Search Results: Titles starting with M from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

36 pp. Square 4to, pictorial softcover, title on spine. Cologne: Walther König, 1994. "Published as part of the exhibition project The Happy End of Franz Kafka's 'Amerika' at the Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It contains a fictitious job interview for a cigarette test." A fine copy. ❧ Uwe Koch, ed., Annotated Catalogue Raisonné of the books by Martin Kippenberger, 1977-1997 (2003) 130.

Précédée d'un à-propos de l'Auteur. Seven plates, each in three states. 2 p.l., 150 pp., one leaf. Small 4to, orig. printed wrappers bound in cont. morocco, sides panelled in gilt, spine richly gilt, dentelles gilt, a.e.g., signed "Chambolle-Duru." Paris: L. Conquet & L. Carteret, 1902. Number 20 of 100 copies on Japan paper (of a total edition of 400 copies, none for sale); this is one of forty copies with the fine illustrations on seven plates, by Edmond Rudaux, each in three states. Our copy has been beautifully bound by Chambolle-Duru and bears a presentation inscription from the publisher to Maurice Quarré. Paul Lacroix (1806-84), was a French author and journalist, best known by his pseudonym P.L. Jacob or Bibliophile Jacob. Librarian of the Arsenal from 1855, he wrote many works and memoirs on book collectors and bibliography as well as numerous works of fiction. The present work is a charming account of the bouquinistes, the… Read More

Black & white illus. throughout. [32] leaves. 12mo, printed wrappers. New York & Berlin: 1976.<br /> <P> One of 1000 copies printed. A profusely illustrated catalogue for the exhibition organized by René Block at his SoHo gallery for the three artists. Each artist with many pictures of their work, short essay, and exhibition history.<br /> <P> Fine.<br /> <P> ❧ M. Babias, B. Eusterschulte, & S. Rollig, eds., René Block, Ich kenne kein Weekend. Ausstellungsprojekte, Texte und Dokumente seit 1964 (2015), p. 471.

Wood-block printed. 23 folding leaves. Folio (364 x 270 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled & marked), new stitching. [Andong: Privately Printed at] Tosan sŏwŏn [or Dosan seowon], [most likely 1578 or, perhaps, 1638]. First edition, privately printed at the Tosan Academy, the private Confucian academy established in 1574, following Yi's death; this is certainly one of the earliest books to be printed there, if not the first. Yi Hwang (1501-70), also known as Yi T'oegye, was the most influential Neo-Confucian thinker in Chosŏn Korea (his portrait was used on the 1000 won banknote from 1975 to 2007). The academy named in his honor is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Plum blossoms were an old motif in Chinese and Korean literature. Yi had an "ardent love" for plum blossoms as they often began to bloom in the middle of winter. He found them the perfect subject to express the value of endurance and self-cultivation. Yi turned to writing poetry as an escape from the partisan politics… Read More

Engraved vignette on each title (three different vignettes), 37 folding engraved plates, & numerous printed folding tables. 13 vols. 8vo, cont. half-calf & paste-paper boards (light foxing & dampstaining here & there), final six spines decorated in gilt with red & green leather lettering pieces on spines. Dresden: Walther, 1785-99. A complete run of the oldest German periodical concerned with mining, mineralogy, geology, and metallurgy; it was one of the leading journals of its kind and the chief mouthpiece for the teachings of A.G. Werner. The articles contain descriptions of the latest developments in mining machinery, local geologies and mineralogies, accounts of geological expeditions, reviews of recently published books, and several rather interesting historical pieces. Lempe (1757-1801), was professor of mathematics and physics at the Mining Academy at Freiberg and wrote many books on mining and technology. Very good set. Minor wear to a few volumes. From the library of His Serene Highness… Read More

Four folding engraved plates. Four parts in one vol. [all published]. 8vo, cont. half-sheep & paste-paper boards (occasional minor dampstaining, first 40 leaves with two unimportant wormholes in lower outer margin), spine gilt, black leather lettering piece on spine. Leipzig: Roch, 1801. First edition, all published, of this important mineralogical and geological journal; this set comes from the library of the great geologist and mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), professor at the famous Freiberg Bergakademie. According to D.S.B., VI, p. 456, this is the first "special periodical for geology and mineralogy...Despite the recognition it received, it ceased publication on the death of its publisher." Some of the contributors include Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim, Reuss, Vauquelin, Klaproth, Wiedemann, and other notable scientists. This journal offers a remarkable view of the ferment which the fields of geology and mineralogy were undergoing during this period. Apart… Read More

Many black & white illus. Unpaginated. 12mo, printed green softcover. Torino: Galleria Narciso, 1972. Rare exhibition catalogue on Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971); the Museum of Modern Art (NY) is the only North American institution with a copy, according to WorldCat. Essay by Nello Ponente, plates, and exhibition check-list. Near fine. Galleria Narciso Catalogue no. 109.

Illus. throughout (many in color). 96 pp. Oblong 8vo, blue cloth with red lettering. The Hague: The Netherlands Postal and Telecommunications Services, 1986. A playful and scarce mail art catalogue, published by the Dutch postal service; we locate two copies outside of the Netherlands. It begins with a Foreword and essay by famed Dutch designer Paul Hefting, known as "Mr. Stamp." Ulises Carrión's "Mail Art and the Big Monster" is re-published at the end. The original project was initiated by artist Piet Franzen of Haarlem, from page 39: "At the end of 1982 and beginning of 1983 Franzen asked Mail Art artists all over the world to send him their reactions to the celebration of May Day 1983 and to let him know what they planned to do on that day. A number of the hundreds of replies he received to his question are illustrated here as a Mail Art project. The choice of illustrations was governed by the desire for great diversity." The responses of the following artists are reproduced herein: Eduardo… Read More

Many illus. on different color paper stocks. Ca. 150 pp. Thick & oblong 8vo, printed softcover, string-bound. Ein Hod, Israel: Janco-Dada Museum, 1985. Uncommon exhibition catalogue for the "first Israel mail art show." Nearly 600 corrrespondence artists contributed works, all of whom are listed at the end. Many of these pieces are reproduced herein. Text in parallel Hebrew and English. From the preface by director Judith Shen-Dart: "'The mailbox is the museum' - declare the MAIL-ART artists. All the same, this catalogue accompanies an exhibition of their works, all addressed to the Janco-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod. In spite of their desire to taunt bourgeois culture and the gallery museum route, Janco and his Dada friends' merits stand us in good stead. As director of an institution bearing his name and that of the Dada movement I am welcoming almost six hundred artists from all over the world, in whose works the spirit of DADA is still alive." In fine condition. With a manuscript note to one of the… Read More

Illus. throughout (two tipped-in). Unpaginated. Square 4to, pictorial wrappers. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, 1980. An uncommon and richly illustrated exhibition catalogue on mail art. The exhibition traveled to several locations around the US from 1979 to 1980. With contributions by Ray Johnson, Bill Gaglione, Sas Colby, Peter Frank, etc. Near fine. Ownership inscription and stamp to title-page.

Full-bleed color illus. throughout. [25] leaves. 12mo, printed softcover. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2011.<br /> <P> Rare artist's book by Jonathan Monk (b. 1969); from an edition of 500 copies and ten cover color variants. Co-published with Yvon Lambert, the book documents the production of the artist's posters at KRASTS, a small printing company in Riga, Latvia.<br /> <P> As new. WorldCat records just the New York Public Library copy among North American institutions. Please let us know if you have a preference of cover color.

Woodcuts in the text. xxiv, 428 pp.; 2 p.l., 364 pp., one leaf of errata. Two vols. 8vo, orig. paste-paper wrappers (minor wear, some light foxing, minor dampstain to last 20 leaves of Vol. II), uncut, orig. printed labels on spine (chipped). London: W. Phillips, 1827. First edition in French (1st ed.: London, 1827). "This is Faraday's only monograph; it gives a splendid picture of his experimental genius, his ability to turn things to new uses, and also of the laboratory practice of the day...parts of it at least can still be read with profit by a chemist wishing to improve his basic laboratory techniques."-Knight, Natural Science Books in English, p. 141. The valuable notes have been added by the translator Raymond Balthasar Maiseau (1782-1843), who also converted English weights and measures into the metric system. Much of the text was reviewed by Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy (1794-1882). Very good set. &#10087; Neville I, p. 443-"Rare.".

Woodcut printer's vignette on title, two engraved head-pieces, one folding engraved plate with two images (sometimes divided making two plates), & numerous engravings in the text. 4 p.l., 198, [12] pp. 12mo, cont. red polished morocco, triple gilt fillet round sides, gilt fleurons in each corner, spine nicely gilt, arms in gilt of Sébastian Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban on each cover (Olivier, pl. 343), a.e.g. Paris: the Widow of J.B. Coignard & the Son of Coignard, 1693. Second edition (1st ed.: 1689), revised, with considerable additions. This is one of the best contemporary explications of Vauban's "first system" of fortification and siegecraft. Vauban (1633-1707), the foremost military engineer of his age, was equally esteemed for his skill in both designing fortifications and breaking through them. Vauban approved of this work and we find on the final page of the preliminary leaves: "Ce petit Traité de Fortifications ne contient rien qui ne… Read More

One engraved plate depicting chemical apparatus. lxxxviii, 343 pp. 8vo, cont. mottled calf, flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Cuchet, 1784. First edition in French; this was an important work in the chemical classification of minerals. Bergman's Sciagraphia regni mineralis, first published in 1782 in Latin, contains his general reform of nomenclature. "Following Linnaeus, Bergman divided inorganic substances into classes, genera, and species; and, as Linnaeus had done for plants and animals, he defined each class and genus by one word and each species by two. There were four classes: salts (including acids and alkalies as well as neutral salts), earths, metals, and phlogistic materials."-D.S.B., II, p. 7. Mongez (1751-88), has added to his translation extensive notes regarding each substance, citing works of other chemists and mineralogists. Very good copy. Cole 110. Hoover 114. Neville, I, p. 124. Partington, III, pp. 184-85.

20 folding leaves. Small 4to (207 x 188 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled & marked). [Korea: 18th or 19th century]. This manuscript contains biographies of six Chosŏn officials involved in a failed plot to intervene in the royal succession by regicide. That candle burns indoors, to whom has it bidden farewell? While its outside drips with tears, does it not know that its heart burns? I also, my King left a thousand leagues back, I burn inside and I weep. Thus reads, in Richard Rutt's translation, a poem by Yi Kae 李塏 (1417-56), one of the "Six Martyred Subjects" (sayuksin). These were six distinguished scholar-officials who died - by execution or by their own hands - while trying to restore the boy king Tanjong (1441-57) to the throne after his usurpation by his uncle, known to history as King Sejo of Chosŏn. Yi Kae's biography is the second one included in our manuscript, preceded by that of his peer, the Confucian scholar Pak P'aeng-nyŏn 朴彭年 (1417-56).… Read More

19 illus. of lips & 42 illus. of tongues (several in color). Nine folding leaves. 8vo (231 x 170 mm.), orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [Japan]: [mid- to late Edo]. An illustrated manuscript on the pathology of the lips and tongue. Tongue diagnosis has long remained a vital tool used in traditional Chinese medicine both for assessing the current health of a patient and providing a basis for prognosis. It grew in popularity in the late imperial period and was well-established by the 18th century (Oliver Loi-Koe, "Ancient Pulse-Taking, Complexions and the Rise of Tongue Diagnosis in Modern China," in the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, pp. 171-73). Our manuscript shows that it was also practiced in Japan. We give the title found on the upper wrapper and first leaf, but the work actually consists of several sets of illustrations, only the first of which carries the title "Illustrations of Constant Phenomena of the Lips." The remainder are "Jūhachi shin no zu" 十八唇之圖 ["18… Read More

Four vols. & two related vols. Large 8vo (275 190 mm.), orig. patterned wrappers, manuscript labels on upper covers, stitched. Japan: ca. 1911. A fine archive of notes and drawings by Ishimoto, a notable interior decorator and fashion historian in Tokyo. The first volume is devoted to women's court attire and contains 17 highly detailed and fine drawing and paintings, 14 of which are richly colored, of traditional costumes of women of different ranks at court. The artist has included front and back views. These drawings are all executed on graph paper with mica and contain manuscript notes regarding the sources for the illustrations. These drawings were later incorporated into Ishimoto's publication. Tipped-in is a lithographed folding plate - perhaps a proof - with all these images reproduced. There is another lithographed plate depicting the four seasons of color combinations for the attire of the court ladies. The next volume is in three parts: court furniture and boxes belonging to the ladies;… Read More

Ten pages of manuscript illus. in the first vol. plus a number of graphs & tables in the text. 724 folding leaves. Eleven parts in 12 vols. 8vo (265 x 185 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: 1847. The most complete copy known of one of the two Japanese translations of J. N. Calten's Leiddraad bij het Onderrigt de Zee-Artillerie (Dutch eds.: 1832, 1842, and 1847). In the second quarter of the 19th century, Japan had an urgent need to update its artillery and learn more about the artillery of its international adversaries. Artillery had been used in the warfare that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 17th century, but with the advent of peace, such weaponry had been strictly controlled. In the early 19th century, the European powers became more active in the waters around Japan, seeking access to Japanese ports, and several armed encounters with European ships resulted. The shogunal government sponsored the translation of European works on… Read More

61 folding leaves, written in a fine & legible hand, several diagrams in the text. 8vo (255 x 158 mm.), self-wrappers, stitched. Edo: copied in 1809 by "Masatoshi Tada." This fascinating document is a copy of a log book, prepared by the guards and government officials who oversaw the activities of the famous Inner Sakurada Gate, part of Edo Castle. Following the title leaf, we find a table of contents with the following sections: 1. number of guards and officials, their positions and roles; 2. rules and regulations of the gate; 3. hours of duty and changing of the guard; 4. the actual log; and 5. annual events and precessions which take place at this gate. As one studies this manuscript, one becomes aware of the inner workings of the shogun's castle in all its complexity on a nearly daily basis: many names are listed, detailed comings and goings of dignitaries and doctors, rules for the workers, security issues in case of fire or earthquakes, armaments at the ready, lists of gifts and supplies for… Read More

Four brush & black ink drawings in the text. 21 folding leaves. 8vo (237 x 165 mm.), orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers, manuscript title on label on upper cover, new stitching. [Japan]: on final leaf (in trans.): "Copied May 1814 by Toba." An attractive manuscript copy of the first Japanese text on shiitake cultivation, written in 1796; it has remained unpublished. The beginning of our manuscript is entitled "Kyoshin roku" ["Amazing Shiitake Mushroom Knowledge"]. This is followed by "Onkosai mitsuki" ["Sato's Tips on Honey Production"] and "Satsuma imo kono sho narabini tsukuri yo no den" ["On the Health Benefits & Cultivation of Sweet Potatoes"]. The illustrations depict how to dry the mushrooms, along with a wooden beehive box and a sharp utensil to scrape the honey. Sato (1762-1848), was a leading honzo scholar and writer on agricultural matters. He advised a number of fiefdoms throughout Japan on modern agricultural techniques. Fine copy. A bit of worming on outer lower corner of first… Read More