List december 2015

illustr ated works

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An Admired L ady Tr aveller1 bird, isabeLLa LucY (mrs. bishoP)

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account o Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Ise. Two volumes. London 1881. € 400Pp. xxiv, 398; xiv, 383 + adv. 32. With two fronts, one folding coloured map and 40 text illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, printed in black and gold, with some very light wear. Fourth edition. While visiting Japan Isabella travelled exten-sively throughout the country. She went north of Nikko into remoter parts where she was the first European to be seen. Cordier BJ 631. Robinson p. 82.

J igsaw Puz zle M aps 2 “Cartes géographiques”. France about 1860’s. € 1 300

A set of three coloured jizsaw puzzles, laid on wood, arranged on three levels. Depicting the world (“mappemonde” with double hemisphere); Europe; and France with it’s departments. Housed in it’s original “Klein- blue” paper box richly decorated in gilt. Size: 29,8 x 23, 6 cm. Published by Aug. Logerot in Par-is. This kind of educational puzzle maps were popular in France in the 19th century.

Chinoiser ie 3 [Chinese Hand Painted Lacquered Fan]. China early 19th

century. € 2 500Rare Chinese lacquered fan with gouache illustrations, tied to-gether with a silk ribbon, probably made for export. Each side has a hand painted illustration with Chinese figures in a garden scene against a silver background. The upper part of the leaves with mythical animals on one side and with different animals and flow-ers on the other. The guards and sticks have lacquered spotted de-sign in black, gold and red. Size: ca 20 x 33 cm.

Art Nouve au Design4 Documents d’art décoratif. Trente planches en couleuers et en

noire. Paris (ca 1910). € 750Folio. Thirty mounted plates, of which sixteen in colour, on thick card board. As issued loose in original cloth-backed illustrated portfolio with cotton ties. First edition. A collection of various Art Nouveau designs for ceramics, decorative panels, jewellery, furni-ture, silver and ironworks, jewellery, etc made by renowned artists at the time including Roubille, Brandt, Bacard, Daurat, Bacard and Ségaud.

Be autiful Hand Coloured Engr avings5 [ehreNsVÄrd, carL auGust]

Resa til Italien, 1780, 1781, 1782. Skrifven 1782 i Stralsund. Ny uplaga. Stockholm 1819. € 2 9004to. Pp. (vi), 84. With 37 hand coloured plates engraved by Elias Martin. Contemporary half calf, spine ruled in gilt and with red title label, lightly rubbed. Small repair to upper right corner of title. Second illustrated edition. Count Carl August Ehrensvärd was an Admiral of the Fleet but also an art historian, writer, artist and ar-chitect. He travelled throughout Italy to study the landscape, peo-ple, and especially the art and architecture of the classical antiquity. Copy of Baltzar Cronstrand (1794-1876), the founder of the Univer-sity College of Arts Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Lindberg, Swedish books 52.

Love Poems and Silk 6 [FreNch PoetrY With siLk PatterNs]

Amour et Poesie. [Paris about 1830-40’s]. € 4 800A most wonderful calligraphic manuscript of 21 love poems in French. Accompanied with 22 beautiful coloured silk pattern sam-ples mounted within a blue printed border facing the poems. Bound in contemporary French red morocco, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, both covers with wide gilt tooled ornamental border and gilt centre pieces, with presentation initials: “J.S. a E.L.” on upper cover. All the verses are written to a particular person “E.L.”. We believe that they all express an unrequited love. An exquisite and unique piece of art work.

Her s and His7 FuLcher, GeorG WiLLiam

Fulchers’ Ladies’ Memorandum Book and Poetical Miscellany 1873. London 1873. € 42024mo. Pp. 18, almanack (6), memoranda, (82), original poetry 109-180. With engraved front, lithographed title and four lithographed plates. Original red morocco wallet binding with a fold-over flap, rubbed and with two tears, a.g.e. Illustrated by George Washington Brownlow, Oliver Raymond etc.AND: Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1874. Containing a Calender, Cash Account, Diary and Memoranda for Every Day in the Year. Illus-trated by John Tenniel, Charles Keene, L. Sambourne, &c. Lon-don, Punch Office, Fleet Street, 1874. 24mo. Pp. 192. With double page coloured frontispiece, engraved coloured title and 16 plates. Original red diced crimson wallet with a closing flap, somewhat worn and stained, a.g.e.

Hedin’s F ir st Book8 hediN, sVeN

Genom Persien, Mesopotamien och Kaukasien. Reseminnen. Stockholm 1887. € 400Pp. xvi, 461, (3). With two coloured maps, one front portrait and 127 illustrations, many from drawings by the author himself. Pub-lisher’s pictorial cloth, richly gilt. First edition. A journey made by Hedin as a young student to Persia, Mesopotamia and the Cauca-sus in 1885-86. The preface is written by Hedin’s teacher Hermann Vámbéry who claims the illustrations as “the best yet to appear of Persia”. Hess p.19.

With a Rem ark able Provenance 9 hobhouse, sir JohN cameroN

A Journey through Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810. London 1813. € 6 000Thick 4to. Pp. (xix), (1) errata, 1152 + pp. (8) including two facsimile letters, two engraved music plates. With engraved front, two fold-ing engraved maps, 17 hand coloured aquatints (7 double page) and one plan. Partly with some minor foxing. Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked to style with a flat spine elaborated with gilt. First edition. John Cam Hobhouse known as Lord Broughton was a close friend of Lord Byron with whom he made this journey to Albania, Greece and Turkey. These letters include detailed descrip-tions of the sites en route, as well as the travellers’ meetings with various characters including the notorious Ali Pasha of Tepelena. The beautiful hand coloured plates depict costumes, heightened in gold, views and historical sites. Atabey 584. Blackmer 821. Navari Greek Civilization, 330. Cf Abbey Travel 202 (2nd ed.). Provenance:

Mary Hamilton Nisbet (1777-1855), daughter of William Hamilton Nisbet of Dirleton, countess of Elgin in her first marriage to Thom-as Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. She joined Lord Elgin (known for the Elgin’s marbles) to Constantinople when he was appointed ambas-sador to the Ottoman Empire 1799-1803.

Fir st Moomintroll Book10 JaNssoN, toVe

Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen. (The Moomins and the Great Flood). Helsingfors 1945. € 380Pp. 48. Text in Swedish. Illustrated throughout after the author’s watercolours and drawings. Original pictorial wrappers, some mi-nor wear. First edition. This is Tove Jansson’s first book about the Moomins. It is the story about a young Moomintroll, his mother and the little friend Sniff, and their adventurous journey through exotic lands to search for the long lost Moominpapa. Eventually they find him and they settled down in the beautiful Moominval-ley. Her second book titled “Kometjakten” (Comet in Moominland) was revised by Jansson so that it would fit better with the later Moomins books. However, this, her first book was never revised.

Adventures in Far away Afr ic a11 JohNsoN, osa

Four Years in Paradise. Philadelphia 1941. € 850Pp. (ii), (vii), 8-345. With double page illustrated front-title and 74 illustrations. Publisher’s original cloth resembling giraffe hide in colourful pictorial dust jacket, with some minor wear. First edition of Osa Johnson’s second travel book devoted to her and her husband Martin’s adventures into the heart of the elephant country. Uncom-mon in dust jacket. The Johnson’s lived on safari on the Kenyan border with Ethiopia, on the Serengeti plains in Tanzania, and in the Belgian Kongo for some years. They learned to fly, bought an aircraft each, and flew side by side on joy-rides throughout “Para-dise” and produced some of the earliest aerial film of Africa. Rob-inson 50.

A Voyage in the North Se a12 kerGueLeN trÉmarec, YVes-JosePh de

Relation d’un voyage dans la mer du Nord, aux côtes d’Islande, du Groenland, de Ferro, de Schettland, des Orcades & de Norwége; fait en 1767 & 1768. Paris 1771. € 3 0004to. Pp. (vii), (2), 220. As often the leaf with avis and list of plates is missing. With 18 engraved maps and plates. Some staining to the last two leaves. Handsome contemporary marbled calf, gilt, rubbed and part of hinges with small splits. First edition. An account by the French naval officer Kerguelen Trémarec of a voyage in the North Sea visiting the coasts of Iceland, Geenland and Norway. The purpose of the expedition was to “give protection and encour-agement to the cod fishermen on the coast of Iceland, and to pre-serve order among the French fishermen” (Cox). Cox ii, 21. Sabin 37616. Schiötz 527a.

Bon V ivant with Opium inste ad of Wine13 khaY Yam, omar / meiN, WiLL GordoN (Ills.)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. First edition. Singapore ca 1918. € 1 5004to. Lvs (40). Some small watermark to inner margin. Original soft paper boards, title written in gold on upper cover, some staining. The text is taken from Fitzgerald’s first edition and is accompanied with unusual Chinese influenced illustrations made by Will Gor-don Mein. A limited edition of 1000 copies of which this is no. 456. The title presents this as “Lotus Library Publications No. 1” but there were no further publications. Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian poet, renowned astronomer and mathematician. He was mainly known in the West for his Rubaiyat translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859. This is an uncommon edition with the remarkable Chinese influenced drawings that focus on opium instead of wine. Mein was a British artist known in particular for

illustrating works of fairy tale and fantasy. The symbolism and style of the drawings in this work are typical of Mein. Ambrose Potter “The Rubaiyat” no. 173.

French Fa shion 14 La mode illustré journal de la famille. Seven volumes. Paris,

Firmin Didot Freères, 1862-68. € 1 600Folio. A collection of seven volumes of this famous French maga-zine. With 22 coloured engraved plates (several missing) and nu-merous woodcut illustrations throughout the text depicting clothes, accessoires, hairstyles, patterns, etc. Text is complete. Uniformly bound in contemporary quarter cloth on marbled paper boards, somewhat rubbed. The journal was first published in 1859 and be-came one of the most important French magazines at the later half of the 19th century.

Funda mental Work on Ethiopia15 LudoLF (LudoLPh), iob

Historia Æthiopica, sive brevis & succincta descriptio regni habessinorum, ... 1. De natura & indole regionis & incola rum. II. De regimine politico, regum successione &c. III. De statu ecclesiastico, initio & progressureligionis Christianæ & c. IV. De rebus privatis, literatura, æcono-mia, &c. Two volumes in one. Francfurt a. Main 1681 & 1691. € 6 800Folio. Lvs (168); pp. (vi), 30, 632. With titles printed in red and black, three engraved portraits, one engraved folding map, 17 engraved plates and two folding tables. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript on spine, r.e. First edition. A handsome copy of this monumental work on Ethiopia dealing with its history, inhabitants, natural history, language and literature. Job Ludolph, a German born orientalist and linguist, was the founder of Ethiopian studies in Europe. His historical work is mainly based on Jesuit sources but also on first hand informa-tion supplied by an Ethiopian monk, Abba Gregory, whom he met in Rome. The large map by Christian Ludolph is the first published to show the true source of the Blue Nile at lake Tana. It was a landmark in the cartography of the region and for a long time the mapmakers continued to show the source as the two ptolematic lakes Zaire and Zaflan near the equator. Two appendixes were published in 1691 and 1694 respectively (not present here). Brunet iii, 1224. Eberet 12480. Gay 2658.

”Abr ac adabr a”16 The magic Picture Book / Zauber-Bilderbuch / Livre de la

magie graphique. Nürnberg ca 1860. € 700Comprising twenty eight leaves of which 14 double page litho-graphed plates depicting many costumes, animals, flowers, birds etc. and nine double page b/w lithographed plates depict-ing letters, children in various scenes, etc. Three double page blank leaves are included, and one additional plate with char-acters at end. Several leaves are loose. Original colour printed boards with a performing magician, cloth spine, chipped along edges, upper cover has old repair with tape. Instructions in six different languages printed on inner covers.

Signific ant Work on the Ot tom an Empire17 mouradJa (mouradGea) d’ohssoN, iGNatius

Tableau général de l ’empire Othoman, divisé en deux par-ties, dont l ’une comprend la Législation Mahométane; l ’autre, l ’Histoire de l ’Empire Othoman. Dédié au roi de Suede. Two volumes. Paris 1787-1790. € 11 500Large folio. Pp. (vi), xii, 320, (8) with extra engraved title, four tables and 24 engraved plates illustrating 38 figures; pp. (iv), viii, 357 with 41 engraved plates depicting two tables and 95 figures. As often figures 13 and 19 (volume one) are not present because these images were printed later and consequently delivered after the publication of the book. Contemporary half calf, expertly rebacked. First edition of this monumental work on the Ottoman empire printed by the renowned French typographer Pierre-François Didot, and illustrated by the foremost French artists of the time. Mouradja D’Ohsson was an Ottoman Armenian dragoman in the service of the Swedish embassy in Constantino-ple. After his death a third volume was completed by his son in 1820. His work is devoted to the Ottoman history, Muslim practices and contemporary life including information about dress, architecture and cooking. It’s praised because of it’s authencity and the im-ages “naive truth”. The impressive il-lustrations are derived from paintings made in Istanbul, either copies of earlier works (imperial portraits or illuminated manuscripts) or original works. Atabey 846. Blackmer 1164.

E arly Guide to Jerusalem18 NoÈ, biaNchi

Viaggio da Venezia al S. Sepolcro, ed al Monte Sinai. Col disegno delle Città, Castelli, Ville, Chiefe, Monasteri, Isole, Porti, e Fiumi, che sin là si ritrovano. Venezia, ed in Torino, no date (about 1750). € 1 500Small 8vo. Pp. 192. With title printed in red and black and 158 wood cut illustrations. Some minor staining. Contemporary Italian decorated stiff wrappers, worn. A late edition of a very popular Italian travel guide to the Holy Land, first published in the 16th century. It comprises instructions to anyone who wants to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem including advice about what clothes, food and money to bring, what to do in case of seasick-ness, etc. Includes a table “Tavola delli miglia” with distances between different places along the route and Jerusalem. The charming naive woodcuts depict views of places along the route including Venice, Corfu, Modone, Rhodes, Jerusalem, Bethle-hem, Nazareth, Jericho, Damascus,Tunis, Alessandria, Cairo, Babylon etc., and of churches, temples, castles, exotic animals and plants. Cf Blackmer 1206. Röhricht pp. 158-60. See Tobler pp. 63-64.

Paper Produc tion in K agoshim a ( Japan). 19 okamura, kichimura

Hon Takakuma shoshi denbun. Tokyo 1955. € 1 500Tall 8vo. Pp. (32) with illustrations made in the katazome sten-cil dyeing technique on hand made paper. The leaves folded in the oriental manner. Original paper wrappers. Housed in the original cardboard folder. Edition limited to 100 copies, signed by the artist. A charming work about paper production in Takakuma (Kagoshima) with lovely coloured illustrations made in katazome (stencile) technique . Okamura Kichiemon was a pupil of Serizawa Keisuke, a renowned Japanese textile designer who was promoted by the Japanese government for his unique katazome method.

A Monogr aph on Istanbul 20 ÖzkÖk, LÜtFi (Photographer)

[A Dummy with Photographs of Istanbul]. About mid 1960’s. € 1 800A notebook comprising 51 original photographs, pasted in but have loosen over time. The sizes of the photos range from 8 x 11 cm to 18 x 22 cm. The photos are developed by the photographer himself and are well preserved. The dummy is kept in a special-ly made paper covered box. Lütfi Özkök, was born in Istanbul

in 1923, educated in Vienna and Paris and moved to Sweden in 1951. He is a poet and translator but maybe primairly known as an accomplished photographer of Swedish and foreign authors; of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras and Paul Auster to men-tion a few. The sequence of the pictures are as follows: The book starts with photos of historic and religious monuments including photos of Topkapi, Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, etc.; followed by two pictures of cemeteries; “the modern city” with different street scenes, at markets, in the harbour, people at work and the fashionable Hotel Hilton; a small part with “Atatürk politi-cal perspective” with photos of a staty, monument and posters; finally a section with casual motives captioned “A Sunday in Istanbul” depicting a picnic at the beach, boat excursions, etc. Captions in pencil by Özkök on the empty pages or sometimes directly on the pictures. In 1964 Özkök published a monograph on Warsaw, and most likely he was planning a similar work with these photographs of Istanbul. However the project was never realized, probably for economic reasons. An unique piece of documentation of the photographer’s native town in the 1960’s.

Sacrificial R ites in Egypt21 PiGNoria, LaureNtius

Mensa Isiaca, qua sacrorum apud aegyptios ratio & simu-lacra subjectis tabulis aeneis simul exhibentur & explican-tur. AND: Magnae deum matris idaeae & attidis initia. Ex vetustis monumentis nuper Tornaci Nerviorum erutis. Parts I-III. Two works in one volume. Amsterdam 1669-70. € 3 0004to. Pp. (viii), 97, index (11); (viii), 96. With one engraved extra title by A. Blothelingh, 3 engraved vignettes, 11 folding en-graved plates and many illustrations in the text (9 full page). Some marginal staining. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with original spine preserved. Third and best edition of Pigno-ria’s “Mensa Isiaca”, the first notable work of Egyptology (first published as “Vetustissimae tabulae aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum” in 1605). “Mensa Isiaca” or the table of Isis was an elaborated bronze table top discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Isis in Rome in 1525 or 1527 and became one of the most famous Egyptian artefacts known at the time. It is beleived that this bronze table was executed in Rome in the first century A.D. It passed into the possession of Cardinal Bembo, who allowed Pignoria to examine it. Many scholars had different ideas about the function of the “Mensa Isiaca” but Pignoria’s explanation was the simplest and most convincing. He believed that it was a representation of sacrificial ceremonies according to Egyptian rites. The illustrations were done by Aeneas Vico. The second work is Pignoria’s essay on the Great Mother of Gods, first published in 1623. Blackmer 1312. Gay 1567. Ibrahim-Hilmy ii, 119.

Pocket Sundial 22 [A portable diptych dial made in Germany (Nurem-

berg), probably at the end of the 18th century]. € 780A charming pocket sundial with a string gnomon (pointer), ad-justable for accuracy at any latitude. Size: 4 x 65 cm. Internally engraved paper over wood with hand coloured faces, compass bowl under glass. Upper cover with pasted-on engraved list of cities within decorated border, stained and with some loss. In the 16th and 17th centuries sundials, before the reliable watches were invented, were the only way that people could tell the time accurately. The diptych dials are able to tell the time from the position of the sun in the sky.

A L imited Edition23 robie, JeaN-baPtiste

Fragment d’un voyage dans l’Inde et a Ceylon. Two vol-umes. Bruxelles 1883-85. € 1 750Pp. 120; iv, 152, (2). With 25 mounted albumen photographs on card board by Alexandre, of which one is a map of India and 23 are paintings by the author. Original printed wrappers bound in contemporary decorative Indian cloth, rubbed and chipped at extremities. Presentation inscription (second vol.). First edition, limited to 100 copies. Rare diary account of a voyage to Ceylon and India by Jean-Baptiste Robie, a renowned Bel-gian painter of still lives and landscapes. Robie’s voyage went via Suez and Aden to Ceylon where he stayed for a while at Colombo and Kandy. He continued to India where he spent a couple of weeks in the djungle in Uttar Pradesh. He visited Calcutta, Allahabad, Agra, Delhi and the south of India (Ma-dura, Trichinopoly, Tanjore and Madras in Tamil Nadu). The photos depict several famous sites and temples along the route and a few of tiger and leopard hunting. No auction record of this work since 1975!

Silk from K wangtung24 [shuN shiNG ho & tiaN da Lao dieN].

[A collection of Chinese silk thread samples for em-broidery] Kwangtung (Guangdong), beginning of the 20th century. € 1 200A collection of 15 folded envelopes comprising silk threads in various colours. Housed in an old paperboard folder with ties. The name and address of the producers (Shun Shing Ho and Tian Da Lao Dien) are printed on the outer covers. Further it states that the silk is produced by natural colours and washed in clear water. Kwangtong began export of silk already during the Han dynasty and since then silk production has been an impor-tant sector of Kwangtung’s economy.

Ikebana - “giv ing l ife to flower s”25 teshiGaWara, soFu & shiGemori, mirei (Ed.)

A New Selection of Modern Flower Arrangements. [To-kyo 1933]. € 380Oblong 8vo. Comprises a coloured title, pp. (8) + pp. 48 with 60 coloured illustrations + pp. 48 with descriptive text in Japanese and English. Publisher’s paper boards, silk ties. A charming and informative guide to the art of Ikebana. The flower ar-rangements are made by Sofu Teshigawara, the founder of the Sogetsu School, and known for being responsible for having developed Ikebana from being a craft to a form of art. Scarce.

Album with Japanese Paper Sa mples by a Schol ar

26 uemura, rokuro[Japanese title]. Echizen kosenshi fu. (Old papers from Echizen). No place or date, but 20th century. € 2 800Folio (30,4 x 24,7 cm). A collection of beautiful and interest-ing paper samples from the 17th century up to the 20th century from Echizen, part of modern Fukui prefecture. An orihon folding album with the samples mounted on 20 double pages of blue attractive paper on card board with Uemura’s handwrit-ten captions and notes. Bound in cotton and silk brocade and kept in cloth covered box, both handtitled. Uemura Rokuro (1894-?) was one of the most influential scholars of traditional dyeing techniques of both cloth and paper in Japan, and wrote several significant books on the subjects. This album compiled by Uemura comprises many different kinds of paper; plain dyed colours, decorated papers, suminagashi marbling, etc. In lovely condition.

Art Deco Tr ade C atalogue27 [VaNderborGht carPets ]

L’Orient. Bruxelles, G.M. Vanderborght Frères, ca 1925. € 400Three loose leaves as issued in a folded tissue sheet with geo-metric motifs. With text and illustrations printed on recto only. Five small colour text illustrations close in style to the art of Francois-Louis Schmied and one tipped-in plate of an oriental carpet. In publisher’s black paper chemise with striking pochoir design in silver, red and blue on front cover. First and only edi-tion of this very stylish Art Deco trade catalogue promoting the oriental carpet department of Magasins Vanderborght in Brusses. In mint condition.