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6 vols., with approx. 390 superb plates (30 in color, the others in photogravure on fine paper) accompanied by interleaved commentary on the objects, documenting the major collection of mostly Japanese, with some Chinese, art including paintings, lacquerwork, sculpture, ceramics, etc. Large folio. Silk-covered boards, elaborately tie-bound in the Japanese.....

MoreChoshunkaku Kansho. (Catalogue of the Kawasaki Collection

Early 19th century road map of downtown Paris and its immediate surroundings showing the location of the twelve municipal districts and town halls, with a legend including street names, police, hospitals, parishes, markets, bridges, and other sites and landmarks, with hand-drawn colored borders outlining the districts. Some toning, minor soiling.....

MorePlan Routier de la Ville de Fauxbourgs de Paris divisé en douze Mairies

Moscow, [1933]. Oblong octavo (11 × 14 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers with four flaps; twenty-three pictorial postcards loosely inserted, as issued. Very good or better. Rare complete set of Soviet postcards reproducing German Communist Party (K.P.D.) posters spanning the years 1919–1932, published by the Soviet Museum of the Revolution.....

MoreOtkrytye pis'ma: seriia: Plakaty Kompartii Germanii. Plakate der K.P.D. [Postcards: Poster art of...