![Item #4389 [ETHIOPIAN COPTIC MANUSCRIPT]. Three Sälams (Hymns or Poems) written in Ge'ez on...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4389.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745984137)
Ethiopia: 1900-1925 (ca.). Manuscript on heavy parchment (115 x 80 mm). Collation: A12 (-A1) B10 C8 D8 = 37 (of 38) ff. Traditional Ethiopian coptic binding structure of hewn wooden boards, exposed string outside quires, looped and tied back onto the twine itself. Back board split vertically with old repair..... More
![Item #4018 [INDIAN PAINTING ON MANUSCRIPT LEAF: WESTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL BIRD]. Painted in gold and...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4018.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687819089)
India: 19th or 20th century. Painting on manuscript leaf (ca. 270 x 160 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 367 x 250 mm, some spotting on the matte). Manuscript leaf with some damage outside painted area; a very attractive ornithological painting. A delicate..... More
![Item #4019 [INDIAN PAINTING: AN IMAGINARY "DYNASTIC" SCENE WITH IMAGINARY WRITING]. Painted in...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4019.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687967770)
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
![Item #4016 [INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: A BULL AND A CAMEL]. A pair of paintings in...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4016.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687809774)
India: 19th or 20th century. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 300 x 220 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 315 mm). Edges of manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged, without loss to painting of the bull, but intruding in several..... More
![Item #4020 [TWO INDIAN PAINTINGS OF PROCESSIONAL SCENES AT TWILIGHT]. Painted in color and...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4020.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687970350)
India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 354 x 164 mm), mounted on card, matted (matte size: 460 x 278 mm). Each painting has a scratch to the surface area (SEE IMAGES), overall in very good condition..... More
![Item #4325 [TEXTILES - JAPAN, 1920s-1940s]. A lavish bridal kimono featuring lobsters. Anonymous...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4325.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736806018)
Japan: 1920-1930s (early Showa period). One uchikake kimono. Measurements: collar to hem = ca. 163 cm; sleeve hem to sleeve hem = ca. 125 cm. With original price tag: "PRICE 176 着物 (打掛)" (Price, 176, Kimono / Uchikake," the meaning of which is unclear: an old price, shop item number..... More
![Item #2769 [VETERINARY - PIGS]. Yoton Setsuryaku. Joseph Harris](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2769.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1567632971)
Tokyo: Yamatoya Kihee, Meiji 5 (1872). 2 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers, stitched as issued in the Japanese style (a little stained; early ownership stamps on first pages; light stains to upper margins and colophons). Complete copy in good condition. A remarkable Japanese abridged edition of Joseph Harris's "Harris on the..... More
![Item #3604 [BLIND MASSEUR, ACCUPUNCTURIST, HIGHWAY ROBBER - ORIGINAL JAPANESE WOODBLOCK 1867]....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3604.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1636921618)
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
![Item #4355 [JAPANESE POISON WOMAN / DOKUFU NOVEL]. Dokufu Benten Omura (The Poison Woman Benten...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4355.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742395002)
Osaka, Japan: Sekizenkan, 1893 (Meiji 26). First Edition. 8vo (220 x 150 mm). Double page colour woodblock frontispiece by Sensei Toshinobu (i.e Taguchi, or Toshinobu II, very finely embossed to convey different textures; three double page illustrations by Maeono Kazuhiro (versos browned as are some adjacent pages). Original color-printed wrappers..... More
![Item #4075 [VISUALLY IMPAIRED WOMEN]. [PAINTED JAPANESE SCROLL]. Goze nobori ("Ascent of the...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4075.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975912)
Japan: 1820-1830s (late Edo period). One large hanging scroll, signed and sealed "Jippensha Ikku" (unfurled: 1620 x 330 mm; 63" x 13"). Original thin Japanese paper backed and mounted on thicker paper in the maru-hyoso style. Browning and darkening, creases (one is significant, for which SEE IMAGES), light stains, original..... More
![Item #4243 [JAPANESE SAMURAI / HOMOSEXUAL DEVOTION]. Hosokawa Chidaruma Jikki ["Blood-stained...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4243.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733175272)
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
![Item #4383 [WOMEN AND INDUSTRIALIZATION IN JAPAN / "WESTERN" JAPANESE BOOK ARTS]. Seiyo keito...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4383.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745985256)
Osaka: Nakagawa Seijiro, 1887 (Meiji 20). First Edition. 8vo (180 x 125 mm). [44] pp. Illustrated with 36 woodcuts ranging from small diagrams to full-page plates. Printed on double-leaves, stab-stitched and bound in a traditional western case-binding, original publisher's boards backed in cloth, marbled edges (!). The Japanese leaves are..... More
![Item #4126 [ANCIENT ALPHABETS]. Grammaire comparée des langues bibliques. Application des...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707090448)
Paris: Jacques Lecoffre & Cie / E. Lefranc, Imprimeur-libraire, 1852-1858. First Edition. Together 2 vols., folio. Paper stock untrimmed. Bound in contemporary French blue quarter basane over blue marbled endpapers (headcaps of both vols. chipped, that of vol. 1 partially defective, some wear to covers and binding extremities). In vol..... More
![Item #3828 [FEMINIST LITERATURE / EUGENICS 1928]. [Dear Enemy]. Sevgili Düşman. [سه...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3828.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666713903)
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
