THE COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY: A LARGE QUANTITY OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE REFERENCE BOOKS, ART AUCTION CATALOGUES, NOVELS AND PERIODICALS

Lot 87
01.10.2020 10:00UTC +00:00
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$ 3 750
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Lot 87 | THE COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY: A LARGE QUANTITY OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE REFERENCE BOOKS, ART AUCTION CATALOGUES, NOVELS AND PERIODICALS
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$ 3 000 – 5 000
The group comprises approximately 280 Chinese, Japanese and European art reference books in English, Swedish, French, German and Japanese, art auction catalogues including Christie's, Sotheby's and Eskenazi Ltd. catalogues dating from around 1968 to 2016.

Highlights include Kurt Herberts, Das Buch der Ostasiatischen Lackkunst (1959); Minamoto Toyomune, Rinpa kogei senshu, 2 vols. (1969); J. Edward Kidder Jr., Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens, and Architecture (1964); Yasunosuke Fukukita, Cha-no-yu (1932); F. Y. Dickins, Hyaku-nin-isshu, or A Hundred Japanese Odes (1898); Lafcadio Hearn, A Japanese Miscellany (1907); Haruki Yamawaki, Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century (1904); Josiah Conder, Landscape Gardening in Japan, 2 vols. [text + plates] (1893); Ch’in Hsiao-yi, Great National Treasures of China: Masterworks in the National Palace Museum (1986); René Huyghe, Cent chefs-d’œuvre du musée du Louvre (1952); and Y. Okura, A New Japanese-English Dictionary (1902)
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