Abe collection of Chinese painting & calligraphy

Heading: (Chinese Painting)
Author: Abe, Fusajiro & Kojiro Abe
Title: Soraikan kinsho
Place Published: Osaka
Publisher:Hakubundo
Date Published: 1930-1939
Description:

Parts I and II in 6 volumes + 2 text booklets. With approx. 239 plates reproducing paintings & calligraphy. Text in Japanese; plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress in Chinese and English. 51.7x37 cm (20¼x13½"), pictorial cloth wrappers, set in two cloth chitsu with bone clasps.

Superb catalogue of the extensive collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy formed by Fusajiro Abe and his son Kojiro Abe. The elder Abe was president of the Toyobo Co., and following his death in 1937 his son donated much of the collection to the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts.Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
Condition Report: Wear to slipcases, a few tape repairs to the seams; minor wear to volumes, some mild creasing to corners of some leaves; very good.