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Lot 197
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,664
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[CHINA - RELIGION]. A group of 12 works, including:
BEAL, Samuel (1825-1889). Travels of Fah-hian and Sung-yun, Buddhist Pilgrims from China to India. London: Trubner & Co., 1869. -- BROOMHALL, Marshall (1866-1937). Islam in China. London: Morgan & Scott, Ltd., 1905. -- GETTY, Alice (1865-1946). The Gods of Northern Buddhism. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1914. -- GRAHAM, David Crockett (1884-1961). The Customs and Religion of the Ch'iang. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1958. -- LESSING, Ferdinand Diederich (1882-1961). Yung-Ho-Kung: An Iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Peking. Stockholm: [N.p.], 1942. -- PRIP-MOLLER, Johannes (1899-1943). Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life. Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gads Forlag, 1937. 4 folding monastery plans. -- ROCK, Joseph Francis Charles (1884-1962). The Na-Khi Naga Cult and Related Ceremonies. Rome: Is M.E.O., 1952. 2 volumes. -- WHITE, William Charles (1873-1960). Chinese Jews: A Compilation of Matters Relating to the Jews of K'aifeng Fu. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1942. 3 volumes. PRESENATION COPY TO ALEXANDER CAMBRIDGE, FIRST EARL OF ATHLONE.
And 4 others. Together, 12 works in 17 volumes, various 8vo, 4to, and folio sizes in deluxe and publisher's cloth bindings and wraps, condition generally fine.
