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1.Title:     Taizen Shin Doji Orai
author:  Kanenari  Akatsuki and Ryushodo Nishikawa
Pub: Osaka: Akitaya Taemon et al,   Tenpo 8 [1837].
Stitchbound covers in poor condition, content good to fair.
US$ 285/plus post

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2. James Wilson [Oceania] A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean,
performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798 in the Ship Duff
Commanded by Captain James Wilson
London: Chapman 1799. Thick Quarto.
Generally good and clean, only
minor soiling. Engravings, charts, maps.
New endpapers and later boards minor abrasion, chipped atop spine
US$ 1,750/plus post

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Two very attractive watercolors done by the architect-artist Margaret P. Surre,
who would  shortly became the wife of  Iranian art historian-CIA agent Donald Wilber. She has signed each watercolor and dated them 1939. Both images in very good condition.

1. Sheikh's Tomb at Daphne (near Antioch) Syria.  image 18
1/2  inches x 12 1/2 inches.
US$ 250.00/plus post

2. Village House at Daphne (near Antioch) Syria. image 14
1/2 inches x 10  1/2 inches.
US$ 250/plus post
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