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Book of the Week – An Embassy From the East-India Company of the…

20 Monday Jan 2014

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Athanasius Kircher, China, Chinese, East-India Company, engravings, Holland, Jesuit, Johannes Nieuhof, John Ogilby, printers, printing, Wenceslaus Hollar

Nieuhof, An Embassy…, 1669, Cover
Nieuhof, An Embassy…, 1669
Nieuhof, An Embassy…, 1669, p.210-211

An Embassy From the East-India Company of the…
Johannes Nieuhof (1618-1672)
London: Printed by J. Macock for the author, 1669
First printing in English translation

Johann Nieuhof was delegation secretary under ambassadors Pieter de Goyer and Jocab de Keyser for Holland’s mission to China, arriving there in 1656. His book describing his travels in China quickly became a best seller of its day. First published in Leyden in 1665, it was reprinted in Dutch in 1670 and again in 1693. It was translated into French (1665), German (1666) Latin (1668) and English (1669). The English translation was reprinted in 1673.

Nieuhof’s book was richly illustrated with 150 maps and engravings of cities, flora and fauna, and costumes, all based on drawings by Chinese artists. The illustrations provided western Europeans with one of its earliest and most accurate depictions of the exotic Far East. John Ogilby, the English translator, included only about a third of the illustrations for the English edition.

The English artists, including Wenceslaus Hollar, who copied the original engravings, replaced the original artist’s signatures with their own, a standard practice at the time. Ogilby added nearly twenty-five illustrations that were not in the Dutch editions, some of which were copied from the works of Athanasius Kircher, an early Jesuit visitor to China.

Nieuhof included a history of China in the second half of his book, the first full history using Chinese sources to reach European readers. Among Nieuhof’s detailed discussions about what he saw in China, he included printing. He was impressed with the speed of the Chinese printers and compared their technique and the quality of their printing favorably with that of European printers. He wrote “…they print…with so much ease and quickness that one man is able to print 5000 sheets in a day…”

 

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Book of the Week – Organum

13 Monday Jan 2014

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Aristotle, Coimbra, Greek, Nicolas de Gouchy, Organum, Portugal

Aristotle, Organum, 1577
Organum, Sive Logicae Tractationes Omnes
Aristotle
Francofurti, Excudebat A. Wechelus, sibi & T. Guarino, 1577
PA389 O7 1577

Of all the classical Greek scholars, the most influential was Aristotle. He defined for the first time basic fields of inquiry: logic, physics, political science, economics, psychology, rhetoric, and ethics. In the process, Aristotle also established a method of study, based upon deductive reasoning, which profoundly influenced scholarship for nearly two thousand years.

The Organum is a collection of four Aristotelian treatises on inductive and especially deductive reasoning. This edition is a new and corrected version of the famous edition done by the learned French humanist Nicolas de Gouchy (ca. 1520-1572) in Portugal, where he was teaching Greek at Coimbra.

Greek text. Title also in Greek. Widely scattered underscoring or brief neat annotations in an early hand.

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Book of the Week – A Winter Garden

06 Monday Jan 2014

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Alembic Press, etchings, Muriel Mallows

Claire Lawson-Hall, A Winter Garden, 2001, Bird
Claire Lawson-Hall, A Winter Garden, 2001, Flowers
Claire Lawson-Hall, A Winter Garden, 2001, Squirrel

A Winter Garden
Claire Lawson-Hall
Marcham:  Alembic Press, 2001
SB457.6 S383 2001

Written, typeset, printed, and bound by the author. Etchings by Muriel Mallows. Edition of one hundred copies. University of Utah copy is no. 47.

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Book of the Week – Winter Wreath

30 Monday Dec 2013

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Christopher McAfee, Garamond, Leslie Norris, Tryst Press

Leslie Norris, Winter Wreath, 2000, Last Leaves
Leslie Norris, Winter Wreath, 2000, Owl
Leslie Norris, Winter Wreath, 2000, Revealed by Winter

Winter Wreath
Leslie Norris
Provo, UT: Tryst Press, 2000
PR6027 O44 W56 2000

Type is ATF Garamond. Binding by Christopher McAfee. Edition of 140 copies, nos. 1-10 bound by Christopher McAfee. University of Utah copy is no. 4, signed by author and printer.

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Book of the Week – A Christmas Psalm 1935

23 Monday Dec 2013

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Christmas, psalm, San Francisco, William Saroyan


A Christmas Psalm 1935
William Saroyan (1908-1981)
San Francisco, CA: Privately printed for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc. by the Grabhorn Press, 1935
First edition
Z232.5 G7 S37 1935

A keepsake printed for the San Francisco book shop Gelber, Lilienthal, and Saroyan’s second book.

Edition of two hundred copies. University of Utah copy is no. 6, signed by William Saroyan.

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Book of the Week – Scenes from the Winter’s Tale

16 Monday Dec 2013

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Ancient Spanish Ballads, chromolithographs, Henry Warren, Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament, William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Scenes from the Winter’s Tale, 1866, Title
Shakespeare, Scenes from the Winter’s Tale, 1866, Act I Scene II
Shakespeare, Scenes from the Winter’s Tale, 1866, Act IV Scene IV

Scenes from the Winter’s Tale
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
London: Day and Son, 1866
PR2883 S28 1866

This is the first edition of this pictorial retelling of Shakespeare’s stylized play set in ancient Greece. Both text and illustration were designed as a single entity by Owen Jones, united by the use of one color scheme and type of ornament on each two-page spread. The decorative motifs used are derived from historical styles illustrated in Jones’ The Grammar of Ornament. This book is illustrated with forty-eight chromolithographs, illuminated by Owen Jones over figures by Henry Warren. Jones and Warren began their collaboration in 1841 with Ancient Spanish Ballads (1841). The books they worked on together provide an integration of ornament, drawn text, and illustrated figure unique in the history of printing.

Text and facing illustrations are set in broad decorative borders. Bound in publisher’s brown cloth. Front cover is blocked in gold, with elaborate borders in red and purple and central gilt illustration of a flowering plant; the same decoration is repeated in blind on the back cover. Title is gilt on spine, with added decoration. All edges gilt.

Shakespeare is coming! The First Folio will arrive at the City Library in October.

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Book of the Week – Winter Orchard

09 Monday Dec 2013

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California, Carl Dern, Jungle Garden Press, Marie Dern, metal sculpture, Provo, Salt Lake City, Utah, Winter Orchard

Carl and Marie Dern, Winter Orchard, 2005, Box
Carl and Marie Dern, Winter Orchard, 2005, Trees
Carl and Marie Dern, Winter Orchard, 2005, Tree

Winter Orchard
Carl and Marie Dern
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 2005
N7433.4 D444 W5 2005

Carl and Marie Dern were born and raised in Utah, where they met as children. Winter Orchard was their response to the orchards they passed as they drove between Salt Lake City and Provo. Carl and Marie moved to California where Carl, a sculptor, opened a studio and Marie began collaborating with poets and authors and producing fine press books. “Jungle Garden Press” was named after their backyard. Many of its editions, including Winter Orchard, incorporate pieces of metal sculpture by Carl. Designed, printed and bound by Marie,  Winter Orchard includes a tree made of steel, brass, and tin. Box designed by Marie Dern. Edition of sixty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 8, signed by Carl and Marie Dern.

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Book of the Week – Feminist Broadsides

02 Monday Dec 2013

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Alice Paul, Anagram Press, broadsides, Chandler O'Leary, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Jessica Spring, postcards, Springtide Press, women

Feminist Broadsides, 2008, Gwendolyn Brooks
Feminist Broadsides, 2008, Rachel Carson
Feminist Broadsides, 2008, Harriet Tubman

FEMINIST BROADSIDES
Chandler O’Leary
Tacoma, WA: Springtide Press: Anagram Press, 2008-2011

Twelve color postcards reproducing a series of feminist broadsides created by O’Leary and Jessica Spring celebrating women such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Alice Paul and others.

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Book of the Week – To the New Day We Offer Praise and Thanksgiving for This Moment

25 Monday Nov 2013

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Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, Paul Johnson

To Thee I Lift Up My Eyes, 2007, Cover
To Thee I Lift Up My Eyes, 2007, Top
To Thee I Lift Up My Eyes, 2007, Text

To the New Day We Offer Praise and Thanksgiving for This Moment
Paul Johnson
Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England: P. Johnson, 2007
N7443.4 J664 T58 2007

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Book of the Week – Hoc in Libro Nunqua[m] Ante Typis Aeneis in Lucem…

18 Monday Nov 2013

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aphorisms, chart, Greek, Joachim Camerarius, Latin, Matthaeus Guarimbertus, Nuremberg, planets, Ptolemy, stars, Tetrabiblos, Venice, zodiac

Ptolemy, Hoc in Libro, 1535
Ptolemy, Hoc in Libro, 1535
Ptolemy, Hoc in Libro, 1535

Hoc in Libro Nunqua[m] Ante Typis Aeneis in Lucem…
Ptolemy (2nd century)
Nuremberg, Ionnem Petreium, 1535
PA4404 Q3 1535

Editio princips in Greek. This work was first printed in Venice in 1484 in a different translation. The Greek text of Ptolemy’s “Tetrabiblos” (so called because it consists of four books) and that of the “Karpos” (a collection of 100 ‘karpos’ in Greek – astrological aphorisms erroneously attributed to Ptolemy) are followed by the first edition of Joachim Camerarius’ Latin translation of the first two books and of passages from the third and fourth of the Tetrabiblos (there is some disagreement among scholars as to whether these last two are Camerarius’ translations), and by Geovanni Pontano’s Latin version of the Karpos.

Next come seven pages of annotations by Camerarius on the first two books of the Tetrabiblos, Matthaeus Guarimbertus’ complete translation of the third and fourth books of the Tetrabiblos. Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos is considered one of the most important astrological textbooks of antiquity. The Greek text here is well-printed and interspersed with graphic symbols representing the zodiac and the most important planets and stars. A chart explaining these ‘abbreviations’ is at the beginning of the book.

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