[JAPAN]
A group of old reference works about Japanese Culture, comprising:

— MORSE, Edward S. Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886. Second edition. Quarter-leather with marbled paper sides and endpapers. Raised spine, gilt-lettered. Morse’s book was the first well-illustrated book on Japanese domestic architecture.
— HUMBERT, Aimé. Japan and the Japanese Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co., Broadway., 1874. Illustrated. Three-quarter green leather with marbled paper sides and endpapers, gilt-lettered with decorative motif, all edge gilt.
— BRINKLEY, Frank. Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. Boston: J. B. Millet Company, 1897. 10 volumes. “Yedo Edition: Limited to one thousand copies, of which this is copy number 230.” Original silk covers, 30 hand colored albumen photographs, numerous black & white illustrations and photographs.

Together 12 volumes.

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[JAPAN]
A group of old reference works about Japanese Culture, comprising:

Japanese & Korean Works of Art

[JAPAN]A group of old reference works about Japanese Culture, comprising:

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[JAPAN]A group of old reference works about Japanese Culture, comprising:

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A group of old reference works about Japanese Culture, comprising:

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A group of old reference works about Japanese Culture, comprising: