THE ISSEIDO BOOKSELLERS 17 1010051 810332920071 Orientalia, Manuscripts, Prints, Photogrphy, Drawing, and Maps 810332920076 光 Hyakumanto Darani. The Hyakumanto Pagoda was made by the empress Shotoku-Tenno (R/ 765-769) of instruction in the 8th century. A turned wood stupa with cylindrical tiers and knop finial (21cm. high, 11cm. diameter), Sourin-Darani, 33.5cm. long, 5.6cm. high, most columns with five characters, the wood or copper printed text being a prayer of thanksgiving to the Buddha for the Imperial victory over The Emi Oshikatsu (Fujiwara Nakamaro) faction in 764 AD. Housed in a modern wooden box, some wood tire slightly broken. Prayer scroll, partly wormed and chipped. US$46,000.- 2 和 3 図 三郎 Anoymous. A Picture Scroll of Seven Islands of Izu District. C. Kitagawa Utamaro, artist. Yadoya no Meshimori, editor. Ansei 2nd. (1855). Long scroll, size 37.8cm high, 22 hand colored Wakaebisu. Kansei 1 (1789). Tsutaya Juzaburo, publisher. A drawings. landscapes, local customs and products US$8,000.- picture book of comic tanka.1 volume. (First impression). Size 26 x 18.8cm. 5 color wood-block printed illustrations. US$60,000.- 4 のさ 19 Anoymous. A Manuscript scroll of Ihaya No Soushi. A story of a princess and the nobility at 16th century. No date, early Edo period, c.17th century, 3 scrolls, 19 hand colored illustrations. With lacker wooden box. US$75,000.- THE ISSEIDO BOOKSELLERS www.isseido-books.co.jp 5 北者絵 北一画 天頃（1833-35）刊 山本屋吉版 5 Katsushika Hokusai, artist. Hokusai Mushae Soroe. (A Set of Samurai Prints). No date, ca. Early Tenpo (1833-35). Yamamotoya Heikichi, publisher. Ukiyo-e prints. Size Approximately 38 x 26cm. Color wood-block print. 5 items in a set. Very slightly stained otherwise fine. Very scarce complete series of the Samurai PrintsUS$160,000.- 6 Book of Hours of Anglican Use. Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum in Latin. c. 1440-50. 8vo. 19.6 x 15cm. 142 leaves. 21 lines. 19 full page miniatures, many illuminated initials, and many margin decorated. Full morocco, bound by Sangorski & Sutclie. US$60,000.- 7 Kelmscott Press. Morris (W.) The ife and Death of Jason, a Poem. Hammersmith, The Kelmscott Press, 1895. Small 4to. (8), 353, (2), (1 blank), (1 colophon), (3)pp. 2 full-page wood engravings designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Numerous woodcut initials. Printed in red & black in Troy type. Original full limp vellum, very slightly worn, with silk tie. Ex-libris on front end-paper. Limited to 206 copies, this is one of 200 on paper. With slipcase. A fine copy. Peterson 34 US$10,000.- 8 Kelmscott Press. Morris (W.) The Story of the Glittering Plain. Which Has Been also Called the Land of Living Men or The Acre of the Undying. Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1894. 4to. 177pp. Printed in red and black in Troy type, with table of contents in Chaucer type. With twenty-three wood-engraved illustrations designed by Walter Crane. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Original full limp vellum, with green silk ties. Spine lettered in gilt. Limited to 257 copies, this is one of 250 on paper. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Morris on front leaf, To Frank H. Smith. Peterson 22 US$10,000.- 9 Kelmscott Press. Morris (W.) The Wood Beyond the World. Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1894. 8vo. (4), 261pp. Woodcut frontispiece after Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Ornamental borders and initials, text printed in red and black. Original limp vellum, two silk ties, some slight soiling to vellum, light speckling to end-papers. Limited to 358 copies, this is one of 350 on paper. With The 12 page Kelmscott catalogue for 1895 which contains the order from for "The Well at the World's End". Peterson 2 US$6,800.- THE ISSEIDO BOOKSELLERS www.isseido-books.co.jp 10 古今役者物かたり 菱川師宣画 延宝 6 年刊 通油 町本問屋開版 Hishikawa Moronobu, artist. Kokon Yakusha Monogatari. Edo,1678. Size 26.3 x 18.5cm. Contemporary cover, replacement title-slip, very very scarce of complete set of first edition, no location in the world. US$75,000.- 11 役者此手嘉志和 立川焉馬述 初代豊国画 享和 3 年刊 圓壽堂梓 原装 2 冊 Utagawa Toyokuni (first), artist. Yakusha Konote Gashiwa. Enjudo, 1803. 2 vols. Portrait of 24 famous kabuki actors. Preface and afterword by Tatekawa Emba. Original blue covers with title slips, small wormholes, otherwise good condition and impression. US$45,000.- 12 13 12 奈良絵本 さころも 寛文頃写 1 冊 14 Anoymous. Sakoromo. No date, mid. 17 century. Size 16.5 x 22.7cm. 21 leaves. 5 full page illustrations. US$18,000.- 13 光琳画式 尾形光琳画 文化 15 年刊 Ogata Korin, artist. Korin Gashiki. Illustrations of Ogata Korin. Original cover, Japanese style binding, slightly rubbed & stained. US$2,500.- 14 勢海一覧 天香堂主人編 擔柴小夫図 文久 3 年序刊 木版墨刷 少シミ有 Seikai Ichiran. A Map of Ise and Shima. Tenkodo, c.1863. Size 53.7 x 77.8cm. Wood block printing. Original cover, and original title-slip, very slightly stained. US700.- THE ISSEIDO BOOKSELLERS www.isseido-books.co.jp 15 16 17 18 15 萬象写真図譜 初篇 Bansho Shasin Zufu. Sho Hen. (First volume). 1 vol. of 8. Edo, no date. 18 x 12cm. Color wood block printing. Contemporary boards, rubbed. US$300.- 16 萬象写真図譜 三篇 Bansho Shasin Zufu. San Hen. (Third volume). 1 vol. of 8. Edo, no date. 18 x 12cm. Color wood block printing. Contemporary boards, rubbed. US$250.- 17 別好京染 都の面影 神阪雪佳画 明治 23 年刊 Kamisaka Sekka. Betsugonomi Kyozome Miyakono Omokage. Kyoto, Tanaka Jihei, 1890. Small 4to. 24.5 x 16.5cm. Original pictorial boards, Japanese binding, rubbed and stained, internally good. 25 leasves, all wood block color printing. US$1,100.- 18 青楼美人合姿鏡 北尾重政・勝川春章画 安永 5 年版 図画刊行会 彩色刷 3 冊 Seiro Bijin Awasesugata Kagami. Kitao Shigemasa & Katsukawa Syunsho, artist. Tokyo, 1916. Wood bloock reprint ed. 4to. Original boards, slighty worn. US$400.- 20 21 22 19 吉原傾城 新美人合自筆鏡 北尾政演（山東京伝）画 天明４年版 図画刊行会 彩色刷 3 冊 Yoshihara Keijo Shin Bijin Awase Jihitsukagami. Kitao Masanobu, artist. Tokyo, 1916. Wood block reprint ed. Folio. Original boards, rubbed. US$430.- 20 絵本栄家種 勝川春潮画 図画刊行会 彩色刷 2 冊 Ehon Sakaegusa. Katsukawa Shuncho, artist. Tokyo, 1916. Wood block reprint ed. 4to. Original boards, slightly worn. US$230.- 21 絵本東童郎 歌川豊広画 図画刊行会 彩色刷 2 冊 Ehon Azumawarawa. Utagawa Toyohiro, artist. Tokyo, 1917. Wood block reprint ed. 4to. Original boards, slightly worn. US$220.- 22 絵本時世粧 歌川豊国画 図画刊行会 彩色刷 2 冊 Ehon Imayousugata. Utagawa Toyokuni, artist. Tokyo, 1916. Wood block reprint ed. 4to. Original boards, slightly worn. US$360.- 23 24 THE ISSEIDO BOOKSELLERS www.isseido-books.co.jp 23 Photograph. Items Relating to the Shogunal Missions to Europe of 1865. Portraits of Five Members of the 1865 Mission Taken in London, Herbert Watkins. 87 x 58mm, mounted on a single paper leaf, 99 x 62mm, with printed monogram 'HW' in the lower right margin on the front and the text "Photographed by Herbert Watkins/ London, c.1866. /215, Regent St., London, W." on the reverse. Inscribed in ink each name. Verso of photo of Shibata, written date of "January 3rd, 66". US$12,000.- 1: Shibata Hyuga-no-kami Takenaka. 柴田日向守剛中 2: Mizushina Rakutaro. 水品楽太郎 3: Obana Sakusuke. 小花作助 4: Fukuchi Genichiro. 福地源一郎 5: Shioda Saburo. 塩田三郎 24 Photograph. Beato (F.) Two Portraits of Japanese Samurai. Yokohama, c.1865. Original monochrome albumen print from wet collodion negative, approx. 8.5 x 5cm, each mounted as a carte-de-visite. US$2,400.- 25 26 25 Amati (S.) Historia del Regno di Voxu del Giapone; Dell' Antichita, Nobita, e Valore del Suo re Idate Masamune. ...E dell’Ambasciata che ha inviata alla S.ta di N.S. Papa Paolo V, e delli suoi successi, con altre varie cose di edificatione, e gusto spirituale de i Lettori. Roma, Appresso Giacomo Mascardi, 1615. Small 4to. 23 x 16.8cm. (xvi), 76pp. Full vellum (c.19th century), slightly worn, otherwise fine. Very scarce. Cordier Japonica 283 US$26,000.- 26 Ricci (M.) & Trigault (N.) Histoire de l'Expedition Chrestienne au Royaume de la Chine. Entreprinse par les PP. de la compagnie de Iesvs: Comprinse en cinq liures, esquels est traicte fort exactement et fidelement des Moeurs, Loix et coustumes du pays, et des commencemens tres- difficiles de l'Eglise naissante en ce royaume. Lyon, Pour Horace Cardon, 1616. 8vo. xxxviii, 1096pp. 1 portrait, 1 folding plan. Modern full pigskin, four ties (1 lacking), internally slightly worm holes & water stained, and repaired some leaves, including title-page and portrait. Private inscription on title-page & stamp on ppi. Scarce. Cordier Sinica II, 809-816 US$7,500.- 27 Flemish Illuminator. Fragment from a Book of Hours. (Flanders), c.1475. Small 8vo. Manuscript on vellum (18.2 x 12.3cm). 16 leaves, 18 lines of text written in brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand. Bound in modern vellum. US$4,000.- 28 Ashendene Press. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at The Ashendene Press 1895-1935. Chelsea, Shelley House, 1935. First ed. 4to. (8), xiv, 172pp. Many specimens of prints. Numerous text-illus. Original full leather, with gilt design on the front cover, top edge gilt. With original slipcase. Limited to 390 copies, this is no. 94, signed by C.H. St. John Hornby. A fine copy. US$3,000.- 29 30 29 Browning (R.) The Flight of the Duchess. Gloucestershire, Essex House Press, 1905. 8vo. Illustrated frontispiece by Will Rothenstein. Original vellum cover, very slightly worn. Limited to 125 copies, this is no. 40, all on vellum. US$2,000.- 30 Doves Binding. Cobden-Sanderson (T.J.) The Arts and Crafts Movement. Hammersmith, Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1905. 8vo. 39, (i)pp. Full morocco, very slightly worn, gilt top by the Doves Bindery (19 C - S10), front hinge repaired.