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Auction catalogs for the sale of Yamanaka & Co. property seized during World War II Author: Place: New York Publisher: Various publishers Date: 1943-44 Description: 6 auction catalogues with an announcement of the sale. Includes: Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art. New York, Assembled by Yamanaka & Company, Inc.,1943. Housed in custom clamshell case. Yellow wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate. Slipcase spine rubbed; thin scuff to front wrapper. And, housed together in slipcase and chemise: 3 volumes. By order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, Liquidation of the Entire Stock of the New York Store of Yamanaka & Co. Inc, Oriental Art. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1944. Sales 572, 579, and 581. Gray wrappers printed in red and black. By order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, Liquidation of the Reference Library of Yamanaka & Co. Inc. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1944. Sale 576. Gray wrappers printed in red and black. By order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, Chinese, Korean & Japanese Garden Sculptures From the Stock of Yamanaka & Co. Inc. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1944. Sale 581A. Saddle-stitched plain paper self-wrappers. One piece of ephemera advertising the seizure and liquidation auctions. Not only an extensive record of ancient Chinese, Japanese, and East Asian antiques in circulation prior to the Chinese revolution, the Yamanaka catalogs recall the seizure and liquidation of Japanese-American businesses during World War II. Prior to the liquidation, Yamanaka & Co. were preeminent Asian art dealers in New York, acknowledged by the New York Met as one of the main sources of its early Asian art collection. Four of the 6 catalogues have prices realized hand-written in margins. The catalog lacking these annotations is that for Chinese, Korean & Japanese Garden Sculptures from Sale 581A. Lot Amendments One piece of ephemera in lot. Catalogues for sales 572, 576, 579, and 581 have prices realized hand-written in margins. Condition: Slipcase spine scuffed; gentle shelfwear to wrappers; bookplate; auction announcement disbound, folded with tears; volumes near fine. Item number: 334452