Japanese and Chinese picture books.
A lot containing 21 books, with the titles not listed.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 455 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 14s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Sotheby 1898:
July 3, 2014
Pinto, Fernão Mendes. The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies. Trans. Henry Cogan. London: printed by J. Macock and to be sold by Henry Herringman, 1663.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for £1 4s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 948 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2).— Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 52b (£1). — ESTC (R221803). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 11. — MS catalogue (2), no. 92 (with three X’s beside it).
Digital version: EEBO.
Sotheby 1898:
May 1, 2014
d’Saint-Denys, Léon Hervey, marquis. Poésies de l’époque des Thang, précédées de l’art poétique et la prosodie chez les chinois. Paris: Amyot, Éditeur, 1862.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 235 (part; sold to Tregaskis for 13s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: BSB.
Sotheby 1898:
May 1, 2014
Collie, David, trans. The Chinese classical work commonly called the four books. Malacca: printed at the Mission Press, 1828.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 235 (part; sold to Tregaskis for 13s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 36.
Digital version: Internet Archive.
Sotheby 1898:
April 24, 2014
Jones, Owen. Examples of Chinese ornament, selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections. London: S. & T. Gilbert, 1867.
100 chromolithographs.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 729 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 2s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 834.
[From the 1866 edition.]
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
May 22, 2017
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