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Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan

Takahashi, Seiichiro · 1976

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

New York, Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1976. Later printing. Paper-covered boards. 176 pp. Illus. with 177 b/w reproductions and color plates (1 folding). 8vo. Volume 22, The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art. Richard Stanley-Baker, trans. Includes a folding chart on the making of Uk...

The Prints of Japan

Turk, Frank A. · 1966

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, October House Inc. 1966. First edition. Paper-covered boards. 339 pp. Illus. with 24 b/w reproductions + drawings. Sm. 4to. A very good clean crisp copy with a small tear at head of spine in a good- dust jacket with several large chips along top edge.

Yokohama. Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan

Yonemura, Ann · 1990

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1990. First edition. Cloth. 198 pp. Illus. with 85 color plates, 15 b/w figures and additional color and b/w reproductions. Folio. Publisher's errata laid in of missing image. Bibliography. Chronology. List of artists. An important con...

Life and Customs of Edo As Portrayed in Woodblock Prints of the 17th Through 19th Centuries

Pratt Graphics Center and the Ukiyo-e Society of America · 1978

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

New York, Pratt Graphics Center and the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. 1978. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Unpaged [64 pp]. Illus. with 107 b/w reproductions. 4to. An exhibit at the Pratt Graphics Center Gallery in New York in 1978. A very good copy with sunning to ...

The Edo Culture in Japanese Prints. October 19-November 26, 1972

Lee, George, et al. · 1972

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

[New Haven], Yale Univ. Press, 1972. First edition. Stiff paper wrappers. 46 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 4to. An exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery. A very good lightly rubbed copy.

Bibliotheca Japonica. Dictionnaire Bibliographique Des Ouvrages Relatifs a L'Empire Japonais Ranges Par Ordre Chronologique Jusqu'a 1870 Suivi D'Un Appendice Renfermant la Liste Alphabetique Des Principaux Ouvrages Parus de 1870 a 1912

Cordier, Henri · 1912

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Staten Island, Maurzio Martino, n.d. Reprint. Cloth. xii, 715 pp. + index [23 pp]. 8vo. Reprint of the 1912 edition limited to 100 copies. An annotated list of 3500 works in Western languages. The standard reference. A fine copy. As new. No dust jacket as issued.

An Exhibition of Masterpieces of Ukiyo-E by the Japan Ukiyo-E Society at Shirokiya, Nihonbashi, Tokyo April 5-10, 1963. Ukiyo-E Art, Number Three. 1963

Japan Ukiyo-E Society. Lane, Richard, English Language ed · 1963

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Tokyo, Japan Ukiyo-E Society, 1963. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. 30, 52, 98 pp. Illus. with 6 color plates + 321 b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Shigeo Miyao, ed. Errata slip tipped in. Catalogue of 321 prints in English and Japanese. 8 pages of ads. Glossary. Chip a...

Japanese Prints of the Primitive Period in the Collection of Louis V. Ledoux Catalogued by the Owner

Ledoux, Louis V. (Vernon) · 1942

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

New York, E. Weyhe, 1942. First edition. Cloth. Unpaged. [186 pp]. Illus. with 20 color & 30 halftone plates. Folio. One of 1000 copies. Volume One of what would become five volumes. "Superb catalogues of one of the great collections of Japanese prints, now dispersed. Written ...

Japanese Colour-Prints and the Subjects They Illustrate. A Guide for the Collector & Student, with Description of the Subjects Illustrated in Landscape, Drama, Story and Portraiture

Stewart, Basil · 1920

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth. xvi, 335, [1] pp. Illus. with 46 plates (6 color). 4to. A classic which was enlarged and reprinted two years later. Arntzen N165 (citing 1922 ed). Spine ends and corners worn else a very good copy.

A Closed and Floating World. Japan Before Perry. May 31-June 21, 1975. Organized with Huguette Beres, Paris

Beres, Huguette. Findlay, H. Peter · 1975

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, H. Peter Findlay, 1975. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Unpaged [100 pp.]. Illus. with b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Wendy Findlay, intro. Detailed descriptions of 88 prints from Harunobu to Hiroshige. Bibliography. Glossary. Biographies. A fine copy.

Hiroshige (L'Art Au Japon)

Noguchi, Yone · 1926

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Paris, G. Van Oest, 1926. First French edition. Stiff paper wrappers. 46 pp. Illus. with 19 heliogravure plates. Sm. 4to. Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire. Most of spine perished, text leaves foxed, plates clean and bright.

Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print. Including an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-E

Lane, Richard · 1978

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.54 | ¥12,776)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First edition. Cloth. 364 pp. Illus. with 900+ color & b/w photos. 4to. An excellent and thorough reference that provides an "extensive history of the development of ukiyo-e in its sociological context and of the lives of its masters, with ...

Les Estampes Japonaises

Seidlitz, W. de [Woldemar von] · 1911

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1911. First French edition. Cloth. viii, 272 pp. Illus. with 16 color and 133 b/w gravures. Sm. 4to. P. Andre Lemoisne, intro. Originally published as Geschichte des Japanishchen Farbenholzschnitts (Dresden, G. Kuhtmann, 1897) by Seidlitz (185...

Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan

Brown, Louise Norton · 1924

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

London / New York, G. Routledge & Sons / E.P. Dutton & Co. 1924. First edition. Cloth. xiii, 261, [1]. pp. Illus. with 43 plates (18 in colour). Folio (39 cm). From the library of Karl Kup, former Curator of the Spencer Collection and keeper of prints, New York Public Library,...

Journal Asiatique. Recueil de Memoires Et de Notices Relatifs Aux Etudes Orientales. Dixieme Serie, Tome XIX. No. 2 - Mars-Avril 1912

Societe Asiatique · 1912

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1912. First edition. Paper wrappers. [243- 428 pp.]. 8vo. Articles include: Prolegomenes a l'etude des historiens arabes par Khalil ibn Aibak As-Safadi, publies et traduits d'apres les manuscrits de Paris et de Vienne, by M. Emile Amar (suite & fin); Une ...

Notes de Bibliographie Jaina," [in] Journal Asiatique. Recueil de Memoires. Dixieme Serie, Tome XIV. No. 1. Juillet-Aout 1909

Guerinot, Armand Albert. Societe Asiatique · 1909

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1909. First edition. Paper wrappers. 206 pp. 8vo. Guerinot's piece is a 100 page supplement to his 1906 "Essai de Bibliographie Jaina." Other articles include: Quatre inscriptions du Yun-nan (Mission du commandant d'Ollone) (M. Edouard Chavannes); Un cont...

Circular[S]: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Minnesota. 1885-1922 [Four Volumes]

[Civil War] Minnesota Commandery · 1922

$1,200.00 (€1,088.72 | £908.15 | ¥191,647)

[St. Paul], [Commandery of the State of Minnesota], 1922. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, begun in Philadelphia in 1865, was modeled on the Society of the Cincinnati, and formed to protect the republic amid rumors of a pl...

Dictionary of American Biography [Twenty-Three Volumes]

Johnson, Allen, ed · 1958

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. Full red cloth stamped in gilt. Sm. 4to. Includes original twenty volumes, plus two supplements, plus index volume. A massive undertaking of the American Council of Learned Societies and an irreplaceable reference with many references n...

Address of Brig. -Gen. E.W. Gantt, C.S. A.

Gantt, E. W. [Edward W.] · 1863

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

n.p. [Philadelphia?], n.p. 1863. Cloth. 29, [1] pp. 8vo. "Gantt, formerly a member of the Confederate Congress and a General in the Southern Army, herein gives the reasons for his renunciation of the cause and of his acceptance and advocacy of Northern domination. The General’...

List of Persons, Residents of the State of Wisconsin, Reported As Deserters from the Military or Naval Service of the United States

Wisconsin. Secretary of the State. (Thomas S. Allen) · 1867

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

Madison, Atwood & Rublee, State Printers, 1867. First edition. Rebound in maroon buckram with front wrapper laid on. 208 pp. 8vo. Lacking the last four leaves. Scarce Checklist of Wisconsin Imprints 521. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Le...