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Demy folio, [29cm/11.75inches], full gilt-embossed Cordovan-coloured cloth with mylared-dust jacket, pp. xv, 300. 208 snuff bottles and 6 snuff spoons and dishes are parsed, each illustrated with its own colour photograph. Extensive bibliography. Signed and dated 28.19 1997 on half title page
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Robert Kleiner is Consultant to Sotheby's, London, concerning snuff bottles.
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Chinese Snuff Bottles: The White Wings Collection
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear; jacket spine sunned, frayed at head. Else fine. Internally a bright, clean copy. Seller Inventory # 1998848
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Chinese Snuff Bottles: The White Wings Collection
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Pressroom Printer & Designer, Hong Kong, 1998
ISBN 10: 9627287377
ISBN 13: 9789627287377
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG. Brown cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with metallic orange lettering. xv, 300 pp. Color illustrations. During the late 17th and 18th centuries snuff-taking was one of the more popular court indulgences. This catalogue illustrates and discusses more than 200 snuff bottles, including many rare examples made for imperial use within the Beijing palace workshops. Seller Inventory # 170356