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A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Price-clipped blurb. 119 pages. Many color photos. Large format: 10 1/8"w x 14 1/4"h. "More than 500 eye-popping illustrations recreate pictorially the famous Danjuro Eighteen Kabuki dramas in this exquisite large-format portfolio, a treasury of Japanese art, history, color, and design."
96p. Numerous color photographs from the collection of Kanwar Sangram Singh of Nawalgarh. Small 4to. Original cloth and dust jacket. EROS2
8vo. 252p. Figures and initials drawn in line by H. M. Bosse. Translated from the French by "A.F.N." Edition limited to 2000 copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CLASSICS BOX 4
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 90 pages. Color illustrations.
Book is as-new black fine cloth covers, sliver lettering at spine. Excellent condition in every respect with no blemishes of any kind. Previous owner's name and phone number on front endpaper. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear only, no tears or chipping. An encyclopedic reference to the subject, at 364 pages, book is divided between two roughly equal sections with different paper used in each. The first is in four sections: Early genre painting and the rise of Ukiyo-e, The primitives and the first centry of Ukiyo-e 1660 - 1765 The golden age of the color print 1765 - 1810, & Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Japanese landscape 1810 - 1880. 2nd section comprises the Illustrated dictionary of Ukiyo-e, in which illustrations go to b&w. In business for 20 years, we provide excellent customer service and ship in packing material appropriate to assure your package arrives undamaged.
118 pages. "Documents the intimate life and culture of the nineteenth-century geisha. It portrays these artists in a cultural reality created by staged studio photography, private scenes, and rare outdoor images. The geisha is pictured performing her daily rituals and various arts. Images of courtesans and other working women are presented alongside the geisha to show all sides of this enchanting aspect of Japanese culture. Completing the story are insightful essays on the history of nineteenth-century Japanese photography, the social history of the geisha, and the history of the opening of Japan." - from dust jacket. Light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Minimal library markings. A nice copy. Book
A LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT MADAME DU BARRY AND LOUIS XV. 147 pp. plus publisher's catalogue. Illustrated throughout with charming wood-engravings by Chatelaine. Jean de La Hire (1878-1956), the author, was a nephew of sculptor Aristide Maillol. He left his native French Catalonia at an early age, hoping for literary immortality on Paris. While he never won any prestigious prizes, he achieved great success as a popular writer, finally churning out over six hundred books--many of which sold extremely well. MaÓtresse du Roy is among his earliest works, written while the author still had serious literary pretensions. ONE OF ONLY FIFTEEN LARGE-PAPER COPIES PRINTED ON EXTREMELY FINE IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER AND SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. 8vo. Beautifully bound in half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, top edge gilt, silk ribbon page marker, original wraps preserved. Spine faded, else FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS.
"In-8°, 84cc, legatura in pergamena coeva, titolo manoscritto al dorso, bella incisione su legno dell’aquila imperiale al frontespizio. Buone condizioni. La prima apparizione in stampa di questi tre autori (a cura di Francesco Amadi): Brocardo, Delfino e Molza, e quindi la prima edizione del celebre poema di Molza La nimpha tiberina. Antonio Brocardo, figlio del celebre filosofo Marino Brocardo, nacque a Venezia all'inizio del Cinquecento e studiò poesia sotto Gabriel Trifone. Fu amico di Sperone che lo introdusse nel suo Dialogo della Rettorica e allude anche a un sonetto (mai pubblicato) in lode alle cortigiane nei suoi Amori. Commettendo l'enorme errore di tentare di screditare le opere di Bembo, allora tenuto in grande rispetto a Venezia e Padova, morì di crepacuore nel 1531, provocato dai selvaggi attacchi a lui, sostenendo Pietro Aretino di essere il capobanda. Molza, invece, fu celebrato dall'intera intellighenzia romana della prima metà del Cinquecento. Nato a Modena nel 1489 si trasferì presto a Roma dove la sua poesia sembra aver avuto un successo maggiore delle sue relazioni amorose, una delle quali quasi finì con la morte da un pretendente rivale e lo fece diseredare dal padre. Dal 1529 al 1535 fu alla corte del cardinale Ippolito de 'Medici e alla sua morte passò a quella del cardinale Alessandro Farnese. Morì nella sua città natale nel 1544. Dice Tiraboschi di lui ""Merita veramente questo onore (l’edizione proposta dal Cardinale Farnese delle opere di Molza nel 1547), in quanto è uno dei più dotti poeti in rima di questo secolo, e all'eleganza dello stile lega la nobiltà dei pensieri e di immagini ""Census B3755; non in Adams; NUC individua le copie a Columbia e Yale; RLIN aggiunge Michigan, Harvard e Folger; nessuna ulteriore copia individuata da OCLC. In-8°, 84cc, contemporary vellum binding, fine woodcut imperial arms on title-page. Good copy. The first appearance in print of these three authors (edited by Francesco Amadi): Brocardo, Delfino and Molza, and therefore the first edition of Molza’s celebrated poem La nimpha tiberina. Antonio Brocardo, the son of the celebrated philosopher Marino Brocardo, was born in Venice at thebeginning of the sixteenth century and studied poetry with Gabriel Trifone. He was a friend of Sperone who introduced him in his Dialogo dell Rettorica and also alludes to a sonnet (never published) in praise of courtesans in his Amori. Making the enormous mistake of trying to discredit the works of Bembo, then held in great respect in Venice and Padua, he died of a broken heart in 1531, brought about by the savage attacks on him, Pietro Aretino claiming to be the ringleader. Molza, on the other hand, was lionised by the entire Roman intelligentsia of the first half of the sixteenth century. Born in Modena im 1489 he soon moved to Rome where his poetry seems to have been a greater success than his love affairs, one of which almost ended in his death from a rival suitor and caused him to be disinherited by his father. From 1529 to 1535 he was in the court of Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici and after his death he passed to that of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. He died in his hometown in1544. Tiraboschi says of him “He truly deserves this honour (Cardinal Farnese’s proposed edition of Molza’s works in 1547), as he is one of the most learned rhyming poet of this century, and to elegance of the style he links the nobleness of thoughts and vividness of images” Censimento B3755; not in Adams; NUC locates the copies at Columbia and Yale; RLIN adds Michigan, Harvard and Folger; no furter copy located by OCLC."
