Kahei Seizu

by Ryosuke Tokuno

$4,750 · Offered by Ursus Books · No longer available

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TOKUNO, Ryosuke. Kahei Seizu . 55 plates. Oblong Folio, 273 x 364 mm., contemporary morocco-backed cloth. [Tokyo] : Okurasho Insatsukyoku, 1879. A splendid example of Japanese chromolithography, this method of printing being presumably thought to be better suited to the reproduction of gold and silver coins than the more traditional Japanese method.....

• Binding: Leather

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