Author: SECKEL, D. (INTRODUCTION),
Title: Ando Hiroshige. Tokaido-Landschaften. [Erste Auflage; First edition].
Description: Baden-Baden, Klein, 1958. Small folio, original vellum paper covered boards, gilded title on front cover and spine, dustjacket. 27pp. of introduction and description to plates, 16 fine coloured and captioned facsim. plates after original woodblock colour prints, out of text, route map of 16 stations to Edo in text with japanese text legenda, footnotes/references. Scholarly german language introduction and description of Ando Hiroshige's masterpiece, the 16 Tokaido stations, nicely reproduced in colour. Good copy WITH dustjacket. (dustjacket frayed at extremities, some light foxing to front edge of bookblock).

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