Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Route
by Whitfield, Roderick Farrer, Anne
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0714114472
- ISBN 13
- 9780714114477
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HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: British Museum Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Scarlet cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: sumptuous colour photo-cover. Price clipped. Minimal shelf wear to top edge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end-papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Over 150 colour & 75 b/w photos.* Pages: 192 pp. text. xvi pp. Chronology, lists, bibliography & index at rear.* Description: Nearly a thousand years ago a magnificent collection of Buddhist paintings, textiles and manuscripts was walled up in a cave at Dunhuang in Western China. Although the cave was rediscovered about 1900, it was not until 1907 that the archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein recognised the significance of these fine images on silk and paper from the Tang and Five Dynasties Chine. Many of the paintings came to the British Museum where conservation has continued for decades. Most of the works of art are so fragile that they are rarely exhibited, yet their vigorous beauty has survived a thousand years, making the collection one of the most important in the world.* A NEAR FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS in price clipped dust jacket.*
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5416
- Title
- Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Route
- Author
- Whitfield, Roderick Farrer, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0714114472
- ISBN 13
- 9780714114477
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 208
- Date Published
- 1990-03-01
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