Early Chinese Bronzes

by Albert J. Koop

$1,600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Full original brown morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third top edge gilt, other edges uncut Deluxe first edition of this rare, finely bound reference book on Chinese bronze objects: numbered 31 out of 40 copies of which only 35 were offered for sale. An important work in the fields of both art and archaeology, the author attempts to display the range of bronze objects produced in China from the Hsia dynasty 2205 BC

• Binding: Leather

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