• Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
  • Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
  • Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
  • Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
  • Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
  • Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
  • Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
  • Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum
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STEIN, Mark Aurel

The Thousand Buddhas

The Thousand Buddhas

ancient Buddhist paintings from the cave-temples of Tun-Huang on the western frontier of China recovered and described by...

Stock Code 84718

Quaritch. London 1921.

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"The purpose of this publication is to place before students interested in Eastern art reproductions of select specimens from among the great collections of ancient Buddhist paintings which in the course of my second Central Asian journey, carried out in 1906-08 under the orders of the Government of India, I had the good fortune to recover from a walled-up chapel at the Caves of the Thousand Buddas near Tun-Huang". Probably Stein's greatest discovery, these treasures are now in the British Museum and have the same potential to cause controversy as the Elgin Marbles.

First edition. Atlas volume only. Large portfolio with 33 colour plates, original cloth-backed printed boards, printed label.

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