Scrapbook for Chinese collectors. A Chinese treatise on scrolls and forgers. Shu-Hua-Shuo-Ling. Translated with an introduction and notes

by R. H. Van Gulik by Robert H. Van Gulik

$475 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Beirut: privately printed at the Imprimerie Catholique , 1958. First edition in English printed in a limited but unspecified edition; 8 x 5½ , pp. 84, 16, 2 ; frontispiece, one full-page illustration, original Chinese text at the back; original printed cream wrappers; fine. An uncommon Van Gulik title: a complete translation of the 18th-century collector Lu Shih-hua's treatise on Chinese forgers and their scrolls. Evers, p. 18. Item #68986

• Binding: Wrappers

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