[CHITOSE-ZA THEATRE].

[A coloured moveable copper engraved plate]. Tokyo (Nihonbashi), Fukuda Eizo, 1884.

. Comprises a two-page print (50.5 x 36.8 cm) with one upper part depicting the exterior of the Chitose-za Theatre and a lower part showing its interior. Printed in bold and bright colours. One small hole in the upper right area and one small stain on the reverse side in the middle, otherwise in very good condition. The Chitose-za Theatre in the district of Hisamatsu-ch› in Tokyo was first opened in 1873 as the Kisho-za Theatre, renamed in 1885 when Kato Ichitaro saved the theatre from bankruptcy. It burned down in 1890 but has been rebuilt more than once over the years. Since 1893 it has been known as the Meiji-za Theatre which still holds kabuki and other performances.

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Book number: 120762

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, theatre, theater, teater, acting, kabuki, illustrated, ephemera,

BRAUN, ISABELLA:

Allranyaste Teater-Bilderbok med rörliga figurer. Fyra lustspel för de kära små. (New theatre picture book with movable figures. Four plays for the little ones). Stockholm, Oscar L. Lamm, tryckt hos J.F. Schreiber i Esslinge, no date (1884).

. Folio ( 26.5 x 35 cm). Pp (12). Text in Swedish. Four three-dimensional pop-up chromolithograph scenes, handled by silk ribbons. Publisher's boards, cloth spine, with coloured lithograph picture on upper cover. Contains four theatre plays for children: "Spring", "Summer excursion", "Apple picking" and "Christmas". Each charming pop-up scene is accompanied by a script and song lyrics. Three leaves are chipped at the outer edge but overall, a wonderful copy. Provenance: Bertil Gustafsson (1940-2024), Swedish book collector. Klinger - Bratt 621. 

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Book number: 121633

Catalogue: Old and Rare Books

Keywords: Old and Rare Books, children, barm kind, theater, theatre, play, pop-up, sweden. swedish

LI QIANFU / JULIEN, STANISLAS (Translator):

Hoei-Lan-Ki, ou l'histoire du cercle de craie, drame en prose et en vers. London, printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, sold by John Murray & Parbury, Allen & Co., 1832.

. Pp. v, viii- xxxiii, (ii), 149, (3) + 8 about the Oriental Translation Fund. With one lithographed plate. Uncut copy in original wrappers, spine strengthened. Ex. library copy. First edition. This Chinese drama written during the Yuan Dynasty by Li Qianfu (Xingdao) is better known under the title "The Chalk Circle" ( ). It became the main source for Bertold Brecht's play "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". The story is about judge Bao Zheng, who places an infant inside a chalk circle to determine his real mother. Julien Stanislas, renowned French sinologist who was the Chair of the Collège de France for forty years. This is the first translation of a Chinese drama into a Western language. Cordier BS 1786. Löwendahl 886. Lust 1114. Zenker, BO, 6817.

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Book number: 25004

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, teatre, drama, chinese,

MOUSSINAC, LÉON:

[AVANT-GARDE THEATRE]. Tendances nouvelles du théatre choix de décors, costumes, détails de mise en scène utilisés dans les représentations les plus originales de ces quinze dernières années. Précédé de remarques sur les récentes recherches de l'art du théatre. Paris, Les éditions Albert Lévy, 1931.

. Folio (38 x 28 cm). Pp. 35. With 124 heliotype plates printed on one side only, most with multiple images. 37 fully or partly coloured with pochoir technique in the studio of J. Saude. Recased in modern half calf on marbled paper boards, lightly rubbed. Housed in matching folder. Bound with original printed wrappers.First edition, limited to 615 copies, this is no. 151. A spectacular work devoted to the avant-garde theatre in Europe, Russia and United States. Illustrated with numerous pictures of costumes, set designs, staging details etc. used in the most ground-breaking performances of the previous years. Includes photographic illustrations and brightly coloured pochoir images. Designers include Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexandra Exter, Enrico Prampolini, Norman Bel Geddes, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and directors Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator, Max Reinhardt, and many more. A wonderful copy of a substantial work. Cf Colas, 2145 bis.

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Book number: 120617

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, theatre, illustrated, avant-garde, teater, costumes, pochoir, france, french, stage, setting, design,