Baur Collection Netsuke, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 428 pages with descriptions and black and white illustrations of 1200 netsuke in the collection.

First edition. Deluxe edition limited to 50 copies. Publisher's full brown leather with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the original card slipcase. Loosely laid in is the original prospectus for this volume. The deluxe issue, limited to only 50 copies of which this is number 44 (XLIV); the regular issue, bound in cloth was limited to 1500 copies. An important reference work, offered here in its most desirable issue. This volume is the first of the legendary Baur collection catalogues to deal with Japanese art. It illustrates and describes 1,200 selected netsuke from the collection covering all manufacturing centres and is particularly rich in netsuke created by artists who lived in the second part of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in Osaka and Tokyo. The volume also includes an alphabetical list of 897 signatures illustrated on separated plates. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

428 S., 2 Bll. mit 1199 teils farb. Textabb. Nr. 953 von 1500 (Gesamtausfl. 1600) Exemplaren. - Erste Ausgabe dieses reich illustrierten Bestandkataloges der Netsuke der Baur Foundation - Museum for Far Eastern Art in Genf. - Leicht gebräunt. *** *** Copyright: Matthaeus TRUPPE Buchhandlung & Antiquariat - Stubenberggasse 7 - A-8010 Graz - ++43 (0)316 - 829552 *** *** Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 Kl.-4°. OLwd. mit OU im Schuber (etw. lädiert).