736 - 1327 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Covers waterstained; backstrip sunned.
Fenollosa, E.F. Ursprung und Entwicklung der chinesischen und japanischen Kunst. Ed. Shinkichi Hara. German transl. F. Milcke. Leipsic, K.W. Hiersemann, 1913, 1st ed., 2 vols., XXVIII,228; XI,(1),240p., 2 diff. col. tipped-in frontisp., 189 (col.) plates, 2 ills., orig. unif. gilt hcalf, t.e.g., 4to. - AND 4 others similar, i.a. M. MURASE, Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting. The American Collections (New York, 1990, num. fold./ double-p. col. plates, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., obl. folio (fine)).
- Mint copy. = Standard reference work on surimono.
- Top of dustwr. of vol.1 sl. dam. Slipcase a few professionally restored/ strengthened spots. Fine copy.
= Very rare.
- Slipcase sl. soiled.
= Printed in 1000 numb. copies. The only edition of this standard monograph on the subject.
AND 4 others, i.a. R. MANHEIM, Haiku und Haiga: Augenblicke in Wort und Bild - Japanische Rollbilder aus vier Jahrhunderten aus der Sammlung Jon de Jong (Moyland, 2006, col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to); J. KING and Y. IWAKIRI, Japanese Warrior Prints 1646-1905 (Leyden/ Boston, 2007, richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 4to) and N. CHAIKIN, The Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) (n.pl., 1983, (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
- Upper hinge weak; 2nd blank loosening.
= I. The age of Harunobu; II. The age of Utamaro; III. Hokusai and his school; IV. Hiroshige and the Utagawa school.
AND 4 others, all on surimono.
Barth, M., Hirsch, M. and Klose, D.O.A. a.o. (ed.). Japanische Lackkunst für Bayerns Fürsten. Die japanischen Lackmöbel der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München. Munich, Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 2011, 224p., num. col. ills., orig. pict boards, large 4to.
- Lacks 7 plates ; 1 plate w. tear; occas. tiny marginal tears in plates. Portfolios trifle rubbed along extremities and on titleplates.
= Rare set.
- Vol. 1 only; textlvs. w. some foxing; textlvs. occas. outer edge frayed.
= Colas 2471; Vicaire VI, p.944; S. Durant, Ornament (1986), p.22: "Racinet's work was clearly modelled on Jones' Grammar of Ornament, but actually surpassed it in the splendour of its chromolithographic plates. L'Ornement Polychrome was the most extensive published compendium of decoration and was so successful that a second volume was published in 1883".
Dolmetsch, H. Der Ornamentenschatz. Ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen. Stuttg., J. Hoffmann, 1887, 1st ed., (6)p., 85 (chromo)lithogr. plates, partly printed in gold, w. accomp. descriptive text lvs., loose as issued in contemp. hcl. portfolio, folio.
- Textlvs. sl. foxed.
AND 2 others on ornaments: D. GUILMARD, La connaissance des styles de l'ornamentation. Histoire de l'ornament et des arts qui s'y rattachement (Paris, n.d., 4th ed., 42 lithogr. plates, loosely inserted in orig. clothbacked lithogr. portfolio, folio) and MUSTER-ORNAMENTE aus allen Stilen in Historische Anordnung (Stuttg., n.d., title-p. and 303 woodcut plates, without binding, folio).
- Cloth tape loosening at top of spine.
AND 12 others, all concering Spanish art in the 1960's, i.a. 3 issues of Suma y sigue del arte contemporaneo and various sm. publications by/on Estampa popular de Valencia.
= Provenance: the estate of Kees Broos and Liesbeth Brandt Corstius.
- Foxed (plates fine).
AND 1 other: E. DILLON, Rubens (London, 1909, 1st ed., engr. frontisp., num. plates, contemp. gilt hmor.).
- Endpapers foxed; stamp on first free endpaper. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= "How to do it" Series, no. 8.
Weegee and Speck, G. Creative Photography. London/ Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., 1964, 64p., richly illustrated, orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to (owner's entry). - AND 3 others on photography, i.a. M. NATKIN, L'Art de voir et la Photographie (Paris, 1945, num. ills., orig. wr., 4to).
= Rare complete run of this series which is effectively a catalogue raisonné of the artist's production until 1997.
- Generally a good/ fine set. Covers occas. sl. worn along extremities; wr. some scratches etc. Vol. 1939 frontwr. w. tear.
= Periodical on the art and design of the book etc., these specific issues dealing w. photography. Year 1930-1940 and 1947.