The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan by Eiko Ikegami - 1995

Harvard University Press, 1995. hardcover. Good+. //Good. . 6x1x9. GOOD+/GOOD. tan illustrated jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Small closed tears to edges and flaps, shelf wear, book shows light stains and foxing to page edges, lightly warped paper indicates exposure to moisture. No mold detected. Book is well bound, text is clean..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.

Harvard University Press, 1995. Hard Cover. Very good/Good. Jacket is lightly soiled and is lightly bumped at top corners. Small ink stamp at bottom left corner of front end leaf. Inside is otherwise clean and unmarked.

Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0674868080 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1/2 inch closed tear on top front panel. ; 6.75 X 1 X 9.75 inches; 440 pages .

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1995 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 17 x 24.5 cm.; 0.78 Kg.; 428 pages.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the outside text block. Interior as new. Signs of wear on the dust jacket that is now protected with a clearcover.; Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-bureaucrats at the beginning of the Tokugawa era, the samurai held center stage in Japan until their abolishment after the opening up of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1998-03-03. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Firenze, Giuseppe Molini, MDCCCXXIV [1824]. Hard Cover. viii, 489 pages; 15 cm. "The most perfect of pastoral plays" (Wilkins), written and first performed in 1573. This copy is bound in the original paper-covered boards; leather spine, gold tooled. stock#OB104 (dr). VG.

London: Printed by Will Bowyer, MDCCXXXI [1731]. Hard Cover. 8vo; xiv, [4], 240, 245-254 pages, 12 engraved plates, portrait front. (A-Q8, R5). Translated by Theodore Bathurst (d. 1651); published by John Ball. Added title-page in English: The Shepherd's Calendar. English and Latin texts on facing pages. ESTC T135116; Alston III.67; NUC 561: 495. Spenser's English work was first published in 1579 and dedicated to Sir Phillip Sidney; this Latin translation was first published in 1663. Bound in contemporary full calf; spine worn, hinges tender; interior VG. Stock#OB122.

Milano, Dalla Società  de Classici Italiani, 1805  de Classici Italiani, 1805. Hard Cover. Octavo; 419, [1] pages; 22.5 cm. Also includes: L'Andria di Terrenzio; Commedia in Versi; Rime. These are Machiavelli's Italian plays, important for Renaissance literature and still funny. Very good copy, bound in half leather with marbled paper boards by Dragonfly. Bertelli, Machiavelli Bibliography, Secolo XIX: 8.8. Stock#OB323.

Paris, De l'imprimerie des Révolutions de Paris, rue des Marais, 1791. Soft Cover. 1 leaf, 52 p., frontis.; 19.5 cm. "Ce 16 juillet, 1791" at end. This is a much more formally printed account of Louis XIV's flight to Varennes, with an engraved frontispiece showing his carriages halted by a mass of soldiers. One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1042-14. Very Good in marbled paper wrappers.

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company. Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned, tattered, waterstained and soiled, endpapers and boards foxed.. 1958. Facsimile. Hardcover. A facsimile reprint of the William Morris magnum opus, the Kelmscott Chaucer, with the 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Glossary for the modern reader. Off-white embossed cloth. The Kelmscott Chaucer was originally published in 1896, in a limited edition. This facsimile reproduces all the original illustrations, text, borders, and decorations in a slightly smaller size. xx, 554pp. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

A biography of Abraham Lincoln early life and his politics.

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1927, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition 1927 as "newly translated from the Latin of the Elzevir edition of 1633" by Edward Seymour Forster. -- Includes 3 plates (one is title-page of the Elzevir edition) and one folding map (illustrating Busbecq's travels). -- Hardcover, ownership is pencil dated 1927. Condition: very good minus (cloth over thin boards is bumped at corners, some wear spine crown; spine slanted). -- Pages are bright and clean, overall a nice copy of this SCARCE and significant book.

Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1949. Large octavo, pp 338, a very occasional light and discrete pencil note in a margin, otherwise incredibly clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition. RARE - a fine copy. [Macer Floridus is the alleged pseudonym of Odo de Meung, a French cleric and physician who lived during the 11th century and was the presumed author of the herbal poem De Viribus Herbarum (On the properties of plants). The use of "Macer" alludes to the Roman poet, Aemilius Macer (16 B.C.), who authored a poem on remedies for those afflicted with wounds from poisonous serpents. The herbal, commonly referred to as the Macer Floridus, was written in Latin hexameter verse and presented the medicinal uses of plants. The rhyming verse aided doctors and apothecaries in memorizing medicinal recipes and treatments, which made the herbal popular among those who practiced medicine during the Middle Ages. The Macer Floridus is recognized as a signal of revival in botanical… Read More

Printed 20 December 1934. Les Cinq Dernières Journées is the second volume of the famed Brunelleschi illustrated version of the Decameron with their erotic content. Wonderful condition as seen in photos, perfect for a collector or bookseller looking to complete the set. Softcover in very good+ condition.

Binding in full leather with five raised bands on the spine. Cover edges and corners are worn. The hinges are broken but the cords are holding the covers well. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown: "William Charles De Meudon Earl Fitzwilliam." Also, inked letters at top left of pastedown: B: 5: 51 (marked through) E. VI. 5. No title on spine. Gently effaced library ownershp stamps on bottom title page and first text page. Paper clean and unfoxed. 147 pages followed by a 2-page index, and an appendix of 30 pages plus 12 plates illustrating gold coins of the kings of England.