Author: ROORDA, T.B.(ED.),
Title: Keur van werken van Oost-Aziatische Kunst in Nederlandsch bezit; Choix d'Objets d'Art d'Extrême Orient conservés dans les Pays Bas. Première Série/first series (all publ.).
Description: 's-Gravenhage/La Haye, Nijhoff, 1920. 4°. Orig. clothbacked portfolio, small square gilt tooled vignette on front boards, title in gilt on spine. Preface (1p.), tables of contents (1p), 21 very fine loose mounted plates on stiff papers, with extensive explanatory bi-text throughout: and on facing-pp. [Vereeniging Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst/Société des Amis de l'Art Asiatique, 1re série/eerste serie]. Plates illustrate a choice-collection of masterpieces of Far Eastern art, (:) Chinese stone & bronze sculptures: T'ang, Yuen period; Tibetan painting; Japanese sculptures: Nara-style, Takuma-style, Fujiwara period, Tosa-school, Ashikaga-period, etc.; Cambodian sculpture; Thai sculpture, etc. Good copy, text printed on large paper. Ltd. edn. (not-for-the trade) of 275 numbered copies, this copy bears nr. 261 (total numbered edn. of 450 copies only). Rare. (bds. somewh. stained, some minimal foxing inside.)

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