Shunga The Art of Love in Japan
- Hard back with dust Jacket
- Very Good Condition
– Volume 1: 1-50 colored plates
– Volume 2: 51-100 colored plates
– Full pink and white cloth cover
– Title (in Japanese or Chinese) on white sticker
– Pages bound with mustard-colored ribbon
– Green cloth slipcase with title on white sticker
– Original publisher’s cardboard box
– Near mint condition
Limited to 2000 copies.
There are 970 items, all of which are illustrated with about 69 in color, arranged chronologically and those in series have been placed in their correct order. Brief notes on the artists, their style of work and environment, as well as on the development of the wood-block print in Japan, link each section. The name of the artist is also shown in Japanese characters. This is a lovely set in beautiful condition. xx, 349; v, 350-673; v, 674-1034 pages. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. folio.
Shrink wrapped. 0893811092. Near mint
Raffael by James H. Beck Pub: 1981
PICASSO IN HIS POSTERS :
IMAGE AND WORK / LUIS CARLOS RODRIGO –
[COMPLETE IN 4 VOLUMES].
[CONTENTS: V.
1. POSTERS, 001-315 — V.
2. POSTERS, 316-630 — V.
3. COMMENTARIES — V.
4. CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY] BY PABLO (1881-1973)
Binding: 9×5.6”, orig. purple cl. with gilt title to sp., cover sunned, sp. and cover chipped, sl. foxing throughout, binding loose, text clean. , Vol 2 bound in new leather.
Condition: Average
Condition: Good.
Binding: 16×12.5”, oblong, new half brown buckram over gray cl. boards.
A grand photographic history of The land of Antiquity, the vast Empire of the East. With 500 superbly reproduced Camera Views of her cities, Temples, Towers… Natural Wonders, and pictures of the various types of people, also, supplementary Photographic Views of Burmah, Ceylon, Cashmere and Aden PUNDOLES
Made by: Historical Publishing Company, Philadelphia Published by: C.B. Burrows, Bombay, c.1895.
Illustration: 500 photo prints duotone in purple and brown, vignettes and full pp., yellowed pp.
Condition: Good.
Binding: 26.7×32.5cm., pp. xv, 542; oblong, new binding, sl. foxing throughout.
Memoirs of Madame Junot, Duchesse D’abrantes.
Illustration: Several full pp. colored, b/w as well as sepia toned prints from etchings with tissue guards, frontis.
Condition: Good
Binding: 9×5.9”, orig. half morocco over marbled boards, 4 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, marbled epps, untrimmed, pp. brittle pages in some volumes have come unstuck due to ageing very very BRITTLE, Breaks on handling
Special Edition. Insert by the Publisher, ‘This edition being specially prepared for Subscription, is not obtainable through the General Bookseller.’
Several b/w prints throughout, both full pp. and vignettes.
Condition:Good
Binding: 9.75×7.25”, full maroon leather with heavy gilt dec. to sp. with gilt title, sp. and cover worn, text in double columns, binding sl. loose.
Arranged In Verses By Laurence Hope. Illustrated by Byam Shaw
Illustration: 24 full pp. colored prints with printed tissue guards incl. Frontis and title pp.
Condition: Very Good.
Binding: 31x23cm, pp.158; orig. red cl. with black title to cover and a gilt image of Kamadeva to cover, black title to sp. with gilt dec., sp. ends thumbed and sl. torn, teg.
Translated by Nea. E. Morin, Intro by Brig-Gen The Hon. C.G. Bruce
Illustration: 48 gravure plates and 3 line drawn maps. Condition: Excellent Binding: 22x14cm., pp. xv, 203; full brown cl. with gilt title to sp.
Condition: Very Good
Translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With an introduction by. A.C. Benson. Reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe.
Illustration: Colored photographic prints throughout, full pp. and vignettes, gilt and ornate clrd. Border to all illus., highly colorful and dec. frontis and title pp.
Condition: Copy 1: Good.
Binding: Copy 1: 32×23.5cm, pp.16, notes, list of illus.; full creme cl. with heavy gilt peacock made to cover, gilt dec. sp. with title, cover dirty and worn in parts, teg, dec. epps, highly gilt dec. calligraphic text throughout in red and black, light foxing throughout.
A diary in India; with some account of the visits of his Royal Highness to the courts of Greece, Egypt, Spain and Portugal
Illustration: A large number of full pp. as well as vignette woodcut engravings, full pp. with tissue guards, pasted sepia toned photo frontis., sl. foxing to pl. margins with little/no harm to pl.
Condition: Good.
Binding: 10.5×7”, pp. xxxix, 619; full red cl. with gilt crest to cover, gilt title to sp., aeg, edges thumbed, sp. ends frayed, gilt and black border to cover, black and red title pp.
A pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, illustrative of the wonders of Astronomy, physical Geography, and Geology
Illustration: A large number of wood engravings, engraved pl., several vignettes, frontis., title pp., sl. Foxing to frontis.
Condition: Good.
Binding: 10.2×5.7”, pp. xii, 803; half brown morocco over cl., 5 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, front cover seperate from sp., marbled epps., teg.
Illustration: A large number of wood engravings throughout in the form of vignettes, frontis., 2 double folding maps in Vol.II.
Condition: Very Good
Binding: 22x14cm, pp. xxxv, 619, xvi, 660; brown calf over marbled boards, sp. rebacked, 5 raised bands to sp. with gilt title to leather label, sp. chipped in parts and frayed.
Illustration: 11+5 full pp. woodcut illus. incl. frontis and several clrd. maps.
Condition: Good+.
Binding: 9”x 5.5”, pp. xi, 516, 472; new calf over marbled boards with gilt title to leather label to sp., 5 raised bands to spine.
Illustration: Stipple engraved frontis., sepia toned photo image, few clrd. illus.
Condition: Average+.
Binding: 9×6”, orig. blue cl. with image of a man in gilt to cover, gilt border, dec. gilt sp. with title, sl. foxing, edges sl thumbed, teg
Illustration: Signed on front inside pp. Several b/w full pp. and vignettes prints throughout, 1 folded map with clrd. Outlines but brittle.
Condition: Average
Binding: 25×16.5cm., pp. xxviii, 709, 1pp. of adverts.; full brown cl. with image of mountain-climbers in black. And white to cover with black title, gilt title to sp. with image, minor wormholes, cover frayed and binding loose, title pp. missing, sl. underlining in color pencil by previous owner.