Lot 113
A. Grünwedel, Mythologie des Buddhismus in Tibet und der Mongolei. Leipzig 1900.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
113
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. 26,9 x 19,2 cm. With a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations. XXXV, 244 pp. Linen with a title on the spine.
(Stained, with light discoloration along the edges and spots. Loose joints. Endpaper with remnants of an ex libris and a handwritten ownership note in ink. Corners of the half-title page repaired. Front cover almost completely detached from the binding. A few pages with small tears along the edges. Slightly browned and with dust stains along the edges.)
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.
(Stained, with light discoloration along the edges and spots. Loose joints. Endpaper with remnants of an ex libris and a handwritten ownership note in ink. Corners of the half-title page repaired. Front cover almost completely detached from the binding. A few pages with small tears along the edges. Slightly browned and with dust stains along the edges.)
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.