19. [BIRD AND FLOWER]. TAISEI KACHOU GAFU. 29.3 X 23.9 cm. Beautifully bound as an orihon folding album into the original brocade covers with title label... This WESTERN BIRD AND FLOWER ALBUM has 12 lovely full color woodblock prints of naturalistically rendered birds in nature. Wonderfully well printed.... We have..... More
1735. Tachibana MORIKUNI, artist. Wakan Shinzu FUSO GAFU 5 volumes. 26.2 x 18.5 cm. Edo, Kyoto and Osaka. Kyoho 20 [1735]. Morikuni was a remarkably adept illustrator and this set includes many wonderful works depicting scenes from East Asian history, both legendary and historical. Often double page, they have a...... More
1847. [MEISHOKI] Akatsuki KANENARI; Urakawa KOUSA KONPIRA SANKEI MEISHO ZUE. 6 vols. 25.4 x 18.1 cm. The colophon is dated Kouka 4 [1847]. This lovely meishoki was composed by Akenari, a painter and illustrator of considerable reputation, as was Urakawa Kosa. The Konpira shrine complex on the island of Shikoku..... More
1797. [EHON] Yosa BUSON 与謝蕪村, author; Matsumura GOSHUN松村呉春 [GEKKEI 月渓 ], artist. SHIN HANATSUMI新花摘み. Published In Osaka, c. 1798. 25.7 x 18.4 cm. One volume, complete. Here, Goshun, one of Buson's most illustrious students, has illustrated a collection of wonderful haikai and diary notes by Buson from a humorous work..... More
1816. NICHOLSON, William. AMERICAN EDITION OF THE BRITISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprisingan accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowledge. Illustrated with upwards of 160 elegant engravings. Vol. I.[-VII.] Philadelphia: Published by Samuel A. Mitchell & Horace Ames. W. Brown, Printer, Church..... More
FE. SMYTH, William. LECTURES ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. In Three Volumes. London: William Pickering, 1840. First edition. 3 vols., 8vo, half black calf gilt, marbled boards and edges. Some rubbing; modern book-plates, labels chipped. Near fine. More
FE. SMYTH, William. LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY. In Two Volumes. London: William Pickering, 1840. First edition. 2 vols., 8vo, in half black calf gilt, marbled boards and edges. Some mild rubbing, modern book-plates; labels chipped, otherwise very good copies. More
1794. BLACKSTONE, Sir William. COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. IN FOUR BOOKS. Dublin: Printed for L. White, William Jones, and John Rice, 1794. 12th edition, with additions by John Williams. var. pp. 12mo., full calf with gilt red and black morocco spine labels. Calf worn, a few cracked joints..... More
1897. BRINKLEY, Cpt. F. (Editor). JAPAN, DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE. Boston: (1897). The original 15 parts in folio wrappers, complete. Each volume has a photo illustration of flowers, a stencil reproduction and two genre photographs, so there are 15 total flower photos, 30 genre photos and 15 stencil..... More
1806. [EHON] Yamaguchi SOKEN. SOKEN GAFU Sôka no Bu. 3 volumes, complete. Medium grey paper covers with original printed title labels. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 26.2 x 19.0 cm. Bunka 3 [1806] Illustrated in b+w and grey woodcut throughout. This is perhaps Sôken's most successful ehon - illustrating a series of..... More
1909. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 42 [1909]. Volume one of three. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time, this exquisite suite of double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous..... More
1928. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 7 #9 August 1928.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1936. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 15 #13 November 1936.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1935. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 14 #7 June 1935.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1928. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 7 #3 March 1928.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1928. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 7 #1 January 1928.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1902. Furuya Ko^rin, editor. SHINBIJUTSUKAI 7 volumes.... Kyoto & Tokyo, Unso^do^... 23.9 x 16.2 cm. The complete inventory of design prints from the run of this important design magazine, edited by Furuya Ko^rin, one of the finest artists of the Kyoto Design Revival of late Meiji. He and many others..... More
1964. [JAPANESE PAPERMAKING] GOTO Seikichiro. KAMI NO TABI. Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha. Showa 39 [1964]. Large oblong folio in washi covers, 33.5 x 44.3 cm. #196 of 300cc. Illustrated beautifully in katazome throughout. The illustrations as well as the text are by Goto, a fine artist as well as one of..... More
1799. [EHON] Yamaguchi SO^KEN, artist. YAMATO JIMBUTSU GAFU. 3 vols., blue-grey covers string-bound fukuro-toji with printed paper title labels. So^ken (1759-1818) was one of O^kyo^'s most important students and his YAMATO JIMBUTSU GAFU is one of the early classics of the Shijo^ genre. Published in three volumes in 1799-1800, a...... More
Miyako Rinsen Meisho Zue [An Illustrated Guide to Famous Gardens in Kyoto] .Kyoto, Edo, Osaka, Nagoya.. Kansei 11 [1799] 5 volumes bound in 6 (with two parts to Vol 1: Upper and Lower. 26.8 x 18.3 cm volumes are string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Published in Kyoto, Edo, Osaka and Nagoya, the..... More
1875. [EHON] Katsushika HOKUSAI. FUGAKU HYAKKEI. (100 Views of Fuji). Meiji 8 [1875]. Aichi, Katano To^shiro^. 3 vols. Yellow covers. 15.7 x 22.6 cm. Paper labels. This Meiji reprint of Hokusai's classic is in very good condition with original yellow covers and title labels. The impressions are fair to good..... More
1926. [AVANT-GARDE] MURAYAMA Tomoyoshi. KOSEIHA KENKYU. [Research on Constructivism]. Tokyo, Taisho 15 [1926]. First Printing. (10),81pp., 31 plates, + finals and ads. Decorated wrappers with cover design by Murayama, printed in red and black. The plates cover works by European and Japanese proponents of Constructivism. An unusual and fragile work..... More
1934. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA. UTA-E Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo, Showa 9 [1934]. 1 volume, 31 x 22 cm, cloth, ribbon bound covers, paper label. 25 color full page images after designs by Sekka. As Sekka's last work, it crowns his remarkable career with a lovely evocation of Koetsu's Saga-bon. (For..... More
18. [MONSTER EMAKI] Yoshida Kôkin. HYAKKI YAGYOU NO ZU. Brocade covers, approximately 13 inches tall and 14 feet long. In an old wooden scroll box with a brushed title. A lovely skillful rendition of the NIGHT PARADE OF ONE HUNDRED MONSTERS... a famous work from the later 15th, early 16th..... More
1937. KITASONO Katue, poet & ONCHI Koshiro, artist. Shishu NATSU NO TEGAMI. Tokyo, Aoi Shobo, Showa 12 [1937] Folio, 30.0 X 22.0 cm, #22 of 200 copies printed. The binding, the typography, the illustrations, all combine as a fluid visual container for Kitasono's brilliant poems. Interesting to compare this work..... More