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SET OF 8 BOOKS AND 10 AUCTION CATALOGUES ON JAPANESE BOOKS:
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SET OF 8 BOOKS AND 10 AUCTION CATALOGUES ON JAPANESE BOOKS:
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
SET OF 8 BOOKS AND 10 AUCTION CATALOGUES ON JAPANESE BOOKS:
- THE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE NANGA, MARUYAMA, SHIJO and Other Related Schools of Japan, A Biobibliography, by C.H. Mitchell, Los Angeles, Dawson’s Bookshop, 1972, 623 pp.
In two parts: the first provides an alphabetical list of artists with brief biographies; the second is an alphabetical list of the artists’ works, with a few black-and-white illustrations. (Hardback, blue cover, no dust jacket);
- Louise Norton Brown, BLOCK PRINTING AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION IN JAPAN,
Minkoff Reprints, Geneva, 1973 (reprint of the London edition, 1924), hardback;
- Jack Hillier & Lawrence Smith, JAPANESE PRINTS, 300 years of albums and books, British Museum Publications, 1980;
- JAPANISCHE BUCHILLUSTRATION 1850–1985, Unbekannte Illustrationsgraphik seit Japans Öffnung zum Westen, by Gottheiner, Klaus and Ulrich v. Kritter, eds, Göttingen, 1996 (in German);
- NIHON SHUPPAN BUNKA FUMINOBU, “The Cultural History of Books and Publishing in Japan”, Catalogue of the exhibition in Kyoto, 1996, (in Japanese);
- THE ASAMI LIBRARY, A Descriptive Catalogue, by Chaoying Fang, ed. Elizabeth Huff, University of California Press, 1969; the Asami Library, acquired in Japan by the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950, comprises over 900 titles of KOREAN WORKS, including books, manuscripts and woodblock prints (without dust jackets);
- JAPANESE STUDIES, British Library Occasional Papers, 11, Papers presented at a colloquium at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, September 1988. Edited by Yu-Ying Brown, The British Library, 1990;
- KÔBUNSÔ KOKATSUJI-BAN MOKUROKU, S. Sorimachi, Tokyo, 1972, ‘Catalogue of Old Movable Type Printed Books of the Kôbunso’, published to mark the company’s 40th anniversary (hardback, red cloth binding). Note: Shigeo Sorimachi was a bookseller, director of Kôbunsô, and a specialist in the history of the book;
- ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FROM JAPAN from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a short catalogue for a public auction at the Hôtel Drouot, 17 and 18 May 1956, by Maître R.-G. Laurin, with Marianne Densmore as expert;
- CATALOGUE OF THE DE ROOS COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, Sotheby’s, London, 17 May 1972 (auction catalogue);
- FINE JAPANESE PRINTS, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND PAINTINGS, Sotheby’s London auction, 28 October 1981 (damaged);
- ISSEIDÔ KOSHO MOKUROKU DAI, A Catalogue of the Isseidô, sales catalogue of antiquarian books from the Isseido bookshop in Tokyo: 2 issues, no. 63, 1986, no. 66, 1988;
- Lella & Gianni Morra, 50 LIBRI GIAPPONESI di motivi decorativi per le arti applicate, catalogue 10, 2009 (Venice gallery specialising in illustrated Japanese books);
- BUNSHA NO KAI KOSHO IPPIN MOKUROKU, Catalogue of rare books from the Bunsha Society, 1976 (in Japanese);
- BEAUX LIVRES JAPONAIS from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Galerie Huguette Berès (undated);
- JEAN BLONDELET’S SINO-JAPANESE LIBRARY, Tajan auction of 23 October 2001, valuer: Bernard Clavreuil;
- TOKYO KOTEN KAI, catalogue of a sale of classical Japanese books, by the Tokyo Koten Kai, 1978 (in Japanese).
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About the sale
THE BERNARD ROUSSEAU COLLECTION – DRAWINGS BY HOKUSAI, PAINTINGS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA
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10/22/2026 at 3:30 PM
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