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Item #4365 [TECHNOLOGY]. Livres de prières tissé d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe...
Woven Entirely in Silk by means of punched cards, programmed instructions, and automation, heralding the Dawn of the Computer Age

[TECHNOLOGY]. Livres de prières tissé d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle [WOVEN ENTIRELY IN SILK USING THE AUTOMATED JACQUARD LOOM]

Lyon: J.A. Henry, fabricant, et A. Roux, 1886 (colophon dated 1887). First Edition. 4to (145 x 175 mm). [50] pp., each page within neo-gothic decorative borders, and four full-page illustrations, all inspired illuminated gothic manuscripts. Woven in black and grey on silver silk, mounted on card, unobtrusive gossamer silk threads..... More

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Item #4243 [JAPANESE SAMURAI / HOMOSEXUAL DEVOTION]. Hosokawa Chidaruma Jikki ["Blood-stained...
Little-known Japanese illustrated book of doomed homosexual love

[JAPANESE SAMURAI / HOMOSEXUAL DEVOTION]. Hosokawa Chidaruma Jikki ["Blood-stained Document of the Hosokawa Clan]

Tokyo (Asakusa): Kinjudo, 1889 (Meiji 22). First Edition thus. One four-hole-bound (yotsumetoji) volume (179 x 118 mm) bound in the traditional Japanese style (fukurotiji). Complete with 24 engraved pages on 10 leaves (two of are double-page and folding). Original wrappers, lightly stained and creased, with small marks. Small tear to..... More

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Item #4077 [FRAGMENTARY GERMAN PRAYERBOOK WITH 23 MASTERFUL WOODCUTS, MOSTLY UNIDENTIFIED]....
Dark Matter Revealed! ~ Inscrutable fragment of an illustrated German Prayerbook (not after 1568)

[FRAGMENTARY GERMAN PRAYERBOOK WITH 23 MASTERFUL WOODCUTS, MOSTLY UNIDENTIFIED]

Germany: 1560s (?). 16mo (130 x 76 mm). Incomplete with only 25 fols (variously foliated and paginated). Disbound. Together with front and back covers of German binding dated 1568: dark brown calf over thin beveled wooden boards (VERY WORN), two small catches, clasps lacking as is the entire spine. SEE..... More

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Item #4141 [ENGLISH ROCOCO DESIGNS]. A new book of ornaments: consisting of tables, chimnies,...
Among the earliest English Rococo designs, wildly exuberant, being "the forerunner of Chippendale"

[ENGLISH ROCOCO DESIGNS]. A new book of ornaments: consisting of tables, chimnies, sconces, spandles, clock cases, candle stands, chandeliers, girondoles, &c.

London: Robt. Sayer, 1768. Second edition. Folio (341 x 230 mm). Complete with 12 leaves (including title-page). Engraved throughout. Early (original?) drab blue wrappers (a little soiled), bound by Riviere in later red half morocco over comb-marbled boards, comb-marbled pastedowns and endleaves, one or possibly two labels removed from inside..... More

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Item #4092 [ALEXANDER ANDERSON WOODCUTS]. The Seasons. James . Anderson Thomson, Alexander, author
Alexander Anderson woodcuts

[ALEXANDER ANDERSON WOODCUTS]. The Seasons

New York: S. & D.A. Forbes, Printers, 1830. 12mo. 192 pp. + [4] full-page woodcuts. Original publishers glazed boards (soiled but perfectly square and sound), edges sprinkled red (intermittent foxing throughout, most prominently opposite the rectos and versos of the engraved plates and on pastedowns and endpapers, final blank leaf..... More

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Item #4084 [COMIC STORYTELLING: "NEW" TECHNOLOGY AND WESTERN CULTURE IN JAPAN]. Kaika shinsaku:...
Humorous and enthralling stories on the "modernization" of Japan

[COMIC STORYTELLING: "NEW" TECHNOLOGY AND WESTERN CULTURE IN JAPAN]. Kaika shinsaku: rakugo no fukiyose ("New Short Stories themed on Japan's Modernization")

Kanda, Tokyo: Hasegawa Chūbei, 1885 (Meiji 18). First Edition. 8vo (182 x 119 mm). 19 double leaves (the makura preface has been woodblock-printed in color), COMPLETE. Condition notes: a number of fukurotoji leaf edges split, text with light browning, thumbing, and a few marks to leaves, small hole to margin..... More

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