UMEHARA SUEJI. Shina Kodo Seika, or Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America. Osaka: Yamanaka & Company, 1933.
UMEHARA SUEJI. Shina Kodo Seika, or Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America. Osaka: Yamanaka & Company, 1933.

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UMEHARA SUEJI. Shina Kodo Seika, or Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America. Osaka: Yamanaka & Company, 1933.

3 parts in 7 volumes, 2o. Text in Japanese, German and English, 547 photographic plates, corrigenda slip laid in to volume 1 part 2 (light browning). Original olive cloth with green stylized painted design, ties on spine, silk label with Japanese writing in red and black, edges gilt; green cloth folding portfolios with silk labels and clasps (volume 1 parts one and 2 each lacking one clasp, labels worn, hinges of folding portfolios just splitting, a few reinforced).

In 1933, the Japanese scholar Umehara Sueji (1893-1983), who taught in the Department of Archaeology, Kyoto University, completed Shina Kodo Seika, a seven-volume work in which he recorded Chinese bronzes in European and American collections during his three-year stay in Europe and the United States, from early 1926 to the spring of 1929. A continuation was published in 1959-1964. See lot 840. (7)

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