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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu [Primary Colours of Japanese Art] (30 Volumes)
Terukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1966-1972.A complete set of large format pictorial Japanese encyclopedias on Japanese history, religion, art, culture, architecture, antiquities, and more. Most volumes are first printings, with the occasional reprint. Each volume is dedicated to a different subject. Full list of titles: 1. Genshi bijutsu [Ancient Japanese Art]; 2. Horyuki [Horyu-ji Temple]; 3. Nara no jiin to Tenpyo chokoku [Temples and Sculptures in Nara in the Tenpyo Period]; 4. Shosoin; 5. Mikkyo jiin to Jogan chokoku [Esoteric Buddhism Temples and Jogan Sculptures]; 6. Amidado to Fujiwara chokoku [Amidado and Fujiwara Sculpture]; 7. Butsuga [Buddhist Painting]; 8. Emakimono 9. Chusei jiin to Kamakura chokoku [Medieval Temples and Kamakura Sculpture]; 10. Zendera to sekitei [Zen Temples and Rock Gardens]; 11. Suibokuga [Ink Painting]; 12. Shiro to shoin [Architecture of Castles and Halls]; 13. Shoheiga [Screen Paintings]; 14. Sotatsu to Korin [Japanese Illustrators]; 15. Katsurarikyu to chashitsu [Katsura Imperial Villa and Tea Room]; 16. Jinja to reibyo [Shrines and Mausoleums]; 17. Ukiyoe; 18. Nanga to shaseiga [Japanese Painting]; 19. Togei [Pottery]; 20. Senshoku, shikko, kinko [Dyeing and Weaving, Lacquer work, Metalwork]; 21. Katchu to token [Armour and Swords]; 22. Sho [Calligraphy]; 23. Men to shozo [Portraits]; 24. Fuzokuga to ukiyoeshi [Genre paintings and Ukiyo-e artists]; 25. Nanban Bijutsu to yofuga [Nanban art and Western-style painting]; 26. Kindai no Nihonga [Modern Japanese Painting]; 27. Kindai no yoga [Modern Western Paintings]; 28. Kindai no kenchiku, chokoku, kogei [Modern Architecture, Sculpture, and Crafts]; 29. Shorai bijutsu (kaiga, sho) [Painting and Calligraphy)]; 30. Shorai bijutsu togei [Pottery].
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Anacreonti Quae Tribuuntur Carminum Paraphrasis Elegiaca
J. H. Hoeufft
Dordraci: Peter van Braam, 1795.Poems by Anaccreon (ca. 575-495 BC), a Greek lyric poet who wrote in the Ionic dialect here translated into Latin by J.H. Hoeufft. His works were meant to be sung or recited to lyre music, and included hymns as well as less virtuous drinking and love songs.
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Biographisches Lexikon Hervorragender Artze des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Mit einer Historischen Einleitung
J. Pagel
Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, No date.Biographical Encyclopaedia of Eminent Physicians of the Nineteenth Century: With a Historical Introduction. Originally published in 1901
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Nobuyoshi Araki: A Life in Photography
Nobuyoshi Araki
Kyoto: Seigensha, 2020.Six decades of life as a photographer, in his own words.
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I Llibri De Viaggio e le Guide Della Raccolta Luigi Vittorio Fossati Bellani Catalogo Descrittivo (3 Volumes)
Antonio Pescarzoli
Storrs – Mansfield: Maurizo Martino Publisher, No date.The Travel Books and the Guides of the Luigi Vittorio Fossati Bellani Collection. Originally published 1957.
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Haus der Bucher, Basel: Katalog 636; Katalog 818: Alte Kindebucher und Jugendschriften: Livres de L’Enfance: Children’s Books
Adolf Seebass
Mansfield: Maurizo Martino, No date.Facsimile reprint limited to 200 copies. Originally published in 1954 and 1983. Description of 4,374 children’s books.
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Bibliotheque Carlo de Poortere: Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Rodenbach
Carlo de Poortere
Liege: Vaillant – Carmanne, 1985.Carlo de Poortere (1917 – 2002), son of Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis de Poortere and later co-manager of the family business, was a bibliophile and collector. His library included fine 17th and 18th century bindings, and other works from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. He also collected manuscripts and memorabilia, and it is those that this book documents, by Emile Verhaeren (Belgian Symbolist author, 1855 – 1916, Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian poet and playwright, 1862 – 1949), and Georges Rodenbach (Belgian Symbolist writer and poet, 1855 – 1898). Produced in a limited edition of 350 copies, numbers 1 – 50 printed on Deluxe watermarked Ingres Van Gelder paper; this being one of the deluxe edition, being number 36.
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Cryptogamie Illustree ou Histoire des Familles Naturelles des Plantes Acotyledones d’Europe:Â Famille des Champignons
Casimir Roumeguere
Paris, London, Madrid & New York: J. -B. Baillere & Fils, F. Savy, H. Baillere, C. Bailly-Baillere, and Baillere-Brothers, 1870.Illustrated Cryptogamy or History of the Natural Families of the Acotyledonous Plants of Europe: Coordinated According to the Latest Classifications and Completed by the Most Recent Scientific Researches. Fungi Family. Containing 1,700 figures, representing, at its different ages, the plant in natural size and the anatomy of its organs of vegetation and reproduction, drawn under the microscope. 20 page Index Synonymqie de la famille des Champignons supplement dated 1873 bound in at rear.
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Grzyby (Fungi)
Alina Skirgiello
Warszawa: Panstwow Wydawnictwo Naukow, 1960.The mushroom volume from the Flora Polska.
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Les Associations Fongiques des Hauts-Marais Jurassiens et de Quelques Regions Voisines
Jules Favre
Liestal: Druck Ludin, 1960.The Fungal Associations of the Hauts-Marais Jurassiens and some neighboring regions. Volume X, Fasciule 3 of Materiaux pour la Flore Cryptogamique Suisse.
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Hit-Parade des Champignons: Champignons Sauvages, Champignons & Nature
Serge Hureaux
Paris: Iris, 1974.French guide to wild mushrooms.
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Tutta la Solitudine che Meritate. Viaggio in Islanda
Claudio Giunta; Giovanna Silva
Macerata and Milan: Quodlibet Humboldt, 2013.All the Solitude you Deserve. Trip to Iceland. With text by Claudio Giunta and photographs by Giovanna Silva. This is the story of a trip through Iceland detailing the history, culture, music, and books, illustrated with images of the magnificent landscape.
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Diccionario De Escritores Mexicanos
Aurora M. Ocampo de Gomez; Ernesto Prado Velazquez
Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1967.Dictionary of Mexican Writers.
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Law Dictionary: Thai-English, English – Thai
Thong Withaiwat
[Krung Thè„p]: [Nitibannakan], [2004]. -
Miserable Miracle (La Mescaline)
Henri Michaux
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1956.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, while on mescaline. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy has been finely bound in full leather by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire, with a design based on one of Michaux’s drawings. One of the standard edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is 1,256.
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Teatro Reale Dell’ Opera [Roma]: Il Nuovo Palcoscenico Meccanico
Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli
Milano and Roma: Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1929.Royal Opera Theatre: The New Mechanical Stage. Promotional booklet after the 1926 renovations of the theatre which reopened in 1928.
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Bagh O Bahar: Consisting of Entertaining Tales in the Hindustani Language by Mir Amman of Dihli
Duncan Forbes
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1873.To Which is Added, A Vocabulary of all the Words Occurring in the Work.
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Dikter
Johan Bergman
Goteborg: Wettergren & Kerber, 1894.Poetry by Swedish archeologist and parliamentarian Johan Bergman (1864-1951).
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Archiv fur Kriminologie (Band 130, 1. u. 6 Heft) (3 Volumes)
Hans Gross; Robert Heindel; iWalter Specht; Emil Weinig
Lubeck: Schmidt-Romhild, 1962.The first 6 issues of Volume 130 of the German Archive for Criminology with Special Considerations of Scientific Criminalistics, a monthly journal by Prof. Dr. Hans Gross, Geh. Rat Dr. Robert Heindel, Walter Specht, and Emil Weinig, published by Franz Meinert. A number of graphically illustrated studies of criminal behaviour including the case study Uber Tatowierungsfetichismus by Waldemar Weimann on a type of tattoo fetishism, the subject (himself tattooed and presented nude in two photographs) only being aroused in the presence of tattooed women.
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Priaap Ontknoopt: een tuiltje Nederlandse priapeeen
J. Seurel
Oosterbeek: Bosbespers, 1984.Collection of priapic poetry gathered by J. Seurel.