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JAPAN -- NORITANÉ, N. Kwan-Ko-Dzu-Setsu. Notice historique et descriptive sur les arts et industriels Japonais. Art Céramique. I. Poterie. Ed. H. Ahrens. Tokyo/Yokohama, C. Lévy, 1876-1878. 5 vols. Tog. 90 handcold. lithogr. plates. Each vol. w. 5-11 text leaves. W. 5 booklets with French text (in publisher's or. printed wrps.). Stitched-bound wrappers with title labels in French and Japanese. Tog. in ocl. chitsu w. bone clasps. (1 clasp gone, chitsu partly faded).
Record of Japanese pottery apparently in chronological order from ancient times onward, particularly noteworthy for the use of lithography rather than the usual color woodcuts. Noritane was a founder of the Tokyo Museum and apparently a teacher on the subject to Edward S. Morse; most of the items illustrated here ended up in the Morse collection.€ 500
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