NETSUKE  BOOKS

THE ORIGINAL INTERNATIONAL NETSUKE COLLECTORS SOCIETY { COLLECTORS EDITION} PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY HELEN HURTIG, CONSISTING  OF 3 KOA WOOD BOUND BOOKS  CONTAINING VOLUMES 1 TO 12. [THE TOTAL 12 YEARS OF THE INCS PUBLICATION].

NETSUKE,  NEIL K DAVEY

NETSUKE BY F.M. JONAS,1960, Tuttle  [2x]

NETSUKE, A MINIATURE ART OF JAPAN, YASUZO OKADA ,1951, JAPAN TRAVEL BUREAU.

LEGENDS  IN JAPANESE ART,1902, ORIGINAL EDITION, HENRY L JOLI.

LEGENDS IN JAPANESE ART,  1967, TUTTLE EDITION, HENRY L JOLI.

Index to Joli's books above, John and Dorothy Tomkins , 1978.

MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE ART, 1973, HURTIG,  Weatherhill, Tokyo. 

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF NETSUKE, RAYMOND BUSHELL, 1964 .

COLLECTORS NETSUKE  1971,   A RAYMOND BUSHELL, 2 copies.   

SAGEMONO  AND NETSUKE  YABANE  CO. LTD.ENGLISH AND JAPANESE.

THE NETSUKE HANDBOOK OF UEDA REIKICHI, 1961Tuttle.

NETSUKE AND NATURE IN MINIATURE, THE AVERY BRUNDAGE COLLECTION, ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANSISCO,1981.

NETSUKE A BIBLIOGRAPHY BY CVS ROOXEVELT,1960, AUTOGRAPHED.

A INTRODUCTION TO NETSUKE,  JOE EARLE, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM,1980, The Compton  Press.

THE NETSUKE OF JAPAN , EGERTON  RYERSON,1958, A. S. Barnes and Co.

A INTRODUCTION TO NETSUKE, RAYMOND BUSHELL,1971, TUTTLE.

 THE NETSUKE HALL OF FAME RECORD BREAKERS [LIMITED EDITION OF 100] , HURTIG.

 NETSUKE, ALBERT BROCKHAUS,  1909

NETSUKE  AMSTERDAM 1981.

ECCENTRICS IN NETSUKE, PAUL MOSS

Masterpieces of Netsuke, KURSTIN, 1986.

Japanese Netsuke and Ojime, Newark Museum,1976.

THE BAUER COLLECTION, Geneva, 1977,   Marie Therese Coulery and Martin S. Newstead.

Netsuke Masks, Raymond Bushell,1985, Raymond Bushell.

The Netsuke of Japan, History, Folklore and Customs, Edgar Ryerson, 1958, Barnes U.S.A.

Contemporary Netsuke, MIRIAM KINSEY, Tuttle,1977.

The  Art of the Netsuke Carver Masatoshi, Bushell, 1981Kodansho  Tokyo.

The GO Collection, Tokyo National Museum, 1983, ARAKAWA.

NETSUKE MASTERPIECES  FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, OKADA, 1982, ABRAMS NEW YORK.

A INTRODUCTION TO NETSUKE, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, JOE EARLE, 1980,CROMPTON PRESS, LONDON.

NETSUKE THE MINIATURE SCULPTURE OF JAPAN, BRITISH MUSEUM, BARKER AND SMITH,1976.

NETSUKE AND INRO ARTISTS,AND HOW TO READ THEIR SIGNATURES, GEORGE LAZARNICK , 1981  REED HONOLULU, 2 volumes, 2 sets.

JAPANESE NETSUKE ,THE ART OF THE  NETSUKE CARVER, Meinertzhagen, 1956,WILLIAM CLOWE AND CO.

 IN SEARCH OF NETSUKE, GEORGE COHEN.

 Story Carvings of Old Japan , Selections from the Collection of Joseph Kurstin , Epcot Center, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, 1993.

THE GOULD COLLECTION OF NETSUKE , Royal Ontario Museum 1988, soft cover.

JAPANESE NETSUKEAND OJIME, The Newark Museum, 1976, Okada.

NETSUKE IN GERMAN LANGUAGE

HEINRICHS,  1981,  SHOFENS VERLAG WILHELMSHAVEN

Fur Ostasiatische, Kunst.Koln,1982.

 

LACQUER AND INRO

THE ART OF SHIBATA ZESHIN, L.H.B. THE OBRIEN COLLECTION,HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ART,1979.    

JAPANESE LACQUER  1600-1900  CHARLES GREENFIELD COLLECTION METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.

INRO  FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE CHARLES A GREENFIELD (sale march 25, 1998)

A SPRINKLING OF GOLD ,THE LACQUER BOX COLLECTION OF ELAINE EHRENKRANTZ, NEWARK MUSEUM,  1983.

THE INRO HANDBOOOK,  BUSHELL[AUTOGRAPHED]  1979  WEATHERHILL,

LACQUER, ORIENTAL ART  AND TECHNIQUE  [VERY LARGE] HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED KEN HIEBERTS, TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN BY BRIAN MORGAN.

JAPANESE LACQUER WARE ,1958, TOMIO YOSHINO, JAPAN TRAVEL BUREAU.

ZESHIN IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE:

ZESHIN, LARGE 2 VOLUME [COFFEE TABLE SIZE] ILLUSTRATIONS OF PAINTINGS, LACQUER, AND NETSUKE [JAPANESE LANGUAGE].

 

BOOKS PERTAINING TO HISTORY AND CULTURE

TALES OF OLD JAPAN, LORD REDESDA, 1966TUTTLE.

HISTORY OF JAPANESE RELIGION, MASAHARU ANESAKI, 1963,Tuttle.

Duveen  The Intimate Portrait of a Fabulous Art Dealer , S. N. Berman, 1951, Harmony Books  N.Y    [A MUST FOR A SUCCESSFUL DEALER]

KOJIKI, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE, I969, [a must for the scholar.] PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS.

ITS ABOUT JAPAN,  BETTY KILLAM, 1981, ORIENTAL ARTS, CHESTER CONN.

 

EXHIBITION AND SALE CATALOGUES

Zeshin, Milne Henderson, London, 1976.

IMPORTANT PAINTINGS, SCREENS, BY SHIBATA ZESHIN, 1985, CHRISTIES [M].                   

The Great Japan Exhibition, Art of the Edo Period, 1600-1868, Alpine, New York, 1981. [A IMPORTANT BOOK].

 

CATALOGUES  IN FRENCH

COLLECTION,  J. JACQUES REUBELL,1934,  1934.

OBJETS D'ART D'EXTREME ORIENT, 1924, HOTEL DROUT.

OBJECTS D’ART  D’EXTREME ORIENT, 1922, 1923,1932,  HOTEL DROUT.

COLLECTION,  CH.  HAVILLAND, 1922, 1923, 1932,  HOTEL DROUT.

OBJECTS D’ART DU JAPON, 1924,  HOTEL DROUT.

COLLECTION PAUL CORBIN, 1926, HOTEL DROUT, 2 catalogues

COLLECTION S RAYMOND KOECHLIN, E AND M GUERIN, C H  SOLOMO,1926.

OBJECTS D’ART D’EXTREME ORIENT, HOTEL DROUT, 1942.

COLLECTION DE FEU l941,  M. Frederic Retault, HOTEL DROUT.

COLLECTION BERGAUD  1941  HOTEL DROUT.

COLLECTION MAURICE FEUILLET 1955 HOTEL DROUT.

ART JAPONAIS  1938 HOTEL DROUT.

OBJECT  D’ART DU JAPON ET DE LA CHINE. 1907 ,Galleries de MM. Durand –Ruel.

LACQUES SU JAPON, NESUKE AND TOBACC0 POUCHES 1913

COLLECTION OF ARTHUR KAY SIGNED BY ARTHUR KAY, Salle Drout.

LA FEMME DANS L’ART JAPANESE.73 INDIVIDUALLY FRAMED PICTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE, REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINALS.  ANDRE PORTIER.  PARIS. CIRCA 1960.

 

GERMAN LANGUAGE

JAPANESE KLEINKUNST, 1922  Kunst Auctionshaus Math.                      

WELTEN AUF EINEM KNEBL,WOLFMAR ZACKEN,1984,  Edition Tusch, Austria.

 

ENGLISH

JAPANESE ART OBJECTS 1911 Sothebys , Wilkinson, and Hodge.

SIR TREVOR LAWERENCE BART LACQUER AND JAPANESE ART  1916 Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods

GILBERTSON  COLLECTION   JAPANESE WORKS OF ART  1917   Third Portion

MICHEAL TOMKINSON ESQ.JAPANESE WORKS OF ART ,GLENDINING&CO. 1922

NETSUKE  BY SUNAMOTO

 

JAPANESE LANGUAGE BOOKS

JAPANESE CERAMICS   ILLUSTRATED

JAPANESE  KAKIEMON [LARGE COFEE TABLE ] WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS

NETSUKE  PUBLICATION IN JAPANESE BY COVERING INRO AND NETSUKE, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.

 

SNUFF BOTTLES AND JADE

 OLD CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES,  TUTTLE,   1978 

A GLOSSARY OF CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES, RAYMOND LI , 1976.

THE COLLECTORS BOOK OF SNUFF BOTTLES, [ COFFEE TABLE SIZE] STEVENS , WEATHERHILL 1976

STONE OF HEAVEN, RICHARD GUMP, DOUBLEDAY AND CO.  1962

 

ART BOOKS

 CARL FABERGE,  SNOWMAN, 1979, GREENWICH HOUSE,[ A MOST IMPORTANT BOOK  FOR THE NETSUKE SCHOLAR WHO WILL RECOGNIZE  THE INFLUENCE NETSUKE  HAD ON THIS  RUSSIAN  GENIUS.]

CHINESE AND BUDDHIST BRONZES, HUGO MUNSTENBERG, 1967,  TUTTLE

 

JAPANESE ACADEMIC BOOKS OF VARIOUS SUBJECTS

The Arts of Japan, an Illustrated History, Hugo Munstenberg,  1957, Charles Tuttle

Zeshin no 93, in Japanese [soft cover] 3x

The headely treasure of bibliots and boxes, a manca editorore milano.

Pictures of ivory and other animal teeth bone and antler [softcover] by Tk Penniman, Curator of pitt river museum, in the university of oxford.

 

          GENERAL BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN                                

ASHIYA: STORY OF BOB STRICKLAND [A EXPATRIOT].

SUMO;  J A SARGEANT,  1959,  Tuttle.

 

 JAPANESE HISTORY AND CULTURAL BOOKS

BIRDS, BEASTS, BLOSSOMS, AND BUGS  HAROLD P.STREN,  1976  Abrams, New York.

FOLK TALES OF JAPAN, ROBT J. ADAMS, 1956-7, RUTLEGE & KEGAN PAUL.

JAPANESE GROTESQUERIES, 1973, NICHOLAS  KIEJ’E, TUTTLE

JAPANESE  LACQUER WARE, 1959, TOMIO YOSHINO, JAPAN TRAVEL BUREAU.

HORSES IN JAPAN, VIVIENNE KENDRICK,1964, HOKUSEIDO PRESS.

LEGENDS OF JAPAN, HIROSHI NAITO, 1972, CHARLES TUTTLE, VERMONT.

ARTS AND CRAFTS OF JAPAN, STEWART DICK, 1903, NEIL & CO, Edinborough.

IN GHOSTLY JAPAN, L  HEARN, 1971, TUTTLE.

NIHONJI, TRANSLATED BY W.G. GASTON.1972, TUTTLE.           

FOLK LEGENDS OF JAPAN, ARICHARD M DORSON, 1962, TUTTLE.

THE JAPANESE FORTUNE CATALOGUE, REIKO CHIBA, 1956, TUTTLE.

PAINTED FANS OF JAPAN, KEIKO CHIBA, 1962,TUTTLE.

KANBAN SHOP SIGNS OF JAPAN  SNEIDER LEVY , 1982

 

WOOD BLOCK PRINTS AND PAINTINGS

 

MORI YOSHITOSHI, 1985, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY, LEDEN IN THE NETHERLANDS.

JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINTS IN MINIATURE, THE GENIUS OF SURIMONO, MEISSNER, TUTTLE  1970

OKADA SHINODA AND TSUKATA TOURING  EXHIBITION  1979  HELD IN VARIOUS UNITED   STATES MUSEUMS.                       

MODERN JAPANERSE PRINTS, A ART REBORN. OLIVER STANTON.1959, TUTTLE.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT JAPANESE PRINTS FRO HENRI VEVER, COLLECTION. HARDBACK, 1997, SOTHEBYS., FINAL PART.

JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY WILLIAM ANDERSON, SEELY AND COMPANY LTD,  LONDON 1805.SOTHEBY AND CO, 1971

Masterpieces of Ukiyoe, 7 volumes  1968   Kodansho.

HENRY VEVER COLLECTION, PART  SOTHEBYS LONDON  1977

JAPANESE ART KANO ETOKU, TSUNIO TAKEDA ,  KODANSHO INT. 1974

JAPANESE PRINTS [LARGE] FROM THE EARLY MASTERS TO THE MODERN JAMES A MICHENER  1959

A HISTORY  IN JAPANESE ART , SCREENS PAINTINGS AND PRINTS. [COFFEE TABLE] BRADLEY SMITH

A COLLECTION OF NAGASAKI PRINTS COLORED & BLACK AND WHITE. H.N MODY, 1969, TUTTLE.

SUBJECTS PORTRAYED IN  JAPANESE COLOR  PRINTS, MACKOFF  GENEVE, 1973.

UKIYOE,RYOZOMATSUMOTO,1955,YAMAGATA PRINTING CO.

JAPONISIME, JAPANESE INFLUENCE ON FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST ART, 1854-1910.1975,GABRIEL P  WEISBERG, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART , GERALD NEEDHAM, MARTIN EIDELBERG, ALL OF RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, WILLIAM R. JOHNSON OF THE WALTERS ART GALLERY.

 

CERAMICS

THE ART OF JAPANESE CERAMICS, TSUGIO MIKAMI  1972   Weatherhill

T Edward Chow Collection early chinese ceramics and ancient bronzes 1983  Sothebys London

A  POTTERS WAY OF LIFE , SUSAN PETERS,  KODANSHO 1974.

Chinese ceramics, Seizo Hayahiya & Gakuji Hasebe, Tuttle, 1958.

KAKIEMON [COFFEE TABLE SIZE] TAKESHI NAGATANI, 1981  KODANSHO

NABESHIMA  MOTSKE  IMAIZUMI, 1981   KODANSHO

ORIENTAL CERAMICS DISCOVERED IN THE PHILIPINES, LEANDRA & CECILIA,TUTTLE 1967

THE CERAMICS OF JAPAN , MUNSTERBERG  TUTTLE  1964

BY IMPERIAL COMMAND  [LARGE COFFEE TABLE] BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED ,HUGH MOSS

 

GENERAL TOPICS

 

THE END OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE NAVY: ITOH AND PINEAU, W W NORTONAND C0.

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, REPRODUCTION OF THE ORIGINAL 3 VOLUMES FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1768 IN ENGLAND.

MY FRIEND CARL SANDBERG                                                                                                  

GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD 50 VOLUMES.

JAPAN, ITS HISTORY, ARTS, AND LITERATURE  12 volumes, 801 of limited edition of 1000, J.B. Millet , London 1901

FOLK SONGS OF JAPANESE CHILDREN, WORDS AND MUSIC, TUTTLE 1969

THE NANBAN ART OF JAPAN. By Yoshiatomo Okamoto, translated by Heibonsha and Weatherhill 1972

A HISTORY IN ART  BELONGING TO THE TOKIO NATIONAL MUSEUM, BRADLEY SMITH, TOPPAN 1964

JAPANESE NAMES AND HOW TO READ THEM ,KOOP AND INADA, 1923  KEGANPAUL

TEA LIFE, TEA MIND, SOHETSU SEN, WEATHERHILL 1979

METAL, THE HARTMAN COLLECTION OF  JAPANESE METALWORK,

CHRISTIE, MANSON, & WOODS LTD. 1976, LONDON

OUVRES D’ART DU JAPON, GONSE  PARIS 1924

BAMBOO, LEVY AND AUSTIN, 1979,  WEATHERHILL

THE IMPERIAL HOTEL,  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, 1968, TUTTLE

THE CLASSIC TRANSITION IN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE,  WEATHERHILL, 1972

THE JAPANESE HOUSE,  ENGEL& HEINRICH,  TUTTLE  1964

JAPANESE TEMPLES , LARGE BOOK, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE,PAINTINGS, J.EDWARD KIDDER JR. 1964, BIJITSU SHUPPAN-SHI   TOKYO

MAYUYAMA  & CO. LTD. 70 YEARS. 2 LARGE VOLUMES CONTAINING THE ARTS OF CHINA & JAPAN  SOLD OVER A 70 YEAR PERIOD. JUKICHI MAYUYAMA  1976 [THIS WAS THE NO 1 ART DEALER IN JAPAN PREWAR AND POST WAR UP UNTIL THE MID 70’S].

ARS ORIENTALIS, IN FRENCH, ENGLISH AND GERMAN, COLORED PRINTS ,VOLUME 4 FREER GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN, FINE ARTS DEPT. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 1961, SMITHSONIAN PUBLICATION, 1961

MICHELANGELO  MODELS FROM THE HANDS OF MICHELANGELO, 1972, CREEDON AND DRUMMOND,

ZESHIN :  LARGE 2 VOLUME  [COFFEE TABLE]  BOOK ILLUSTRATING  LACQUER PAINTINGS AND NETSUKE. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE.

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