A Grammar of Chinese Lattice, Two Volumes
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. Hardcover. Navy boards with gilt stamped lettering. 469 total pages BW illustrations. Includes bibliographical references. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. Hardcover. Navy boards with gilt stamped lettering. 469 total pages BW illustrations. Includes bibliographical references. More
Paris: A. Quantin, 1883. Hardcover. Two volumes, rebound in burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Each volume has an illustrated title page. Volume I has IV, 310 pp with 32 bw and color plates throughout. Volume II has 369 pp with 32 bw and color plates. Original edition, printed..... More
The Art Institute of Chicago / University of California Press, 1999. Hardbound. Lightly illustrated and traditionally sewn paper covers, contained in a three-panel dark blue folding cloth case with traditional pegged closure device. 112 pp., Afabulous book in a lovely case. More
Paris: H. Laurens, 1918. Limited, 428 / 550 copies printed. Hardcover. Beige cloth with mounted title from original paper wraps on cover, spine and rear panel. xii, 519 pages with approximately 500 illustrations. Text is in French. Edited by É. Chavannes, after the death of the translator./ Originally published in..... More
Paris: G. Van Oest, 1927. Softcover. Unbound in five parts as issued. [iv], 112 pp., 200 bw plates. Oversized and heavy. 22 page introduction in volume 1 discusses the various collections from which these images come. The paintings are from a span of nearly a thousand years and are arranged..... More
Paris: G. Van Oest, 1927. Softcover. Unbound in five parts as issued. [iv], 112 pp., 200 bw plates. Oversized and heavy. 17.125" x 13" x 3.5" 22 page introduction discusses the various collections from which these images come. The paintings are from a span of nearly a thousand years and..... More
Paris: G. Van Oest, 1928. Hardcover. Tan portfolio with red lettering and ribbon tie closures; 112 pp., 200 bw plates. Text is in French. 23 page introduction discusses the various collections from which these images come. The paintings are from a span of nearly a thousand years and are arranged..... More
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1926. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 golden cloth and black paper boards with golden yellow lettering; black spine lettering, 39 pp; 48 bw plates. Contents include: Dates of the Periods mentioned in the Text; Preface; Introduction; Description of the Plates; Appendix by Prof. Ferdinand Lessing. More
Tokio: Hakubunsha, Ginza, Kelly and Walsh Ltd. et al, 1891. Pictorial boards. Decorative thick cardboard with illustration, black tape spine. xii, 152, (1) pp., 54 bw plates. Text is in English with some Japanese. Includes works by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Kawanabe Kiosui, and others. More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1886. Hardcover. Bound in half brown leather and green cloth boards. Front cover has red and gilt lettering with black illustrations, spine has 5 raised bands, all edge gilt, illustrated end papers, XIX, 276 pp with bw illustrations; 80 plates in bw and color..... More
Tokio: Hakubunsha, Ginza, Kelly and Walsh Ltd. et al, 1891. Softcover. Glued thick wraps. Rear cover only present, with colored floral imagery. xii, 152, (1) pp., with 30 colored plates with tissue guards, 54 bw plates and 26 figures printed within the text. Last numbered page is 136, followed by..... More
London/ New York: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915. Hardcover. Oversized portfolio, 3/4 green cloth and tan paper boards with black lettering; 42 plates in bw and color. oversized, matching 28pg intro. May have torn bookplate on front pastedown and pencil notations. Some plates may have charcoal-like sketches replicating the..... More
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1926. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 golden cloth and black paper boards with golden yellow lettering; black spine lettering, 39 pp; 47 bw plates. Contents include: Dates of the Periods mentioned in the Text; Preface; Introduction; Description of the Plates; Appendix by Prof. Ferdinand Lessing. More
New York: School of Chinese Brushwork, 1957. Hardcover. Black and white illustrated portfolio; 7 pp; 12 bw leaves of plates. Includes a brief chronology; forward; and a list of the 12 plates. More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1886. Hardcover. Bound in half brown leather and green cloth boards. Front cover has red and gilt lettering with black illustrations, spine has 5 raised bands, all edge gilt, illustrated end papers, XIX, 276 pp with bw illustrations; 80 plates in bw and color..... More
Hanoi, Vietnam: Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, circa 1930s. Hardcover. green cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing, 167 pgs w/ 222 bw, color plates. Text in French. Fairly large rectangular ex-libris stamp to opening page and title page. Dark pencil pricing to front endpaper; notation to title page and pencil shading/design to back..... More
Tokyo: Tôa-kôkogaku-kwai, or the Far Eastern archaeological Society, 1938. Printed board covers wityh red cloth spine with English and Japanese writing. [174] pages color mounted frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color, part double) plan, maps 36 cm. Various pagings./ Signed: Kôsaku Hamada, Seiichi Mizuno./ Title-pages and text in English and Japanese..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot, (not dated). Hardcover. Oversized bound in 3/4 burgundy leather boards, 5 raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and design; all edge gilt, marble illustrated end papers; unpaginated with profuse color plates. Text is in French. The Polychrome Ornament: Duexieme Serie: One Hundred and Twenty Plates in Gold..... More
Paris: G. Van Oest, 1927-1928. Softcover. Unbound tan wraps with black lettering in five parts as issued, 112 pp., 200 bw plates. Text is in French. 22 page introduction in volume 1 discusses the various collections from which these images come. The paintings are from a span of nearly a...... More
Paris: G. Van Oest, 1927-1928. Softcover. Unbound tan wraps with black lettering in three parts, text pages in each before the plates, 161 plates. Text in French. Photo does not include the Quatrieme volume. This is the first four volumes of a five volume set. 22 page introduction in volume..... More
's Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1927. Hardcover. Oversized tan paper boards with gilt design, tan cloth spine with gilt lettering, two tan cloth tie closures; 23 pp text and 24 leaves bw plates. Text in Dutch and English. Selected from the exhibition of Chinese art of the Society of Friends of..... More
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1926. Hardcover. Oversized portfolio, 3/4 yellow cloth and black paper boards with yellow lettering; VII, 39 pp, plates I-XLVIII with number 38 unnumbered, color and mounted. The Appendix by F. Lessing (p. [35]-39) includes the translation of the two songs reproduced on plates LXV and LXVI..... More
London, England: Benn Brothers, Ltd., 1924. Hardcover. Brown stamped cloth, gilt lettering and design. 169 pp., 30 BW plates, one color plate as frontispiece. "Popular and Abridged Edition, with a Coloured Frontispiece and 30 Illustrations in black and white." Demand for the 1922 First Edition was so quick that this..... More
London: The Medici Society, 1933. 43/500. Hardcover. Crimson cloth/boards. Gilt lettering on spine. TEG. 140 pp. text followed by 100 bw plates, each on a single side of the page. Weighs 5 pounds and may require extra postage. Volume I only of a 2-volume set on the history of Chinese..... More
Kyoto: Kuwana Bunseido, 1939. Hardcover. Jamapnese/English language text. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8 pages, 63 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress./ Includes bibliographical references. More