(Japan.) A 19th Century Japanese woodblock printing illustra...

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(Japan.) A 19th Century Japanese woodblock printing illustrated book, card loosely inserted with old m/s pen & ink note "2) The "Mon" (family armoiries) and how to draw same. 19th cty.", 200+ pages, b/w illustrations throughout, small oblong (7.5 x 16cm), original Japanese stab bound wraps; together with another similar, slip of paper tipped in bearing old m/s note in same hand "3) Js-sai [?] (Hokusai): "Designs for handicraft" (metal, lacquer etc.) signed: Katsushika Jssaï gwa in 1. vol., printed in black, Edited 1864 par Yamato Yaki ee, Yedo.", [52] pages illustrations, small oblong (12 x 18cm), original Japanese stab bound wraps; plus 10 others 19th/early 20th Century similar (of which 5 housed in portfolio), plus three 20th Century books similar subject