Japanese Botany During the Period of Woodblock Printing

Japanese Botany During the Period of Wood-Block Printing By Harley Harris Bartlett and Hide Shohara Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1961 Separately published reprint from The Asa Gray Bulletin Hardcover in green boards Illustrated Condition: Near Fine A substantial study of Japanese botanical literature and illustration during the era of woodblock printing. Bartlett and Shohara examine historical botanical and agricultural works, providing a reference at the intersection of plant science, Japanese book history, and illustration. The study remains useful to botanical historians and rare-book specialists: the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation cites it in discussing Japanese botanical illustration, and specialist booksellers use it to describe important early Japanese agricultural books. Published by Dawson’s Book Shop in 1961, reprinted from The Asa Gray Bulletin, new series, Vol. 3, pages 289–561. Hardcover in green boards. A valuable, useful & comprehensive bibliographic reference work addressing Japanese woodblock illustrated books pertaining to botany. This superb resource illustrates and describes over 100 titles. It gives full bibliographical description, with English translation, cites Latin names of botanical examples, illustrates many books & has a valuable commentary on each. With indices of Japanese artist/author, Japanese title, scientific name of plants. Cross references cited, with a copious bibliography. Divided into two parts per the subtitle. This highly useful bibliography is coveted by collectors of Japanese woodblock printed books and also Japanese [and Chinese] botany. This is the one and only comprehensive source, showing examples from the actual books. Condition: Near Fine. Please review photos for details.…