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Ohkubo, Y. ["Ichigaku"]
Ichigaku Shasei no Tori Dzufu [Album of drawings of all birds, drawn from nature by Ichigaku].
Tokyo, unpublished, 1889. 80 loose leaves. Folio (ca. 37.0 x 27.0 cm). On Japanese paper, (all but one) mounted on original, larger sheets of Japanese paper measuring ca. 44.0 x 32.5 cm, one is framed (53 x 41 x 3 cm) in a modern, oriental-style lacquered wooden frame with bevelled edges. Four leaves contain text only, 76 contain illustrations of complete birds (the vast majority), or parts (e.g., wings). A few have additional, smaller sheets with text attached.
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Peringskiöld, J.
Historia Hialmari regis Biarmlandiae atque Thulemarkiae, ex fragmento runici MS.ti literis recentioribus descripta, cum gemina versione Johannis PeringskioldI.
[Stockholm, Johan Peringskiöld Sr., 1701] Folio (30.5 x 20.0 cm). [43] p., including woodcut facsimile on pp. [3-18], printed in red on pp. [3-4]. Full polished leather with marbled leather rectangular inlay. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with elaborate gilt-rolled or stippled borders, gilt corner-pieces, and central vignette. gilt-rolled edges and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges, top edge gilt. 11 additional blanks bound in the rear. In later marbled slipcase (31.7 x 20.7 x 1.6 cm).
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[Scrapbook]
18th-century scrapbook with cut-out illustrations by Engelbrecht and/or other publishers.
Germany/France, ca. 1750-1800. Elongate folio (40.6 x 16.8 cm). 42 leaves of blue laid paper with ca. 175 figures mounted and another ca 100 figures not yet cut-out. In later clamshell box (44.6 x 19.5 x 2.5 cm).
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Seemann, A.
Japanische Färbeschablonen. Hundert Muster kleineren formates. In Originalgrösse herausgegeben und mit einer Einleitung versehen von Artur Seemann.
Leipzig, Berlin, E. A. Seemann, 1899. Folio (42.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page, 2 pp. introduction; two loose sheets with Japanese text; 100 coloured prints with Japanese stencil designs. In original portfolio (43.0 x 28.4 x 2.2 cm) with red linen spine cover and orange, grained boards. Front board printed in black, with diapositive titles and spiderweb illustration.
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