Lot 117
A. Grünwedel, Alt-Kutscha. Text volume and atlas section. Berlin 1920.
Estimate
€ 900
Starting Price
€ 600
Lot:
117
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Albert Grünwedel
Grünwedel, Albert: Alt-Kutscha, archäologische und religionsgeschichtliche Forschungen an Tempera-Gemälden aus Buddhistischen Höhlen der ersten acht Jahrhunderte nach Christi Geburt. Text volume and atlas section. Berlin: O. Elsner 1920. 37,8 x 27 cm. With 5 double-page plates, bound into the text volume, and 25 (24 double-page) loose colour plates. 3 leaves, 89, 118 pp., 3 leaves. Original half-linen binding with coloured edges and a gold-embossed title on the cover, with loose double leaves, in an original linen cover with a spine label and a gold-embossed title on the cove
(Slight scuffing on the cover and the front cover.)
No. 138 of 400 copies – Publication of the Prussian Turfan expeditions with the support of the Bäsler Institute. - A major work by Director Professor Dr Grünwedel (1856–1935), who was a member of the Russian and Bavarian Academies of Sciences and Director of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Among other things, he organised, alongside Le Coq, the first and third of the four German Turfan expeditions in 1902–03 and 1905–07.
(Slight scuffing on the cover and the front cover.)
No. 138 of 400 copies – Publication of the Prussian Turfan expeditions with the support of the Bäsler Institute. - A major work by Director Professor Dr Grünwedel (1856–1935), who was a member of the Russian and Bavarian Academies of Sciences and Director of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Among other things, he organised, alongside Le Coq, the first and third of the four German Turfan expeditions in 1902–03 and 1905–07.