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Adrien-Hubert Brué. Atlas. Paris, J. Goujon, 1826 [France, Suisse et Italie septentrionale], and J. Goujon & J. Andriveau, 1827 [Mappemonde, Asie, Amérique méridionale and Amérique septentrionale, Afrique, Océanie and Europe]. 8 watercolour enhanced maps, (65 x 96 cm), cloth-backed, […]
[Omocha-e. 玩具絵].Shimizu Seifū. 清水晴風. Unai no tomo (Children’s Friends [Japanese toys]). Volume 1 [alone].うなゐの友 初編. [Kyoto], Unsodo, Yamada Naosaburo, Meiji 24 [Octobre 1891]. 芸艸堂, 山田直三郎, 明治廿四年 十月. In-8° (25,2 x 17,5 cm) . 62 leaves, 52 full-page prints (which […]
Japanese Album. Village scenes. 日本のアルバム。村に。Around 1820-1830. 6 dressed painted canvases (24,5 x 31 cm each) Leporello, blue and gold woven covers, modern folding box in grey fabric, navy blue suede interior, 2 bone clasps. The decorations are delicately watercoloured on […]
Adrien-Hubert Brué. Atlas. Paris, J. Goujon and J. Andriveau, 1827 [for the map France]-1829. World map – Europa – Asia – Oceania – Africa – North America [,] – South America [,] – France, Suisse et Italie septentrionale. There is […]
形態之吉凶 陰陽合復學 [The Doctrine of In-Yô brought back to the sexual principles of the male and female]. Japanese copy handwritten in the 18 th century (Edo era), a text from the Genroku era 元祿年百書 (1688-1704) (printed seal and […]
Album Chinois. No place, no name, [Shanghai ?, around 1860]. Album in-4° (279 x 210 mm). A lithographed introductory leaf, 41 albumin photographs, cardboard indexed. Editor’s black bookbinder’s cloth, gilt title on the front cover, gilt slices. Rare original […]
Meng Tseu [Mencius in western language, by Stanislas Julien]. 道光四年（1824年），石板鐫刻 西講孟子，梁茹蓮校訂. [The Fourth Canonical Book]. No place, no name, no date [Paris, Dondrey-Dupré fils, Société Asiatique, 1824]. 2 parts in 1 vol. in-8°. 1 large title page, 122 pp.; […]