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A GROUP OF BOOKS ON ASIAN AND BUDDHIST ART
Consisting of Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 24 volumes; Tingley,
Celestial realms; Tingley Buddhas; Gandhara The Buddhist Heritage of
Pakistan; Artibus Asiae, seven volumes; Bulletin De L’ecole Francaise
D’Extreme-Orient, 6 volumes; Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in
Asia, two volumes; Wenwu, one volume; Bulletin of the Asia Institute,
12 volumes; Studies in Silk Road Coins and Culture; Lerner & Kossak
The Lotus Transcendent; Jongeward et al Gandharan Buddhist
Reliquaries; and 82 booklets and offprints.
US$1,000 - 1,500

亞洲藝術及佛教藝術書籍

8142

8143¤
A GROUP OF FIFTY-EIGHT AUCTION CATALOGS
1989-2015
An impressive selection of Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction catalogs
from recent Hong Kong, London and New York sales, including
Meiyintang part I-V, Sakamoto Goro, Robert Chang Collection, among
others; for a complete list please consult our website.
US$1,000 - 2,000

五十八本拍賣目錄

8144 8143
CALLS, SOUNDS AND MERCHANDISE OF THE PEKING
STREET PEDDLERS
A book by Samel Victor Constant, Peking: the Camel Bell [1936]
Oblong 8vo. Illustrated with 60 full page color illustrations, 16 mounted
plates from photographs, mounted paper-pattern. Original colored silk
covered boards (toning to pages, wear and losses to silk on covered
boards); together with a Chongqing city opera ticket stub dated
September 9, 1945, assorted Chinese language translation exercises,
a group of eight bodhi tree leaves each painted with one of the Eight
Immortals, and a typed paper carbon copy entitled Some Impressions
of Student and Faculty Life in Chengtu after a Month’s Observation,,
dated January 1945 as ‘written by a graduate of Ginling, Class of
1924, Recently arrived on the campus in Chengtu.’ [lot]

US$1,000 - 1,500

山姆‧康士頓著 1936年作《北京人文風情》

FIRST EDITION ‘submitted to the California College in China in part
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.’ The
title page of this lot is stamped and the inside back cover applied with
a paper label reading The Peking Bookshop Grand Hotel des
Wagons-Lits. The Bird & Bull Press produced an edition in 1993.

Another copy of this first edition was sold in Bonhams, New York, 8144
Sale 22795, 13 April 2015, Lot 22.

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