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Published by J. B. Millet Company, Boston, 1898
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated By K. Ogawa (Flower Collotypes), Kozaburo Tamamura (Hand Colored Albumen Photographs) (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Section Ten Only, Volume 10 Of 10, Pages 347-382 + Table Of Contents Only, Uncut Double Pages, Three Large (8 X 10 In) Hand Colored Albumen Pictures, 1 Large Round Color Collotype By K. Ogawa Of Flowers, And 18 Colored Photographs Mounted In The Text. The Four Large Hand Colored Albumen Photographs Are The Great Bell At Choin-In Temple, Kyoto, Tmangwanji Temple At Nikko, Washing Kiminos, And Village Wrecked By Earthquake. #75 Of 100 Copies Of The Imperial Edition, Bound In Olive-Grey Silk With Mounted Title And Decorations In Heavier Silk, Endpapers Are Japanese Paper With Embedded Gilt Squares And Specks. The Boards And Pages Are Bound With Cords. Silk Is Clean But With Some Wear At Edges And Worn Through Along Lower Edge Of Boards And Spine.
Published by J. B. Millet Company, 1904
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. 4 volumes of 5. Missing volume 1. Covers sunned along edges. Owner's name stamped in each volume. Front hinge cracked in volume 2.
Published by J.B. Millet, Boston, 1897
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. ANONYMOUS. Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, Volume 8 (of 10), Boston: J.B. Millet, 1897.Folio, Yedo Edition of 1000 (there were at least 16 different editions), pp. 269-308, plus illustration plates, silk-covered boards with paper label on front, color collotype of a peony by Kazumasa Ogawa as frontispiece, 3 large albumen prints by uncredited photographers. These photos are hand-colored and measure about 10x7.5 inches. The are titled The Nikko Road, Writing a Letter and A Funeral Procession.Imagining Paradise (GEH), p. 322: "This pinnacle of fine book production is one of the most beautifully crafted of all photographically illustrated books. . The albumen photographs were exquisitely hand-colored, a particular forte of the Japanese." Not in The Truthful Lens or Parr & Badger.Condition of this book: Ex-library with rubber stamp on pastedowns. Covers in poor condition with torn silk, boards held in place only by the silk, endpages loose and mostly perished. Clean inside, normal fading to albumen prints. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). One volume of the 10-volume set. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Photography; Japan; 19th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54382. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
Published by J.B. Millet Company, Boston, 1897
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2 folio volumes in limp leather bindings. Bindings and boards are tight but have wear on edges of leather. Floral end papers are not marked. This is all 15 sections issued bound into 2 thick volumes. There are 30 hand colored albumen photos and the colors are still quite strong. Also lovely color flower prints and design examples. Volume one has a small worm hole on the edge of about 10 pages and did see a couple of the french style pages that had been split apart. All in all contents very good with no stains or water damage.
Published by Folio Society, London, 2012
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. 304p, 312p folio. Beautifully illustrated in color, reprinting the 1897-98 first edition in Boston. A fine bright set in red and black cloth each in its own matching slipcase. Tiny nick to the slipcase of volume 1. Limited to 1000 sets this set #832.
Published by J. B. Millet Company, Boston, MA, 1897
First Edition
Hardcover. 1st edition. pp. 382. Folio. Bound in brightly coloured floral brocaded silk, with varying patterns, and paper label to front boards. Bound in the Japanese style. Each of the large volumes contains numerous black-and-white photos, and three delicately-coloured coloured albumen photographs by Tamamura Kozaburo, each with explanatory tissue guard (thirty in total). There are also five collotype flower plates (by K. Ogawa). Condition varies as amongst the volumes. Five are in very good condition; five have a foredge stain affecting extreme outer margin of pages. The binding of volume III is very soiled. All bindings tight. Some albumen photos have lightened. The flower colour plates still quite vivid. This set, the Yedo Edition, is designated no. 482 of only 1,000 issued, and presents a stunning portrayal of Japanese life, customs, cities, and the countryside. The editor of this set, Francis Brinkley (1841-1912), was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College, before moving on to a military career beginning with his accepance at the Royal Military College, Woolwich, where he trained as an artillery officer. After graduation, he was invited by his cousin, then the Governor of Hong Kong, to serve as his aide-de-camp and adjutant. In 1867 he was attached to the British-Japanese Legation and, still being an officer in the Royal Artillery, served as assistant military attache to the Japanese Embassy. In 1871, he resigned his commission and began studying the Japanese language and culture in earnest. Eventually, he married a Japanese woman, with whom he had three children. He also owned and edited the 'Japan Mail' which became the most influential English language newspaper in the far East.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 2012
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus, two volume set, both hardcover in decorated cloth with all edges gilt, and limited no. 842/980. Volume I has a tiny skew to the binding, and a very minor bump to tail of spine, while Volume II has a hint of rubbing, and a touch of shelfwear to cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight, bright, clean, Near Fine two volume set in like slipcases, both of which have a faint hint of shelfwear to corners, while the case for Volume II also has a touch of rubbing to panels. Additional images available upon request.
Published by J.B. Millet, Boston, 1897
Seller: Ironwood Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Ten volumes. The "Orient Edition" was limited to 500 copies, this being No. 367. Bound "Japanese Style" (French fold) and tied with cords; boards covered with fabric. Illustrated with numerous hand-tinted photographs and reproductions of engravings and other art works by Japanese artists. There are small tears and other damages in various places, but not of a degree of severity to detract from the extraordinary quality of this set. The Japan volumes offer a detailed description of the history and culture of Japan. They cover a wide range of topics, including marital and family relations, women in Japan, art and literature, religion, customs and traditions, crime, commerce, and politics. Typical of Meiji era photographs show city views, architecture, historic sites, landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits of Japanese people. Includes an essay on Japanese art by Okakura Kakuzo, a student of Ernest Fenollosa and the first curator of Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Captain Francis Brinkley was a newspaper owner, editor and scholar who resided in Meiji period Japan for over 40 years, where he was the author of numerous books on Japanese culture, art and architecture and an English-Japanese Dictionary. Includes three custom-made boxes for storage. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Heavy item; shipping at actual cost plus 10%. Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested. Condition: Very Good+.
Published by Boston, Mass, J. B. Millet (1897-1898)., 1898
Seller: Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany
First Edition
10 Bände. Folio (41 x 32 cm.). Mit 15 farb. Tafeln (Orchideen und andere Blumen, Collotypes), 30 handkol. Orig.-Photographien (Albuminabzüge, jeweils ca. 25 x 19 cm.), 220 Abb. im Text u. 15 farblithogr. Ornament-Tafeln auf Tonpapier. OHln. mit goldgepr. illustr. Deckelsch. (als Blockbuch gebunden). Heiting/Ryuichi S. 10 f. (Emperer's edition). - "Tokyo edition. Limited to five hundred copies, of which this is copy No. 211". - Die früheste und umfangreichste Buchreihe über Japan mit Orig.-Photographien. - Insgesamt erschienen 7 teils num. Ausgaben. - Die meisten Aufnahmen stammen von dem japanischen Fotopionier Ogawa Kazumasa (auch Ogawa Kazuma oder Ogawa Isshin, 1860-1929), darunter auch die schönen Farbtafeln verschiedener Blumen (die heute noch als Kunstdrucke angeboten werden, vorliegende num. Ausgabe mit 5 zusätzlichen Tafeln), die berühmte Aufnahme des Fuji ("Mount Fuji as seen from Kashiwabara"), japanische Ringer, Frauen bei einer Tee-Zeremonie, "Tatooed Postman" u. a. - Ogawa studierte bereits als 15jähriger bei Yoshiwara Hideo Englisch und ging 1880 nach Tokio um seine Englischkenntnisse zu verbessern. In Yokohama wurde er von Shimooka Renjo, einem der ersten professionellen Fotografen, ausgebildet. 1882 ging er nach Boston, wo er Kurse in Portraitfotografie belegte und bei der Albert Type Company den Lichtdruck kennenlernte. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Japan 1884 eröffnete er in Iidabashi (Kojimachi) ein Fotoatelier, das erste in Tokio. Vier Jahre später gründete er eine Fabrik für Trockenplatten und 1889 Japans erste Druckerei für Lichtdrucke (Ogawa Shashin jo). Ogawa war auch Redakteur bei zwei frühen japanischen Fotozeitschriften, die in seinem Unternehmen im Lichtdruck-Verfahren hergestellt wurden. Außerdem war er Gründungsmitglied der Japan Photographic Society. - "By the end of the 19th century the first photographic publications about Japan by a Japanese photographer were published in Boston and London, though Japan showed little interest in them. Many of the early photographs in these "foreign" publications came from the studio of Ogawa Kazumasa who was also a printer and publisher. He had learned English and the craft of photomechanical printing in Boston. Returning to Japan in 1884, he opened his first studio in Tokyo the next year. At the time, it seems that there were few, if any, Japanese photo publications and most were made for Western consumption. Culturally, Japan was still burdened by its feudal history, which made it suspicious of anything new or Western" (M. Heiting). - 3 Bände mit Abriebstellen am Bezugspapier, Ecken etwas bestoßen, sonst sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: englisch.