Ethiopia: 20th century. Illuminated manuscript on heavy parchment (ca. 170 x 130 mm), altogether 8 strips of parchment, sewn together to form a manuscript folded into 38 panels, producing altogether 78 "pages" of talismanic images and magical texts, with 40 on one side and 38 on the other (two panels..... More

Kanda, Tokyo: Hasegawa Chūbei, 1885 (Meiji 18). First Edition. 8vo (182 x 119 mm). 19 double leaves (the makura preface has been woodblock-printed in color), COMPLETE. Condition notes: a number of fukurotoji leaf edges split, text with light browning, thumbing, and a few marks to leaves, small hole to margin..... More

Tokyo: Eisensha, 1885 (Meiji 18). 8vo (220 x 147 mm), stitched as issued in the four-hole yotsumetoji manner. COMPLETE with [26] woodblocks printed in color + 1 letterpress leaf (see below). Bound in the traditional Japanese fukurotoji binding style (original wrappers slightly soiled), with the original daisen mounted title-slip. In..... More

S.l. s.n., n.d. (19th-century, after 1835). Collection of seven Chinese gouache paintings on pith paper (sizes vary: ca. 300 x 220 mm, some blank areas in fragile pith paper cracked or with loss, not affecting gouache paintings -- SEE IMAGES), a few retaining their original blue silk border edges. Each..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 260 x 170 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 270 mm). Manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged and repaired, nonetheless these are both ttractive paintings, beautifully rendered. Two delicate Indian..... More