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1 GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (Juan). Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres, del gran Reyno dela China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de Religiosos, y otras personas que an estado en el dicho Reyno... Con un Itinerario del nuevo Mundo. First edition. Small 8vo. 19th-century half-vellum, gilt on spine. [xxxii], 440pp. Rome, Grassi, 1585. £12,000 The editio princeps of this famous work which was the “standard reference book on China for a century or more” (Boies Penrose). Although not quite the earliest book to be printed on China it was “the first detailed and systematic account” (Streit) and was “written in an entertaining style... [which] created a sensation in Europe” (Wagner). In fact, the text became so popular that in all thirty-one editions were printed before the end of the sixteenth century. It was certainly the most influential source of its time on the countries of the East, relied on and read by most of well-educated Europe. Gonzalez first went to Mexico in 1560 when he was about fifteen, and probably entered the order of San Augustin in Mexico. His return to Spain is recorded in 1573 but he soon returned to Mexico with the Commission which was sent to deliver gifts to the Chinese Emperor. Eventually this project was cancelled after it was decided that the presents could not be made large enough to satisfy the cupidity of the Chinese. Mendoza compiled his work from the narratives of three expeditions. Firstly, from the notes of Martin de Rada’s (or Harrada) mission undertaken in 1575 with Pedro Sarmiento, which, together with his own experiences, furnished the material for the Historia. An account of a third journey made in 1581, by Martin Ignacio de Loyola, makes up the core of the Itinererio and includes material on Japan, a first account of New Mexico and much else. Fr. Ignacio went to China via the Canaries, St. Domingo, Vera Cruz, across Mexico to Acapulco and thence across the Pacific to the Philippines and China. He records many curious details throughout the voyage and the text is so rich in new material that Ortelius declares in his atlas that he had gleaned more information concerning the New World from this Itinerary than from any other single book. Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 7; Sabin, 27775; Alden, 585/37; Cordier, 8; Streit IV, 1972; Palau, 105495.

2 GUERREIRO (Padre Fernâo). Relaçam annual das cousas que fizeram os Padres da Companhia de Iesu nas partes da India Oriental, e em algúas outras da conquista deste Reyno, nos annos de 604 & 605. & do processo da conversam & Christandade daquellas partes. Tirada das cartas dos mesmos Padres que de là vieram... Vay dividida em quatro livros: o primeiro de Japam; o segundo da China; terceira da Índia; quarto de Ethiopia & Guine. First edition. Small 4to. 18th-century calf. Ownership inscription and stamp on title. A very good copy. [ii] 158pp. Lisbon, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1607. £8,500 Fernão Guerreiro (1550-1617) was responsible for one of the most important and rare compilations of Jesuit activities in India and the Far East: it was the primary source for many of the other European volumes which concerned themselves with Japanese and Chinese missions during this period. He was noted for the minute detail he gave and thus the above volume is of considerable merit. The present work “begins with a review of conditions, both spiritual and temporal, in Japan during 1603-4, with special attention to martyrdoms and conversions. This is followed, almost by way of contrast, with a discussion of the successes in China and with much more information on native life: trade, the civil service examinations of 1604, and the Moors of China. A brief section on the Moluccas precedes a review of events in Bengal, Pegu, and South India” (Lach: Asia in the Making of Europe. Vol. III, 1; p. 317). Six chapters deal exclusively with the colleges and conversion successes in Ming China with particular emphasis on Macao, Peking, Canton and Nanking. It includes observations on the Muslim population, attributed to immigration and conversions during the previous Yuan dynasty. An uncommon title: Streit was famously unable to find a copy of this volume. C.f. Streit V, 85 (“We could not locate a copy”). The present volume is the third of a set of five that were separately issued by Fernão Guerreiro, Superior of the House of the Professed in Lisbon, over a period of eight years. The first volume appeared in 1603 in Evora, the last in 1611 in Lisbon. No copy in the Portuguese National Archive, Torre de Tombo. Cordier 256. 6 copies in OCLC.

3 BRAND (Adam). IDES (Eberhard Ysbrand). Journal of the Embassy from their Majesties John and Peter Alexievitz, Emperors of Muscovy, etc. Over Land into China, through the Provinces of Ustiugha, Siberia, Dauri, and the Great Tartary, to Peking, the Capital City of the Chinese Empire... Translated from the Original in High-Dutch, Printed at Hamburgh, 1698. First English edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Czar Peter the Great and two engraved plates. 12mo. Contemporary calf, slightly worn, but very good inside. Engraved ex-libris from the Macclesfield library. Title, 134pp. London, D. Brown & T. Goodwin, 1698. £5,000 Ides (1657-1709), was a German of Dutch origin, a traveller and negotiator who served Tsar Peter I of Russia from 1691 to 1695, when he was sent to Peking to pay homage to the Kangxi Emperor. The meeting alleviated some of the tension between the two countries and helped to establish a fur trade. In this narrative, he describes the sights and experiences of his long journey through Siberia to Peking. He was accompanied by Adam Brand (?-1746) who was a merchant and accompanied Ides as secretary and who is the author of the present work. The present English translation is based on an account published in Hamburg (Beschreibung der Chinesischen Reise... B. Schillern) in the same year. It is a tribute to the speed with which information passed between countries. Both are exceedingly rare. A fuller illustrated account of the embassy by Ides Ysbrand (’Three years travels from Moscow over-land to China’) was published in London in 1706. The book also includes “Some Curious Observations concerning Products of Russia, which may serve as a supplement to the preceding Treatise. Written originally in Latin by Henry William Ludolf”.

THE TAIWAN CAMPAIGN

4 YANG (Dazhang). JIA (Quan) and others. Pingding Taiwan desheng tu 平定台湾得胜图 [Victorious Battle Prints of the Taiwan Campaign]. 12 large engraved prints, each measuring 87x51cm, printed calligraphic inscription by the Qianlong Emperor in the upper margin. Preserved in an early 19th-century Chinese silk-covered album (measuring 90.5x54cm) with metal corner-pieces. Gold-speckled endpapers. Overall a close to fine copy. [Beijing, Neifu tongban hua], Qianlong 55 [i.e. 1790]. £185,000 An extremely rare complete set of twelve prints describing the Taiwan Campaigns against bandits/Ming loyalists between 1787 and 1788. During his reign, the Qianlong Emperor oversaw the so-called Ten Great Campaigns which considerably extended the size of the Qing Empire. The first and most important of these was in Eastern Turkestan where Qing troops fought the Dzungars in a series of battles that lasted over four years (1755-1759). In 1764 Qianlong commissioned a series of sixteen drawings that were executed by four Jesuits (Castiglione, Attiret, Sichelbarth and Damascène) who lived in the court in Beijing at the time. The drawings were then sent to Paris, engraved on to copper plates and returned to Beijing. Qianlong was so pleased with the result that he endeavoured to develop engraving skills amongst court artists at home and he commissioned a further seven suites of engravings commemorating military campaigns. Lin Shuangwen (1756-1788), the leader of the secret Heaven and Earth Society (tiandihui), launched the largest anti-dynastic rebellion against the Qing in January 1787. Tiandihui Triads had been operating in Fujian Province and Taiwan for some time. They initially recruited Ming loyalists and at the height of their power could claim around 300,000 followers. Lin even went as far as to pronounce a reign title for himself namely “Obey Heaven” (shun tian). The Qianlong Emperor sent the Manchu general Fuk’anggan (1753-96) who deployed some 20,000 troops in Taiwan. After a series of battles the rebellion was crushed in 1788, Lin was arrested and eventually executed. This campaign was amongst the costliest during the Qing dynasty, with about 1/3 of the treasury being spent on the suppression. The present set of prints is extraordinary for its rendition of seascapes and naval battle scenes. There is a vivid quality to the narrative of these prints that outshines the other battle suites and the rendition of the triumphant return of the navy as well as the final re-enactment of the campaign inside the Forbidden City are a tribute to the skills and the inventiveness of the engravers. Each of the twelve plates carries an engraved valedictory description of the battles in the hand of the Qianlong Emperor. Detail of plate 12 凯旋赐宴 [ Victory Banquet] 8

Plate 11 渡海凯旋 [Crossing the Ocean to Return in Triumph]

Plate 9 枋寮之战 [The Battle of Fangliao]

Plate 8 大武垄之战 [The Battle of Dawu Ridge]

Plate 1 进攻斗六门 [Attacking the Gates of Douliu]

Detail of plate 10 生擒庄大田 [Capturing Zhuang Datian] 14

6 SCHÄFFER (Georg Anton). Manuscript ALS relating to the Import of Opium to Canton. One folding sheet, written in black ink addressed to a friend. Macao, October 8th, 1817. £900

5 MORRISON (Rev. Robert). A View of China, for Philological Purposes; Containing a Sketch of Chinese Chronology, Geography, Government, Religion and Customs. Designed for the use of persons who study the Chinese language. First edition. 4to. Untrimmed in contemporary boards, printed title label pasted to upper cover. A close to fine copy. [vi], 141pp. Macao, P. P. Thoms, 1817. £3,500 “The materials contained in this small volume, were at first intended to be attached to the Chinese Dictionary, printing by order of the Honourable the East India Company, and to be bound up with it. However, as subjects of frequent reference, they will probably be more convenient, printed in the present form, and bound up by themselves.” (Preface). This is an interesting and wideranging overview of China, that often says as much about the author as it does about the country. The section on Geography gives an “outline of the Empire of the Man-chow family”, new dependant nations, and tribute-states; the chapter on the government states the names of institutions, officers, and ranks; and in the final chapter headed ‘Conclusion’ he ends with the following question: “Love to one’s own country is perfectly compatible with benevolent feelings to all mankind; and the prosperity of this nation, with the prosperity of that. It seems quite a mistake to think that attachment to one’s own People is manifested by a violent dislike of others. - Will the day ever come when the various Tribes of men shall live together like Brothers?” (p. 125). Lust 126; Löwendahl 793.

Georg Anton Schäffer (1779-1836) was a colourful German physician in the employ of the Russian-American Company (RAC). Having spectacularly failed in his attempt to take over Hawai for the RAC Schäffer sailed to Macao in July 1817 where he met the Swedish merchant Anders Ljungstedt who also had links with the RAC and had himself been trying to arrange a fusion between the failed Swedish East India Company and the RAC. The two formed an instant friendship. Both spoke fluent Russian and Schäffer granted Ljungstedt power of attorney to represent the RAC in Macao. Ljungstedt in turn arranged for Schäffer to travel on to Rio de Janeiro. The third in the group was Jacob Gabriel Ullman, a German who also lived in Macao. The present casual letter by Schäffer is to an un-named friend who is about to travel to Macao from Calcutta. There is much casual banter and promise of conviviality (’you must be in good health because we drink to your health every day’) and just one little favour to be asked: “Do not forget to bring ca. 1 [pound] of poppy seed from the largest seed pods of the papaver somniferum with you.” The Jiaqing Emperor had banned the import of Opium in August 1814. [Full transcript available upon request.] Provenance: Included is an original index card describing this letter in an early 20thcentury German autograph collection: E. F. v. R. Autogr. Samml. [Shelfmarks:] Lit. Z Nr. 150 together with information about the author and the content of the letter, which also states that it had been acquired at the Hünzel sale.

BOUND FOR LOUIS-PHILIPPE, THE LAST KING OF FRANCE

7 MANNEVILLETTE (after). Instructions de Daprès sur la Navigation des Indes Orientales. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, spine richly gilt with fleur-de-lys devices at centre of each compartment, dark green moiré silk endpapers with gilt dentelles, sides with wide gilt borders, Bourbon arms of Louis Philippe in gilt at centre of each board (a few minor scratches). Title-page slightly smaller than text block, stamped: ‘Bibliothéque du Roi, Neuilly’. Occasional light foxing, but overall a very good copy in a fine binding. [iv], 354pp. Paris, L’Imprimerie Royale, 1819. £5,500 This is the expanded and improved text volume of sailing instructions originally compiled by Mannevillette (1707-1780) for the French East India Company. Born in Le Havre to a seafaring family Apres de Mannevillette had a long and distinguished career as a navigator and was one of the first French hydrographers. During his many voyages, he assembled a collection of material for his hydrographic atlas called ‘Neptune Oriental’ which was published in 1745 with the support of the Académie des Sciences. In 1762 he was promoted to director of the depository of all the reports, charts and plans relating to the navigation of the vessels of the Company in the Orient, and over the succeeding years several expanded editions of this atlas were issued. Several revised editions of the ’Instructions’ were posthumously published. The fine royal binding shows the Bourbon arms for the Duc d’Orléans, the future King Louis-Philippe. When this book was published, Louis-Philippe had spent four years in Paris following his exile. He ascended the throne in 1830 and ruled France as the last king until 1848.

8 UNKNOWN CHINESE ARTIST. Quan zhe yang kai dao yu tu shuo 全浙洋面島嶼圖說. Complete coastal chart of islands along the cost of Zhejiang Province. Ms. watercolour chart measuring ca. 487x44cm, mounted as a large handscroll with green silk endpapers and a red silk ms. title-slip. Minor rubbing and wear, some offsetting to the red lines, but overall in very good condition. No place, no date, but ca. 1830s. £18,000

An unusually detailed military chart showing coastal defences along Zhejiang coast. In keeping with its military purpose the map shows the sea from the perspective of the land, with red lines marking the divisions of responsibility for coastal defence. The chart shows about 300 miles of coastline north of Ruian city towards Ningbo. It gives the locations of towns (incl. Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ninghai, the old town of Shipu, &c.), townships, and numerous garrisons (indicated by small red flags over a tower), islands and reefs. The introduction is entitled “Explanation to the complete sea map of Zhejiang Province (Zhejiang sheng quan hai tu shuo 浙江省全海圖說)”

9 UNKNOWN CHINESE ARTIST. Coastal chart of the region between Hangzhou, Ningbo and Zhoushan. Ms. watercolour chart measuring ca. 220x47cm, mounted as a large hand-scroll with green silk cover and title-slip. Minor rubbing and wear, one large repaired tear (no loss), yellow silver-sprinkled endpapers, but overall in very good condition. No place, no date, but late Jiaqing period ca. 1820s. £12,000

An unusually detailed military chart showing coastal defences along the Zhejiang coast. In keeping with its military purpose the map shows the sea from the perspective of the land. The chart shows about 200 miles of coastline east of Hangzhou along the mouth of the Qiantang river, Cao’e-jiang river, Shangyu town, towards Ningbo and Zhoushan island and Putuoshan island.

10 UNKNOWN CHINESE ARTIST. Chuan you heng zha chu jiang xing shi tu 船由横閘出江形勢圖. [A map showing the area where the Grand Canal exits into the Yangtze]. Ms. watercolour costal chart measuring ca. 108x49cm, mounted as a large handscroll with blue covers and ms. title-slip. Minor rubbing and wear, but overall in very good condition. No place, no date, but late Jiaqing period, ca. 1820s. £4,000

This map shows the point where the Grand Canal meets the Yangtze, a place of great strategic importance. It shows the famous Buddhist island of Jin-shan, close to the town of Tie Weng (鐡雍城).

11 UNKNOWN CHINESE ARTIST. Quemoy (or Kinmen) and neighbourhood. Ms. watercolour costal chart on paper, measuring ca. 200x70cm, mounted as a large hand-scroll with a yellow title-slip with English ms. title underneath. One large repaired tear (minor loss) to the beginning of the scroll, some light wear throughout, but overall still in very good condition with fresh colours. No place, no date, but early Jiaqing reign, [i.e. ca. 1800s]. £12,500 This untitled hand-scroll showing the coastal defences around Jinmen (Kinmen, Quemoy), a large group of islands facing Taiwan. The uncommonly large and detailed military chart shows coastal defences along the Fujian coast and provides detailed information in large cartouches about particular features of naval defence and zones of military responsibility. During the 17th and 18th centuries this part of the coastline was infested with pirates and following the campaign of 1788 where the Qianlong Emperor retook control of Taiwan (see item 4) strong efforts were made to secure the cost and prevent further piratical activity. In keeping with its military purpose the map shows the sea from the perspective of the land and covers about 150 miles of coastline. It gives the locations of towns, townships, and numerous garrisons (indicated by small red flags over a tower), together with islands and reefs.

12 MATHESON (James). The Canton Register. Complete unbroken run of vol. 2&3. 49 issues. Small folio. Bound in late 19thcentury half-cloth. Minor browning and some wear, a few marginal tears, a few missing corners, last page mis-bound, but overall still a very good copy. 116; 114pp. Canton, January 3rd 1829-December 16th 1830. £26,500 The Canton Register is the first English language newspaper to be published in China. It was launched in Canton in November, 1827 by James Matheson (17961878) and his nephew Alexander Matheson, together with the American businessman William Wightman Wood (1804-?). James was to rise to fame and fortune following the foundation of Jardine Matheson & Co. in 1832, which quickly became the largest trading company in the Far East. The paper was initially published as a bi-weekly newspaper of 4pp. each. Some issues have an additional leaf entitled the “Canton Price Current” listing the latest prices for items as diverse as metals, furs, amber, birds nests, ivory, dragon’s blood, ginseng, and of course tea and opium. It was printed on a handpress supplied by Alexander Matheson and chiefly dealt with the latest shipping news, matters relating to trade, local news and miscellaneous articles relating to Chinese culture, politics and current affairs. The paper shunned controversy and Wood was removed as editor in February 1828 when he criticised the East India Company’s monopoly on trade. The missionary Robert Morrison (1782-1834) took over editorial control and supplied regular contributions and translations for which James paid an annual fee of $300 to be given to a charity of Robert’s choice. Under Morrison’s influence the paper became more even-handed in its stance towards the Chinese administration. It was used to publicise official edicts and notices by both the British and the Chinese authorities. Vol 2, no.1 opens with a few advertisements (incl. a public auction at Whampoa of a broken main topmast), a proclamation by the recently appointed governor of Canton asking for general opinions on the state of affairs in Canton (“The management of these affairs has but recently come into my hands, and I beseech advice as a thirsty man does drink”), followed with a short essay on Chinese State religion (or the absence thereof), a piece on the Anglochinese College at Malacca by Sir George T. Staunton, a translation of a prize-winning essay for the literary examinations on a Confucian quotation, and metereological information. The last page gives shipping intelligence (together with the departure of passengers and the announcement of deaths) as well an “Estimate of Consumption & value of Indian Opium in China”. We have no information as to how many copies were printed in the years up to 1830 but it seems very unlikely to have been more than 150. Mr. Jardine was the biggest subscriber at 6 copies. Even individual issues of the ‘Canton Register’ are very rare. See: Neal, Stan: ’Jardine Matheson and Chinese Migration in the British Empire 1833-53’ (Doctoral thesis, 2015), p. 85.

13 GUTZLAFF (Karl). Quan ren ju yue 全人矩矱 [The Perfect Man’s Model]. First edition. 5 parts in one. 8vo. Chinese-style binding, buff wrappers, yellow title-page, margin lightly chipped, overall in very good condition. With a few manuscript corrections of the text, possibly in the hand of the author. 6, 5, 6, 6, 7ff. Singapore, Jian xia shu yuan, 1836. £1,800 Karl Gutzlaff (1803-1851) was a German missionary who came to Singapore in 1829 where he married the English missionary Maria Newell. Early in his career he acted as an interpreter on an opium-ship owned by Jardine, Matheson & Co. This is a treatise on the teachings of the Holy Scripture on unfeigned virtue, spiritual instruction, the Saviour, explanation of the law, the theory of prayer, and the doctrine of Jesus true and self-evident.

14 NOEL (Baptist Wriothesley). History of the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East. Established in the year 1834. First edition. Double-page colour lithograph frontspiece ‘Miss Aldersey’s School at Ningpo’. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s blindstamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, slight splitting to joints. Contemporary presentation inscription to ffep., overall a very good copy. viii, 292, [4]pp. London, Edward Suter, 1847. £750 Founded in 1834, the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East was founded by an appeal by the American missionary David Abeel (1804-1846) who encouraged female missionaries to establish schools for native women abroad. Beginning in India and China, the association extended its reach throughout China, South East Asia, Ceylon, North Africa, and Turkey. It was staffed entirely by women. This record, written in the twelfth year of their operation, provides a detailed account of their achievements with testimonials from missionaries documenting their experiences and acclimatisation to their chosen schools. Mary Ann Aldersey (1797-1868) was a pioneering force for women’s education and her school at Ningpo is likely to rank as one of the earliest public institution for girls in China. 32

15 BRIDGMAN (Elijah Coleman). Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society. No. 1, June 1858. Folding plate (showing a promissory note issued by the City of Fuzhou in 1855), a large folding map and numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. Contemporary half-cloth. Overall a very good copy, title stamped “Basel Mission Library”. [vi], 144pp. Shanghai, North-China Herald, 1858. £1,600 The Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society first met in Shanghai in 1857 with Rev. E.C. Bridgman (1801-1861), the first American missionary in China and the founder and manager of the Chinese Repository, as its first president. Its first journal appeared in 1858 in the name of the Literary and Scientific Society, but in that same year the Society was formally accepted by the Royal Asiatic Society

SERVICE ON A PIRATE JUNK

16 BROWN (Edward). A Seaman’s Narrative of his adventures during a captivity among Chinese pirates, on the coast of Cochin-China, and afterwards during a journey on foot across that country in the years 1857-8. First edition. 8vo. Half-title. Contemporary half green calf over marbled boards, spine gilt with single crosshatched diamond pattern panel, red label with gilt titles. Slightly rubbed at corners, head-cap and joints, foxing to free endpapers, otherwise internally clean and very good. xi, 202pp. London, Westerton, 1861. £1,600

of Great Britain and Ireland as its North China Branch and henceforth changed the name of its journal to Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. The present issue includes the inaugural address by Bridgman and articles on cyclones (Nicolson), Chinese coins (Wylie), ethnology of Eastern Asia (Macgowan), a translation of a Buddhist Shastra by Lung-shu (Edkins), the description of a trip to Shimoda and Hakodate in Japan (Capt. Foote) and a record of occurrences in China (an overview of the year 1858 prepared by the editorial committee). “The Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society under the editorship of the American missionary Elijah Bridgman... and the China Review... under Eitel were the first true sinological journals in the Western world. They were, at the very least, the first periodicals wholly devoted to China that were at the same time self-conscious about their so-called scientific mission […]. The earlier Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society, founded by Bridgman, represents a transitional stage where missionary and secular (’scientific and literary’) interests were unapologetically combined in the great ‘battle’ for knowledge about the Orient.” (Norman Girardot, The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage, p. 145).

A rattling good account of pirates in the South China Sea in the mid-nineteenth century. In the aftermath of the Opium War, relations cooled between Chinese and British authorities in Canton, and the knock-on effect on trade rendered many merchant seamen out of work. Edward Brown was one such unfortunate, finding himself “hard up” on the beach in Hong Kong in 1856. After a turn in the police force, he boards a vessel with a British ensign, and finding them without a captain, naively assumes the role. In no time at all, they are beset by pirates off the Vietnamese coast, chased, robbed and captured. Brown is interviewed through an interpreter by the pirate chief Ching Ah’ling, who describes himself as a rebel rather than a pirate, and a future ally of the British. Brown cooperates and agrees to train the Chinese pirates in the art of modern European guns and armaments. In spite of the gentility of Ching Ah’ling, there is much brutality and cruelty displayed by the other pirates, and Brown gives lively accounts of opium spoking, religion, Chinese pirate cuisine, and the dull blue “bee-chew” liquor of choice. The latter “tasted, ugh! of what did it not taste? bilge-water, vitriol, turpentine, copal varnish, tar, fire, and castor oil! An entire stranger might have fancied that garlic had been boiled in it.” Brown is held by the pirates for several months, in which time he closely observes the capture of a Fookian (Philippine) junk. In time Brown slips out of Ah’ling’s favour and the crew attack him. He is cast, wounded, overboard but finds safety in a Cochin-Chinese fishing village, and embarks on a long and eventful journey back to a port in Siam where he can reconnect with a British ship, witnessing gruesome torture and slavery along the way. South East Asia saw a strong resurgence of piracy in the 19th century. The maze-like archipelago through which the rich and busy trade routes ran provided the ideal conditions of narrow straights and bottlenecks, whilst the political unrest both domestically and with the British, prevented any serious counteroffensive measures being implemented. Piracy was also a means of resisting the colonial trading system, and Brown’s account gives valuable insight into this alternative economy. 35

17 SHANGHAI MERCURY OFFICE. The Celebration of Her Britannic Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee at Shanghai, Tuesday 22nd June, 1897. Album containing 41 silver gelatine photographs (complete), mostly measuring 11x15cm (4 smaller photographs measuring 8.6x5.6cm) mounted on cardboard with printed captions, interleaved with tissue-guards (light foxing). Large oblong 8vo. Original red half calf, re-backed, overall a very good copy. Shanghai, Shanghai Mercury Office, 1897. £7,200 A commemorative album of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Shanghai issued by the Shanghai Mercury, a daily newspaper founded in 1879. It records the festivities during the day, from the ‘salute’ by the Shanghai Voluntary Corps to the various decorations on Public Buildings (British Consulate, Imperial Maritime Customs), banks (Russo-Chinese Bank, Chartered Bank of India Australia and China, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank) and other businesses (Standard Oil Co., Yangtze Insurance Co., the publisher Kelly & Walsh, Equitable Life Assurance Co. and many others). Other photographs show decorative arches and the main streets adorned with flags, banners and lanterns. The Freemasons appear to play a particularly important role in the proceedings with three images showing their procession entering and leaving Shanghai Cathedral (there are also two images of the Masonic Hall). The album closes with images of the Afternoon Fete at the British Consulate with entertainment provided by a musical bicycle ride as well as sporting events. Very rare. 37

18 ZHOU (Peichun). 周培春北京風俗畫 Two albums showing Beijing customs. Containing 105 & 100 watercolour and gouache paintings, all captioned in Chinese on the right-hand side. Each plate is stamped “Zhou Peichun hua” [painted by Zhou Peichun] in the lower left corner. Small oblong folio (measuring ca. 36x26cm). Contemporary blue cloth-covered boards, a bit worn, first and last three plates in each volume creased, but overall very good inside. [Beijing], Zhou Peichun, n.d. [but ca. 1900s]. £45,000 Surprisingly little is known about Zhou Peichun. We have neither his dates nor any reliable information about his background. Other albums indicate that he owned a shop just outside Xuanwumen gate in the Southwest of the capital. The name was changed to Shunzhimen gate in the Republican era and Zhou worked at this address before and after 1912. It was located in a hutong close to Dazi bridge and within walking distance of the Nantang church. There he produced albums of varying sizes and subject matters catering mostly to foreign tastes, but all of them focus on customs and costumes of Peking and all are in colour. Subjects range from court costumes to Manchu customs, from shop signs to punishments, from Buddhist and Taoist gods to children’s games. They are somehow similar to Chinese Export paintings produced in Canton and yet quite distinct in their ethnographic focus on the habits and customs in Peking. No precedents for these commercial paintings exist in Peking. The present two albums present a rich and vivid picture of life and customs in Beijing around the end of the Qing dynasty. The first album opens with a group of 15 images showing different regional hairstyles for Chinese and Manchu ladies. This is followed by twenty plates showing various modes of transport (sedan-chairs, horse-drawn carriages, and large carts for moving heavy loads) in the capital. The third section shows the ceremonies undertaken by a newly wedded wife (10 plates), followed by 20 plates showing ceremonies relating to death and burial. The rest of the album is devoted to trades, occupations and professions in Beijing. The second album of 100 plates is also entirely devoted to trades (street vendors, masseurs, repair workshops) , occupations (martial arts, acrobats, scribes) and seasonal customs (observation of Buddhist and other annual rites). Most of the images have a short description of the scene on the right hand side. Although written in colloquial Chinese they are clearly intended for a foreign audience. All follow the same pattern and open with the words “This picture shows a Chinese...” (barber, seller of pots, sledge etc. etc.) followed by some interesting observations on the name of a particular product, how it is sold, or whether there are seasonal aspects to the trade.

19 [HAYTER (Henry William Goodenough)].

Caricatures by H. H. First edition. 32 colour lithograph plates with names printed on facing tissue guards. Folio. Original decorated boards (re-backed in leather, new endpapers), but very good inside. [vi](title, intro, list of plates)pp. Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh/ Oriental Press, 1902. £2,400

“Of the thirty-two caricatures contained in this book twenty-one have already appeared, in black and white form, in the pages of ‘The Rattle’. I have thought, however, that the fact of their being enlarged, coloured, and printed on fine paper, would form sufficient excuse for their reproduction here. Nor have I hesitated to include the portraits of several old friends now departed, whose memory is still green in Shanghai. The remaining eleven pictures are published here for the first time. Five of the originals are the property of the Shanghai Race Club.” (Preface). Very rare. Only two copies in OCLC.

Joined, mounted and framed as a panorama

21 MONTALTO DE JESUS (Carlos Augusto). Historic Macao. First edition. Map and 12 plates (incl. frontispiece). 8vo. Attractively rebound in cloth (middle of the 20th century), a very good copy. [ii], [vi], 358pp. Hong Kong, Kelly and Walsh, 1902. £1,200

20 [UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER]. Panorama of Hong Kong. A two-part panorama, measuring 55x21cm. Missing small section of top left corner, but generally in very good condition. Framed. No date, [but ca. 1900]. £2,000 An attractive dark-toned albumen print showing the view from the Peak towards Kowloon. 46

The present is one of the rarest publications by the historian Montalto de Jesus (1863-1927). “The historic interest centred at Macao should have already led to more light being thrown on the records of that important landmark of Western intercourse with the Far East, particularly as to China’s foreign policy in her halcyon days. But though indispensable for a thorough appreciation of causes and effects still felt, the history of Macao, uncommonly rich and significant as it is, has been allowed to remain buried in obscurity, belittled by superficial writers whose prejudices and inaccuracies are almost perpetuated.” (Preface). A second edition printed in 1926 was banned in Macao as it called into question the competence of the Macao Government in the running of the colony. An excellent study of great scholarship. Montalto de Jesus was a member of the Lisbon Geographical Society and the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Cordier III, 2326. 47

23 DAVIES (Henry Rodolph), Major. Yün-nan - The Link between India and the Yangtze. First edition. 73 plates, 10 folding tables and large folding lithograph map in rear pocket. 8vo. Original cloth, an ex-library copy with stamps (Vum Ko Hau Siyin Burma, inscriptions dated May 9, 1957). Text lightly browned and some foxing, a few small tears, repairs to map, upper hinge cracked, overall still a good copy. [xii], 431pp. Cambridge, University Press, 1909. £1,000

22 SMITH (Arthur H.) Proverbs and Common Sayings from the Chinese, together with much related and unrelated matter, interspersed with Observations on Chinese Things-in-General. New and Revised edition. 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, minor wear to spine (restored), but overall a very good copy. Manuscript ownership inscription of Edward Wilson Wallace (a Canadian missionary), dated March 1908 on front free endpapers. [vii], 374, xxix(index)pp. Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1902. £380 “About 1900 Phrases, Proverbs, Couplets, Odes, etc. are explained, but few of which, so far as the writer is aware, have been previously published. The hundred pages devoted to “Puns and other Linguistic Diversions,” embracing more than 300 examples, open into an expansive territory, hitherto singularly neglected... The two Indices contain more than 3,200 references. With the exceptions of names of persons and places of merely local interest, almost every subject is noted, often under several heads. The aim has been to make it almost impossible not to find what is wanted.” This title was first published in 1888 on the basis of articles published in the ‘Chinese Recorder’. The author, an American missionary from Vermont, attempted to substantially enlarge the work but five volumes of his notes and research went up in flames during the Boxer rebellion.

This is the first detailed description of the province by a Westerner. H. R. Davies (1865-1950) was an English army officer and member of the British intelligence service. He was in charge of the Yunnan Railway Company Expedition of 1898 which performed reconnaissance work for a proposed railway line from Burma through Yunnan to Szechuan. The major portion of this volume is a travelogue account of places, people, and things that the author witnessed in 5500 miles of travel in Yunnan and surrounding provinces. The appendices include essays on the topography, population, climate and products of Yunnan, and a description of indigenous tribes. Also included in the rear pocket are comparative vocabulary lists of Monkmer and Tibeto-Burman language families in Yunnan and Western Szechuan. The map remained the best survey of the region well into the 20th century. Rare.

24 [UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER]. HMS Widgeon patrolling the Yangtze. Album with Thirty-three Original Photographs of the Upper and Middle Yangtze River. Thirty-three mounted gelatin silver prints, mostly ca. 8x10.5 cm or slightly smaller. Large 8vo (ca. 26x16 cm). Original green full cloth album with gilt lettered title “Photographs” on the front board. 24 card stock leaves (6 blank). 6 family photos of the same size at rear. Slightly rubbed on extremities and weak on hinges, several images slightly faded, but overall in good condition. N.p., ca. 1910s. £1,500

From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, Western powers patrolled the Yangtze, protecting missionaries and traders, and safeguarding what were deemed to be ‘national interests’. The present is an interesting album apparently compiled by a crew member of HMS Widgeon. Among the images are three photos of British gunboats (two most likely showing HMS Widgeon), several portraits of British sailors (one with Chinese children on a river bank), a portrait of “Tibetans, taken on board ‘Widgeon’ at Chungking, January 1909,” over a dozen river views (Chinese boats, rowers, a group of workers in harnesses dragging a boat upstream, scenes of boat launching, head shaving on a river bank, et al.), as well as an extraordinary image showing villagers listening to music from a gramophone. The gunboats on the Yangtze River “were vitally needed... Western merchants were vulnerable, so in May [1900] the two gunboats braved the rapids, and battled their way upriver to Chungking... Like her sister ships Teal and Moorhen, HMS Widgeon was a lightly enlarged version of the earlier two gunboats, and was shipped out to the Orient, and re-assembled in Shanghai. Widgeon entered service on the upper and middle Yangtze in 1904, and she remained there for three decades, before being decommissioned in 1931. In September 1926 she played an active part in the Wanhsien Incident, as her crew attempted to recover two British-registered freighters from a Chinese warlord” (Konstam, A. Yangtze River gunboats, 1900-1949. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2011, p. 8).

26 MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS - DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF POSTS.

Report on the Chinese Post Office for the Tenth Year of Chung-Hua Min-Kuo (1921) with which is incorporated an historical survey of the Quarter-Century (1896-1921). Two diagrams, six plates showing postage stamps and overprints, as well as 12 photographic plates. 4to. Original flexible wrappers with tipped-in photographic vignette. Minor wear and light browning, overall still a good copy. [iv], 118pp. Shanghai, Supply Department of the Directorate General of Posts, 1922. £750

25 GRATTON (F. M.). IVY (Robert S.) The History of Freemasonry in Shanghai and Northern China. Containing a Complete List of all the Regular Lodges & Royal Arch Chapters, &c. First and only edition. 10 photographic plates. 8vo. Bound in contemporary halfcalf, minor wear to spine, but overall a very good copy. [viii], 312pp. Tientsin, North-China Printing and Publishing Co., 1913. £950 A fascinating work by the brethren for the brethren. “Freemasonry in Shanghai and Northern China of recent years has grown so and the intercourse between the brethren (especially those of rank) becoming so common that to write a history dealing with the North of a District which is 750 miles from Head-Quarters would not give the brethren of parts a right idea of the unity and feeling that exists between Shanghai and the Northern part of our [!] province.” (Preface). Uncommon. 52

This rare title appears to be an anniversary issue celebrating the tenth year of the Republic. It comes with a wealth of fascinating detail: The text starts with a brief historical survey of the postal service going back to Confucius who said: “The influence of righteousness travels faster than royal orders by stages and couriers.” followed by the observation: “The mounted couriers who carried Imperial commands, enclosed generally in a sealed casket, could be recognised from afar by a small yellow flag attached to the collar of their dress, and they changed horses without alighting... Not so many years ago, express couriers, with their coats sealed on them, still rode, day and night, 800 miles to Lhasa, their faces cracked by long exposure, their eyes bloodshot and sunken.” This is followed by a summary of the year’s operations as well as individual provincial reports. The plates show some of the more extreme examples of postal delivery on ice, across dangerous rapids, on a rope across steep valleys, as well as a wonderful shot of a “Fast courier scaling city-wall with the aid of a rope (Honan)”.

27 ZHANG (Guangyu), editor. Shanghai manhua [Shanghai Sketch]. First edition. Issues 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 59. 17 loose issues. Folio, each issue measuring 27x39cm. Original colour lithographed wrappers, a few tears, some wear and light staining, brittle paper due to poor paper quality, but overall still in good condition. 8pp. each. Shanghai, Shanghai manhua she/Zhongguo meishu kanxing she [China Fine Arts Periodicals], 19281929. SOLD Shanghai manhua was born out of the ideas of a group of graphic artists who had formed the Shanghai Sketch Society in 1927. They were Ye Qianyu (19071995), Zhang Guangyu (1900-1964) and his brother Zhang Zhenyu (1904-1970), Huang Wennong (1901?-1934), Lu Shaofei (1903-1995), as well as Ding Song (18911969) and Wang Dunqing (1889-1990). A first single-page broadside was issued in January 1928 but many newsagents discarded it and consequently it failed to attract buyers. The entire run had to be sold to a scrap merchant. In a second attempt the magazine was re-launched on April 21st, 1928 in a more substantial format: It was issued weekly and the double-sided broadsheet ran to eight pages with a colour cover. It was the first fully-fledged modern Chinese magazine to feature a rich mix of caricatures, fashion, literature and social affairs. There is also a strong emphasis on the arts, incl. sculpture, painting, photography, film, dance and theatre. Artistic credentials allowed Shanghai manhua to bypass censorship rules and show some nude photographs. The modern Chinese woman is portrayed as a liberated powerful force ensnarling men in dangerous liaisons. Most of the magazine relates to Shanghai but there are also references to Peking and the rest of the world. Much of it is a product of the newfound wealth amongst some members of the Chinese community often going hand in hand with Westernisation. This magazine is less political and provocative than the ‘Modern Sketch’ issued by the same group of people four years later, but it is the voice of a new, confident, liberal, urban Chinese community. On the back cover Ye Qianyu contributed the hugely popular comic-strip “Mr. Wang” (Wang xiansheng) which was influenced by the American strip “Bringing up Father” by George McManus. Lu Shaofei contributed much of the writing: For example, in each issue he gave an interpretation of the cover-art on the preceding issue. The magazine was financed by the wealthy avant-garde poet and socialite Shao Xunmei (1906-1968) who tried to revive his family fortunes and in the summer of 1930 purchased a German rotogravure press for the amount of $50,000 to improve the quality of the photographic reproductions. It was a major investment and after the 110th issue ‘Shanghai Sketch’ merged with another of his publications, the ‘Modern Miscellany’ (shidai huabao) on June 16th 1930 in order to reduce cost. Exceedingly rare. No copies in Worldcat.

RARE

28 SHU (Xincheng). Xihu bai jing 西湖百景 [100 Scenes of the West Lake].

29 VAN AALST (Jules A.) Chinese Music. II. - Special Series No. 6.

First edition. Numerous photographic illustrations. Large 8vo. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt on spine, a very good copy. [xii](ads.), 2, 4pp. 100ff. [ii]pp. Shanghai, Zhonghua Shuju, 1929. £580

Later edition. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. 4to. Original yellow wrappers, some wear to spine. A very good copy of this rare book. iv, 84pp. Peiping, Re-issued and sold by the French Bookstore under the authority of the Inspector General of Customs, 1933. £450

A modern take on China’s most beautiful lake. The West-lake has been famous throughout China since the Tang dynasty, when its scenic virtues were extolled by a large number of poets. The Gaozong Emperor established the Southern Song capital on its shores (Lin’an, modern-day Hangzhou) in 1136 and since then it has been a city of gardens, temples, and pagodas. Two of China’s best loved poets, Bai Juyi and Su Dongpo, were governors of Hangzhou for a brief period, and the latter left a permanent mark in the form of a long causeway which he built in order to prevent the lake from silting-up. By the Qing dynasty a canon of famous scenes had been established, that were recorded in guide-books, poems and scroll paintings and the present album can be seen as a continuation of this tradition.

“In the description I give here I will endeavour to point out the contrasts or similarity between Western and Chinese Music, to present abstruse theories in the least tiresome way, to add details never before published, and to give a short yet concise account of Chinese Music” (Introduction). First published in 1884 by the Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs in Shanghai, this work became known as a source of musical material for Puccini’s opera Turandot. It was reprinted several times and remained the primary source in a Western language of detailed information on Chinese music until the mid-twentieth century. Van Aalst, born in Belgium in 1858, worked with the Imperial Maritime Customs Service before being appointed Postal Secretary in 1899.

30 ARMY HEADQUARTER SURVEYING DEPARTMENT. Can mou ben bu lu di ce liang zong ju er shi yi, er nian ye wu bao gao shu. 參謀本部陸地測量總局二十一, 二年業務報告書. [A written report by the Head Office of the Army Land Surveying Department for the years 1932 and 1933].

techniques as well as photographic plates, showing technical instruments, observatories, printing techniques, offices etc. The last foldout plate is a large group shot of the army surveying staff. Very rare. Only one copy in OCLC (Stanford).

First and only edition. Numerous photographic plates, tables, and foldout maps (complete). Large 8vo. Original decorated wrappers, minor wear to spine, a few minor tears to folds, but overall still a very good copy. Unpaginated. [Nanjing], [Guo min zheng fu can mou ben bu lu di ce liang zong ju], dated: 23rd year of the Republic, [i.e. 1934]. £4,500 This report was produced by the Army Headquarters Land Surveying Department for internal army usage only and not for sale. It opens with portraits of Sun Yatsen, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and senior army generals. Thereafter follow tables, statistics, maps, etc. relating to triangulation, other land and aerial surveying

31 WU (Rongguang). 吳榮光吾學錄 Wu xue lu. [Record of my Studies]. 24 juan in 3vols. Several graphs and illustrations. 8vo. Original stitched wrappers with printed title-slips (minor wear), but overall a very good set. Shanghai, Zhong hua shu ju, [1936]. £350 This innocuously titled book is in fact a highly significant text for the study of Imperial rites, rules and regulations during the Qing dynasty. The work is divided into 14 categories: standards for imperial ceremonies, administrative proceedings, costume and tradition, rules and scope of study, education systems, military administration, administrative rules for government personnel, rules for formal and military costume and also standards for measurements of architectural tools, various imperial and folk rites, manners at different occasions, procedures and standards of weddings, procedures and standards of funerals, laws and regulations. Wu Rongguang (1773-1843) was born in Nanhai west of Canton. In 1799 he passed the coveted jinshi degree and entered the prestigious Hanlin Academy, where he worked as a literary compilation officer, and a censor. In 1812 he was appointed to the Board of Punishment and after holding several posts in Fujian and Zhejiang he was appointed governor of Hunan. Somehow he fell foul of the Emperor during a rebellion of Yao tribesmen and was forced into retirement in 1840. He devoted himself to research and published his own works. The first edition of the Wu xue lu was printed in Hunan in 1832.

32 SIREN (Osvald). Bilder fran Kina. [Pictures of China]. First edition. 128 photographic plates. Folio. Original decorated flexible boards, some rubbing and edge-wear, but overall still a very good copy. 84(text)pp. Stockholm, Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1936. £650 This is a compilation and a summary of Siren’s famous photographic studies on temples, pagodas, gates, sculptures, and gardens of China.

33 SAVAGE (John Lucian). Government of China - Ministry of Economic Affairs National Resources Commission. Preliminary Report on the Yangtze Gorge Project. & Preliminary Report on the Ta-Tu-Ho and Ma-Pien-Ho Projects. Upper Ming-kiang and Kwan-Hsien Projects. Lung-Chi-Ho Projects. Tang-Lang-Chuan Projects. First and only edition. Copy No. 4. 18; 55 fold-out maps and diagrams (complete). Mimeograph. Folio. Contemporary cloth. A fine copy. 98; [xii], 238ff. Chungking, November 1944. £6,500

submit this preliminary report on the Yangtze Gorges Project. The study of this project has been extremely interesting because of the unprecedented magnitude of the works to be constructed and also, because of China’s great need for the benefits that will accrue from the project... The Yangtze Gorge Project is a ’CLASSIC’. It will be of utmost importance to China. It will bring great industrial developments in Central and Western China. It will bring widespread employment. It will bring high standards of living. It will change China from a weak to a strong nation. The Yangtze Gorge Project should be constructed for the benefit of China and the World at large.” Rare. Only three copies in Worldcat (National Library of China, Colorado School of Mines, Purdue University). A loosely included “Memorandum from Chief Engineer” dated April 2nd, 1946 states that “One numbered copy of Mr. Savage’s preliminary report on the project is now being issued...” It is addressed to W. H. Nalder, L. N. McClellan, and others and signed Walker R. Young.

In 1944 Chiang Kai-shek invited a number of noted surveyors to commence work on the ‘Yangtze Gorges Dam’ project which also became known as the ’Dream Project’. As part of his effort to institute a program of political and economic reform and thus boost support, Chiang resurrected plans that had been conceived by Sun Yat-sen in 1919. The hydro-electric dam was supposed to alleviate flooding, boost economic development and enable large-scale irrigation projects. Due to the unprecedented scale of the work Chiang felt that it would be wise to use US expertise and appointed John L. Savage (1879-1967). Savage was the leading American Civil Engineer who had achieved fame for his supervision of many of the biggest and most successful damming projects in the USA, including the Hoover Dam, the Parker Dam, the Shasta Dam & the Grand Coulee Dam. Savage visited the Yangtze region in 1944 and in the same year he was awarded the “Friend of China” Gold Medal by the National Resources Commission of China. In the ‘Preface’ addressed to Dr. Wong Wen-hao, Savage states: “It gives me one of the greatest pleasures in my forty years of engineering experience to

JAPAN

34 SCHIFF (Friedrich). ESKELUND (Paula). Squeezing through. Shanghai Sketches 1941-1945. First and only edition. Numerous illustrations (several photographic). Oblong 8vo. Original decorated boards, light browning due to poor paper quality, but overall a fine copy. Unpaginated. Shanghai, Hwa Kuo Print. Co., 1945. £1,500 Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) was an Austrian of Jewish origin who emigrated to China around 1935. Here he worked as caricaturist for several newspapers, designed postcards, illustrated books, and even painted murals for several public buildings and clubs in Shanghai. His style and humor are instantly recognisable and the present is his last book published in Shanghai before he left for Argentina. The present is Schiff’s last publication from Shanghai: “This little book is an attempt in all modesty to set down in words and pictures an account of what good and evil was characteristic of daily life in Shanghai during the war years 1941-1945.” (Foreword). Exceedingly rare. Only 3 copies in OCLC.

THE FIRST EDITION

35 KAEMPFER (Engelbert). The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the ancient and present State and Government of that Empire; Of its Temples, Palaces, Castles, and other Buildings; Of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; Of The Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular; Of The Original Descent, Religions, Customs and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and the Chinese. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam... With the Life of the Author and an Introduction. First English edition. 2 vols. Engraved half-title to vol. 1, 45 engraved maps & plates, many folding. Folio. Original boards, rebacked in calf. An honest, unsophisticated copy in very good condition, plate 1 supplied from another copy. [xii], lii, 391, [iv] (explanation of plates), [vi](index to both volumes)pp.; [iv], pp.393-612, 75, [iv] (explanation of plates)pp. London, Thomas Woodward, 1727. £6,500 Until the 19th century Kaempfer’s ‘History of Japan’ was regarded as the single most important source about Japan. Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), a German doctor with an urge to travel, joined the Swedish embassy to Persia under Louis

Fabricius in 1683. Rather than return home to Europe he travelled throughout Persia and India (1684-89) and eventually made his way to Java where he signed up with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who sent him to Nagasaki in 1690. Working as a surgeon he lived on Deshima island for close to four years and spent much of his spare time studying the language, history, medicine and botany of Japan. With the help of his interpreter Imamura Gen’eimon Eisei (16711736) he formed an important collection of books, maps, and artefacts which he managed to take back with him to Europe (the collection is now in the British Library). Twice he was allowed to make the journey to Edo on the annual mission (Edo sanpu) to visit the Shogun. He secretly took a compass which gave him the opportunity to collect the most accurate geographical information to date of the region along the Tokaido and parts of Kyushu. Amongst the beautifully engraved plates are nine section maps of the journey to Edo and it is the combination of these maps with the descriptive text that is of a precision and detail hitherto unknown. The ‘History of Japan’ was first published by C. Scheuchzer (1702-29), librarian to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) who had acquired Kaempfer’s manuscripts as well as his collection after his death. It contains a wealth of information on Japanese customs, culture, medicine (acupuncture), and botany. The present first edition with the date of 1727 on the title is particularly rare. It does not include the ‘Second Appendix’ which was only issued in the following year. Cordier, 414-415; Streit VI, 1429; Laures, 594; Landwehr 530.

SAMURAI MANUSCRIPT

36 ISE (Sadatake). 伊勢貞丈鎧着用図 Yoroi chakuyo zusetsu [Illustrated Manual showing the Procedure of Wearing Armour]. Manuscript with annotations and corrections. 2 colour and 50 line drawings. Plain covers with ms. title-slip, measuring approx. 19.2x27cm, minor wear and worming (restored) slightly affecting the illustrations and text but overall a very good copy. 42ff. Dated and signed by Ichinotani Gusha in the colophon Kansei 8 [i.e. 1796.] £3,200 Ise Sadatake’s (1717-1784) was a historian with a particular focus on the correct behaviour of the samurai class. The present work was circulated exclusively in manuscript prior to the dissolution of the feudal system in 1869. The text and illustrations explain in detail the consecutive stages of putting on a suit of armour. This complex procedure involved five layers of dress each of which had to be securely tied. The present manual consists of two parts, the ‘Kachu chakuyo zusetsu’ and the ’Yoshiie Ason yoroi chakuyo zu’. The reference to the famous Minamoto Yoshiie of the Heian period in the title of the second part was a device to connect to the earlier roots of the samurai tradition. While the Edo period was generally speaking a time of peace, all samurai were obliged to train in swordsmanship and martial arts. According to the colophon the present item was copied by Ichinotani Gusha, dated 1796, copied from a 1780 version of Ise Sadatake’s manuscript. 68

37 UNKNOWN JAPANESE ARTIST. [Scenes at Shimabara]. Watercolour on silk. Horizontal scroll measuring ca. 35.5x500cm, rich brocade mounting on the outside (minor wear), gold leaf paper embossed with flower design inside. Overall in very good condition. Kyoto, ca. 1800. £3,800

that the important characters are larger than their young attendants (kamuro) or passers-by. This makes for a pleasing shift in perspectives when viewing the scroll. We have not been able to identify the crest on the curtain (noren) in front of one of the geisha houses.

The present scroll appears to show scenes of the Shimabara, the main brothel area in Kyoto. It portrays the rituals and customs of the courtesans both inside and outside the house, from washing to putting on make-up, entertaining guests, playing the shamisen etc. The attribution to the Kyoto school is chiefly due to the decoration of the kimonos as well as the gentle style of painting. Scenes from the Yoshiwara in Edo tend to be painted in a more vivid/gaudy Ukiyo-e style. Interestingly, people are not drawn to scale, which means

38 SCHOOL OF HOKUSAI. Tokaido 53tsugi zu 東海道五拾三次図. [Plates of the 53 Stations of the Tokaido]. An album of twelve mounted paintings, each measuring ca. 33x31cm, ink and colour on silk, the last inscribed ‘Hokusai hitsu’ with hanko seal. Orihon with

elaborate brocade covers, early 19th-century, some age-wear, minor browning and staining, but overall in good condition. Ms. label on top board giving title and stating artist as ‘Katsushika Hokusai’. Preserved in Japanese modern wooden storage box. N.p., n. d. [but ca. 1860s]. £25,000

The present extraordinary album shows twelve scenes inspired by the 53 stations along the Tokaido. The artist has distilled the scenes into comical vignettes that show the essence of what a traveller might expect on the road from Tokyo to Kyoto. Artistically the Tokaido is more often associated with Hiroshige, but Hokusai did in fact produce several series on the subject (both in engraving and wood-block). One of Hokusai’s best students Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850) published an illustrated book ‘Comical chimes along the Stations of the Tokaido’ (Kyoka Toukan Ekiro no Suzu) in 1830 in collaboration with Hokusai which was reprinted in Nagoya in 1835 under the title ‘Hokusai’s Album of Scenes along the Way’ (Hokusai Dochu Gafu). Although our album does not entirely follow the layout of that publication, six of our paintings closely resemble scenes in the ’Dochu gafu’. A further two paintings were published in other books by Hokusai, namely the ‘100 Views of Mt. Fuji’ and the ‘Hokusai Manga’ (vol. XI). The apocryphal signature on the last plate ‘Hokusai hitsu’ together with a square seal in the form of a pictogram of Mt. Fuji was used by Hokusai between 1834 and 1846. (See chapter by Asano Shugo: ‘Concerning the seals in Hokusai’s paintings’ (p. 128) in ‘Hokusai and his Age - Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan’, edited by John T. Carpenter (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005)).

39â&#x20AC;&#x201A; â&#x20AC;&#x2020;BEATO (Felice). Photographs of Japan. Album containing 50 large albumen prints (26 landscapes and architectural views, 24 hand-coloured portrait studies, each measuring ca. 29.5x23cm) with tipped-in printed descriptions (measuring 27.5x22cm) of each image on facing page. Large oblong folio (measuring 49x36cm). Contemporary brocade boards (somewhat worn with abrasions to corners), leather spine, re-backed in the early 20th century (splitting), very good inside. Preserved in a custom-made cloth box. [Yokohama], n.d. [but ca. 1870s]. ÂŁ48,000 Felice Beato (1832-1909) stands out amongst the foreign photographers of the 19th century. Born in Venice his parents took him to Corfu. Little is known as to how he developed his photographic skills. He travelled widely (Malta, Turkey, India and China) before arriving in Japan in 1863. Beato set up a successful photo studio in Yokohama, the centre for foreign trade after the opening of Japan. In October 1866 he lost most of his stock in a major fire but he persevered and rebuilt. In 1877 he sold his firm to his former Austrian apprentice Baron Raimund von Stillfried, who had set up his own studio in 1871 and formed a partnership called Stillfried & Andersen. The present album dates from the late 1860s or early 1870s. Typically, it is divided into uncoloured scenic views and hand-coloured genre-scenes. A complete list of prints is available upon request.

40 GAISHI-KYOKU. 外史局編纂布告全書 Fukoku Zensho. Vol. 11. (bound in 3 parts, of 13). First edition. Numerous plates, 55 full-page colour woodblock illustrations. Original stitched wrappers, lacking title-slips on two vols, worn title to vol. 3, but overall still very good copies. 46; 83; 81ff. Tokyo, Kitabatake Mohei (and others), dated: Meiji 5 [i.e. 1872]. £750 The Gaishi-kyoku was the Overseas Bureau in charge of publishing material relating to legal matters in the early Meiji Period. From 1872 onwards they issued legal documents as well as rules and regulations for the new government. Always keen on protocol, the first part of vol. 11 is devoted to court uniforms for civil officials. They are beautifully illustrated with woodblock prints in dark blues and metallic colours. The second volume deals with the banking laws, while the third discusses the prison system, its buildings, rules and regulations. It includes several plans and views of a model prison. Very rare.

41 MERCANTILE MARINE BUREAU. Japanese Shipping, Ancient and Modern. First edition thus. 73 collotype plates. Oblong folio. Original brocade binding (minor rubbing and wear to hinges and corners), gilt stamp on front cover: “Cruising Library Association”, overall still a very good copy. Gilt-speckled endpapers, a.e.g. Tokyo, Ogawa Isshin, 1909. £1,400 This photo-book provides an illustrated history of Japanese shipbuilding starting with wooden canoes from the eighth century B.C. to Edo period fishing and pleasure boats, finishing with modern cargo-ships and ocean liners built in the 20thcentury. Also included are two early 17th-century ms. charts called the Kadoya and Suyeyoshi charts which show the influence of Portuguese map-making on Japan covering the regions of Korea, Japan, and South East Asia all the way to India. The present 1909 edition contains an extra 13 plates, as opposed to the 1904 edition with 60 plates. Rare. 82

42 NIHON SHONEN. 日本少年編南極探検飛行機雙六 Nankyoku Tanken Hikoki Sugoroku. [Board-game of the Antarctic Expedition by plane]. First and only edition. Folded colour lithograph sheet measuring 73x54cm. Together with the original airplane markers. Tokyo, Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, 1911. £650 Sugoroku boardgames were popular in Japan in from the Edo-period onwards and in the first half of the 20th-century the themes followed designs from politics, culture, and sports. Players start from Tokyo, Berlin, Paris and New York towards the South Pole. This sheet was published as a supplement to the children’s magazine ‘Nihon Shonen’ (Japan Boy).

43 OTANI (Sonyu). IGUCHI (Kashu). 大谷尊由/井口華秋東海道五拾三次絵巻 Tokaido Gojusantsugi emaki. [Handscrolls of the 53 Stations of the Tokaido]. First and only edition. Complete set of eight handscrolls with woodblock colouring over collotype, the total length exceeds 50 meters, with light blue brocade covers and original gold-leaf title-slips. In very good condition. Preserved in original black lacquer box. Kyoto, Nakamura Taikan, dated: Taisho 11, [i.e. 1922]. £15,500 A superb collaborative effort translating the traditional scenes of the famous road into modern 20th-century impressions. Each of the scenes is painted alternately by Otani Son’yu (1886-1939) and Iguchi Kashu (1880-1930) making for a subtle contrast and yet achieving a surprisingly harmonious viewing experience. Iguchi, a professional painter from Kyoto and Otani’s teacher, had a long-standing friendship with him and the two decided to travel along the road from Kyoto to Tokyo in 1919 and collect their impressions in a series of sketches. However, in printing the scroll they reverted to the traditional arrangement of starting the journey from Nihonbashi and going west to Kyoto. The first scroll opens with three calligraphic prefaces by Otani Kozui (1876-1948, Son’yu’s elder brother and the abbot of Honganji Temple in Kyoto), Tomioka Tessai (1837-1924, a famous painter), and Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1838, a Zen monk and a student of Tessai).

The beautiful opening scene shows Nihonbashi bridge during the night, with cars and electric trams rushing across and stone buildings of the Ginza in the background. This is followed by 54 scenes between Tokyo and Kyoto, exploring not only different landscapes and seasons but also a variety of weather and light conditions. Furthermore, the scroll is charming for documenting the rapid modernisation of Japan, with shipyards, airplanes, trains, and cars making their way into the otherwise rural atmosphere. The publisher Nakamura Taikan decided to publish Sonyu and Kashu’s paintings in a limited edition - unfortunately we do not know the number of copies. The base of the painting (shita-e) is printed in collotype allowing for subtle calligraphic variations of black and grey. On top of that, colour was added on individual sections with woodblock prints. The publisher hired a printer from Tokyo, Motohashi Sadajiro, to facilitate this laborious process which due to the nature of the essentially manual process meant that each scroll is slightly different. Only the finest mineral colours were used (including gold dust around the scene of Mt. Fuji) and the resulting colour scrolls give the extraordinary illusion of being hand-painted. All of this resulted in enormous production costs and inevitably the publisher went bankrupt over the project. The imprint at the end of the last scroll states that the set of scrolls was sold for Yen500, an enormous amount at the time and only a very small number off rich clients could or would have purchased a set.

An English-language piece of calligraphy at the end by the American anthropologist Frederick Starr (1858-1933) reads: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A great Highway is an Artery through which pulses the Life-blood of a Nationâ&#x20AC;?, a statement that appears to be slightly at odds with the reality of the Tokaido during the 1920s. Starr appears to have been highly regarded in Japan and when he died in Tokyo in 1933 there were plans to have a monument erected in his honour.

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44 FUCHIKAMI (Hakuyo). 淵上白陽『白陽』 Hakuyo [White Sun]. First edition. Vol. I, No 4. 6 tipped-in collotype plates. Japanese text. Square folio. Original decorated wrappers, occasional minor foxing but overall a very good copy. Kobe, Hakuyo Gashu-sha, dated: Taisho 11 [i.e. 1922]. £1,200 A superb monthly publication edited by the founder Fuchikami Hakuyo (18891960), one of the key figures in early art photography standing between (or bridging) pictorialism and Modernist Photography. Having studied photography in Saga and Nagasaki, he opened a photographic studio in 1919. In June 1922, he launched the important magazine ‘Hakuyo’ which became famous for its beautiful collotype plates by key figures in the Modernist movement. In the same year he founded the Japan Photographic Art Association which embraced a national membership, although many contributors were based in the Kansai Region. Each issue contains between six and twelve fine collotype prints. From issue 4 onwards this became the official journal of the Japan Photographic Art Association (Nihon Koga Geijutsu Kyokai). Based in Kobe this was the first national association that focussed on art photography. Hakuyo is extraordinary in terms of size, and quality of reproduction. The present issue includes the famous portrait plate of Clarence H. White by A. L. Coburn, as well as work by Matsuura Koyo, two plates by Fuchikami Hakuyo, Sakakibara Seiyo, and Hattori Ryunosuke. 88

45 KITAO (Harumichi). 北尾春道『数奇屋聚成』 Sukiya Shusei. [Compendium of Sukiya Architecture]. 20 volumes (complete). Numerous plans, architectural drawings, and photographic illustrations. Text in Japanese and English. 4to. Original decorated boards in glassine jackets and slipcases. Overall a close to fine set. Tokyo, Koyosha, Showa 10-12, i.e. 1935- 1937. £2,600 Kitao Harumichi (1896-1973) was born in Osaka. His father specialized in the construction of temple buildings which clearly influenced his future path: having studied architecture at the Tokyo Advanced Institute of Technology (Tokyo Koto Kogyo Gakko) Kitao opened his own office in Marunouchi in 1925. In the late 20s he moved to Kamakura where most of his projects were built. At a time when most architects aspired towards modernist architecture using western methods and styles, Kitao was engaged with traditional Japanese building styles and techniques. The present is his first publication giving an overview of the Sukiya style and its adaptation to modern needs. Sukiya is an elegant style of domestic architecture which was developed in connection with the tea ceremony. Initially it was the domain of those with power and money, but in the early 20th century it also became popular with the new prosperous middle class. Vol. 1 (The Higashiyama & Momoyama periods); 2 (The Tokugawa period - 1st Part); 3 (The Tokugawa period - 2nd Part); 4 (The Meiji & Taisho periods); 5 (A selection of Sukiya-zukuri homes from various schools); 6 (Sukiya homes for feudal lords, poets and scholars); 7 (Sukiya homes for tea masters); 8 (Gardens and lighting of Sukiya homes); 9 (Gardens in detail); 10 (Ponds); 11 (Modern Sukiya homes); 12 (Large Sukiya homes); 13 (Contemporary Sukiya homes); 14 (Other Sukiya homes between the Momoyama and the Tokugawa periods); 15 (Large Sukiya homes between the Momoyama and the Tokugawa periods); 16 (Sukiya country homes); 17 (Sukiya homes: Exteriors); 18 (Windows); 19 (Sukiya homes: Interior); 20 (Sukiya homes: Interior continued). 90

46 WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL. United States of America vs. Hiroshi Tamura. 8 vols. 5 original tipped-in photographs and several mimeographed tables. Complete English text. In-4to. Navy blue paper-board (spine of vol 6 damaged), title piece stamped on the front page, light browning throughout due to poor paper quality, but overall in very good condition. Unpaginated, but ca. 10,000pp. Tokyo, International Military Tribunal Far East, 1946. £4,800 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, abbreviated as TMIEO was created on January 19, 1946 to prosecute major Japanese war criminals of the Second World War. Tamura Hiroshi was Head of the Prisoner of War Information Bureau. He was considered an A-class war criminal and was sentenced to 8 years in prison in February 23rd, 1949. The trial was conducted under the direction of the Supreme Command of the Allied Powers (SCAP). In order to show the international dimension of trial, an Australian officer was appointed president of the proceedings. The charge against Tamura was wilful disregard of duties in contravention of the Geneva Conventions, in particular his refusal to allow members of the Red Cross access to POW camps. His defence argued that Tamura was entirely dependent on orders from above. This extremely detailed archive of examination of evidence and counter-evidence shows the remarkable will of the Allied Forces to be seen to be following the letter of the law to the highest possible standard.

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47 MISHIMA (Yukio). HOSOE (Eikoh). 細江英公『薔薇刑』 Barakei - Killed by Roses. First edition. No. 746 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Numerous photographic plates. Text in Japanese. Large folio. Original decorated cloth in plastic dust-wrapper and decorated box (some edge-wear), but overall a close to fine copy, signed by Mishima Yukio and Hosoe Eikoh. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Shueisha, 1963. £4,200 This book caused a stir when it was first published and it represents a milestone in Japanese photographically illustrated books. The box shows a round amulet shaped object suspended on a chain as well as an egg. Both of these objects appear again throughout the book. In a series of Baroque images and photomontages the book explores themes of birth, death, illusion, sex, entrapment, isolation, liberation... one could easily add another dozen to the list. Mishima’s ambivalent role as an avant-garde hippy and a homosexual rock star, a hero and a victim, a sinner and a saint, are superbly acted out. The great writer Mishima was clearly a complex character and when he committed suicide on November 25th, 1970 many would point to this work as a sign of one contradiction too many. A large book with large concepts, superbly designed by Sugiura Kohei. 94

49 ARAKI (Nobuyoshi). 荒木経惟太陽の『さっちん』 ‘Sachin’ in Taiyo - The Sun, monthly deluxe, 7/’64, no. 13.

48 KURIHARA (Tatsuo). 栗原達男『写真報告オキナワ』 Shashin Houkoku Okinawa 1961-1970 [Okinawa Photo-reportage]. First edition. Numerous photographic plates. Japanese text. 8vo. Original flexible boards in obi and plastic dust-wrapper. A very good copy. 211pp. Tokyo, Asahi Shimbunsha, 1970. £250 During the early 1970s Asahi Newspaper produced a series of politically charged photographic reportages (Shashin hokoku & Shashin kiroku) on the atom-bomb and its after-effects, pollution, unemployment, and other social issues. All of them were produced by staff photographers with a particular interest in the subject. Okinawa had been designated ‘a keystone of the Pacific’ and the 118 military bases on the island left little room for doubt of American commitment. It also gained strategic significance in the Vietnam War. This emotional documentary contrasts life on the bases with life in the villages and towns. The meeting-point between the two tended to be in bars and brothels, and Kurihara records the growing local opposition movements to the bases.

First edition. Numerous photographic plates. Text in Japanese. Folio. Original flexible wrappers (minor wear), a very good copy. 188pp. Tokyo, Heibon-sha, 1964. Together with the first separately printed and enlarged edition: Sachin. First edition. Numerous photographic plates. Text in Japanese. 8vo. Original flexible boards in dust-wrapper and obi, a fine copy. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Shincho-sha, 1994. £350 The present issue of Heibonsha’s ‘Taiyo’ magazine was a special memorial edition on the first anniversary of the magazine. To celebrate the occasion the publishing house inaugurated the ‘Taiyo Prize’ to honour achievements in the field of photography. Araki won the first prize for his ‘Sachin’ series and 25 images are published here for the first time. The prize established Araki as a serious contender in photography circles. It was only thirty years later that he published a more comprehensive selection of the images in book-format. Interestingly, Araki initially submitted a film to the competition together with a selection of prints from stills. The work centres around the boy Hoshino Sachio (Sachin), a feisty loudmouthed kid who Araki identified with. The children clearly relish the situation of being photographed as they pose, play, fight, and jump about with boundless energy against the background of a pre-war apartment block. “The kids are alright” could be the subtitle to these dynamic scenes.

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51 MIKI (Jun). 三木純『サンバ・サンバ・ブラジル』 Sanba, sanba, Burajiru - Samba, Samba, Brasil. First edition. Numerous photographic plates, several in colour. Japanese text with English and Portuguese abstract. Folio. Original decorated boards in (slightly worn) slipcase, a very good copy signed by the photographer on half-title. Together with a separately printed card providing technical data. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Kenkosha, 1967. £450 Miki Jun (1919-1992) was born in Okayama Prefecture. He graduated in economics from Keio University but was not interested in economics and worked as an apprentice to the designer Kamekura Yusaku and the photographer Domon Ken. After the war be became a professional news photographer and in 1949 began working for Life magazine. This is the only large-format photography book Miki Jun published during his lifetime. It is a superb record of Brazil during the 60s. Dark photogravures capture the amazing energy of the people and the optimism of the country. Parts of the new capital of Brazilia had just been built by Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa and their grand architectural vision is documented in a series of impressive black-white images. Kenko-sha’s gravure printing is superb as always.

50 KOJIMA (Ichiro). ISHIKAWA (Tatsuzo), text. 小島一郎『津軽』 Tsugaru. First edition. Numerous photographic plates. Japanese text. Small folio. Original printed boards in cardboard slipcase (bit worn, lacking obi), overall still a very good copy. 81pp. Tokyo, Shinkosha, 1963. £420 Kojima Ichiro was born in 1924 in Aomori city. He was drafted into the army in 1944 and sent to China where he spent a year. Returning to Japan in 1946 he took up photography. He specialised in the countryside around his home-town of Kiso on Tsugaru peninsula (Aomori Pref.), the west side of the very northern tip of Honshu. During the late 50s he held several exhibitions and his work was published in a number of photographic magazines. The present is his first and only publication. He died unexpectedly in 1964 of a heart attack. Although documentary in nature the book has a deep sense of melancholy. Poverty, snow, and a wind-swept sky loom large. With poems by Takagi Kyozo.

52 KAWAUCHI (Rinko). 川内倫子『うたたね』Utatane [A nap]. First edition. Numerous colour photographic plates. Japanese text. Large 8vo. Flexible boards in dust-wrapper and obi, a fine copy. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Little More, 2001. Total price for 3vols: £1,000 Kawauchi Rinko was born in Shiga Pref. in 1972. Having graduated from Seinan’s Women College in 1993 she joined the Osaka Advertising Research Center. Four years later she became a freelance photographer. In 2001 she published three books with Little More which had the subtitle ‘Kawauchi Rinko’s sudden Trilogy’ (川内倫子いきなり三部作). Utatane, Hanabi (Fire-works), and Hanako have a certain female ambience, a gentle careful observation at leisure, a mundane spirit, with subtle, hazy colour - it all adds to the substantially new, and optimistic feeling. She won the 27th Kimura Ihei Prize for the first two titles. ‘Utatane’ is an account of the cycle of birth, life and death: Awakening, childhood, and the four elements (especially fire and water) are the recurring themes of the untitled images. There seems to be a narrative of sorts and some associative connections between the photographs but a sense of magic ambiguity remains. This copy comes with the first issue obi which reads: “A nap means dying” (Utatane - Shindeshimau to iu koto) without which it would be impossible to understand the book. 100

KAWAUCHI (Rinko). 川内倫子『花火』Hanabi [Fireworks]. First edition. Numerous colour photographic plates. Japanese text. 8vo. Original flexible boards in dust-wrapper, a fine copy. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Little More, 2001. In a custom that goes back to the Edo period, Japanese firework displays are usually held at the height of summer. They often take place next to a river for some gentle reprieve from the heat and in order to enjoy the beautiful reflections in the water. People wear traditional light summer yukata and the gentle sound of wooden geta echoes through the streets. Families enjoy the views strolling along the banks of the river, drinking beer, and eating grilled food sold from roadside stands. The Japanese characters for hanabi literally mean ‘flower fire’ and the aspect of a brief ’blossoming’ of the firework is particularly cherished in Japan. Kawauchi captures the atmosphere beautifully and was awarded the 27th Kimura Ihei Prize for this book.

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KAWAUCHI (Rinko). 川内倫子『花子』Hanako. First edition. Numerous photographic plates. Japanese text. 8vo. Original flexible boards with obi, a fine copy. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Little More, 2001. In September 2001 Kawauchi published three books with Little More, which put her on the map with an entirely new style that has found many imitators since. Hanako is a touching story of a handicapped girl and her family, which was also made into a film. The juxtaposition of portraits of the girl and her father together with objects of everyday life is extremely successful: rather than focussing on the suffering, this book shows the positive side of her life, and the beautiful value of her existence.

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