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A COLLECTION OF 56 JAPANESE AND ASIAN ART BOOKS AND 15 IMPORTANT CATALOGUES
Comprising 33 various Japanese Art books and important hardback catalogues including the Henri Vever Collection: Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, Catalogue, 3 volumes, 1974-77, Suzuki Harunobu: An Exhibition of his Colour Prints and Illustrated Books in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970 by J.Hillier, Monoyama: Japanese Art in the Age of Grandeur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture AD 600-1300 by N.Kyotaro and E.J.Sano, Oriental Ceramics: The British Museum (The World Great Collections vol.5), The Hartman Collection of Japanese Metalwork, Christie's Catalogue, 1976, and Masterpieces of Japanese Sculpture by J.E.Kidder, Jr.; twelve covering Netsuke, Inro and Lacquer including Netsuke by N.K.Davey, based on the M.T.Hindson Collection, and The Baur Collection: Netsuke by M.-T.Coullery and M.Newstead; four Korean Art books; and seven Asian Art books, all various sizes, ages and bindings; generally in good clean condition, and fifteen Japanese Art Auction Catalogues, including Fine Japanese Swords and Armour from the Collection of Sir Frank Bowden, 2 volumes, 1982/83, and the Backhoff Collection of Swords and Sword Fittings, 1981 (a lot)
Comprising 33 various Japanese Art books and important hardback catalogues including the Henri Vever Collection: Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, Catalogue, 3 volumes, 1974-77, Suzuki Harunobu: An Exhibition of his Colour Prints and Illustrated Books in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970 by J.Hillier, Monoyama: Japanese Art in the Age of Grandeur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture AD 600-1300 by N.Kyotaro and E.J.Sano, Oriental Ceramics: The British Museum (The World Great Collections vol.5), The Hartman Collection of Japanese Metalwork, Christie's Catalogue, 1976, and Masterpieces of Japanese Sculpture by J.E.Kidder, Jr.; twelve covering Netsuke, Inro and Lacquer including Netsuke by N.K.Davey, based on the M.T.Hindson Collection, and The Baur Collection: Netsuke by M.-T.Coullery and M.Newstead; four Korean Art books; and seven Asian Art books, all various sizes, ages and bindings; generally in good clean condition, and fifteen Japanese Art Auction Catalogues, including Fine Japanese Swords and Armour from the Collection of Sir Frank Bowden, 2 volumes, 1982/83, and the Backhoff Collection of Swords and Sword Fittings, 1981 (a lot)