Lot 112

A. Grünwedel, Mythologie des Buddhismus in Tibet und der Mongolei. Leipzig 1900.

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Lot: 112
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 20,3 cm. With a portrait frontispiece of Prince Uchtomsky based on a photograph and numerous illustrations. XXXV, 244 pp. Later linen binding with gold-stamped title on the front and spine; original paperback covers bound in.

(Slightly scuffed and with some dust stains. The portrait and title page show signs of age. One page of the glossary has a tear approximately 7 cm long along the outer margin. The half-title page bears an owner’s stamp. Ex-libris on the front endpaper.)

Yakushi (1994) G312. - First edition. - A scholarly guide to the Lamaist collection of the Russian publisher and Orientalist Esper Uchtomskij (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.