- Used
Seller: ASHER Rare Books, t Goy Houten, NetherlandsASHER Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since November 8, 2006
Condition: Used
£ 4,309.08
Quantity: 1 available
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Ad 1: Very interesting collection of drawings of 131 flags, code and signal flags, banners, standards, crests, etc., made in late 19th-century Japan, most of them coloured in red, blue, white, black, yellow, and some decorated with gold and/or silver paint. Many with mottos and captions in Japanese characters. The collection can be divided into 8 subcategories. (1) 34 flags on black poles of European and other powers. (2) 17 rectangular (Samurai?) banners on a pole with a horizontal pole at the top, mostly in red and white. (3) 28 pennants and banners of various shapes, mostly on crested poles and some of them decorated or partly decorated with gold and/or silver paint. (4) 27 Japanese military (Samurai?) flags and banners in red and white, some with Japanese characters, including the flag of the imperial Japanese army: the red sun with the red sunrays. (5) 11 Japanese military flags and banners in blue, black and white. (6) 4 unfinished and uncoloured sketches of Japanese military flags and banners. (7) 3 symbolic banners with mottos in Japanese characters. (8) 7 unfinished, but partly coloured in sketches of flags, banners and pennants.Ad 2: 10 folded leaves of Japanese so-called rice-paper, mostly containing decorative flower designs, one with fans and another with traditional Japanese dolls. All are executed with a brush and black paint, two of the flower designs are executed in black, red and green paint.With Japanese characters in pencil and/or black and blue ink, as well as red (owners?) stamps on the inside of the wrapper. Wrapper slightly browned with some minor signs of wear, some margins slightly frayed, some leaves with minor stains or browning. 19th-century wrappers of thick handmade Japanese paper, reinforced with straps of paper containing Japanese characters and blue and red stamps; with the title of ad 1 in Japanese characters on the front wrapper. Collection of drawings of 131 flags, banners etc. on separate leaves of varying sizes, most of them coloured. Pages: [131]; [10] ll. With: (2) [MANUSCRIPT]. [Decorated Japanese rice-paper].Japan, [1893?]. Ten sample leaves 928 x 38 cm) of so-called rice paper (actually cut in small sheets from the pith of the rice-paper plant, Tetrapanax papyrifer), decorated with varying designs, like flowers, fans and traditional Japanese dolls.…
Seller Inventory # ABC_46387
Bibliographic details
- Title
- "All the flags from 1893".
- Author
- [MANUSCRIPT - FLAGS - JAPAN].
- Publisher
- Japan,
- Publication year
- 1893
ASHER Rare Books
t Goy Houten, Netherlands
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| Item | 25 to 45 business days | 8 to 14 business days |
|---|---|---|
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A. Asher & Co B.V.
Tuurdijk 16
t Goy Houten, Netherlands 3997MS
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