敦煌壁畫集 Dunhuang bi hua ji = The Dunhuang Mural Collection

by 敦煌文物研究所

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Beijing: Wenwu Chuban She 文物出版社 , 1957 . Folio, pp. 2 , 4, 3, 69, 1; printed and paginated on rectos only; text in Chinese; 69 full-page illustrations, one folding; original blue decorated brocade boards, silk label on upper cover; light sunning to spine, a couple pages dog-eared, not affecting images, pages clean and the binding sound. The Dunhuang caves were dug out in 366 CE as a center of Buddhist meditation and worship. They consist of around

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