Rahmann Rud (1 results)

Large 8vo, pp. i, [1], 381, [2]; 2 maps, 15 plates; text in English, French and German; original printed paper wrappers bound in; later quarter red buckram over red paper-covered boards, gilt title on spine; chips on wrappers neatly repaired, text clean and sound, very good. Corrigenda leaf loose (as issued?), but present. With contributions by Frederick Seguier Drake on The Shęn-t'ung monastery and the beginning of Buddhism in Shantung; Andre Duboscq & Van Den Brandt on An unpublished manuscript of the "Conquests of K'ien-long"; Diether von den Steinen on The poems of Ts'ao Ts'ao; Erwin von Zach on Tu Fu's Poems; Friedrich Weller on Buddha's Last Journey; and Matthias Eder on New Studies on the Language of the Ryűkyű Islands. Also, K. Groenbech on Turkish inscriptions from Inner Mongolia; F. Thery on Sources of Chinese civil law; Walter Fuchs & Antoine Mostaert on A Ming print of a Chinese- Mongolian edition of the Hsiao- ching; Alexander C. Soper contributes A bibliography for the study of Japanese temple architecture; W. Percival Yetts on A Fang-i in the Trautmann Collection; G. Ecke on A new torso from the T'ien-lung Shan; and, Florence Ayscough on An uncommon aspect of Han sculpture: Figures from Nan-yang. Also book reviews Chaing Lee's The Silent Traveller; van Gulik's Mi Fu on ink-stones, and Osvald Siren's Bilder fran Kina, as well as a dozen other reviews.