Chinese and Japanese Albums
Explore the rich history and artistry of China and Japan with our rare book selection. Discover beautiful albums featuring exquisite illustrations, calligraphy, and more. Add a unique piece to your library today.
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Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoisie.
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00The first edition of Du Halde's "encyclopaedic account of China" (Lust) -- and one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde,...
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City of Nanking.
[CHINA].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving detai...
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Paintings of tradesmen.
ZHOU PEICHUN.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Zhou Peichun was a famous Beijing folk artist and export painter in the late Qing Dynasty.The present album t contains 96 pictures showing Chinese...
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[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Flowers & Insects.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and insects.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small...
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Album of gouaches depicting the manufacture of tea.
[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Tea cultivation. An excellent example of rare Chinese album on pith paper on tea cultivation depicting each process in detail. Pith seems not to ha...
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The Later Ceramic Wares of China.
HOBSON, R.L.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00Number one of 250 copies. A lavish production on the important later ceramic works from the Ch'ing Dynasty, this deluxe issue further enhanced by t...
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Four Chinese Export Paintings.
[CHINESE SCHOOL.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £9,500.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00Four Chinese Export paintings, each finely painted in ink and gouache on paper with bird and flower scenes enclosed with floral cartouches, on a d...
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Album of ink drawings.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Fine collection of original drawings showing Chinese ceremonies, scenes from the Imperial court, portraits of Chinese nobility, musical instrument...
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Ceremonies with fantastic animals.
[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00+Pith seems not to have been adopted for painting until about 1820. Some European museums claim that their paintings on pith (often erroneously ca...
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Kyodo risshi no motoi [Instruction in the Fundamentals of Success].
YOSHITOSHI, Tsukioka; KYOCHIKA, Kobayashi; TOSHIKATA, Mizuno; and others.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00This beautiful album contains prints by various Meiji artists including two by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), 12 by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-19...
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Tokaido gojusantugi no uchi [53 Stations of the Tokaido].
KUNISADA, Utagawa.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful creator of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in Japan in the 19th c...
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Pair of watercolours of theatrical performers.
[CHINA EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00A pair of watercolours of unusually fine quality with fine gold highlights, The present watercolours are remarkable, firstly for their quality, bu...
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Watercolour Album
[CHINA.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £25,000.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Chinese folk religion. A fine collection of Qing dynasty watercolours depicting deities and immortals from Chinese folk religion, incorporating ele...
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