Flags 1893 (3 results)
- Art Print
Seller: Pictura Prints, Art & Books, Overasselt, , NetherlandsPictura Prints, Art & Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
US$ 29.50
US$ 22.92 shippingShips from Netherlands to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
No binding. Original chromolithograph on wove (vellin) paper. on paper. Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 29.9 x 23.7 cm. The image size is ca. 25.7 x 19.8 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 11.8 x 9.3 inch. The image size is ca. 10.1 x 7.8 inch.Plate: Flaggen I (Internationale Flaggen), with flags of various countries…around the globe, including Egypt, Korea, Netherlands, Birma, Belgium, Colombia, Peru, Samos and many others. This attractive original antique map originates from the 5th edition of the famous German Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, published in 1893 in Leipzig. Artists and Engravers: The original founder and publisher who initiated this famous enxyclopedia was Joseph Meyer (1796-1856, Hildburghausen, Germany).Condition: Very good, given age. Small tears in lower right, backed by acid free tape. Original middle fold, as issued. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling as visible on image. Please study image carefully.Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-FLAGS-INTERNATIONAL-WORLD-MEYERS(PCOMAN) A151-01.
Published by Boston The Company, 1893 1893
Seller: Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books, A.B.A.A., Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books, A.B.A.A.
Contact seller1-star seller6 illustrations of tents pp. 16mo, printed red wrappers, 2" separation at front head of spiner; back cover corner reattached with archival tape; other very small chips Company represented in both Romaine and McKinstry, but not with this particular catalogue.Very colorful and detailed descriptions of some of the more unusual fire…works.
More imagesPublished by Japan, 1893
Seller: ASHER Rare Books, t Goy Houten, NetherlandsASHER Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
US$ 5,900.90
US$ 28.65 shippingShips from Netherlands to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Ad 1: Very interesting collection of drawings of 131 flags, code and signal flags, banners, standards, crests, etc., made in late 19th-century Japan, most of them coloured in red, blue, white, black, yellow, and some decorated with gold and/or silver paint. Many with mottos and captions in Japanese characters. The collection can… be divided into 8 subcategories. (1) 34 flags on black poles of European and other powers. (2) 17 rectangular (Samurai?) banners on a pole with a horizontal pole at the top, mostly in red and white. (3) 28 pennants and banners of various shapes, mostly on crested poles and some of them decorated or partly decorated with gold and/or silver paint. (4) 27 Japanese military (Samurai?) flags and banners in red and white, some with Japanese characters, including the flag of the imperial Japanese army: the red sun with the red sunrays. (5) 11 Japanese military flags and banners in blue, black and white. (6) 4 unfinished and uncoloured sketches of Japanese military flags and banners. (7) 3 symbolic banners with mottos in Japanese characters. (8) 7 unfinished, but partly coloured in sketches of flags, banners and pennants.Ad 2: 10 folded leaves of Japanese so-called rice-paper, mostly containing decorative flower designs, one with fans and another with traditional Japanese dolls. All are executed with a brush and black paint, two of the flower designs are executed in black, red and green paint.With Japanese characters in pencil and/or black and blue ink, as well as red (owners'?) stamps on the inside of the wrapper. Wrapper slightly browned with some minor signs of wear, some margins slightly frayed, some leaves with minor stains or browning. 19th-century wrappers of thick handmade Japanese paper, reinforced with straps of paper containing Japanese characters and blue and red stamps; with the title of ad 1 in Japanese characters on the front wrapper. Collection of drawings of 131 flags, banners etc. on separate leaves of varying sizes, most of them coloured. Pages: [131]; [10] ll. With: (2) [MANUSCRIPT]. [Decorated Japanese rice-paper].Japan, [1893?]. Ten sample leaves 928 x 38 cm) of so-called rice paper (actually cut in small sheets from the pith of the rice-paper plant, Tetrapanax papyrifer), decorated with varying designs, like flowers, fans and traditional Japanese dolls.
