![御風呂敷意匠圖案. [Ofuroshiki ishō zuan]. [Furoshiki Design Pattern Book]....](/pictures/thumb/163409.jpg?v=1571228440)
關口三左エ門商店, No date of publication. (circa1930). Sixteen beautiful coloured designs for furosiki with an accompanying pages showing eight different font styles. 25.8 cm x 13 cm folds out to . Original green card boards worn with a little loss and creasing, one illustration torn with a little loss, light vertical..... More
Kobe. Takagi Photo Co., No date. (circa1919). 50 hand coloured full page collotypes printed on thick paper showing beautiful Japanese sights, scenery and people involved in activities, each plate captioned in English, all edges gilt, padded patterned silk over boards with tassle ties presented in a wrap around cloth covered..... More
Hong Kong. Arts and Literature Press. 1971. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. Full page colour and black and white plates with text on opposite leaf, some occasional light foxing first leaves and cloth, very good set in original cloth titled in English and Chinese on upper cover and spine. Table of..... More
no date [circa1935]. Colour photographic portrait of the artist, 33 large delightful colour plates showing floral scenes often with butterflies from paintings by Mrs S.K. Ling in the period between 1916 and 1926. Inscribed by the Lings to Professor Sir Stephen Henry Roberts and Mrs Roberts. Sir Stephen was Vice-Chancellor..... More
No publication details. (circa1920?). Album of twelve full page hand coloured illustrations on silk laid down on card leaves. Images measure 25.4 x 19.4cm. Silk along upper border of two images a trifle frayed, occasional light marks, some light browning card leaves, minor insect damage silk border of one leaf..... More
Tokyo: Meiji 34 - Shōwa 21. [1901- 1946]. Album containing 23 pages with calligraphy or ink paintings, some double page, some tipped-in or loosely inserted. Although ther are many blank leaves in this album the works included excluding the inserted works, have are of good artistic quality. Accordion album, patterned..... More
台北.(Taibei). 國立歷史博物館.[Guo li li shi bo wu guan]. 民國86 (1997). Map,colour plates, black and white illustrations, 192pp, gilted lettering on covers and spine, hardback cloth covers. Text mainly in traditional Chinese with English and Chinese preface. 38.5 x 26.6cm. Private collection of Chen Cheng-Ching's Taiwan aboriginal art objects from 9..... More
No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa2005). 51 colour plates, black and white portrait, signature of the painter front free endpaper, as new. Text in Chinese and English. 25 x 26cm. "Flower of Heart - Years, a series of Feng Shaoxie's oil paintings, is done by blending the..... More
![きもの縞百選・裂地帖第2集. [Kimono shima hyakusen, kirejicho Dai 2 shu]. Kimono...](/pictures/thumb/162129.jpg?v=1571228382)
民芸織物図鑑刊行会, Showa 42 [1967]. Limited edition of 200 copies. 50 card leaves with 2 samples of striped kimono fabric tipped in on each leaf, samples measure 10.5 x 19cm. Metal spiral binding, embossed title in Japanese upper cover. 36.2 x 26cm. A few swatches are a little creased but otherwise..... More
Tokyo: Bunka Nippon Sha. 1946. Unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 500. 8 coloured woodblocks in paper mats, presented together with a two page introduction in English in a patterned paper covered portfolio with toggle ties. Folio. A very handsome set of plates which show the daily lives of..... More
Tokyo: Hasegawa. Meiji 18.1885. 16 folded creped leaves including covers, colour woodblock illustrations throughout, stab binding with ties, covers lightly marked, good copy. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 4. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 140161). More
![廣重傑作 京都名所 全 [ Hiroshige kessaku Kyōto meisho zen]. Masterpieces of...](/pictures/thumb/160692.jpg?v=1572351029)
No place of publication. No publisher. no date. (Taisho). 10 colour woodblocks bound in accordion style Japanese album. Silk covered boards, pictorial title label upper cover. Small tear at one fold, covers worn at corners, title label insect damaged with a little loss. Very good. This item is an album..... More
Pékin. 1930. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout, [22]+ 676 + [2] + 35 + [3]pp, one gathering transposed but the work is complete. Attractive modern marbled paper covered boards, plain black cloth spine, portion of original upper wrapper laid down on the upper cover. Edges uncut, 41 x...... More
[1930s?]. Collection of over 280 matchbox labels laid down in an oblong album. Album measures 15 x 21.5cm. Some labels are torn with a little loss to corners and edges and there is some wear to others. An attractive album. The delightful images featured on these labels are largely advertisements..... More
(circa1900). Interesting collection of twenty-five photographs of Japan. Ten albumen photographs (most 20 x 26cm, four approximately 21 x 27cm) by Ogawa Sashichi and others, most showing scenes around Tokyo and Yokohama measuring laid down on card, four are coloured. Nine of these photographs are captioned either by the studio..... More
![Japanese 19th Century Textile Sample Book]. JAPANESE TEXTILE SAMPLE BOOK](/pictures/thumb/157344.jpg?v=1571228196)
Meiji 43 [1910]. Japanese textile sample book containing 37 swatches of fabric of varying sizes from the late Edo-early Meiji period. Each captioned in Japanese. Includes a triangular sample of Korean brocade and one of Chinese silk with handwritten Chinese characters on it. 20 pages (on 10 folded leaves). Some..... More
Late Edo (?) (circa1865). 8 pages of handwoven swatches. One small rectangular piece (2 swatches) removed, one leaf slightly smaller than the others, covers insect damaged. 13 x 30cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157343). More
[Jingdezhen]. [Hong Kong]. 景德鎮陶瓷館.香港中文大學文物館.[Jingdezhen tao ci guan].[Xianggang zhong wen da xue wen wu guan]. 2004. Beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue jointly held by Jingdezhen Ceramic and Art Museum and The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004. 186 ceramic artworks are described in the catalogue with bilingual Chinese and English descriptions..... More
![大工雛形: 卷五[Shinsen Daiku hinagata: kan 5]. [New Collection of Designs for Carpenters]....](/pictures/thumb/164231.jpg?v=1571228520)
江戶.[Edo]. 須原屋茂兵衛.[Suharaya Mohee]. 寶曆十四[1764]. Volume 5 only. Black and white woodblock illustrations, 32 leaves. Traditional Japanese 4 hole stab binding on double leaves, title labels laid down upper cover damaged with considerable loss, original blue wrappers worn and insect damaged, light stain in one place on margins throughout, lower margins..... More
no date [195-]. Colour photographic portrait of the artist, 32 (lacks one plate) delightful colour plates of flowers and butterflies from paintings by Mrs S.K. Ling. Preliminary and last leaves foxed, some very light occasional browning first plates, but generally the plates are very good. Striking green cloth binding lettered..... More
![中國錦緞圖案.[Zhongguo jin duan tu an]. [Chinese Brocade Fabric Designs]. SHENGZHONG LU,...](/pictures/thumb/154528.jpg?v=1571228128)
(Beijing). 人民美術出版社. [Ren min meishu chu ban she]. 1953. A complete set of 24 full page colour plates loosely presented in portfolio with title in Chinese on upper cover. 27 leaves in the publisher's folder, 37 x 26cm, with three leaves of text in Chinese, including brief introduction of Chinese..... More
Shanghai. Watson. Kelly & Walsh. 1926. Number 283 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. 50 full page tipped-in plates by Donald Mennie of which 38 are photogravures and 12 are hand coloured silver gelatin plates. Each plate has an accompanying page of text by Lieutenant Commander Carey and is..... More
![信越十二景. [Shin'etsu jūnikei]. [Twelve Scenes of the Shin'etsu Region]. 黙水,...](/pictures/thumb/155156.jpg?v=1571228139)
Taisho 12 (1923). 10 colour ink paintings on silk by a skilled, likely professional artist, tipped onto the card leaves of an album, cord ties, paper title label upper cover. Card covers a little insect damaged, 2 x 3cm long sections of worming in the first two paintings, small hole..... More
![紋柄扣. [Mongara Hikae]. [Copies of Washi Design Patterns]. MONGARA HIKAE](/pictures/thumb/154973.jpg?v=1571371634)
[1900?]. Sample album of designs most probably for weaving. The album contains 196 numbered paper slits for holding the design samples in place with 68 samples included. Handwritten paper tabs (some damaged with loss) attached to the edges of 17 leaves give the names of customers. Bound in cloth covered..... More
Kyoto: 1892. With delicate colour woodblocks by Tanaka Ikka 田中一華, Ichimi Renjō 一見連城, Hasegawa Gyokujun 長谷川玉純, Mori Yūzan 森雄山, Kamisaka Sekka 神坂雪佳, Tanaka Gekkō 田中月耕, Uemura Shōen 上村松園, Nakai Baien 中井梅園, Itō Suezō 伊藤季造, Umemura Keizan 梅村景山, Tabata Kakuzō 田畑鶴造 and Kunii ōyō 國井應陽. [28pp], folded leaves. Original patterned paper wrappers with red ties, lower section of spine creased, lower corner of 9 leaves..... More
