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Verlag: INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED, 2018
ISBN 10: 1724192574ISBN 13: 9781724192578
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Zultsbakh (Sulzbach, Oberpfalz), Zalman ben Aharon, "cum Licentia, Serenissimi Domini Electoris Palatini, qua Tutoris, & Administratoris Ducatus Solisbacensis" (um 1750)., 1750
Anbieter: NORDDEUTSCHES ANTIQUARIAT, Rostock, Deutschland
Gross-8° (ca. 21 x 17 cm). 232 Bll. mit Abbildungen der Tierkreiszeichen. Original-Ledereinband auf Holzdeckeln mit einer von zwei Lederschliessen. Blätter fleckig u. teils stark abgegriffen. Einige geknickte Ecken, wenige Notizen von alter Hand. Heftung teils stark gelockert, teils mit Wurmspuren, diese auch am Einband. Vorsätze stark fleckig u. mit kleinen Rostspuren von den Schliessen. Einband abgegriffen u. berieben. Rücken mit Einrissen u. kleinen Fehlstellen. Entspricht dem Exemplar der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, Signatur: A.hebr. 984 b-2, VD18: 80392601, OCLC: 165420621 (Erscheinungsjahr nach einem Chronogramm: 1735 = 495 [jüd. Zeit]) - Versandkosten innerhalb Deutschlands EUR 5,00 (versicherter Versand).
Verlag: Tsevi Hirsh and his son Avraham Segal Shpits, Offenbach [Germany], 1803
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
Woodcut vignette on title page. 1 vols. 8vo. Hebrew Prayer Book for Sukkot. A rare German edition of prayers for Sukkot, with Hebrew commentary and German translation in Hebrew characters. OCLC locates only two copies in the States, both in the Library of Congress, both bearing "the book stamp of Offenbach Archival Depot and were acquired by the Library of Congress through a federal transfer in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. They were added to the collection on Sept. 5, 1950." OCLC: 50570239 Contemporary sheep. Small chips from head and foot of spine, slight scuffing Woodcut vignette on title page. 1 vols. 8vo.
Verlag: [c.1870], 1870
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
An attractive, delicate, and understandably scarce Japanese fan depicting the popular scientific myth of James Watt timing the condensation of steam from a boiling kettle, the Japanese caption reading "an illustration of Mr. Watt, born in Scotland, conceiving the idea of the steam engine". We have been unable to locate any comparable fans either institutionally or in commerce, making this a notable survival. Although the event is alleged to have occurred in Watt's childhood in Scotland, here he is presented working in Japan as a contemporarily dressed adult, the scene through the window featuring a traditional Japanese sailing boat. This work appeared at a time of intense "westernisation" in Japan, a key feature of which was the proliferation of images of Western scientists in a traditional Japanese style. "This was a time when Japan was opened up to Western science and technology, and evidently to its mythologies also" (Miller, p. 19). These images were produced with the purpose of encouraging young Japanese students to take up the mantle of those depicted and were often issued directly by the Japanese Ministry of Education (Insley, p. 39). The prints had a second purpose of encouraging persistence in the face of adversity, either personal - for example a woodcut print issued by the Ministry includes Watt's aunt discouraging him "from his nonsense", or financial, the Preface to Accounts of Invention [Hatsumei Kiji] (1872), a popular text account of Watt amongst others, stating that "it is said that the Western inventors Watt, Arkwright and Stephenson were all initially poor, but they paid no mind to this and in the end their reputation has carried on through the ages" (Meade, p. 80). Helen Hardacre, New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (1997); Jane Insley, "Picturing James Watt", in The British Art Journal (2011); Ruselle Meade, "Popular Science and Personal Endeavor in Early-Meiji Japan: The Case of Hatsumei Kiji" in Historia Scientiarum (2017); D. P. Miller, James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age (2009). Single concertinaed leaf of fan paper (430 x 125 mm). Framed and glazed. Water-colour illustration, two red stamps, and black text to front. Stamp of sailing ship in black to reverse. Framed size: 287 x 523 mm. Remarkably well-preserved, minor nicks to edges; overall near-fine condition.