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Volume III of the trilogy only, with corrigenda tipped in half-title page. Quarto (31cm); red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [n.p.]; colorful frontispiece, with 455 black-and-white plates. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Trace shelf-soil, with corners gently nudged; Very Good. Volume III in a three-volume presents the plates described and catalogued in previous volumes. [87690].…

Volume II of the trilogy only. Quarto (31cm); red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [viii],[1],2-337,[1]; tipped on black-and-white frontispiece, with 5 glossy inserts at rear pastedown. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Corners gently nudged; Very Good+. Inserts includes "Names, Titles, and Regnal Dates of the Kings of Pagan", facsimile handwritten chart, and three maps, including "Pagán and its Environs as it was in the Middle Pagán Period", a colorful map of Modern Burma, and a black-and-white map of Ramañña Desa. Volume II in a three-volume catalogues the illustrated plates presented throughout Volume III, and concludes with indexes. [87689].…