Une bibliothèque médiévale retrouvée au Kan-Sou

by Paul Pelliot

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Hanoi: Imprimerie D'extreme-Orient, 1908. Offprint from the Bulletin de L'Ecole Francaise D'Extreme-Orient, large 8vo, pp. 29, 3 ; recent red cloth gilt, original wrappers chipped, reinforced with kozo paper and bound in, text clean and sound. Pelliot was not the first westerner to be given access to the to the Dunhuang caves and their trove of manuscripts, but he was one of the first who was fluent enough in Classical Chinese and other Central and East

• Binding: Wrappers

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