Search Results: Titles starting with S from Ebattt-books

Edo (Tokyo), Kansei 12 (= 1800); 30 sheets; 25.5 x 18.5 cm; 29 single page and 15 double page color illustrations. (original ?) grey covers, title slip missing (only a few rests visible); covers soiled; inside in very good condition; woodblocks with high contrasts; colors brilliant; in this quality, very rare. No printed title. Sheets numbered from 1 – 30.
Probably Keisai`s best work.
Reference: Ref. Brown p.124; Mitchell p.460,1; 93,4; Ryerson p.213; Hillier pp. 477,8, 480.

Hayashi Denzaemon no Jō hankō, Kyoto, 1660. 8 volumes of 8, bound in 7 volumes. Woodblock print edition on folded double sheets. Japanese stich binding. Handwritten title slips on front covers. 26.5 x 19 cm. 5 full page woodblock print illustrations in vol. 1. In Chinese, with Japanese reading marks. There is insect damage, use and a brown staining of the lower margins in volume 8 (see photos). The complete work. A very early, Japanese edition of one of the most important books on traditional medicine. This edition is extremely rare. WorldCat list only 3 copies worldwide. All are in the US: San Francisco, Berkeley and Bethesda. Not in the catalogue of the National Diet Library, Tokyo.






Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a branch of traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", and the majority of its treatments as having no logical mechanism of action.
Medicine in traditional China encompassed a range of sometimes competing health and healing… Read More

Gyokushō Kawabata, Shinsen nihon gachō volume 7, Tōkyō, Shūeidō, 1898. Oblong quarto; 18 x 25.4 cm; 2, 11, 1 leaves; 11 full page color woodblock prints. Cover slightly worn; woodblocks fine.
Very rare: WorldCat knows no copy in any library worldwide.

Shizhuzhai Shuhuapu , no place (Japan), no date (probably 2nd half of 19th century); 6 of 8 volumes, thick paper covers with cover slips; cover of 1 volume with a small defect at lower left margin, the others are OK; circa 135 double page woodblock prints; 27.5 x 15.5 cm.
Printed on thin Chinese paper.
1. Vol: circa 19 double page woodblock prints and many calligraphies, 2 woodblocks with some brown staining from colors on opposite.
2. Vol: circa 20 double page woodblock prints and many calligraphies, 2 woodblocks with some brown staining from colors on opposite, 2 woodblocks with a brown stain (circa 3 cm).
3. Vol: circa 17 double page woodblock prints and many calligraphies; all woodblocks fine.
4. Vol: circa 38 double page woodblock prints; all woodblocks fine.
5. Vol: circa 18 double page woodblock prints and many calligraphies; all woodblocks fine.
6. Vol: circa 23 double page woodblock prints and many calligraphies; all woodblocks fine.
Japanese, 19. century Hishiya Magobei version of the… Read More

Ogasawara Tsunenaga, Shosatsu Unshin shu. Volumes 1, 3, 5, 6, 9 10, 11, 12, 13. Each volume c. 25 double leaves. Each volume with the author`s cypher and seal on the last page. No place; each volume dated Genroku 3 (1690; Japanese stich binding with strong paper covers; handwritten title slips; 29 x 20 cm. All volumes show insect damage (not affecting readability) and only very few staining.
Volume 13 with some nice illustrations.
An extremely rare monument of the esoteric school of Samurai education. The essence of the Ogasawara-Ryu school, never meant to become public.
The Ogasawara-ryū is a traditional Japanese system of martial arts and etiquette, formalised and handed down by the Ogasawara clan.
The school was originally developed by Ogasawara Nagakiyo during the Kamakura period (1185–1333). It specialised in horsemanship (bajutsu), archery (kyujutsu), mounted archery (yabusame) and etiquette, with an emphasis on ceremonial and ritual practice. Nagakiyo was the first to be called Ogasawara… Read More

Yanagi Chikamatsu, Shōzoku zushiki, Kyoto 1688; two volumes, 32, 30 leaves; 22.5 x 16 cm. Many woodblock illustrations. Some worming (see photos); overall in good condition.
An important and highly illustrated history of the attire of the Japanese Imperial Court, with many examples of decorated kimono as well as accessories like shoes, hats, belts, swords, quivers, fans, and so on. One of the most important early books on kimono. Extensively described by Brown.
British Library has only vol. 1 of this edition in an impression from worn blocks.
A very rare book.

A very early edition of the story of the Soga brothers. Published in 1663 (Kanbun 3, 寛文3年).19 numbered leaves; 4 full page woodblock prints.
Volume 12 of 12 only.

An extremely important album from the Wolcott family`s travel to Europe, covering their stay in Great Britain August 1865 – March 1866.
Full leather bound (worn) folio (34.5 x 27 cm); 101 leaves; ca. 761 albumen photos and ca. 106 Wood engravings and lithographs; all dipped in. The photos show landscapes, historic buildings, important people and important paintings from visited galleries.
On inside of front cover ex libris of Roger Wolcott`s father Joshua Huntington Wolcott (1804-1891). On fore edge handwritten: "Roger Walcott // Souvenir of travel".
Leather worn; Front hinge broken and loose; fore edge loose; leaves uneven, worn margins; photos in general in fine condition with good contrast.; only few stains; overall, considering age, in good condition.
There is also the famous 1863 portrait of Charles Dickens by Jahn Watkins (see Getty Museum 84.XD.1157.1005).
Many pages have the month and year of the visit on top, starting August 1865 on page 1 and ending with March 1866 on the last page. All… Read More