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Auction archive: Lot number 291

A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide Book

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$330
Auction archive: Lot number 291

A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide Book

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$330
Beschreibung:

Title: A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide Book Author: Huang Shiu-fu and T'an Chung-yo Place: Chengtu, Szechwan, China Publisher: West China Union University Date: 1936 Description: [354] pp. Text in English & Chinese, translated by Dryden Linsley Phelps. Printed on double-leaves. Illustrations redrawn from the original plates by Yu Tzu-tan. 32.2x18.5 cm. (12¾x7¼"), green wrappers with title label in Chinese, sewn; chemise with bone clasps. The first bilingual mountaineering guide to Mount Omei or Emei Shan in Sichuan Province. Emei Shan rises 3000 meters above sea-level and is one of the four Buddhist holy mountains of China. It has been a place of Buddhist pilgrimage for well over 1000 years. Lot Amendments Condition: Chemise with some soiling, wear to edges and extremities; volume fine, with just a little foxing to page edges and flyleaves, very uncommon thus. Item number: 233571

Auction archive: Lot number 291
Auction:
Datum:
24 Jan 2013
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide Book Author: Huang Shiu-fu and T'an Chung-yo Place: Chengtu, Szechwan, China Publisher: West China Union University Date: 1936 Description: [354] pp. Text in English & Chinese, translated by Dryden Linsley Phelps. Printed on double-leaves. Illustrations redrawn from the original plates by Yu Tzu-tan. 32.2x18.5 cm. (12¾x7¼"), green wrappers with title label in Chinese, sewn; chemise with bone clasps. The first bilingual mountaineering guide to Mount Omei or Emei Shan in Sichuan Province. Emei Shan rises 3000 meters above sea-level and is one of the four Buddhist holy mountains of China. It has been a place of Buddhist pilgrimage for well over 1000 years. Lot Amendments Condition: Chemise with some soiling, wear to edges and extremities; volume fine, with just a little foxing to page edges and flyleaves, very uncommon thus. Item number: 233571

Auction archive: Lot number 291
Auction:
Datum:
24 Jan 2013
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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