Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson, 1831. Wood engraving on cream wove paper, 5 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (145 x 222 mm), right margin trimmed. General age tone, uneven margins and some minor skinning at the sheet edges. An image removed from an edition of the Farm Journal. The Clinton House was..... More
c 1880. Wood engraving on tissue-thin Japon paper, 5 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches (133 x 45 mm), full margins. Scattered light spots of yellow discoloration throughout, as well as some edge tears and corner damage from a former mount, all outside of image area. Signed illegibly in the image..... More
c1920. Wood engraving on cream wove paper, 5 7/8 x 4 1/4 mm (150 x 107 mm), full margins. In good condition with no visible defects. More
Paris: Melchior Tavernier, c 1620. Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper, printed from three blocks in black, olive-green, and yellow ochre, 8 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (207 x 157 mm), thread margins. Some scattered light discoloration throughout, lightly backed with laid paper, however the sheet retains translucence when viewed..... More
c 1729. Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in beige and olive with etching and aquatint on cream laid paper, 11 1/8 x 10 inches (281 x 252 mm) (plate), full margins with the text printing clearly below in olive ink. In very good condition with no visible defects other..... More
1504-5. Woodcut on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (215 x 148 mm), thread margins. Significant expert repairs to lower right sheet edge, and center right sheet edge. Minor scattered light areas of surface rubbing, small nic-sized losses, and extremely minor printing defects, all consistent with age..... More
Paris: L'Eclipse, 1872. Woodcut engraving with hadcoloring on light-weight wove paper, 13 3/4 x 11 5/8 inches (347 x 294 mm), margins trimmed. Illustrated in Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71, Volume 2, page 177, by Jules Claretie. Scattered light age tone, handling wear and surface soiling, all consistent with..... More
Watanabe Shozaburo, 1936. Woodblock in colors on handmade mulberry paper, Koban 7 3/16 x 4 3/4 inches (182 x 120 mm), full margins. With the Shôtei artist seal in red ink, upper right. Signed "Shotei" and titled in English on the matrix in graphite. With the "Made in Japan" export..... More
Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudō), c1840. Woodblock print (nishiki-e) with ink and hand coloring on fibrous cream-colored Japon paper, chûban; 6 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches (166 x 226 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Signed Hiroshige ga 広重画, and with the censor's seal: kiwame 改印：極. Edo period, printed about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)..... More
1919. Color woodcut cream wove paper, 3 7/8 x 5 3/16 inches (98 x 139 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. In very good condition with no visible defects. A very rare, perhaps unique, impression. We have not found another impression on offer within in the last..... More
Tokyo: 1851. Set of 12 woodblock prints in colors on handmade, laid mulberry paper, 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (170 x 258 mm), printed in Ka-ei 4 (1851). Each print with minor handling wear, otherwise in excellent condition with bright and fresh color, and with details printed in silver..... More
Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1950. Woodcut printed in black on buff laid paper, 4 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (113 x 135 mm), full margins. Scattered minor foxing in the lower right sheet quadrant, recto, and with the lower sheet edge folded horizontally upwards approximiately 1/4 inch from the bottom, well..... More
Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937. Woodcut on hand made laid paper with the publisher's watermark designed by the artist, 4 5/16 x 4 7/8 inches (107 x 122 mm), full margins. From the special suite of 53 woodcut illustrations which were laid in loose to the deluxe edition of Maillol's 8vo..... More
c1800. Woodblock on cream laid paper, 5 5/8 x 7 inches (141 x 177 mm), narrow margins. Scattered handling creases, with one pin-point spot of brown discoloration above the female figure's head. The date "1807" written in ink in the top-right margin. On the verso is a passage in French..... More
c 1770. Woodcut on cream laid paper, 7 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (182 x 63 mm), narrow margins. Laid down to non-archival board with scattered soiling and some adhesive staining. Okumura Masanobu (Japanese 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes..... More
c 1730. Chiaroscuro woodcut with underlying engraving on cream laid paper, printed from two blocks in brown and olive. 10 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches (260 x 321 mm) (plate), full margins with the text printing clearly below in black ink. In very good condition with scattered surface soiling and..... More
Paris: René Kieffer, 1923. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner (1871-1935). Limited Edition. 4to, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (260 x 194 mm); pp. iv + 156. This is copy no. 7 of the DELUXE EDITION of 50 printed on vélin teinté with the ADDITIONAL SET OF 41 WOODCUTS PRINTED ON JAPON PELURE..... More
Paris: René Kieffer, 1923. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner (1871-1935). Limited Edition. 4to, 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (260 x 200 mm); pp. iv + 156. 32 woodcuts by Jean-Baptiste Vettiner. Binding by René Kieffer in dark blue crushed morocco, title in gilt, with ONE OF THE ORIGINAL WOOD-BLOCKS HEIGHTENED WITH GILT..... More
1540. Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper with a partial anchor in a circle watermark, printed from two blocks in black and olive-green, 10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (272 x 221 mm), thread margins. We believe this to be an early, first state impression (of two), issued from Niccolò..... More
1722. Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream laid paper matrix (as issued), printed from three blocks in dusky pink, olive green and grayish blue, with a gold border and pink watercolor frame. Printed area measures 6 11/16 x 4 5/8 inches (170 × 117 mm)..... More
