Une bibliothèque médiévale retrouvée au Kan-Sou
Hanoi: Imprimerie D'extreme-Orient, 1908. Offprint from the Bulletin de L'Ecole Francaise D'Extreme-Orient, large 8vo, pp. 29, [3]; recent red cloth gilt, original wrappers chipped, reinforced with kozo paper and bound in, text clean and sound. Pelliot was not the first westerner to be given access to the to the Dunhuang caves and their trove of manuscripts, but he was one of the first who was fluent enough in Classical Chinese and other Central and East Asian languages to make a proper analysis of their contents. His account of the material there was so specific and detailed that he was accused of inventing and forging information, but was vindicated when Aurel Stein published his own account of Dunhuang. One copy (BnF) in OCLC. Item #63284
Price: $250.00
