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New York: The Walpole Galleries, 1919. Softcover. G- (Heavily aged or soiled covers with some handwriting; pages are generally clear, though prices realized are written in ink at the entries.). Tan paper wraps, French flaps, 40 pp., BW illus. On cover: Japanese Color Prints: The Collection of Mrs. Adolphe Borie of New York. Issued in conjunction with a 1919 auction of 290 lots collected by Mrs. Adolphe Borie. The subtitle describes the offerings thusly: Complete sets in the First States of the Rare Hiroshige Series of the Kisokaido, the Tokaido and the Marusei Tokaido; Kitao Masanobu's "Shin Bijin Awase Jijitsu Kagami" or "Beautiful Yoshiwara Girls Written Down as in a Mirror"; Eleven of Utamaro's "Silkworm Series", in the First Issue; Three Utamaro Prints from the De Goncourt Sale, Paris in 1898; Girls in the Rain by Harunobu; and other Hashiraye by Koriusai, Kiyonaga, etc. Prints by Yeishi, Toyokuni I. Kuniyoski Landscape, Yeizan, Blue Prints by Kaisei Yeisen, and Hokusai's "Hundred Views of Fuji"…
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