Lot 110
A. Grünwedel, Mythologie des Buddhismus in Tibet und der Mongolei. Leipzig 1900.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
110
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Albert Grünwedel
Grünwedel, Albert: Mythologie des Buddhismus in Tibet und der Mongolei. Führer durch die lamaistische Sammlung des Fürsten E. Uchtomskij. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1900. 27,6 x 19,6 cm. With a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations. XXXV, 244 pp. Cloth binding using the original cover.
(Scuffed and bumped; back cover has a small wormhole. The endpapers are more heavily stained. The half-title page is monogrammed and contains second-hand notes in pencil. The portrait is stained. The title page has a minimal tear along the bottom edge. Slightly browned and shows minor age spots and staining.)
Yakushi (1994) G312. - First edition. - A scholarly guide to the Lamaist collection of the Russian publisher and Orientalist Esper Uchtomsky (1861–1921), a close confidant of Tsar Nicholas II. The German Indologist, Tibetologist, and archaeologist Grünwedel (1856–1935) examines the development of the Buddhist pantheon in India and provides a systematic account of the Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhist pantheon and its iconography.
(Scuffed and bumped; back cover has a small wormhole. The endpapers are more heavily stained. The half-title page is monogrammed and contains second-hand notes in pencil. The portrait is stained. The title page has a minimal tear along the bottom edge. Slightly browned and shows minor age spots and staining.)
Yakushi (1994) G312. - First edition. - A scholarly guide to the Lamaist collection of the Russian publisher and Orientalist Esper Uchtomsky (1861–1921), a close confidant of Tsar Nicholas II. The German Indologist, Tibetologist, and archaeologist Grünwedel (1856–1935) examines the development of the Buddhist pantheon in India and provides a systematic account of the Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhist pantheon and its iconography.