Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
STEIN, MARC AUREL, Sir. The Thousand Buddhas: Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-huang on the Western Frontier of China. xii, 65 pages. With separate title leaf and 47 (of 48) plates in 2 sizes, loose as issued; title leaf soiled in margins, plate 27 lacking. Together, 3 parts. Folio, text volume 400x310 mm, in original wrappers, front joint partly cracked, backstrip missing small portion at bottom, contents clean; title leaf and plates 1-33 635x515 mm, in worn original 1/2 cloth portfolio with remnants of cloth ties; plates 34-48 400x305 mm, in chipped and frayed original envelope. London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1921

Additional Details

first edition of a collection of plates reproducing paintings recovered during the 1906-08 expedition, with descriptions by Stein and an introductory essay by Laurence Binyon. Yakushi S333.