1029 - 1346 ORIENTAL and TRIBAL ARTS - ART REFERENCE
- Owner's entry on first blank. Wrapper sl. worn/ rubbed. = Reprint of catalogues 1-130 (1903-1914).
AND 3 others, i.a. Jaffe Collection Highlights (n.pl., 2008, full-p. col. ills., orig. ringbound wr.) and D.R. SIMMONS, Iconography of New Zealand Maori Religion (Leyden, 1986, photogr. plates, orig. wr.).
= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION SIGNED and w. bookplate on first blank. Rare.
Strange, E.F. Catalogue of Japanese Lacquer. I. General; II. Medicine Cases (Inrô). London, HM Stationary Office, 1925, 2 vols., VIII,193; XIX,(1),162p., 2 frontisp., 48/ 37 plates w. num. ills., orig. unif. giltlettered cl.
- Top of spines sl. faded.
= Reprint of the 1907 ed., published for private circulation.
The Charles A. Greenfield collection of Japanese lacquer. London, Eskenazi, 1990, 245p., num. col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Inro and Lacquer. Ibid., Sotheby's, 1997, 87,(13)p., num. col. ills., orig. boards, 4to. - AND 6 others, i.a. (auction) catalogues of i.a. Japanese lacquer-ware from the Verbrugge Collection (London, 1989, num. col. ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.).
= Siegelaub p.249 ("Important survey").
Guy, J. Woven Cargoes. Indian Textiles in the East. London, Thames and Hudson, 1998, 192p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 2 others on Indian textiles.
- Binding sl. wormholed along backstrip and trifle fingersoiled along margins. Otherwise fine.
= Vol.3 of Memoirs of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research.
AND 2 others, i.a. a fine copy of James Cook. Gifts and Treasures from the South Seas. The Cook/ Forster Collection, Göttingen. Ed. B. Hauser-Schäublin and G. Krüger (Munich/ New York, 1998, richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
- Slipcases partly sl. sunned. Contents fine.
- Binding w. sm. remnants of paper.
Bagley, R. (ed.). Ancient Sichuan. Treasures from a Lost Civilization. Seattle/ Princeton, Seattle Art Museum/ Princeton U.P., 2001, 359,(1)p., num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 4 others, i.a. X. YANG, The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology (London/ New Haven, 1999, num. (full-p.) col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to) and F. CAPELO, Silence Speaks. Masks, Shadows and Puppets from Asia (Bangkok, 2015, (full-p.) col. ills., orig. wr., sm. 4to).
- Bookseller's stamp on frontwr. of text vol. Backstrip of portfolio (sl.) worn and covers sl. faded along extremities.
- Lacks vol. XIII and XV (bibliography). All vols. joints and spine-ends sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater I548 (on the small-size ed. of 1964): "A monumental work comprehensive in scope, indispensable for research on all of the arts in Persia. (...) Copiously illustrated with 1482 plates (210 col.)." Text vols.: I: Pre-Achaemenid, Achaemenid and Parthian Periods; II: Sasanian Period; III-VI: Islamic Period; plates vols.: VII: Pre-Achaemenid, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanian; VIII: Architecture; IX: Architectural Ornaments, Art of the Book; X: Pottery and Faience; XI: Carpets; XII: Textiles, Metalwork, Minor Arts; XIV: Proceedings of the IVth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archeology.























