[AINU / PHOTOGRAPHS / ]

Two large hand-coloured photographs of an Ainu woman and an Ainu man. Hokkaido, about 1890.

. Two original photographs of a woman and a man dressed in traditional Ainu costume. Size: 20.2 x 26.4 cm. Unmounted, titled and numbered at lower corner in negative. The photos are creased at corners, the one of the woman has two corners cut off and the one of the man one corner with small loss. The face and headwear of the man are slightly faded. The photographer is unknown. Well-preserved large images of two Ainu belonging to the indigenous people in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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Book number: 121566

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia asie, asien, asiatic, ainu, aino, photograph, costume,

BRETON DE LA MARTINIéRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH:

China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary. Four volumes in two. London, J.J. Stockdale, 1812.

. Pp. (iv), 128; (ii), 125; (ii), 135; (ii), 160. With 80 coloured engraved plates. (One plate restored in outer margin). Contemporary full calf ruled in gilt, rebacked to style, spine gilt in compartments with red title labels, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. First English edition, translated from the original French (Paris 1811-12). This work "originated in the activities of Bertin, secretary of State, 1762-80, who had responsibility for the Compagnie converts to take science courses in France. On return to China, they produced some 400 drawings of arts and crafts, thus moving outside the usual narrow missionary interests" (Lust). The charming plates mainly depict various artisans and vendors with their tools and products but some are devoted to costumes of emperors, ladies and soldiers. Abbey Travel 535. Colas 435. Cordier BS 65 (2nd ed.). Lust 1243.

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Book number: 100612

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, travel, voyage, exploration, illustration, colour plates,

GYÖRFFY, ISTVçN [HUNGARIAN FOLKLORE]:

Magyar népi h’mzések (Hungarian Folk Embroideries). I: A Cifraszür (The Ornamental Shepherd's Cloak) (all publ.). Budapest, J—szsef Kertész, 1930.

. Pp. 223. With 168 plates, of which 80 are b/w and 88 coloured plates pasted in, and two hundred illustrations in the text. The coloured plates have printed captions in Hungarian and German. Some browning to the paper. Some coloured plates (nos 29-36) are bound upside down. Half cloth on marbled paper boards which seems to be contemporary. Original printed front wrapper with pasted vignette bound in. First edition of this comprehensive monograph of the Hungarian szür, the traditional shepherd's mantle, decorated with the typical stylised floral ornamentation. Györffy worked for two decades on this work and collected more than one hundred coats during his travels. Now housed at the National Museum in Budapest. He studied extensively the historical material of the felt mantles, the technical tricks of the craft, and the method of sewing and ornamentation. Györrffy describes the different coat styles and types of flower decoration depending on the area, including Bihar county, Transylvania, the "Kunsâg", the "Hajdœsâg", Debrecen, Upper Hungary and Transdanubia. Rare and interesting work of traditional Hungarian folk embroidery with strikingly colourful illustrations.

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Book number: 121134

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, hungarian, hungary, ungern, embroidery, textile, design, folklore, handicraft, folk costume,

HEDENBORG, JOHAN:

Turkiska nationens seder, bruk och klädedrägter. Stockholm, L. J. Hjerta, 1839 (-42).

. 4to. Pp. 216, content (2). With one lithographed map by Schultén and 47 lithographed plates of which 46 are beautiful hand-coloured costume plates. Two plates slightly smaller in size, probably added from another copy. This copy is without the portrait, which was published separately and only sometimes bound together with the work. Beautiful contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spine decorated in gilt, top of spine with small repair. Bookplate (Tidö). First edition of this very attractive work on Turkey and its customs and manners. It was originally published in twelve separate parts, limited to about 525 copies. Compiled by Johan Hedenborg, a Swedish natural historian who in 1825 was appointed medical adviser to the Swedish Ambassador C.G. Löwenhielm in Constantinople. Atabey 567. Blackmer 800. Not in Colas or Lipperheide.

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Book number: 120273

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, turc, turkiet, turque, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, costume, costumes, levant, ottoman, illustration, illustrated, hand coloured,

OGAWA, KAZUMASA (Photogr. & Ed.):

Military Costume in Old Japan. Photographed by K. Ogawa, under direction of Chitora Kawasaki and Ko-yu-kai (Tokyo Fine Art School). Tokyo 1893.

. Folio. Pp. preface (iv) and fifteen b/w plates (chemigraphs) with descriptive text in English below each photo. Original pictorial wrappers bound in somewhat later half red calf, lightly rubbed. Bookplates. First edition. Deals with military costumes and armour from the Fujiwara epoch to the end of the Ashikaga period. The plates are reproduced photographs taken by Ogawa, Japan's leading photographer at the time, and printed by National Chemigraph Co. in St. Louis, USA. A beautiful and clean copy.

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Book number: 100091

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asiatic, military, costumes, travel, exploration, illustration, photographs,