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TUCCI, Giuseppe

Tibetan painted scrolls. An artistic and symbolic illustration of 172 Tibetan paintings preceeded by a survey of the historical, artistic, literary and religious development of Tibetan culture with an article of P. Pelliot on a Mongol edict

Roma
La Libreria Dello Stato
1949

€800 - €1.200

2 text volumes in folio (42,5 x 30 cm), 798 pp, and 1 plate volume large in folio (50 x 34 cm), 25 coloured plates numbered alphabetically and 231 uncoloured 'phototype' plates. Limited edition of 775 copies on Umbrian Paper (Fabriano), this is number 21. Original red cloth gilt, top edges gilt (spines faded). A very good copy

The plates illustrate the 195 thangkas, illuminated manuscripts and bookcovers obtained by Tucci during his seven expeditions to Tibet between 1933 and 1947. Ex libris dr. P.H. Pott

Occultisme Arts