Sep 20, 2001 - Sale 1905

Sale 1905 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
(JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE.) An Example of Japanese Villa (Mountain Villa of Baron Kita-Mitsui). Map, 2 plans, and 55 photographic plates with descriptive text in Japanese, English, and German. Folio, rough linen with paper spine label, spotted; dampstain to front endpapers, slightly affecting margins of contents. Tokyo: Meiji Shobo, nd

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A detailed study of "a wonderful specimen of a purely Japanese traditional home . . . whilst utilizing at the same time the fruits of the scientific western civilization . . . an embodiment of the owner's conception of what an ideal villa should be . . . and an apt model for a house of the new era"--from the Introduction.