Lot 64
  • 64

[Architecture. Japanese Imprints]

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • paper
(Wagner, Otto.)  Kishida, Hideto.  Otto Wagunâ: Kenchikuka Toshite no shyôgaî oyobi shiso [Otto Wagner: His Life and His Conception of Archtecture. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1927 



4to (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 260 x 190 mm).  Frontispiece portrait of Wagner after G. T. K. von Hartenkampf, 53 plates comprising photographic illustrations and architectural renderings, text in Japanese.  Publisher's linen boards; spine slightly darkened, inner hinges starting, some browning to free endpapers.  Publisher's cardboard slipcase, lettered in Japanese; some wear to extremities.

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

A remarkably well-preserved copy in the publisher's slipcase.