[Japan. Deluxe edition] Fables Choisies de J.-P. Claris de Florian.

Illustrées par des artistes Japonais sous la direction de P. Barboutau. Deuxième série. Tokio. Paris, Marpon & Flammarion/ E. Flammarion succr., Meiji 28 (1895), copy of the numbered...

Lot with 6 late 19th-/ early 20th-century photos,

incl. (1-2) (Three Westerners and 8 Indonesians (?) in front of and in an enormous banyan fig). (Group of 12 Westerners [incl. the three from the previous photo] playing 9-pins...

[Indian miniatures] Seven items: (1-6) Series of 6 gold-heightened gouaches,

with ladies and gentlemen individually or as a couple, ± 21 x 14 cm. (3x) and 22 x 18 cm., in uniform mounts. (7) (Man and woman). Gouache, gold-heightened and with short text,...

[Japan] Nine Japanese prints: (1) Gosotei Hirosada (act. 1826-1863).

(Omagata protecting himself under rain screen in evening darkness) (Osaka theatre scene). Colour woodcut, 25.5 x 18 cm., published by Tenki, in mount.

Photography Indonesia

Kinderaubade Mataram, Lombok 1938. Album (Japanese lacquer album, spine damaged) cont. some 100 photos. About 4/5 of the photos 7 x 8.5 cm., consisting of images of the festivities...

(Drinking European with tricorn, accompanied by a woman and a servant).

Pen drawing, first quarter 18th century, with several coloured elements in foot margin and a decorative border in pen and green watercolour, 26.5 x 17.5 cm.

(Europeans (Dutchmen?) in hammock on board a ship).

Japanese colour woodcut, 21.5 x 30.5 cm., 1st half 19th century, in frame.

Two watercolours: (1) Ishikawa Kin'ishiro (1871-1945). (Village scene).

Watercolour, 28.5 x 37.8 cm., signed "Ishikawa-Kin" bottom right (thumbtack holes and rust in corners, centered tear, traces of mounting verso).

[Japan] Two colour woodcuts: (1) Keisai Eisen (1790-1848).

(The courtesan Sugawara of the house Tsuruya with lantern under cherry blossom). Colour woodcut from the series of popular courtesans of the important houses, 35 x 23.5 cm., published...

[China. Donald Mennie] The Pageant of Peking.

Comprising sixty-six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and environs from photographs by Donald Mennie. With an introduction by Putnam Wheale. Descriptive notes by S. Couling. 3rd...

[China. Donald Mennie] The Gradeur of the Gorges.

Fifty photographic studies, with descriptive notes, of China's great waterway, the Yangtze Kiang, including twelve hand coloured prints. From photographs by Donald Mennie, author...

[China] Ling-Nam or Interior views of Southern China.

Including explorations in the hitherto untraversed land of Hainan by B.C. Henry. London, S.W. Patridge and Co., 1886, first edition, 511 p., with illustrations, contemporary cloth...

[Japan] Kokka Yoho. Ise naigai shimpo-bu.

(The continuing fame of national prides. Vol.: The sacred treasure of the inner and the outer shrine of Ise). No place, 1881, double-p. text followed by 18 double-p. chromolithographic...

[Japan] Le Japon Artistique. Documents d'Art et d'Industrie.

Réunis par S. Bing. Paris, Japon Artistique/ Marpon et Flammarion, (1888-1891), 36 monthly issues in 3 volumes with consecutive paging per volume, (6),156,(9); (4),162 [=166],(9);...

[Japan] Album with 50 pasted, handcoloured photos on 25 cardboard leaves,

Japan, c. 1900, all photos 19.5 x 25 cm., 37 photos with printed English title, bound between lacquered wooden boards rebacked with cloth with part of the original gilt leather...

Japanese ornament book

Japanischer Ornamentenschatz bei Ernst Wamuth, Berlin, c. 1900. Oblong in orange paper wrapper, cordbound. 7.5. x 15.5 cm. Some 110 pp. (Fragile) wrapper slightly soiled and damaged, else good.

A Manual of Chinese Running-Handwriting

especially as it is used in Japan, compiled from original sources by R.J. de St. Aulaire and W.P. Groeneveldt. Printed for the authors, sold by G.M. van Gelder, Amsterdam, 1861. iv, 113, 60 pp.

[Japan] Two items: (1) (Samurai versus Yokai).

Colour woodcut on crêpe paper, 14 x 32 cm., in frame (damage/ creasing).

[Thangka] Two scroll paintings: (1) (Shiva).

Gouache painting on thick lacquered cloth, 46 x 33 cm., 20th century, heightened with abundant gold and with inscription in gilt letters, reverse with name of marker (?) in pen,...

[Japan] Utagawa Kunimasa (1773-1810). (Actor Nakamuro Noshio II as Sakuramaru).

Colour woodcut, 36.5 x 24.5 cm. (oban), with stamps for signature (Kunismasa-gwa), publisher and censor, in frame.

[Indian miniatures] 7 items: (1) (Full-length portrait of a high-ranking gentleman).

Gouache on thick paper, 30.5 x 21 cm., 19th/ 20th century.

[Woven fabric/ embroidery/ fragments] Lot with 10 pieces of decorated fabric,

19th/ 20th century, four using gold thread and four of red cloth with decoration made from copper sequins (reverse unbleached cloth), remaining two painted, rectangular with dimensions...

[Japan] Sample album for exclusive fabrics,

19th century, with 29 leaves to which are affixed on both sides 1 or 2 patches of (coloured) fabric, altogether 75 pieces, identified in calligraphed characters, also with 27 blank...

[Balinese school] Three items: (1) W.J. Senter (20th century). (Batuan painting).

Gouache, 31 x 21 cm., signed bottom left, in frame.

[Japan] 7 botanical drawings

Watercolour, second half 19th century. Signed and numbered. 1) Camellia doponica; 2) Peonia albiflora; 3) Peonea Montan; 4) Lilium cordfolium; 5) Camellia Japonica; 6) Lilium batemaniac;...

Catalogue Japanese masks

Extremely deluxe sales/ exhibition catalogue of Japanese masks, from the Felix Tikotin collection, The Hague. Published c. 1930. Collection of 100 photos of antique wooden masks,...

Ferdinand Georges Bigot (1860-1927). O-Hayo

Yokohama, 1884. One of 150 copies on Japanese paper.

[Photography Indonesia] Album S. Satake

Souvenir of Tosari Java. Tosari studio, Java, 1920s/'30s. Extraordinary collection of 24 monochrome photos by Japanese photographer Satake of Javanese landscapes with handwritten...

The Mikado

Sketches behind the scenes by C.W. Allers, F.A. Dahlström Hamburg, 1988. R. d'Oyly Carte's Mikado Company. Folding pictoral blue-cloth file with 22 leaves with 21 tipped-in illustrations...

[Japan. Kamakura] L. Loudon (20th century). "Kamakura".

Two watercolours, 32 x 39 cm. and 28 x 45 cm., both signed "L. Loudon" and titled in pencil, the largest dated "25/11-1906" in pencil, affixed with top corners to cardboard holders.

[Japan] (Two plans).

Two drawings in pen and ink, finished as watercolours, 51.5 x 39.5 cm. and 75.5 x 52.5 cm., profusely provided with seals and texts, probably first half 19th century.

[Japan] Johannes van Gijn (1876-1919). (Figure of man with fan).

Oil on canvas (marouflé on cardboard), 31.5 x 14.5 cm., signed and dated 1915 bottom right (thumbtack holes in corners).

Lot with 5 various drawings: (1) On "pith" paper: (Women at work).

Chinese export gouache on "pith" paper, 19th century, 15 x 33 cm. (with usual damage/ small tears).

[Japan] Kotondo Torii

Ako Gishi Seichu Gakan, Shobunsha, 1939. Album with story in 50 prints. 38 x 18 cm. Good copy in case.

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)

Triptych Kabuki actors, c. 1856. 3 leaves in frame under glass.

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)

Triptych Tabuki actors, Oban size, c. 1850. Issued by Kawaguchiya Shozo. In frame under glass. Paper browned (particularly along edges) and slightly discoloured.

[China] Hunting portraits

Series of 8 paintings on silk, first half 19th century. Men and women on horseback, all depicted with hunting symbols such as a falcon, lynx, whip, rabbit, pheasant etc. Unsigned....

Japan

Album with 9 photos, c. 1890-1900. Each 9 x 14 cm. Images 1) Street scene; 2) Street scene (photo bent); 3) Sumo-wrestling children in crowd; 4) Geishas in traditional garden;...

Japan

Pictorial record of Kobe City Museum of Nanban Art. [5 vols. in green cloth cassette with Japanese lock]. 1968-1972. Folio, 5 volumes, title on spine (English) and front board...

Pith paper

21 pith paper images. Incl. 7 related to torture, each 7 x 8 cm. + 14 various other works, varying from 8 x 5 to 8 x 14 cm. All in mount, loose-leafed, with 6 leaves with 2 images....

[Pith paper] Tinqua (Guan Lianchang)

Series of 8 pith paper paintings on rice paper, all large-size (315 x 205 mm.).

Chinese scroll

Archer, handpainted, second half 19th century, signed bottom right, pasted to silk with wooden sticks on ends. 105 x 36 cm.

Chinese silk paintings

Watercolour on silk, China, 19th century. Hexaptych of a Chinese legend with accompanying text on reverse.