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Lot 748

BOOKS ON BRONZE, NINE VOLUMES
Estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 USD

BOOKS ON BRONZE, NINE VOLUMES
青銅器參考書籍一組九本

VAN HEUSDEN, WILLIAM. Ancient Chinese Bronzes of the Shang and Chou Dynasties. Tokyo: Privately published, 1952. 64 plates, 1
in color. Limited first edition, no. 217 of 1000, signed and sealed by the author; NAGAHIRO, TOSHIO. Die Agraffe und Ihre Stellung
in der Altchine-Sischen Kunstgeschichte. Kyoto: Toho-Bunka-Kenkyusyo, 1943. Numerous plates, 2 in color. Text in German and
Japanese. Discussion of belthooks and their importance in Chinese art history; Sen-Oku Sei-Sh, or, The Collection of Old Bronzes
of Baron Sumitomo. A New and Revised Edition. Kyoto, Japan: 1934. Numerous photographic illustrations; WHITE, WILLIAM
CHARLES. Bronze Culture of Ancient China: An Archaeological Study of Bronze Objects from Northern Honan, dating from about
1400 B.C. - 771 B.C., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956. 101 plates, some in color. Limited edition, no. 172 of 500; KELLEY,
CHARLES FABENS and MENG-CHAI CH'EN. Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R
Donnelley & Sons Company for the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946. Numerous photographic plates, 1 in color; Chinese Bronzes of
the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Throughout the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938.
Numerous plates. Gilt-lettered 'YAMANAKA LIBRARY' on gray cloth. Limited Edition of 1000; KARLGREN, BERNHARD. A Catalogue
of the Chinese Bronzes in the Alfred F. Pillsbury Collection. St. Paul, University of Minnesota Press for the Minneapolis Institute of
Arts, 1952. 114 plates and numerous illustrations; KOOP, ALBERT J. Early Chinese Bronzes. London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
110 collotype plates printed in France by Messrs. Ernest Benn Ltd. First edition; WATERBURY, FLORANCE. Early Chinese Symbols
and Literature: Vestiges and Speculations: with Particular reference to the Ritual Bronzes of the Shang Dynasty. New York: E. Weyhe,
1942. 77 plates. Limited first edition, no. 78 of 250. C.T. Loo inkstamps (9)

Provenance
Private Library of C.T. Loo (1880-1957).

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