Beschreibung:

A COLLECTION OF BOOKS A collection of 54 books and catalogues mainly related to Japanese Arms and Armour, Swords and Sword Fittings and Ukiyo-e prints, of various sizes, 8vo, 4to, folio, including: Brinkley, Captain F., Japan - Its History Arts and Literature - Vol. VII Pictorials and Applied Art (Boston and Tokyo, 1902) Inami, Hakusui, Nippon-to, The Japanese Sword (Tokyo, 1948) Hillier, Jack, Hokusai-Paintings Drawings and Woodcuts (New York, 1978, third edition) Hillier, Jack, Utamaro - Colour Prints and Paintings (New York, 1979, second edition) Hirano, Chie, The Making of Japanese Prints and the History of Ukiyo-e (Boston, 1939) Jenkins, Donald, Exhibition Catalogue of Ukiyo-e Prints and Paintings The Primitive Period, 1680-1745 - An Exhibition in Memory of Margaret O. Gentles held by The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971 (Chicago, 1971) Robinson, B. W., The Arts of the Japanese Sword (London, 1961) Robinson, Russell H., A Short History of Japanese Armour (London, 1965) Exhibition catalogue of Arms and Armor of Ancient Japan-An Historical survey , Co-Sponsored by the Municipal Art Patrons of Los Angeles and the Southern California To-Ken Kai, (1964) Exhibition catalogue of Nippon-To, Art Swords of Japan, The Walter A. Compton Collection (Japan, 1976) Exhibition catalogue of Masterpieces of Japanese Prints held by the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1955) Exhibition catalogue of The Japanese Sword and its Fittings from the collection of the members of the Japanese Sword Society of New York and the Cooper Union Museum, 1966 (New York, 1966) (A full list is available upon request from the department)