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Ostasiatische Reisebilder im Kunstgewerbe des 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit 224 Abbildungen auf 87 Tafeln in Lichtdruck.
by Pelka, Otto
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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About This Item
Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Quarto. Pp. 58. Plus 87 plates with a total of 224 images printed in fine collotype. Title-page printed in red and black. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's ochre full cloth with illustration in red. A fine copy, mint interior, by far the nicest copy we have ever came across. ~ FIRST EDITION. Reproducing images from the 17th and 18th centuries. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. F-6
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- Bookseller
- Librarium of The Hague
(NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5059
- Title
- Ostasiatische Reisebilder im Kunstgewerbe des 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit 224 Abbildungen auf 87 Tafeln in Lichtdruck.
- Author
- Pelka, Otto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - .
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- ART HISTORY MODERN CULTURE TRAVEL TRAVELLING TRAVELLER TRAVELLERS GUIDE GUIDES TRAVELOGUE TRAVELOGUES FAR EAST CHINA CHINESE KOREA KOREAN INDIA INDIAN KOREANOLOGY CHINAOLOGY BUDDHISM BUDDHIST SANSKRIT TIBET TIBETAN MONGOL MONGOLIA MONGOLIAN JAPAN JAPANESE
- Bookseller catalogs
- History & Topography; China: Studies in Culture;
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