Parke Bernet: BY ORDER OF THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN OF THE UNITED STATES LIQUIDATION OF THE REFERENCE LIBRARY OF YAMANAKA & CO-INC. PUBLIC AUCTION SALE JUNE 6. JUNE 7. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES, INC. 30 EAST 57 STREET, NEW YORK, 22., 576,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 06, 1944 - June 06, 1944
Page Size: 1046 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
992 [UTAMARO.] Utamaro. Estampes Japonaises. . . . Exposees au Musee des Arts Decoratifs en Janvier 1912 ... Paris

n.d.

USD - Unknown
993 VON BODE, WILHELM Nachlass Wilhelm von Bode. Eingeleitet von Robert Schmidt. Berlin

1929

USD - Unknown
994 [WALL PAINTINGS OF JAPAN.] [Horyuti-Hekigwa. (Wall Paintings of Horytuji-Temple. Edited by M ... [Tokyo]

[1920]

USD - Unknown
995 [WATANABE, S. Ukiyoye Hanya Ketsu Shu (Six selected reproductions of Ukiyoye Prints by Toyokuni and ... [Tokyo]

[1919]

USD - Unknown
996 [Kutani, Nabeshima, Kakiyemon, Meihin-Shu.] [WARES FROM THE YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Selected Kutani, Nabeshima and Kakiyemon Ware from the ... [Kyoto]

[1934]

USD - Unknown
997 A. L. Hetherington [WARES OF CHINA.] The Early Ceramic Wares of China. London

1922

USD - Unknown
998 [WARES OF CHINA.] [Koakae-Sara-Hyakusen. (Fifty Illustrated Photographs of Chinese Ming Blue and ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
999 [WARES OF CHINA.] [Koakae-Sara-Hyakusen. (Fifty Illustrated Photographs of Chinese Ming Blue and ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1000 [WARES OF JAPAN.] [Nippon-Koto-Meihin-Shu. (One Hundred Selected Japanese Ceramics from the Yamanaka ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1001 [WARES OF JAPAN.] [Nippon-Koto-Meihin-Shu. (One Hundred Selected Japanese Ceramics from the Yamanaka ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1002 [WARES OF JAPAN.] [Nippon-Koto-Meihin-Shu. (One Hundred Selected Japanese Ceramics from the Yamanaka ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1003 [WARES OF JAPAN.] [Kutani, Nabeshima, Kakiyemon, Meihin-Shu. (Selected Kutani, Nabeshima and ... [Kyoto]

[1934]

USD - Unknown
1004 [WATANABE-KWAZAN] [Sketches by Watanabe-Kwazan.] [Tokyo]

[1919]

USD - Unknown
1005 WHITE, WILLIAM C. Tombs of Old Lo-Yang. Shanghai

1934

USD - Unknown
1006 WHITE, WILLIAM C. Tomb Tile Pictures of Ancient China. Toronto

1939

USD - Unknown
1007 WIENER, LEO Mayan and Mexican Origins. Cambridge

1926

USD - Unknown
1008 WOOD-BLOCK PRINTS. [Toto-Shokei-Ichiran] with wood-block prints in colors after Hokusai. 2 vols. [ ... [Tokyo]

[1801-1825]

USD - Unknown
1009 W. v. Seidlitz [WOOD CARVING OF JAPAN.] Geschichte des Japanischen Farbenholzschnitts. Dresden

1897

USD - Unknown
1010 [WOODCUTS OF JAPAN.] Sammlung Tony Straus-Negbaur. Japanische Far-benholzschnitte des 17 bis 19 ... N.p.

n.d.

USD - Unknown
1011 WOOD SCULPTURE. [Kamakura-Choku-Zuroku (Japanese wooden sculptures of Kamakura period. Collection of ... [Kyoto]

[1934]

USD - Unknown
1012 WORLD THROUGH A CAMERA, THE. N.p.

n.d.

USD - Unknown
1013 YAMANAKA, SADAJIRO [To So Seikwa (Selected Relics of the Tang and Sung Dynasties from collection in Europe and America ... Osaka

1928

USD - Unknown
1014 [YAMAMOTO COLLECTION.] [Tokaido-Shogwa-Mokuroku. (Catalogue of Mr. Yamamoto's Collection of Chinese ... [Tokyo]

[1931]

USD - Unknown
1015 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Nippon-Koto-Meihin-Shu. (One Hundred Selected Japanese Ceramics from the ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1016 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Nippon-Koto-Meihin-Shu. (One Hundred Selected Japanese Ceramics from the ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1017 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Nippon-Koto-Meihin-Shu. (One Hundred Selected Japanese Ceramics from the ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1018 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Tanamono, Shusei. Illustrated Catalogue of the Japanese Lacquer Cabinets in ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1019 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Tanamono, Shusei. Illustrated Catalogue of the Japanese Lacquer Cabinets in ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1020 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Kosometsuke-Sara-Hyakusen. (Fifty Illustrated Photographs of Chinese Ming ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1021 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Kosometsuke-Sara-Hyakusen. (Fifty Illustrated Photographs of Chinese Ming ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1022 [Koakae-Sara-Hyakusen] [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Fifty Photographs of Chinese Ming Porcelain Plates in the Yamanaka and Co ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1023 [Koakae-Sara-Hyakusen] [YAMANAKA COLLECTION.] [Fifty Photographs of Chinese Ming Porcelain Plates in the Yamanaka and Co ... [Osaka]

[1933]

USD - Unknown
1024 [YAMANAKA COLLECTION] [Kutani, Nabeshima, Kakiyemon, Meihin-Shu. (Selected Kutani, Nabeshima and Katiyemon Ware from the ... [Kyoto]

[1934]

USD - Unknown
1025 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1026 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1027 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1028 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1029 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1030 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1031 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1032 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1033 YAMANAKA AND COMPANY COLLECTION. Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art assembled by ... New York

1943

USD - Unknown
1034 YIN AND CHOU RESEARCHES, Stockholm. 1935; Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine ...

USD - Unknown
1035 Shinkai Taketaro and Nakagawa Tadayori [YUN-KANG CAVES.] Rock-Carvings from the Yun-Kang Caves. Tokyo

1921

USD - Unknown
1036 ZOOLOGY. [Illustrated reference books on animals.] [Tokyo]

[1937]

USD - Unknown
1037 MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.

USD - Unknown
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