Lot 184
R. Lange, Japanische Wappen. Berlin 1903.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
184
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
R(udolf) Lange
Lange, R(udolf): Japanische Wappen. [On the front cover:] Sonderabdruck aus den Mittheilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin. Jg. VI, Abtlg. I: Ostasiatische Studien. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1903. 23,5 x 16,4 cm. With numerous illustrations, pp. 63–281. Original cover.
(Cover has some small tears and a crease; slightly dusty. Corners slightly bumped.)
Contains descriptions and illustrations of over 1,200 different coats of arms. The linguist and Japanologist Rudolf Lange (1850–1933) was the first and only holder of a chair in Japanese in the German-speaking world and taught at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. He drew the present work from the text ‘Hayabiki jōmon kan’, published by Mori Mototas’ke after 1668, following the restoration of the Empire.
(Cover has some small tears and a crease; slightly dusty. Corners slightly bumped.)
Contains descriptions and illustrations of over 1,200 different coats of arms. The linguist and Japanologist Rudolf Lange (1850–1933) was the first and only holder of a chair in Japanese in the German-speaking world and taught at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. He drew the present work from the text ‘Hayabiki jōmon kan’, published by Mori Mototas’ke after 1668, following the restoration of the Empire.