First edition

Utagawa SADAHIDE

Kawanakajima gunkan (Batailles de l'île Kawanaka)

Sadahide 1860 (S.d), 12x18cm, 50 feuillets., broché.

First edition consisting of 50 illustrated sheets including many scenes on double page. The author of the text could not be identified.
Japanese binding in acordon. Title label with several gaps. Folds on the blue embossed cover.
The battles on Kawanaka Island took place in 1550-1560 [...]

700 €

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Utagawa TOYOKUNI III KUNISADA

Un seigneur et son écuyer regardant trois femmes à l'éventail près de l'eau

1854, 23x35cm, Format Oban, une feuille.

original print printed between 1847 and 1854. Cut after a margin of cm. Modern coaching performed in Tokyo with the back label: Jinbocho Kanda Tokyo. Japan. Kingyokudo & co. polished mahogany frame. The stamp carries an adhesive on a tiny margin that connects to the mat. A polystyrene plate and [...]

680 €

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Paul CLAUDEL, Rihakou HARADA

Dodoitzu

Gallimard, Paris 1945, 21,5x28cm, broché.

First bilingual edition, one of 75 numbered copies on vélin blanc Lafuma paper, the tirage de tête.
With 30 color illustrations by Rihakou Harada.
Two snags and tears to spine, one small stain to head of upper cover, but otherwise a good copy.

1 200 €

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Pierre LOTI, Luigi ROSSI

Madame Chrysanthème

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1888, 15,5x24cm, relié.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only large paper copies.
Elegant brown morocco, spine in six compartments with gilt fillets to bands and double gilt-ruled compartments richly decorated, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, a frame of triple gilt fillets to [...]

2 500 €

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Utagawa SADAHIDE

Procession

ca 1860, 36x48, en feuilles.

Original Japanese print. Two sheets of certainly a great set of huit.Impression on mulberry paper. The leaves were doubled back, due to a weakened at the top by galleries vers.Membre the Utagawa school paper, and probably the best student of the founder of the school, Utagawa Kunisada I. He [...]

200 €

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MIGITA TOSHIHIDE

Le meurtre de Kudo Suketsune par Goro Tokimune

Matsunaga Sakujiro 1880, 35x72cm (Oban triptyque), une feuille.

Original print. Triptych of three interconnected prints (taped to the back of a strip of paper) .Three sheets joined into one. Hole at each end. A lack in the left margin. A twelfth century central.Au fold Tokimune avenge the death of his father by killing his murderer, Kudo Suketsune. Toshihide [...]

600 €

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Utagawa SADAHIDE, Utagawa SADAHIDE & Batei SHUJIN

Nanchou Gaishi Buyuden

Sadahide, Edo 1856, 10 Vol. (14,5x23cm), cousu.

First edition, rare, with 35 engravings, many double page in black, grey, and white (several with grey and black ink wash). The title may be translated as: A History of the Braves of the Southern Court.
10 accordion-stitched volumes. Three different printed covers, the first series comprising [...]

1 200 €

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YANAGAWA SHIGENOBU II

Yanagawa Gafu. Sansui no bu

Shubundo, Edo [Tokyo] 1856, 12x18cm, 50p., cousu.

First edition, rare. Illustrated with 44 plates including a double page, totaling 110 enhanced color figures of the time by Yanagawa Jushin. Vintage brochure, original binding embossed green cold cloud patterns paper. Excellent condition. The author has published five volumes of its kind addressing [...]

500 €

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