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    Japanische Schwertzieraten. Text. Gustav Jacoby. Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1904.

    Book size: 25.5 x 21 cm. Hardbound: original olive cloth, lettering and elements on FC and lettering on Sp.

    Ex Libris Dr. H. Smidt, with the motto: "Sapienti sat" and a naked bold man at the seashore, holding a fruit behind his back.

    Full title: Japanische Schwertzieraten. Beschreibung einer kunstgeschichtlich geordneten Sammlung, mit Charakteristiken der Künstler und Schulen von Gustav Jacoby. Hierzu siebenunddreissig Tafeln in Heliogravüre. [The second volume, which conteined 'heliogravures' is missing and had not be found elsewhere].

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  • The sword mountings of Higo Province (Higo Kinkoroku) by Gustav Jacoby. Translated from the German.

    The sword mountings of Higo Province adapted from the Higo Kinkoroku of S. Nagaya by Gustav Jacoby, with 67 illustrations and an appendix listing the signatures of the Higo masters. Translated from the German by Emil T. H. Bunje, PhD.

    Book size: 24.5 x 18.4 cm/

    Softbound, original grey paper wrappers with black lettering.

    Higo Kinkoroku, or Register of Metalworkers of Higo Province, published in 1902 in Tokyo by the Japanese Colonel Nagaya Shigena with a preface by viscount Nagaoka Moriyoshi, scion of the Hoshikawa family, Daimyo of Kumamoto in Higo Province.

    Translated from the orignial: Die schwertzieraten der provinz Higo. Bearbeitet nach dem japanischen werke Higo Kinkoroku des S. Nagaya, von Gustav Jacoby. Mit 67 Abbildungen und einem Anhang: Die bezeichnungen der Higo-meister. 5. beiheft zum Jahrbuch der hamburgischen wissenschaftlichen anstalten. XXII. 1904. Hamburg, Lucas Gräfe & Sillem, 1905. - 62 p. illus., pl. [LIB-1947.2019]
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