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Tobae Sports - Courses D'Automne

by Georges Bigot

Tobae Sports - Courses D'Automne by Georges Bigot
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Tobae Sports - Courses D'Automne by Georges Bigot

[Japan] One of Bigot's scarcer works of etchings containing 21 caricatures of Westerners in Japan engaged in various sporting or sport-related activities. The final illustrations folds out. Cover dated October 1889. No title page or colophon as issued. The illustration on page 8 is unmistakably Dr. Edwin Wheeler (1841-1923) who died in the 1923 earthquake.

 

[Probably Yokohama]. [No publisher]. October 1889.

 

21 leaves (final leaf folding). 25.2 x 19cm.

 

In good condition. Some age wear to covers and inside covers. Binding a little loose but in no danger of failing. b37071919

 

 

Tobae Sports - Courses D'Automne

Price: ¥165,000




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