BAUR COLLECTION, GENEVE: JAPANESE PRINTS
by JAPANESE PRINTS -- BAUR FOUNDATION
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 2880310075
- ISBN 13
- 9782880310073
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About This Item
1994. [JAPANESE PRINTS -- BAUR FOUNDATION ]. FORRER, Matthi. THE BAUR COLLECTION, GENEVA: JAPANESE PRINTS. Geneve: Collections Baur, (1994). Two volumes, complete unto themselves, but also volumes X and XI of the descriptive catalogue of the Baur Foundation collections. From a total edition limited to 3100 copies, this is number 23 of 50 copies especially bound in leather. Color illustrated throughout. Mostly English language text, some French: the original French-language Preface, by Frank Dunand, follows an English translation, and the title of each print is also given in French. Quarto, 28 x 22.5 cm, full brown leather with gilt title to spine. Housed in the publisher's wood-veneered slipcase with matching leather trim. Alfred Baur (Swiss, 1865-1951) formed his collection of Japanese prints over forty years, from 1909 through 1949. Along with his collections of Japanese lacquer, netsuke, and sword fittings, and Chinese imperial ceramic ware, jades and snuff bottles, it is the nucleus of he Baur Foundation Museum of Far Eastern art. As new.
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- Bookseller
- Boston Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89781
- Title
- BAUR COLLECTION, GENEVE: JAPANESE PRINTS
- Author
- JAPANESE PRINTS -- BAUR FOUNDATION
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 2880310075
- ISBN 13
- 9782880310073
- Publisher
- Art Media Resources Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Geneva
- Date Published
- 1994
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Established in 1979, Boston Book Company offers rare and interesting books in a broad range of subjects. Our areas of particular expertise: Japanese artist books of all eras, East Asian art in general, photographica, local history, women's books, English and American literature..
We are always eager to learn something new.... Every collector brings a novel approach to our shared love of books.
Welcome!
Helen Kelly
Charles Vilnis
David Fredette
James Desrosiers
Elizabeth Fragala
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