helped build the first rail link from Philadelphia to Baltimore. In 1838, they merged into the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad. His service is noted on the 1839 Newkirk Viaduct Monument."

HARDCOVER BOOK, leather covered boards, leather spine label, 4x6.5 inches. Pagination: vii, 417 pages, plus 3 pages of Publisher's ads at the rear. The covers have scrapes and rubs, the inner pages are toned with spots and a scattering of stains here and there throughout; a well-used but complete, solid and presentable copy.

American book publishing, printing, binding and selling was taking root in Wilmington in 1806.

FORTY-ONE ISSUES - THE COMPLETE RUN of THE XXTH CENTURY. Published in SHANGHAI, CHINA, 1941-1945. Founded and Edited by KLAUS MEHNERT.

The XXth Century was an English language, Nazi financed, deceptively scholarly publication about China, Japan, Asia, Germany, and World War II. It had a strong pro-Axis slant, but presented itself as an independent publication filled with articles about Asia and the World. German activities in the War and throughout the world were portrayed in a positive light.

COMPLETE RUN of FORTY-ONE ISSUES, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct. 1941) through Vol.. 8, No. 6 (June 1945).

SHANGHAI: The XXth Century Publishing Company / Klaus Mehnert, 1941-1945.

Softcover magazines, 7.25x10.25 inches (18.5x25.5 cm), approximately 80 pages per issue, illustrated with photographic plates and in-text drawings and maps.

COMES WITH A GUIDE / INDEX compiled by Eric Bott at the University of Hawaii under the supervision of Stephan and Patricia Polansky, and published by the Berlin State Library in 2004. The Guide provides the full table-of-contents for each of the 41 issues, and a comprehensive Index for all the issues. It has 73 photocopied pages printed on one side only, bound in clear vinyl covers. It is signed in German at the top of the first page "Schöne Grüße / (??)".

CONDITION: The issues are in GOOD to GOOD MINUS condition, the covers have soiling, scrapes and wear to the spines, and some tender spine folds; some of the early and latter signatures are pulling from the staples but holding; some of the pages have edgewear and edge flakiness; otherwise the issues are complete with pages that are lightly toned at the margins and still bright, clean and unmarked. The exception is the last issue, V.8 N.6, which has disbound covers, light shorelining to the covers and pages, and general signs of wear, otherwise it too is complete. The Guide / Index is in Fine condition.

The Berlin State Library called The XXth Century "particularly remarkable because it is completely free of Nazi propaganda." Far from the truth.

A RARE COMPLETE RUN of Klaus Mehnert's Nazi backed, Shanghai published journal. The University of Hawaii holds one of the few complete runs of this influential publication.

About KLAUS MEHNERT and the XXTH CENTURY magazine (from Wikipedia and the University of Hawaii website):

******Born In Moscow in 1906, Mehnert's family left Russia in 1914. He received his PhD from the University of Berlin in 1928. Mehnert traveled frequently, to America, the Soviet Union, Japan, and China. He was fluent in Russian, German, and English. He married Enid Keyes (d.1955) in California in 1933, and in 1934 returned to the Soviet Union as an author and German newspaper reporter. In 1936 Goebbels ordered German newspapers to stop printing Mehnert's news reports, so he moved to America where he taught at UC Berkeley then at the University of Hawaii.

In June 1941, six months prior to America's entry to World War II, he left for Shanghai, China, where he published an English language journal The XXth Century with financing from the Nazi German Foreign Ministry and Joseph Goebbels' Third Reich Propaganda Ministry.

The XXth Century was an influential promoter of anti-Allied reports and commentary in Asia, The XXth Century was later described by American intelligence as "one of the slickest bits of propaganda work that has been done anywhere". In its four years, Menhert "steered his publication cunningly along a sophisticated path that eschewed overt pro-Axis advocacy", according to the British historian Bernard Wasserstein, with "a wide range of contributors, few of whom were publicly identified with Nazism". The journal was discontinued at the end of the war in 1945, and Mehnert was briefly imprisoned before returning to Germany.******

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STRANGE WATERS, by GEORGE STERLING.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED TWICE by GEORGE STERLING to GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR the noted Chicago book collector who, with his wife Flora Warren Seymour, founded The Order of Bookfellows - a Chicago based literary society and small press publisher. In addition to being TWICE INSCRIBED by STERLING, the book has a number of the author's hand corrections.

The inscription on the title page reads: "Dear George: / Seriously, do you think there is any chance of getting this into our High Schools to supplant Evangeline? / Seriously, / George / San Francisco / Aug. 12, 1926." The second inscription is on the verso of the title page and reads: "For George Steele Seymour / from George Sterling."

No publisher or printed date, but the long inscription is dated August 12, 1926, which was just three and a half months before George Sterling committed Suicide. This was one of, if not the, last published work by George Sterling.

Booklet, paper wrappers (split at the spine fold and laid on loosely), 5.25x7.25 inches, ten numbered pages of text, plus title page and endpapers. The inner pages are string tied with a bow in the centerfold.

Condition: The front and rear wrappers are loose, they are toned especially at the margins; the inner pages are nice, lightly toned at the margins, otherwise tight, bright, clean and clear.

Though published near the end of his life, this is one of the more difficult Sterling items to find. Especially so with the humorous inscription; apparently he held on to his bohemian sense of humor until the end.

About George Sterling (from Wikipedia):

******George Sterling, b.1869 d.1926, was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel by the Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis.

In 1905 Sterling moved to Carmel by the Sea, California, an undeveloped coastal area, and soon established a settlement for like-minded Bohemian writers. Carmel had been discovered by Charles Warren Stoddard and others, but Sterling made it world famous.

Sterling joined the Bohemian Club and acted in their theatrical productions each summer at the Bohemian Grove. For the Grove play of 1907 the Club presented Sterling's "The Triumph of Bohemia".

Sterling carried a vial of cyanide for many years. In November 1926, Sterling used it while at his residence at the San Francisco Bohemian Club. Kevin Starr wrote that "When George Sterling's corpse was discovered in his room at the Bohemian Club... the golden age of San Francisco's bohemia had definitely come to a miserable end."******

RITZ CARLTON RESTAURANT ON BOARD THE S.S. KAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA / HAMBURG - AMERICAN LINE. Under the Management of THE CARLTON HOTEL, LONDON.

Promotional Book for the S.S. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Ocean Liner, whose newest feature was the RITZ CARLTON RESTAURANT. The book gives details of the ship, its physical features, its various rooms and suites, its entertainments and amenities, landmarks found at various ports of call, and, of course, The Ritz Carlton. Illustrated with 25 pasted in b&w photographs.

Hardcovers, cloth covered boards, front cover has a mounted, art-deco designed plate that reads: "Ritz's Carlton Restaurant / S.S. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria / Hamburg-American Line", 9.5x11 inches oblong, approximately 80 unnumbered pages.

Condition: The covers have some spotting and soiling, wear to the edges and corner tips, and cracking / splitting at the spine folds, but are still doing their job, and the plate on the front cover is lovely; internally, the front inner hinge is cracked and the rear inner hinge is split but the binding is holding well; the blank endpapers have offsetting, the front free-endpaper has a vertical crease, the pages are toned, most notably at the margins, one leaf has a 2 inch closed tear at its blank bottom margin; otherwise the pages are bright and clear and the photographs are all present and sharp.

Scarce Illustrated Record of the Beginnings of the Luxury Cruise Ships. RITZ says it all.

About the S.S. KAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA (from Wikipedia):

******Augusta Victoria, later Auguste Victoria, placed in service in 1889 and named for Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II, was the name ship of the Augusta Victoria series and the first of a new generation of luxury Hamburg America Line ocean liners. She was the first liner built in continental Europe with twin propellers and when first placed in service, the fastest liner in the Atlantic trade.

She was the first luxury liner at Hamburg America, introducing the concept of the "floating hotel"; she had "a rococo stair hall, illuminated by a milky way of pear-shaped prisms and naked light bulbs clutched by gilded cherubs, a reception court choked by palm trees and a dark and gothic smoking room." She was immediately successful.

In 1897, the ship underwent a comprehensive rebuilding at Harland & Wolff in Belfast arriving in the graving dock 19 December 1896. She was lengthened by 61 ft (18.6 m), her tonnage increased, and her speed increased by half a knot, and the middle of her three masts was removed. Her name was also changed to Auguste Victoria to correct an original inaccuracy; the Empress spelt her name with an e.******

THE STATUTE LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF IOWA, Enacted at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly of Said Territory, Held at Burlington, A.D. 1838-'39.

DU BUQUE (Dubuque): Russell & Reeves, Printers, 1839. First edition. This was the second book printed in the Iowa Territory, the first being a book on the Wisconsin legislature printed in 1838.

Hardcovers, cloth covered boards, leather title labels to the spine, 5.25 x 8.5 inches. Pagination: [2], 597, [1] pages.

GOOD condition: Ex the Social Law Library of Boston which professionally bound the book in 1908. The library's name is embossed in gilt at the bottom of the spine, a library bookplate is on the front pastedown, and a few ink stamps and other marks are here and there. Ex-lib aside, the covers are worn through at the corner tips, have some rubs and scrapes, and the front spine fold is starting to split, but the covers remain solid, attractive, and are doing their job well. Internally the pages are toned at the margins, lightly soiled, have a scattering of foxing and ink spotting, and there is light shorelining to the upper area of the latter pages. Overall a complete, solid, presentable copy, with text that is bright and clear throughout.

A hard-to-find primary source documenting the arrival of law and order in the Territory of Iowa.

GREEN MANSIONS by H. Hudson. ILLUSTRATED by E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER, who SIGNED and INSCRIBED this copy on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for / Leslie Roos / E. McKnight Kauffer".

ILLUSTRATED MODERN LIBRARY EDITION / Random House, 1944. First thus edition. Hardcover Book, green cloth covered spine and paper covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine, lovely Kauffer illustration on both the front and rear cover, top page edges stained green, 5x7 inches. Pagination: x, 254 pages. Illustrated by Kauffer with 10 color plates and in-text drawings. The book comes in a slipcase with a lovely McKnight Kauffer plate on the front.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, the covers have some scrapes to the spine label, a bit of rubbing to the edges and corner tips, and a 1/8 inch scrape to the top edge of the front panel, overall just lightly handled, tight, bright, clean and clear. In a GOOD MINUS slipcase that has some scratches and a few edge scrapes but is solid, still doing its job well, and the Kauffer plate is lovely.

RARE with the SIGNATURE and INSCRIPTION of E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER.

About E. McKnight Kauffer (extracts from Wikipedia):

******Edward McKnight Kauffer, b.1890 d.1954, was an American artist and graphic designer who lived for much of his life in the United Kingdom. He worked mainly in poster art, but was also active as a painter, book illustrator and theatre designer. Born in Great Falls, Montana, by 1910 he had moved to San Francisco working as a bookseller and studying art at the California School of Design. Professor Joseph McKnight of the University of Utah became aware of Kauffer's work, sponsored him and paid to send him to Paris for further study. In gratitude Kauffer took his sponsor's name as a middle name. Kauffer moved to London upon the start of the First World War, and remained there for most of his career.

Kauffer may be best known for the 140 posters he produced for London Underground, but he also created notable book illustrations and book covers.

He returned to New York City in 1940.

It was in 1952 that he designed what is perhaps his most famous work, the dust jacket art of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man. He died two years later, in 1954.******

GOLDEN GATEWAY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT : Eichler Homes Inc. - Developer; Dinwiddie Construction Co. - Associate; Anshen & Allen - Architects. Undated but known to be 1960.

Large format cloth covered stiff boards, 13x21 inches, 21 heavy stock leaves (i.e. 42 pages). The rectos are all illustrations, many are photographs of architectural models and drawings showing how the proposed project would look when completed.Text on facing pages describes the illustrations.

The last page has the printed signatures of Joseph L. Eichler (Eichler Homes), Curtis E. Smith Jr. (Dinwiddie Construction), and "Anshen & Allen" signed by either Robert Anshen or Steve Allen.

Condition: Some of the paper pastedown on the outer corner area of both the front and rear cover has peeled away exposing the boards beneath, otherwise in very good condition, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

SCARCE, this is the only copy I have ever seen.

An important historic look at the dramatic changes in the San Francisco skyline that started taking place in the 1960s.

About The Golden Gateway (from LocalWiki):

******The Golden Gateway was one of the first projects of the SF Redevelopment Agency. The area that is now the Golden Gateway used to be an Italian neighborhood called Produce Market. The Redevelopment Agency designated the area blighted and after a long fight with business owners in the area, it was demolished and replaced by Golden Gateway and One Maritime Plaza (both part of the Golden Gateway Redevelopment Project).******

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Shaoyang Xian Zhi. A Gazetteer / Chronicle of Shaoyang County, Hunan Province, China.

Printed by Da Zhan Letterpress, printing bureau of Shaoyang, 1875 (1st year of Guang Xu, Qing Dynasty). First edition. TEXT in CHINESE.

Six volumes, wrappers, 5.25x8.5 inches (13.5x21 cm). Four of the volumes have several sections, each paginated separately. Pagination: Volume One: 2, 46, 20, 30, 26 pp; Volume Two: 34, 37, 26, 36 pp; Volume Three: 76, 47 pp.; Volume Four: 120 pp.; Volume Five: 108 pp.; Volume 6: 96, 5 pp.

The previous owner left a couple typed notes (with some handwritten additions) that describe the contents of the volume as follows:

Vol. 1: Tome 1: Harvest; Tome 2: Landscape; Tome 3: Construction; Tome 4: School.

Vol. 2: Tome 5: Ancestral Temple; Tome 6: Finance; Tome 7: Officials; Tome 8: Election.

Vol. 3. Political, Academic, and Meritorious Personages.

Vol. 4: Moral Personages.

Vol. 5: Examples, women.

Vol. 6: Miscellaneous.

FAIR Condition: the wrappers are chipped, worn along the edges, and have tears of various lengths; many of the wrappers are disbound, the rest tenderly attached; the front cover of Volume One has been replaced with a blank (same paper as the other wrappers but no printed title), has a long tear, and is detached along with a few of its initial leaves; the spine covering of all the volumes has perished; overall the wrappers are weary and tender but present. Internally, the pages are age toned, have some edgewear, edge chips, tears, and faint dampstaining; some of the early and latter pages of various volumes are disbound but present; the paper is fragile and chips easily, so small fragments come off with handling. Please handle this treasure with care. Despite the flaws, this is a complete and very rare set of these six volumes.

SCARCE original source documents. This is the only 19th century chronicle of Shaoyang County that I have ever seen.