16th century handscroll with twelve erotic scenes

Makimono, Momoyama period. Wonderfully hand-painted paper scroll with twelve erotic scenes including one with a Samurai. Several highlights heightened in gold. Verso-side heightened...

Bishop Boulton, Emily (1855-1926). Nihon Fuzoku

Osaka, Tsujiko Kumataro, 1890. Three vols..: The Daimyos Procession, The Procession of the Mikado, and The Bridal Procession of the Common People. 28; 27; 27, ( incl. one fold.)...

[China] Album with 44 orig. gouaches

China, late 19th cent. Each drawing w. caption in pen in French at top, contemp. threadbound wrs., 30.5 x 20.5 cm. Last 7 drawings and backwr. wormholed in lower margin (2x sl....

[China] Boy attempting to catch a bat

Hand-painted porcelain tile, 22 x 14.5 cm. China, ca. 1900. Marked/ signed w. characters, in original wooden frame. Bronze suspension ring loose.

[Erotica] Peep-show box Lovemaking couple

Handcol. papier mâché. China, 19th cent. Inside a box constructed as a four-volume book and intended to be viewed behind glass, a couple is depicted in the act of lovemaking, the...

Hokusai III (1760-1849) Dai Nippon bussan zue

Okura Magobee, Tokyo, 1877. Leporello w. 15 double-p. col. woodcuts. Text on verso. Size woodcuts each: 17.5 x 24 cm.

Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849). Hokusai Manga volume 3

Ca. 1850. With 56 col. woodblock print, in contemp. red paper wrapper.

[Homosexuality] Chigo no Soshi (Book of Acolytes). Two homo-erotic scenes

Two 19th-century copies of scenes from this earliest known medieval Japanese painting on male-male sexual relationships in Buddhist temples. (original version 1321). Watercol....

[Homosexuality] Yanagawa Shigenobu I (1787-1832). Nanshoku (Male Love)

Man with Onnagata. Ca. 1832. Col. woodcut print. Shunga from the series Willow Storm 'Yanagi no arashi'. 26 x 38.5 cm.

[Indian miniatures] Krishna playing his flute with seven Gopis on the bank of the Yamuna river

Gouache on paper, 35 x 29.5 cm, probably ca. 1800, framed. Superficial dam. in left margin, oblique fold in lower right half.

Indian miniatures, lot of two erotic scenes

Late 19th/ early 20th century, 10 gold-heightened gouaches. Both 19 x 12 cm, text in Arabic script on verso.

[Japan] Black lacquered album over wooden boards

Leather backing, iridescent inlays on frontcover depicting flowers and birds, silk pastedown w. handdrawn illustration on both upper and lower side, depicting a bird in flower...

[Japan] Lijnden, (J.M.) Comte de. Souvenir du Japon, vues d'après nature

With text by Le Comte de Lijnden, Premier Aide-De-Camp de S.M. le Roi des Pays-Bas. The Hague, C.W. Mieling, 1860(-1866). Lithogr. title, introduction leaf and 14 letterpress lvs...

[Japan] Lot of eighteen var. 19th-cent. Japanese (col.) woodcuts,

in var. sizes and subjects, all under simple passe-partouts, w. indication "uit Exercises pour l'Usage des Dames" (6x), "Utagawa-School ca. 1850" (5x, samurai and other subjects),...

[Japan] Takizawa Kiyoshi (ca. 1880). Senryuodo gafu. Insects

Tokyo, Matsuzuki Hanzo, 1881, (49) p. w. 22 fine double-p. and 2 full-p. woodcuts, orig. threadbound wr. w. paper lable on front, bound as a blockbook, 23 x 15.5 cm. Binding thread...

[Japan] Yosa Buson, Tanomura Takeda and Watanabe Kazan. Collection of the Three Great Literary P ainters

Tokyo, Esthetic Academy, Meiji 42 (= 1909), w. 48 plates (incl. 6 mounted col. plates), interleaved w. text leaves, orig. cord-bound pict. cl. w. mounted title-label on front cover,...

Japanese atlas scroll

Ca. 1850. Containing 13 joined double-p. woodblock maps/ plans/ views (5x col.), incl. regional maps, city plans and a map of Northern Hokkaido. Likely from the Dai Nihon eitai...

Kunichika (1835-1900). Riding the Famous Hot-Air Balloon

Onoe Kikugoro V as the Englishman Spencer and Onoe Ushinosuke II as Spencer in the play Riding the Famous Hot-Air Balloon. Col. woodcut Oban, signed oju Kunichika-hitsu w. red...

Kunisada Utagawa (I). Sie sandaime Bando Mitsugoro III

Ca. 1831. Col. woodblock print, 37 x 24 cm. With: (2) Kuniyoshi. Ronin Tamiya Iemon with his sister-in-law and brother-in-law. Ca. 1848. Col. woodblock print, 34 x 24 cm. Both mounted at top.

[Nepal] Boardgame, so-called Bagh Chal or "Tiger moving" game

Engraved brass playing-board over wood, 20.5 x 20.5 cm (in open state, the board can be closed w. 2 sm. hooks), w. wooden peg revealing an inner compartment for storing the miniature...

Seven Persian illuminated manuscript leaves from the Quran

18-19th-century, heightened in silver, text in Arabic, within double ruled border, text on verso. Each leaf illuminations on Surah Yusuf (Chapter 12), with Indian influence. Size...

Tibetan manuscript, convolute with four works

Late 19th or early 20th cent., 28,(3 blanks); (1 blank),15; (1 blank),55,(10 blanks),1; 48,(7 blanks), mostly 4-7 lines per page, occas. rubricated in red, yellow and purple. Cloth...

Verbrugge, J.K. (1755-1831) (attributed to). (Three Japanese warriors)

Drawing in pen and ink and gouache, 16 x 30 cm., on laid paper with water mark upright lion in crowned circle with unidentified text, in frame (trifle tanned, not examined outside the frame).