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CROSSMAN, Carl L.
A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE EXPORT PAINTINGS, FURNITURE, SILVER.
And Other Objects.
Salem 1970, Peabody. Stiff pictorial wrs., 48p., 32 b.w. photos, very good copy.
This catalog covers some 146 objects in the Peabody Museum collection, plus those of lenders. This catalog illustrates and describes paintings, watercolors, paintings on glass, lacquerware, furniture, silver, fans and carved ivory and other objects. A very good reference source. 		Price: $35 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

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A CELEBRATED & ECLECTIC REFERENCE RESOURCE

CROSSMAN, Carl L.
THE CHINA TRADE: Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver  & Other Objects. Princeton [1973], Pyne. Blue cloth, dj., 275p., very good,40 color, 177 b.w. glossy photos, list of Chinese painters, bibliography, index. A superbly done work, highly useful study.
Sino-American commercial relationship, well-documented by the wondrous art work. Covers Chinnery & Lam Qua, genre painting, gouaches, painting on glass, furniture, carvings, lacquer ware, fans, silver & pewter goods, silks & much more. An important and superb reference to these art forms. With copious appendices on dating, Chinese ports and painters. A valuable resource for any student or collector. S C A R C E

Price: $150 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

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Another copy [SEE Description above] CROSSMAN, Carl L.
THE CHINA TRADE: Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver & Other Objects.
Princeton [1972], Pyne. Blue cloth, very good dj., 755p., index, bibliography, 40 color, 177 b.w. glossy photos list of Chinese painters. Superb work useful study. 		Price: $100 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

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FEATURING JAPANESE & CHINESE PAINTINGS, BUDDHIST ART &c…

DAWSON’S BOOK SHOP.
JAPANESE PICTURE SCROLLS AND PAINTINGS.
[Including Chinese & Korean Paintings &c.]  Los Angeles [1965-67], Dawson’s. Blue cloth, very good, 191p., title, artist & author indexes, profusely illustrated with b.w. photos, 511 individually described & priced item many illustrated, a valuable reference resource.  Excellent reference resources for any collector or student of both Japanese & Chinese painting, Buddhist art, Buddhist woodblock prints [Japanese], sculptures, scrolls, Kakemono,
Zen Buddhist arts, woodblock printed books [E-hon], manuscript scrolls, books, paintings, fans, Samurai fencing, Noh drama, Kano and early Sumi paintings, literati, Shijo, fine calligraphy, Shijo school work, picture scrolls, flower arrangement, Korean art works & a host of others. An eclectic reference, most useful. Catalog numbers: 343, 349, 351, 357 & 366, all items consecutively numbered 1-511.

Price: $75 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

BookNo picture available[GAO, Qifeng.] THE ART OF GAO QIFENG.
Hong Kong [1981], Hong Kong Museum of Art. Stiff pictorial wrs., 124p., 12 color, 97 b.w. photos, Chinese and English text, very good.  A wonderful exhibition showing the diversity of the painter, landscape, animals, calligraphy, his chop seals, fans, biographical notes. 		Price: $60 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

BookNo picture availableA FASCINATING RESOURCE ON CHINA & CUSTOMS

GILES, Herbert A.
HISTORIC CHINA AND OTHER SKETCHES.
London 1882, De La Rue. Green gilt-stamped cloth, very good, 405p., index, bookplate, contents very clean. R A R E Dynastic sketches from the Chows to the Ch’ings, judicial sketches, including the penal code of the existing dynasty & an impressive list of Lan Lu-chow’s criminal cases, education in China, Chinese fans, freemasonry in China, &c. Well-
written and generally very informative.

Price: $125 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

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THE MOST RELIABLE MONOGRAPH ON THE ILLUSIVE SHARAKU

HENDERSON, Harold G. et al.
THE SURVIVING WORKS OF SHARAKU.
New york 1939, Weyhe. Rose cloth, very good, small folio,148 b.w. photographs, 337p., glossary, bibliography. Co-author was Louis V. Ledoux.  This excellent reference book covers the collections from which prints & drawings have been taken. Biography of Toshusai Sharaku, the plays, actors, roles represented. The surviving prints, drawings and fan prints of great Sharaku.  FIRST AND ONLY EDITION

Price: $200 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

BookPicture not availableAnother copy [SEE Description above] HENDERSON, Harold G. et al.
THE SURVIVING WORKS OF SHARAKU.
New york 1939, Weyhe. Rose cloth, very good, small folio,148 b.w. photographs, 337p., glossary, bibliography,in original dust jacket. was Louis V. Ledoux. 		Price: $175 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

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LAUFER, Berthold.
T’ANG, SUNG AND YUAN PAINTINGS BELONGING TO VARIOUS
CHINESE COLLECTORS.
Paris 1924, Van Oest. Stiff wrs., very good, folio, 27 x 35 cm., 17p. text, with 30 full pages of b.w. photographs, very clean, internally bright, partly uncut.  This work was based on the author’s research while in China. Several notable Chinese scholars and collectors loaned their paintings to the author for this study. A superb collection of great works, carefully described & well illustrated, includes fan-shaped paintings, landscapes, Buddhist monks, portraits. Scholarly, excellent descriptions and text. Written while he was in Peking in 1923.A L W A Y S R A R E !
Price: $400 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

BookPicture not availableJAPANESE TEA: A group 5 of Color Materials: Color Photos,
Post Cards, and Lacquered ‘Japan Tea’ Fan. Japan, n.d. c. 1880-1890’s. A nice group of ephemerial materials, all in very good condition. Consisting of two old hand colored albumen photos, 8 x 10.5 inches, one shows the “Steaming of Tea Leaves, the other “Tea House Girl’s” with English caption and number in lower right corner, very good, nice color, nice images. Also two unused b.w. post cards from the Associated Tea Guild of Shidzuoka-Ken. A red lacquer folding fan, with advertisement for Shizauoka Japan Tea printed on one side, a color pictorial scene with Mt. Fuji on the back, showing girls collecting Japanese tea leaves in
front of a river scene. A nice group, suitable for display.
Price: $250 US + s/hContact: jgs@rareorientbooks.com

Location: California

Posted: March 14, 2000

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