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20 POSTCARDS OF KAMAKURA

*NEW*: 2025 ANTIQUES: CHINESE ARTS AUCTION RECORDS 2024.1.1-2024.12.31
2025 Gudong Paimai Nianjian 2025 古董拍賣年鑑.

Abe, Stanley:
- ORDINARY IMAGES

AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES - BACKHOFF AND WAGENER

Acharya, Sanjay:
- BHUTAN

Adams, Edward B:
- ART TREASURES OF SEOUL

Alexander, William & Mason, George:
- VIEWS OF 18TH CENTURY CHINA: COSTUMES, HISTORY, CUSTOMS

Allen, H. M. ed:
- LETTERS OF P. S. ALLEN

Andrews, F. H:
- WALL PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT SHRINES IN CENTRAL ASIA

ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU
(Remains of Large Stone Tombs Found on the Anning River) 安寧河流域大石窟.

Yuhas, Louise ed:
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 25

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 33

Asahi Shimbun ed:
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER SIX
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER NINE
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER TEN - TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE
- THIS IS JAPAN 1965 - NUMBER 12
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 13
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 16

Asian Art Museum:
- 5,000 YEARS OF KOREAN ART

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY VOL II: THIRD SERIES

ZZMEP1
MINIATURE JAPANESE MEIJI PERIOD ENGLISH PRIMER. Osaka, 1898. 46 full page lithographic illustrations interspersed with groups of pages from newspapers adhered together. 9.5x6.5 cm. Later full leather.
GBP 1,000.00
Appears to be extremely rare. We can find no record of anything similar. A miniature pocket book which comprises 46 pages of English vocabulary, each word in English accompanied by a black-and-white lithographic illustration and the equivalent translation in Japanese in kanji and phonetic katakana. Numerous small illustrations to each page. The pages of illustration are curiously interspersed with pages cut from Japanese newspapers that have been glued together - most probably to bulk out the book? Dated Meiji 31 i.e. 1898.
  The work has been later rebound in a rather luxurious dark brown leather with gilt leaf motifs and the words 'English & Japanese' in gilt on the spine with scroll and flower designs.
  The work most probably came from the collection of Julia Parker Wightman, a well-known New York collector of miniature books. The quality of the binding certainly suggests this. Whilst the work does not bear her ex-libris, it has the three letters 'JPW' inscribed on both front and endpapers and was discovered in an envelope stating 'JPW Collection'.
Subjects: Illustrated Books
Item 94 in List 214.
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