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“A WORK MORE SPLENDID… IN ITS DECORATIONS WE HAVE SELDOM SEEN”
FORBES, James. Oriental Memoirs. London, 1813. Four volumes. First edition of this splendid richly illustrated work on India, with frontispiece portrait and 93 engraved and lithographed plates, including 28 hand-colored natural history plates. Presentation/association copy inscribed by Forbes on the half title of Volume I to his cousin John Underwood, founder of the first hospital for Indians in Madras: “to John Underwood Esq from his affec. cousin the author.” Magnificently bound for presentation in full elaborately gilt-decorated morocco. $23,000.
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WITH 24 LARGE SPLENDID HAND-COLORED VIEWS OF INDIA
FORREST, Lieutenant-Colonel [Charles Ramus]. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna. London, 1824. First edition of this renowned India color-plate book, with 24 splendidly hand-colored aquatint views after original drawings by Forrest and large folding map showing the Ganges and the Jumna, handsomely bound. $18,000.
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FIRST EDITION OF HARRIS’ 1705 FOLIO COLLECTION OF VOYAGES:
WITH NUMEROUS LARGE MOLL MAPS AND ENGRAVED PLATES
HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. London, 1705. Two volumes. First edition of this early collection of voyages, two tall folio volumes with two engraved frontispieces (each with four portraits), nine large folding or double-page maps by Herman Moll and T. Lamb, and 21 splendid engraved plates, some folding. Includes descriptions of America, the South Seas, the West Indies, the North Pole, Russia, China, Africa, India, etc. $17,500.
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SIGNED BY EIKOH HOSOE
(HOSOE, Eikoh) BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Flowers of Evil. New York, 2006. Signed limited first edition, number 45 of 65 copies signed by photographer Hosoe, translator John Wood and publisher Steven Albaharil. $15,000.
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EARLY JAPANESE TRADE VOLUME, 1708
NISHIKAWA, Joken. Commerce with China and with Barbarian Countries. No place, 1708. Five volumes bound as one. First edition of this early description of Japanese knowledge of the West, illustrated with some of the earliest Japanese images of Indians, the Dutch, Western ships, a map of the known world including the Americas (with California labeled as both an island and part of the continent), and a detailed map of China. $9800.
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BARROW’S VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA, 1806, WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES
BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793. London, 1806. First edition of Barrow’s account of the Macartney Mission to present-day Vietnam, with 18 hand-colored plates, folding map hand-colored in outline, and two hand-colored folding charts. A lovely copy. $9500.
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FINE COLLECTION OF SILK WOVEN FABRIC SAMPLES FROM JAPAN
(COSTUME). Japanese Fabric Samples. No place, circa 1890. Two volumes. A wonderful collection, with 61 accordion-style leaves containing a total of 332 colorful woven silk kimono swatches from Japan, most with gilt thread. $8200.
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BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MID-19TH CENTURY JAPANESE BOOKS,
WITH WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS BY HOKUSAI
TAKAI, Ranzan. Toshisen Ehon. Edo, Japan, circa 1833. 35 volumes. Early editions of this beautifully illustrated set of Chinese T’ang poetry with 10 volumes illustrated by Hokusai. $7800.
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19TH-CENTURY JAPANESE EROTIC BOOK WITH TWELVE COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TOMIOKA EISEN
EISEN, Tomioka. Yakumo no Chigiri. Tokyo, circa 1890. Early printing of this 19th-century Japanese color woodblock print “pillow book,” graphically depicting erotic material, complete with 12 exceptional double-page full-color woodblock prints (each 13 by 9-1/2 inches) by celebrated Meiji era artist Tomioka Eisen. $7800.
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LIMITED EDITION SET OF BRINKLEY’S
ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON JAPAN AND CHINA
BRINKLEY, Capt. Frank. Oriental Series. Japan and China. Boston and Tokyo, 1901-02. Twelve volumes. Okuma edition, number 67 of only 100 sets, of Brinkley’s comprehensive and finely illustrated studies of Chinese and Japanese art, history and culture, with 12 handpainted silk watercolor frontispieces, 13 woodblock prints, 7 watercolor paintings of Japanese birds, and richly illustrated with more than 200 full-page plates, including photogravures (many tinted and color-finished by hand), and color-printed plates. $7500.
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