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Aertbeeyinge tot Jedo [Earthquake in Edo (Japan)]. Copper engraving, 1725.

By: Aa, Pieter van der

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Leyden, Aa, Pieter van der: 1725

Seller ID: k201019c

Condition: Very Good

Copper engraving. B/w. Overall size approx 19-1/4”x15-1/4”; image size 12-1/2”x9”. An earthquake and erupting volcano in Japan ("Jedo"). A temple falls in ruins while men and women lament in the foreground and are drowned in the raging flood. ##### This print is from the scarce 'La Galerie Agreable du Monde (...). Tome premier des Indes Orientales.', published by Pieter van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725; reworked from an original plate first published by Arnoldus Montanus in1669. ##### Condition: Very good; a clean and crisp image with wide margins.
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Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads, and other Verses

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $250.00

Publisher: NY, U.S. Book Company: 1890

Seller ID: c17092203

Condition: Very Good

12mo, Maroon cloth, beveled edges, gilt titles and top. Scarce first state with 'Lovell' on the backstrip and the copyright notice on verso of title page. Later issues generally have the backstrip blank; some have Lovell Coryell. Some have Lovell Coryell on the title page and some have no date on verso. This is the first American edition of the Ditties and first edition altogether of seventeen Barrack Room Ballads, including such famous poems as Gunga Din, Fuzzy Wuzzy, and Mandalay. Very good; minor edge and corner wear; a few small blemishes on front cover appear to be pencil erasure; light...
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Category: Japan, China, India, Asia

Aertbeeyinge tot Jedo [Earthquake in Edo (Japan)]. Copper engraving, 1725.

Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads, and other Verses