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Gump, Richard. Jade: Stone of Heaven. Garden City. Doubleday and Co. 1962. 256 pages. 18 color, 100+ b/w illustrations. 6.25” x 9.5”
$300.00
First Edition. Casebound with Dust Jacket. Inscribed to Rudolph Shaefer, founder of the school of design by Richard Gump, Nov. 1962. B/w image of an attractive jade taped in on the front end paper with pencil indicating Seattle Museum, 18th c. Text fine, dust jacket slightly worn and minor tears at top. Item #11774
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Hansford, S. Howard. Jade, Essence of Hills and Streams. London. Purnell and Sons, Ltd. 1969. 220 pages. 395 b/w and full color illustrations. 11.25” x 9”
$300.00
First Edition. Cloth. Inscribed and autographed. The author was a noted early authority on jade. Baron von Oertzen emigrated to South Africa in 1935, where he was an industrialist w Fine with dustjacket. Item #10008
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Hansford, S. Howard. The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art. Volume 1: Chinese, Central Asian and Luristan Bronzes and Chinese Jades and Sculptures. London. Arts Council of Great Britain. 1957. 133 pages. 204 b/w illustrations, maps, chronology, bibliography and index. 9.75” x 12.25”
$475.00
First Edition. Cloth binding. Rare. Out of print. Fine, w/dustjacket. Item #10322
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Hayashi, Minao. Chugoku Kogy no Kenkyu (Research on Chinese Archaic Jades). Tokyo. 1991. 601 pages. Hundreds of b/w and color illustrations. 7.5” x 10.75”
$750.00
Cloth binding with slipcase. This book is an intensive study of the religious and political functions of ancient Chinese jades from the third to the first millenium BC (late Neolithic period through the Han dynasty). In light of recent excavated materials, this study hopes to clarify the relationship of archaeological remains with classical literary references and to identify the religious and socio-political background of the early periods. Text in Japanese with two-page short abstracts in English. As new. Item #11869
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