Alexandre IACOVLEFF, Serge ELISSEEFF
Le Théâtre japonais (Kabuki)
Jacques de Brunhoff • chez Jules Meynial|Paris 1933|28.50 x 38.50 cm|broché
Le Théâtre japonais (Kabuki)
Illustrated with 32 superb colour plates and 48 in-text black and white illustrations.
Serge Elisséeff, a great orientalist of Russian origin, established in Paris in the 1920s and then in the United States, was the first director of the Yenching-Institut at Harvard. He will then become famous by developing, during the Second World War, a rapid teaching of Japanese and Chinese for the armies sent to the Pacific.
Superb and rare copy free from foxing of the most beautiful illustrated book on Kabuki.
Jacques de Brunhoff chez Jules Meynial
Paris 1933 | 28,5 x 38,5 cm | in original wrappers
First edition printed in 500 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only issue, our copy unjustified.Paris 1933 | 28,5 x 38,5 cm | in original wrappers
Illustrated with 32 superb colour plates and 48 in-text black and white illustrations.
Serge Elisséeff, a great orientalist of Russian origin, established in Paris in the 1920s and then in the United States, was the first director of the Yenching-Institut at Harvard. He will then become famous by developing, during the Second World War, a rapid teaching of Japanese and Chinese for the armies sent to the Pacific.
Superb and rare copy free from foxing of the most beautiful illustrated book on Kabuki.
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