41. [CHINA - ART]. EROTIC ART OF CHINA: A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF CHINESE PRINTS AND POEMS DEVOTED TO THE ART OF LOVE. New York: Crown Publishers (1977). 160 pp. 4to., quarter green cloth with white paper covered boards stamped in silver, silver spine lettering. Fine in a very good white/color pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped, with minor soil/rubbing. Color reproductions. Ming era erotic prints.

$30.00

42. CHINESE PAINTING ALBUM. TWELVE PITH PAINTINGS OF THE MARTIAL ARTS. n.p., n.d. [c. mid-19th Century, South China?.] 12 colorful, well-executed paintings on pith of soldiers engaged in mock battle and martial exercise. In red silk brocade covered boards, oblong 24.7 X 36.9 cm The extremely fragile covers and paintings have been stabilized. Unusually nice condition, unusual subject matter.

SOLD

43. [Chinese Woodcuts, Peking Jung Pao Chai] SHIH CHU CHAI CHIEN P’U Fei An T’i. Peking: Peking Jung Pao Chai, 1982 [3rd printing] of this set of four volumes (each 31 x 21.3 cm) of the “TEN BAMBOO HALL”. This edition was first published in 1971. The TEN BAMBOO STUDIO, of course, dates back to the late Ming period in the 17th century and is one of the earliest classics of color woodlock printing in the world. Each of the four volumes is string-bound Chinese style with paper labels and all are enclosed in a clasped brocade-covered folding box. The hundreds (267) of color woodcut facsimiles are well printed, but in truth represent an aesthetic which is more self referential to the past work of the Peking Jung Pao Chai, the finest color printer in China in the twentieth century, than it is faithful to the technique or the spirit of the Ming original. Despite that, it is a remarkable and lovely work printed in gauffrage and colors. Fine, complete as issued:

$975.00

44. CHISOLM, Lawrence W. FENOLLOSA: THE FAR EAST IN AMERICAN CULTURE. Yale Publications in American Studies No. 8. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. First edition, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf. 297 pp. 8vo., yellow cloth stamped in black. Fine in a very good yellow and black dust jacket with minor rubbing and edgewear. B/w photo reproductions.

$175.00

45. CLARK, Timothy. DEMON OF PAINTING: THE ART OF KAWANABE KYOSAI. (London): British Museum Press (1993). Published to accompany a British Museum exhibition, 1993-1994. 192 pp. 4to., color pictorial wrappers. 112 color and 160 b/w reproductions. Fine.

$425.00

46. [COLOR] WADA Sanzô. HAISHOKU SÔKAN [COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO COLOR SCHEMES] Tokyo: Hakubi-sha, Shôwa 8 [1933]. 6 orihon folding albums in blue cloth covers, 19.7 x 13 cm, gilt titling, all in a clasped folding case. Hundreds of ingenious juxtapositions of woodblock printed colors in this color manual by Wada, who would later go on to considerable success as a printmaker after the war. Fine condition.

SOLD

48. COOMARASWAMY, Ananda K. CATALOGUE OF THE INDIAN COLLECTIONS IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, PARTS I & II (TWO VOLUMES). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1923. 54 pp./150 pp. + 86 b/w plates. 4to., brown clothspines with printed paper spine labels, brown paper covered boards. Corners bumped/worn, library labels removed from spines (no other library markings). Slight soil to boards. Pencil ownership to front flyleaves. Plates in excellent condition.

$185.00

49. COOMARASWAMY, Ananda K. HISTORY OF INDIAN AND INDONESIAN ART. London: Edward Goldston; Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann; New York: E. Weyhe, 1927. 295 pp. + 128 plates in b/w. 4to., green cloth stamped in gilt. Good. Spine splitting at joints. Occasional light thumbing in the text. Plates at front and rear have some foxing. Maps in the text.

$85.00

50. [COSTUME DESIGNS - NOH THEATER] NOH-KA GABI. Tokyo & Kyoto: Unsôdô, n.d. [Shôwa 9, 1934]. Large brocade covered wooden box of 102 (of 100 - there are 2 extra plates not called for in the contents pages) plates of Noh costumes, patterns, masks, etc. An impressive mixture of printing techniques - color woodcut, offset, color collotype and various hybrids thereof. Sheet size: 29 x 37 cm. One of the wonderful folios for which Unsôdô was famous between the wars. Very good, complete, very unusual, text in Japanese.

$3,500.00

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