Search Results: Authors starting with J from Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB - AN ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY

Kunming 1945. A hand-written 4-page letter and envelope, to Mr. Stan Wells, Nashville, Tennessee, dated Sept. 24, 1945, with his black & white photograph enclosed, very clean, an excellent example. RARE ORIGINAL PERIOD LETTER . *** **** *** . . AN ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II LETTER FROM KUNMING, CHINA . . . WRITTEN BY A "FLYING TIGER" MAJOR & ORDNANCE OFFICER . . * Major J.W. "Rudy" Luck, serial number O-426047 sends a letter from Kunming, China to his close friend's father in Nashville. . He politely asks Mr. Stan M. Wells to "Please do not do all the reunion celebration until I get back, save a little of the celebrations for me." Promising to be "Home for Christmas." . Obviously Mr. Well's children are serving in the war at different places. Since the Pacific war ended September 2, 1945, U.S. armed forces are preparing to head home and have "reunions" with family and friends. . Rudy also mentions that he will send or bring Mr. Wells some… Read More

London 1902, Geographic Journal. Recent blue stiff wrs, very clean, extracted article, pp.249-278, 15.5 x 24.5 cm., solid large fold out map, 8 b.w. photos. .

Toronto [1991], Stuart Jackson. Red pictorial wrappers, very good, [17]p., 51 b.w. photos. A nice collection of 52 prints depicted and described, many cuts of women, includes Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, Yoshitoshi &c. Priced in C$, a very useful illustrated reference resource. .

Toronto 1978, SJG. Stiff wrs., very good, 10p., 38 b.w. pho- tos, price list. Exhibition for sale Oct. 28~Nov. 27, 1978.A useful reference for birds, flowers, animals & nature prints .

London [1957], Travel. Black cloth, very good, 255p., dj., 5 maps, 36 b.w. photos, appendix. In April, 1955, three women women arrived in Kathmandu & began their journey. The story of the first expedition to be organized & led by women. They had the honor of climbing & naming an unmapped mountain. A fascinating Himalayan climbing narrative. Eliza- beth Stark was the co-author. Quite scarce. Scans can be sent by email. .

[Toronto 1980, S.J.G.]. White wrs., ca. 7 x 4 inches, very good, 26 b. w. photos, 20p., slight wrinkle to covers, else clean. A useful refernce resource. .

Japan 1936, Jacoulet. A single deluxe large print, sheet size ca. 35 x 46.5 cm., print size ca.30 x 39 cm., woodblock printed by hand on hand-made paper, carved by Maeda, printed by Uchikawa, Fujii & Ogawa. FIRST LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION . *** . . FIRST & ONLY LIMITED, HAND NUMBERED EDTION OF 350 COPIES . . THIS BEING NUMBER 102 . . * There is a note in Miles, see below for the true total printed, which is 150, not the full 'intended' number of 350 copies. . Note the design function of the Korean pottery as a balance to the simplified forms, and the golden mica upper background. It should be noted, that prints with large areas of crushed mica are prone to peeling or chipping. In this case, the mica is very stable and solid. . Chenille Verte, [Green Caterpillar] with its heavily impressed gauffrage [embossing], uses negative space in a wa that influenced some of the Sosaku Hanga in their most abstract studies of the thirties and early forties. . Sealed with the good luck hammer in… Read More

Japan 1940, Jacoulet. A single deluxe large print, sheet size 35 x 46 cm., woodblock printed by hand on hand-made paper, carved by Maeda, printed by Honda, Uchikawa & Ogawa. ** FIRST & ONLY LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF 150 COPIES ** Cited in R. Miles: THE PRINTS OF PAUL JACOULET, illustrated as #69, descriptive text on page 105. Per Miles, he states that the edition of 150 were fully printed, intended edition of 350 but fewer than 150 impressions were actually done.His comment: "This is the finest, of Jacoulet's Korean worker series, which he never formally offered as a series...crit- ics consider these are the finest of all the artist's sets. Note the gauffrage that indicates the paint level in his bowl, and the raised decorations on the pot, made with an additional block." Sealed with the butterfly in cinnabar just below Jacoulet's pencil signature. The paper also has a "PJ" watermark in the lower left corner and was published 22 September, 1940. The print is… Read More

London 1888, Longman. Yellow cloth, very good clean, 502p., index, 8 appendices, 1 color, 37 b. w. illustrations, color folding map, exceptionally clean bright copy, gilt spine, 14 x 22.8 cm. * RARE FIRST EDITION * . *** **** *** . . THE RARE & OBSCURE FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE . * With appendices on opium, Christian conversions, plants collected, itinerary, India, China & Nepal, journeys of M. Bruniere & M. Venault. The main portion of the book concerns Manchuria & Korea: the aborigines, climate, manufactures, cumbersome currency, passports, history, the people, women's feet, garments, ladies attire, religion & administration. . Arrival at Yingtzu to Moukden to Mao-er-shan, Ch'ang-Pai Shan mountains, T'ang-ho-K'ou to Kirin, to Tsitsihar, Sansing, the Steppe, Ninguta & Hun-Ch'un, gold mining, Novo-Kievsk. Weapons at the garrison, Russians, Chinese, English, Coreans & brigands. . The Roman Catholic settlement, Pa-Chia-Tzu to Port Arthur:… Read More

New York [1968], Greenwood. Brown cloth, very good, reprint of 1888 edition, 502p., index, map, appendix, 10 b.w. plates 28 illustrations. . *** **** *** . . THE RARE & OBSCURE FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE . * With appendices on opium, Christian conversions, plants collected, itinerary, India, China & Nepal, journeys of M. Bruniere & M. Venault. The main portion of the book concerns Manchuria & Korea: the aborigines, climate, manufactures, cumbersome currency, passports, history, the people, women's feet, garments, ladies attire, religion & administration. . Arrival at Yingtzu to Moukden to Mao-er-shan, Ch'ang-Pai Shan mountains, T'ang-ho-K'ou to Kirin, to Tsitsihar, Sansing, the Steppe, Ninguta & Hun-Ch'un, gold mining, Novo-Kievsk. Weapons at the garrison, Russians, Chinese, English, Coreans & brigands. . The Roman Catholic settlement, Pa-Chia-Tzu to Port Arthur: massacre at Tientsin. . Residence of Presbyterians, hot springs, manufacture of… Read More

London 1888, Longman. Yellow cloth, very good, 502p., index, map, 8 appendices, 38 color & b.w. illustrations, marginal stain pages 165-194 & 416-17 text unaffected, lower edge bit rubbed, else bright copy, facsimile map. ** FIRST EDITION ** . *** **** *** . . THE RARE & OBSCURE FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE . * With appendices on opium, Christian conversions, plants collected, itinerary, India, China & Nepal, journeys of M. Bruniere & M. Venault. The main portion of the book concerns Manchuria & Korea: the aborigines, climate, manufactures, cumbersome currency, passports, history, the people, women's feet, garments, ladies attire, religion & administration. . Arrival at Yingtzu to Moukden to Mao-er-shan, Ch'ang-Pai Shan mountains, T'ang-ho-K'ou to Kirin, to Tsitsihar, Sansing, the Steppe, Ninguta & Hun-Ch'un, gold mining, Novo-Kievsk. Weapons at the garrison, Russians, Chinese, English, Coreans & brigands. . The Roman Catholic… Read More

London 1888, Longman. Yellow cloth, very good, 502p., spine head/tail chipped, corners bit rubbed, index, appendix, 1 color,37 b.w. illustrations, folding map in facsimile, 14 x 22.8 cm. * RARE FIRST EDITION * . *** **** *** . . THE RARE & OBSCURE FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE . * With appendices on opium, Christian conversions, plants collected, itinerary, India, China & Nepal, journeys of M. Bruniere & M. Venault. The main portion of the book concerns Manchuria & Korea: the aborigines, climate, manufactures, cumbersome currency, passports, history, the people, women's feet, garments, ladies attire, religion & administration. . Arrival at Yingtzu to Moukden to Mao-er-shan, Ch'ang-Pai Shan mountains, T'ang-ho-K'ou to Kirin, to Tsitsihar, Sansing, the Steppe, Ninguta & Hun-Ch'un, gold mining, Novo-Kievsk. Weapons at the garrison, Russians, Chinese, English, Coreans & brigands. . The Roman Catholic settlement, Pa-Chia-Tzu to Port Arthur: massacre… Read More

[Yokohama 1879, Lane]. New wrs., very good, extracted from TASJ vol. vii, pp 267-281. For the first time, this discourse delivered to the congre- gation at Shin-Kai-Zhi at Shinagaha temple in August 1878, byu Sata Kaiseki a priest and founder of the Itsu-Kau-Shiu sect, an off-shoot of the Zhiyau-do-shiu or Mon-to Shiu sect founded by Shinran during the latter part of the 12th cent- ury. This consists of a series of arguments intended to pro-duce beliefin the intellectual perfection & holy state to which the mind of the great reformer "Buddha" attained, surpassing therein all other mortals..et al... .

London 1898, HMSO. White wrappers,very bright, clean & solid example, 20.4 x 31 cm., a small mend to front cover patch, a clean ex-library stamp, else no marks, 11p., above average example. FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION . *** **** *** . . A FASCINATING FIRST REPORT BY THE ACTING BRITISH CONSUL . . . AT SSUMAO ON THE YUNNAN TRADE & BRITISH TRADE . . * Jameison was a 'commercial attaché' sent to Ssumao in Southern Yunnan province not far from the Burmese border. It is an exceptionally isolated place, difficult to get to. Jameison spent over 3-4 weeks traveling there from Hong Kong going via Hanoi and the Red River up to mule-train trails to the hinter lands and to Ssumao on foot, and by irritable mules. . Upon arrival, he was astonished to see a mud thatched town with nearly no stores or goods. The lack of dependable, convenient transportation left this place isolated. Never the less with a lot of 'stiff upper lip' this Brit analyzed the area of its commercial-worthy… Read More

Washington D. C. 1944, Smithsonian. Stiff grey wrs., very good, 49 b.w. photos, fold out map, 28p. An excellent work, by the celebrated scholar. Covers the geography,climate, hygiene, natural resources,transportation & harbors. Historical background: the dawn, earliest Europe- an contacts & the modern period. Peoples of the plains & the Mekong valley: Annamites, Cambodians, Chams, Laotians, Chin- ese. The Asian minorities other than Chinese: Malays, India- ns, Japanese. Mountain tribes: Thai group, Muong, Man & Meo. The southern mountain group. Nicely illustrated, done under the auspieies of the Smithsonian war background studies. .

[Cambridge 1942, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies]. Stiff grey wrs., very good, 21p. text + 32p. plates, 80 b.w.photos exceptionally scarce. FIRST EDITION. * * RARE AUTHOR'S * * INSCRIBED PRESENTATION & SIGNED COPY TO MRS. DAGNY CARTER * . *** This outstanding work covers the celebrated digs for antiquities found in tombs in both the Philippines and in Vietnam. . Janse traces of Dong-son culture in Luzon, Ming cemeteries of Calatagan, the grave objects recovered, ceramics, bronze items, terra cotta, weapons, tools &c. . Also a detailed account of Indo-China digs: brick tombs of the Han dynasty found in Thanh-hoa [Tonking], kilns, ceramics of the Sung, dwelling site of Chau-re, near Phan-rang, Southern Annam in Binh-tuan province, urn burials of Sa-huyn in Qang-Ngai, central Annam &c. . *** THE AUTHOR: Professor Robert Ture Olov Janse [1892-185], was a Swedish archaeologist. He is notable for his excavation work at Ðông Son between 1935 and 1939. . *** SPECIFIC COPY NOTES:… Read More

Bruges 1958, St. Catherine. Black cloth, VOL.3 ONLY, a "NEW" copy, 114+[173]p.,491 b.w. photos, appendices, bibliography, index, dust jacket in mylar protector, small folio, 23 x 31 23 x 31 cm. * * RARE FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . .THE LEGENDARY AND MOST OBSCURE COMPLETE SET OF 3 VOLUMES . . . FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION IN DUST JACKETS . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED . *** CONTENTS: Full description of the three volume set: Volume 1: The District of Chiu-Chen during the Han Dynasty: General Considerations and plates. * Vol. 2: The District of Chiu-Chen during the Han Dynasty: description & comparative study of the finds. * Vol. 3: The Ancient Dwelling Site of Dong-So'n [Thanh-Hoa, Annam], General Description & plates. . *** An excellent archaeological work and account of the Han tombs & kilns excavated in Thanh-hoa and a general discussion of their contents. Covers the folk-ways of modern Annam Abundant references supplied, throwing a long overdue light on… Read More

New Haven 1947,51,58, Harvard. Blue cloth, very good, 3 vol. set, complete, appendices, bibliography, index, profusely illustrated, many figures, drawings, 23 x 31 cm., vols. 1, 2 very good, vol. 3, as new in dj. *FIRST & RARE ONLY EDITION* . *** **** *** . . .THE LEGENDARY AND MOST OBSCURE COMPLETE SET OF 3 VOLUMES . . . FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION IN DUST JACKETS . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED . *** CONTENTS: Full description of the three volume set: Volume 1: The District of Chiu-Chen during the Han Dynasty: General Considerations and plates. * Vol. 2: The District of Chiu-Chen during the Han Dynasty: description & comparative study of the finds. * Vol. 3: The Ancient Dwelling Site of Dong-So'n [Thanh-Hoa, Annam], General Description & plates. . *** An excellent archaeological work and account of the Han tombs & kilns excavated in Thanh-hoa and a general discussion of their contents. Covers the folk-ways of modern Annam Abundant references supplied, throwing a long overdue light… Read More

New Haven 1947,51,58. Blue cloth, very good, 3 vol. set,very good, complete, appendices, bibliography, index & profusely illustrated, many figures, drawings, large 23 x 31 cm. FIRST & ONLY EDITION==RARE AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY . *** **** *** . . .THE LEGENDARY AND MOST OBSCURE COMPLETE SET OF 3 VOLUMES . . . FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION IN DUST JACKETS . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED . *** CONTENTS: Full description of the three volume set: Volume 1: The District of Chiu-Chen during the Han Dynasty: General Considerations and plates. * Vol. 2: The District of Chiu-Chen during the Han Dynasty: description & comparative study of the finds. * Vol. 3: The Ancient Dwelling Site of Dong-So'n [Thanh-Hoa, Annam], General Description & plates. . *** An excellent archaeological work and account of the Han tombs & kilns excavated in Thanh-hoa and a general discussion of their contents. Covers the folk-ways of modern Annam Abundant references supplied, throwing a long overdue… Read More

Paris 1936, Les Editions D'Art et D'Histoire. Stiff brown wrappers, very good, minor soil to covers, contents clean, 39p. French text, 32p. b.w. plates illustrating 131 pieces, clean solid copy. FIRST EDITION An exceptionally rare & important monograph, done by the celebrated Harvard Univ. Sinologist scholar on ceramics. * This study covers not only the decorated brick tiles, but also addresses the miniature houses, stoves, kitchen & cookware placed in graves. Enhanced with 8 line drawings of designs & patterns found on the bricks & a drawing of how the funerary items were arranged in the tomb. A very detailed study, with dimensions, and full descriptions. * Nicely done, QUITE RARE *** .