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ORIENTAL ART AND HISTORY
U.S. Department of State.. Report of the Secretary of State, Communicating, in
Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Correspondence with the United States in Japan;
Concerning the Proposed Diplomatic Mission from Japan to the United States. Washington, DC: 1860.
12mo - over 6Ύ" - 7Ύ" tall. Original Wraps. Very Good 13p, Apart from official U.S. archives only one
library reports owning this document. Very scarce. Report filed from Lewis Cass. Initial agreement
was with Ota, Prince of Bingo; Manabay, Prince of Simoosa; Kuse,.. Prince of Yamato and Moriejama
Taketsiro. Townsend Harris (Consul General) reports: "there is no doubt the Japanese regard us in a
more friendly light than any of the other powers with whom they have come in contact; they wish to
foster that feeling...We were the first nation to make a treaty of amity with the Japanese....report
continues...I received a letter from Commodore Tattnall written at Nagasaki. Very scarce lists the
details that helped set up the diplomatic mission with details of route delegations would travel,
members, etc.
[014162] $150
JAPAN
Described and Illustrated by Photograph
Deluxe Mikado Edition
Brinkley, Captain F. (editor) JAPAN, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, Written by Eminent
Japanese Authorities and Scholars, with an Essay on Japanese Art by Kakuo Okakura, director of the
Imperil Art School at Tokyo, Japan. J.B. Millet Co. Boston, MA. (1897 & 1898); In the deluxe format,
Mikado Edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies of which this is no. 74. Folio, Japanese fan
fold leaves, bound in original embroidered silk with tassels. Each book is organized
into specific topics; Japanese festivals, history, customs, medieval Japan, etc. These books were
published in various formats (regular and deluxe); the regular edition contains black and white half-tone images
printed directly onto the page rather than the hand-colored albumen photographs in the present
volumes. The "Mikado" edition also contains the colored stencil plates on silk.
Section
#1. Bound in red silk. One full page color collotype
botanical illustration(matted),
twenty hand-colored photographs measuring approx. 5 ½ x 3 ½, and six larger hand-colored albumen
photographs measuring approx. 7 ½ x 10(matted), two color pattern stencils used in printing
fabrics reproduced on silk and one hand-colored wood-block painting of the Nara Epoch. Light fraying
to top and bottom board edges, spine rubbed with ends chipped.
[014410]
$750
Section
#3. Bound in gray silk. One full page color collotype
botanical illustration(matted),
eighteen hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 5 ½ x 3 ½ mounted within the text,
and six larger hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 7 ½ x 10 (matted), two color
pattern stencils used in printing fabrics reproduced on silk and one large hand-colored painting of
The Kasuga Epoch. Some fraying to top and bottom board edges, front free endpaper crease,
wanting one tassel.
[014411]
$600
Section
#5. Bound in purple-gray silk. One full page color collotype
botanical illustration(matted),
nineteen hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 5 ½ x 3 ½mounted within the text, and
six larger hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 7 ½ x 10 (matted), two color
pattern stencils used in printing fabrics reproduced on silk and one hand-colored wood-block
illustration of The Kamakura Epoch. Some light stating to covers, wanting one tassel.
[014412]
$750
Section
#6. Bound in gold silk. One full page color collotype
botanical illustration
(matted), twenty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 5 ½ x 3 ½ mounted within the
text, and six larger hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 7 ½ x 10(matted), two
color pattern stencils used in printing fabrics reproduced on silk and color wood-block
illustration of The Ashikaga Epoch. Covers rubbed wanting both tassels.
[014413] $750
Section
#7. Bound in pink silk. One full page color collotype
botanical illustration(matted),
nineteen hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 5 ½ x 3 ½ mounted within the text, and
six larger hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 7 ½ x 10(matted), two color pattern
stencils used in printing fabrics reproduced on silk and one hand-colored wood-block illustration
of The Kano School. Spine rubbed, front free endpaper creased, wanting one tassel.
[014414]
$650
Section
#8. Bound in beige silk. One full page color collotype
botanical illustration
(matted), twenty-one hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 5 ½ x 3 ½ mounted within
the text, and six larger hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 7 ½ x 10(matted), two
color pattern stencils used in printing fabrics reproduced on silk. and one hand-colored
wood-block illustration of A Painting of the Early Tokugawa Epoch. Some fraying to top and
bottom board edges.
[014415]
$650
Section
#10. Bound in green silk. One full page color collotype
botanical illustration(matted),
nineteen hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. . 5 ½ x 3 ½ mounted within the text,
and six larger hand-colored albumen photographs measuring approx. 7 ½ x 10 (matted), two color
pattern stencils used in printing fabrics reproduced on silk. decorative wood blocks and one
hand-colored wood-block illustration A Painting by Keibun, 1778-1843. Minor rubbing, front
free endpaper creased.
[014416]
$700
Misugi, Takatoshi. Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East (3 Volume set).
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1981. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very Good Vol. 1
Introduction 273p. profusely illustrated with many examples of blue porcelain; Volume II The Topkapi
Palace Museum. 273p. Many illustrations some hand-mounted; Volume III, The Ardebil Shrine Collection
373p. with additional illustrations at the end. The Topkapi Palace Museum is the greatest collection
of Chinese Porcelain outside China in the world. Of the 12,000 pieces there it has not been
available to the public for over two years.
Here are the finest examples over the entire period from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming to the later
Ming period and finishing with the Ch'iang Dynasty.
[014301] $1350
[Auction Catalog] The Frank
Lloyd Wright Collection of Japanese Antique Prints (with introduction by Frank Lloyd Wright).
New York; Anderson Galleries, 1927. quarto. 163pp. Bound in blue cloth , spine lettered
in gilt, original wraps bound in. Fine. 346 items listed of Frank Lloyd Wright's remarkable
collection listing 26 major Japanese masters with the largest number represented by Hiroshige and
Hokusai.
[014497]
$850
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U.S. Department of State.. Report of the Secretary of State, Communicating, in
Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Correspondence with the United States in Japan;
Concerning the Proposed Diplomatic Mission from Japan to the United States. Washington, DC: 1860.
12mo - over 6Ύ" - 7Ύ" tall. Original Wraps. Very Good 13p, Apart from official U.S. archives only one
library reports owning this document. Very scarce. Report filed from Lewis Cass. Initial agreement
was with Ota, Prince of Bingo; Manabay, Prince of Simoosa; Kuse,.. Prince of Yamato and Moriejama
Taketsiro. Townsend Harris (Consul General) reports: "there is no doubt the Japanese regard us in a
more friendly light than any of the other powers with whom they have come in contact; they wish to
foster that feeling...We were the first nation to make a treaty of amity with the Japanese....report
continues...I received a letter from Commodore Tattnall written at Nagasaki. Very scarce lists the
details that helped set up the diplomatic mission with details of route delegations would travel,
members, etc.
