Dunhuang ling shi 敦煌零拾 Sundry Items from Dunhuang

by Zhenyu 羅振玉 Luo, ed

$500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

47 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers frayed , orig. stitching. Tianjin : Shangyu Luo shi 上虞羅氏, 1924. First edition of this collection of texts regarding materials unearthed at Dunhuang. The discovery of a sealed monastic library at Dunhuang in western China in the early 20th century was one of the most important archaeological discoveries in modern Chinese history. Countless texts in various languages were found, offering unique

• Binding: Wrappers

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