The Peking Temple Of The Eastern Peak The Tung Yueh Miao In Peking And Its Lore With 20 Plates By Anne

by Anne Swann Goodrich

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First edition

Nagoya, Japan: Monumenta Serica, 1964. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 6 , iv, 331, 1 ; folding plan, 20 plates; fine copy in original orange cloth stamped in black, and in a almost fine dust jacket. The Tung-yüeh Miao in Peking is a veritable pantheon housing hundreds of deities with scores of attendants, presided over by the Great God of the Eastern Peak. Mrs. Goodrich, in her delightful narrative, relates the stories of these deities: how they came to

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