Live auction - Lot 447
[China - Sculpture]
Chinese sculpture from the fifth to the fourteenth century. Over 900 specimens in stone, bronze, lacquer and wood, principally from Northern China [...].
London, Ernest Benn, 1925
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4 vol., 4to: clii-168 pp.; 624 pl. (foxing at the 1st and last lvs of v. 1).
Half red shagreen, spine with raised bands (rubbed, spines sl. faded, scratch on upper board of v. 3).
First edition. Complete with the 624 b/w collotype plates (incl. front.), chronologically ranked. Vol. I contains text, the 3 others the illustrations.