Rare Japanese Art Books

THE JAPANESE PRINT AN INTERPRETATION by Wright, Frank Lloyd

Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912. Tan Japanese paper over boards, lettered in dark blue, with abstract Crane devic...

$5,850.00

Sharaku, A Complete Collection. Reproduction by the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints by Teruji Yoshida and Toshusai Sharaku. Essay by Ichitaro Kondo. Edited by Toyohisa Adachi who supervised the making of the woodblock printed facsimile reproductions

OFFERING: An extraordinary publishing endeavor, more than 10 years in the making, the two issued deluxe volumes with texts in En...

$1,750.00

Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ori Ehon) (Ukiyo-E) by Various Artists

Hardcover. Very Good. Red decorative cloth over boards, royal folio (13-7/8 x 9-3/4 inches [35.3 x 24.7 cm]) containing well o...

CAD $8,500.00

The Floral Art Of Japan: Being A Second And Revised Edition Of The Flowers Of Japan And The Art Of Floral Arrangement by CONDER, Josiah [1852-1920]

Tokyo: Printed By The Shiuyei Sha; Published By Kelly And Walsh Limited, Yokohama, Shangai, Hongkong, And Singapore, 1899. Seco...

$1,000.00

Metropolitan Seminars In Art (Twelve Volume Set & Three Volume Set) by John Canaday

This set of twelve volume books and three volume books is in fair condition. The covers, corners, edges and spines are worn. The...

$350.00

Sansui Kikan by Fuchigami Kyokko

OFFERING: Volume II from the seminal eight volumes travel guide on the natural wonders of the Inland Sea of Japan, this volume d...

$425.00

Bansho Shasei Hinagata (How to sketch from Nature) by Takizawa Kiyoshi

OFFERING: The first issue of Volume II from the rare two volumes painting instruction manual, the first preface page and final p...

$175.00

HANSHIN MEISHO-ZUE by [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Kanao Bun'endô, publisher

1916. [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Kanao Bun'endô, publisher. HANSHIN MEISHO-ZUE A folding album of 24 (of 30) prints - oban si...

$6,500.00

[MASTERPIECES Of The Japanese Woodblock Print] [Cover Title in Japanese]

np: np, [c1900]. folio. 36 tipped-in colour woodblock prints after Isoda Koryusai, Hiroshige Ando, Shotei Watanabe, Tosa Mitsuo...

$2,000.00

Japan Described and Illustrated By the Japanese Written By Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars by Brinkley, Captain F. (editor)

Boston, MA: (1897-98): J.B. Millet Co. Folio. 15 section (volume) set, 260 illustrations which includes 30 albumen photographs ...

$1,000.00

Masterpieces of Japanese Puppetry. Sculptured Heads of the Bunraku Theater by Seijiro, Saito

Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1958. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with only light t...

$295.00

Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks by Fuller Richard; Gregory Ron

England: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Small amount of foxing on one preliminary pa...

$865.00

Kenchiku o kataru (Talking Architecture, conversations with students) by Ando Tadao

OFFERING: An important Tadao Ando text with an original, signed architectural sketch, done without inscription for an unnamed re...

$100.00

[ALBUM OF 22 ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS, ON SILK, OF BIRDS AND LEPIDOPTERA] by [Japanese Watercolors - 19th century]

[Japan, 1810. Folio (33 x 27.5 cm). Late 19th or early 20th century marbled calf, raised bands, spine gilt extra, gilt label, a...

$8,000.00

Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collection Of Rare Japanese Color Prints The Property of Mr. Judson D. Metzgar, Of Moline, Illinois, To Be Sold At Unrestricted Public Sale, On May 15-16, 1919, At The American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, New York by Metzgar, Judson D

The American Art Association, NY, 1919; 8vo, 118 pages; illustrated. Original 1919 auction catalogue for the historic sale of ...

$175.00

Fans of Japanese art will love our selection of rare books about Japanese Art in the Biblio Rare Book Room. From gorgeous woodblock paintings to ornate books on Japanese art and culture, there is a wide variety of rare Japanese art books featured below in the Biblio Rare Book Room. There are so many rare and antique Japanese art books to choose from, and they are sure to increase the value of your rare and antique book collection.

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