- Soken Yamaguchi (1759-1818) - Lot 203

- Soken Yamaguchi (1759-1818) Yamato Jimbutsu Gafu (倭人物画譜) Album of Japanese character drawings. Volume II of 3. Light blue cover with white title label printed in black. Size: 25.6 x 18 cm A fine, fresh copy of a good edition. Bibliography: Mitchell, p.552-3 - Toda, p.371-2 - de Roos, A-y-44 - Duret, 482 - Gillot, 634 (cited as Wajimbutsu Gafu) - Gonse, III 445 (pl. III) - Hayashi 1636 - Holloway, 45 (fig. 5, 63, 119) - Isaac, 408 (pl. II) - Javal II 166 - Odin, 146 - Brown, p.99-100. Fritz Rumpf, Meister des Japanischen Farbholzschnittes (Berlin & Leipzig, 1924), fig. 65, 66 - Hillier, p.532-6, 705 (pl. 344, 345) - Nakata, 213, 214 - Dawes 145 - SOAS 260 (1 vol.) - Hillier et Smith, n°83 - NKSM, VII 803. - Keisai Masayoshi (Kitao) 蕙斎政美(北尾) (1764-1824) Jinbutsu Ryakuga Shiki (人物畧画式) Method for quick character drawings. 1 complete volume. Olive green embossed cover with decorative designs, with micaceous title label handwritten in Indian ink: Ryakuga Shiki. Date: 1813 (year of the rooster in the Bunka era). Signed Keisai Fude. SealShôshin Format: 25.2 x 18.4 cm Moisture marks throughout. Wear on the lower part of the pages. Provenance: former Barboutau collection (red square stamp on first page). Bibliography: Toda, p.210 (cites 2-volume edition) - Hillier, p.466, 472, 474-6 (pl. 312, 78) (cites 2-volume edition) - Brown, p.123-124 (cites 3-volume edition) - Mitchell, p.316 - Odin, 109-111 - Corbin, p.404 - Haviland XVIII, p.582 - Hayashi 1559 - Javal II 141 - Duret, 183 - Isaac, p.399 - de Roos, p.124 (Keisai Ryakuga Shiki) - Gillot, p.515. V and I (1911), p.54 n°4. - Kôchô Ueda (1788 -1850 ?) Kôchô Gafu (公長画譜) Album of drawings by Kôchô. Volume II of 2. Yellow cover with white title label printed in black. SignatureKôchô. Date: 1834 (Tempô 5) Publisher Sekigyoku-en. Motoya Yosibei, Kawachiya Kibei. Format: 25.4 x 18 cm Tired book. Faded colors. Wear at bottom of pages. Bibliography: Hillier, p.798-9 (illus.repr., pl. 524) - Mitchell, p.369 - Toda, p.380 - Brown, p.94, 110 - NKSM, III 272 - Dawes, 75 - Odin, 193 - Duret, 530 - de Roos, 232 - Gonse, III 566 - Gonse, III 567 - Goncourt, 1558 - Gillot, 649 - Holloway, 34 (pl. 16,17,27,28) - Nakata, 223,224 (pl. 27). - Shunboku Ôoka (1680-1763) Wakan Meihitsu Ehon Tekagami (和漢名筆画本手鑑) - Kanryû 漢流 Album of Japanese and Chinese masterpieces-Chinese painting. Volume IV of 6. Dark blue cover with title label printed in black on white background. Size: 26 x 18.5 cm A fine, cleanly printed copy. Cover damaged. Label torn at top. Bibliography: Toda, p.320 - Hillier, p.155,13 - Mitchell, p.247-248 - Brown, p.71-72 - Hillier, Sotheby's, p.175, pp.193-194, pp.599-600 - Corbin, I-382 (pl. III). Haviland II-499 (pl. II) - Hayashi, 1604 - Isaac, 375 - Leyden, 1174 - Odin, 56 - Strange (1897), p.17. - Shunboku Ôoka (1680-1763) Wakan Meiga En (和漢名画苑) Collection of ancient Japanese and Chinese paintings. Volumes I and VI of 6. Off-white covers with title labels printed in black. Signature Hôgen Shunboku Ichiô san. Date: 1797 (Kansei 9) Publisher Suharaya Ihachi, Edo. Format: 25.8 x 18.1 cm Perfect condition with no wormholes or tears, except for torn title label on volume VI. Provenance: former collection of Felix Braquemond: handwritten inscription "Braquemond" on title label. (Volume I). Bibliography: Mitchell, p.548-49 - Hillier, p.193-4 - Brown, p.71 - Odin, illus. reproduced, pl. III - Strange (1897) p.18 - KSM VIII-237 (6 vols., 1750, 4 ex.; 1797, 3 ex.; s.d., 5 ex.) - Nakata, p.151, 156-8, 176-7 (pl. 18, 1750) - Javal II 82 (1750) - Odin 60 (pl. III) - Goncourt 1495 - Corbin I 382 - SOAS 253 - Toda, p.321 (1750) - Isaac, 378 (1750). Haviland XVII, 335. The whole set.