Ethiopia: 20th century. Illuminated manuscript on heavy parchment (ca. 170 x 130 mm), altogether 8 strips of parchment, sewn together to form a manuscript folded into 38 panels, producing altogether 78 "pages" of talismanic images and magical texts, with 40 on one side and 38 on the other (two panels..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 260 x 170 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 270 mm). Manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged and repaired, nonetheless these are both ttractive paintings, beautifully rendered. Two delicate Indian..... More

S.l. (Britain?): 1920s (ca.). Slim 8vo. 43 unnumbered pages + one full-page drawing. Handmade notebook tied with string, covers of gilt sprinkled card-stock (some surface scratching and wear to extremities; some unobjectionable foxing and staining). Curious homemade manuscript of what appears to be an unpublished English translation of the beloved..... More

Tokyo and Nagoya: Gendai no Zuan Kōgei-sha / Fukada Zuan Kenkyūjo, 1922 (Taishō 11). Later printing. Square 4to (258 x 191 mm). COMPLETE with title plate, 2 ff. (preface) + 30 chromolithograph plates of designs (title plate foxed, occasional light browning or minor blemishes, verso of some plates with light..... More

Omiya Kyusuke, 1867 (censor seal indicates year of the snake). Broadsheet (354 x 235 mm) with contemporary hand-coloring (several wormholes in the face of the robber and one above his head; portion of the paper on upper right defective, just touching text), affixed at upper corners to a sheet of..... More

Tokyo: Aporo Shuppansha, 1930 (Showa 5). First Edition. Folio (265 x 193 mm). [4] pp. printed on thick paper folded vertically, pages 1 and 4 printed in color, pages 2 and 3 in b/w (dust-soiled; light bumps to extremities, minor foxing, and marks). FABULOUS Japanese art-deco item, being a harmonica..... More

[Edo]: Kobayashi Tetsujiro (Maruya Tetsujiro), 1861. Broadsheet (365 x 25 mm) printed pochoir. The censor seal date is 1861.02. The artist signed his name: "Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga" (in the woodcut). Margins repaired with Japanese tissue, small stamp on verso in lower left corner, ten small wormholes of which four can..... More

Istanbul: Selamet Matbaas, 1928. First Edition in Turkish. 8vo. [2], v, [1], 395 pp. illustrated with line drawings by the author herself. Original wrappers with illustrated cover by JEAN HEE (text evenly browned on account of the paper stock, marginal water staining in last half of the text, most pronounced..... More