Dunhuang: Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road (2 volumes)
by Whitfield, Roderick
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1898406057
- ISBN 13
- 9781898406051
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London: Textile & Art Publications, 1995 London: Textile & Art Publications, 1995 Vol. 1 - 259 pp , 399 colored plates. Vol 2 - explanatory text with 59 illustrations,plate captions, glossary, bibliography, index to caves, An exhaustive record of all the cave art at the Dunhuang caves in Gansu, China. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, immaculate. Dark green boards are undamaged. Pictorial slip case is likewise whole and unfaded This set weighs 10 .75 lbs. Overseas buyers please contact seller for shipping costs before purchasing. 1st Edition. Cased Hardcover. As New/As New. Illus. by Seigo Otsuka. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. As New/As New. Illus. by Seigo Otsuka.
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 400957
- Title
- Dunhuang: Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road (2 volumes)
- Author
- Whitfield, Roderick
- Illustrator
- Seigo Otsuka
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 1898406057
- ISBN 13
- 9781898406051
- Publisher
- Textile & Art Publications
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Bookseller catalogs
- Afganistan, Hunza, Central Asia;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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