May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 344

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(JAPAN.) History of the Empire of Japan. Compiled and Translated for the Imperial Japanese Commission of the World's Columbian Exposition. 38 plates, including 5 double-page reproducing photographs by Ogawa, and 6 double-page color woodblocks; folding map and 2 folding plans. 8vo, original oriental-style silk over boards, binding lightly soiled, short tear at top of front joint; contents clean. Tokyo, 1893

Additional Details

with: Noguchi, Yone. Emperor Shomu and the Shosoin. 64 plates. 2 volumes. Folio, original oriental-style pictorial wrappers; contents clean; publisher's chemise of silk over boards with ivory clasps. Tokyo, 1941.