Éditions Geuthner

The first edition, published in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Revue des études islamiques.
Some light dampstains to boards, marginally dusty, handsome interior condition.
Fascicle illustrated with figures in the text and three plates hors-texte.

First edition.
Handsome copy despite the boards lightened at head.

First edition in French by Mathilde Deromps.
A good copy.

Les Grottes de Touen-Houang. Peintures et sculptures bouddhiques des époques Wei, des T’ang et des Song [The Cave-temples of Tun-Huang Buddhist Paintings and Sculptures Dating from Wei Period to T'ang and Song Dynasties]
Librairie Paul Geuthner | Paris 1920-1924 | 25.5 x 33 cm | 6 volumes, loose leaves with chemises and laces
First edition, wich printing began in 1914, but was interrupted by the Great War. The work was only issued from 1920.
Each of the six parts is presented in its original cream cloth chemise with flaps, title and volume labels to spine, all with their laces. A few tiny lacks to some title labels.
The set is comprised of:
- Volume I : caves 1 to 30 with 64 phototype plates hors-texte and 1 general map of the caves.
- Volume II : caves 31 to 72 with 64 phototype plates hors-texte.
- Volume III : caves 72 to 111 with 64 phototype plates hors-texte.
- Volume IV : caves 111 to 120N with 64 phototype plates hors-texte.
- Volume V : caves 120N to 146 with 64 phototype plates hors-texte.
- Volume VI : caves 146 to 182 and various subjects with 55 plates (actually 54, since plate 337 was scrapped, as noted in the index of plates in volume VI).
This copy is complete with all 375 hors texte plates, continuously numbered and under silk paper guards (except volume six).
This set, of great documentary importance, was put together from photographs and notes gathered during Pelliot’s expedition to Central Asia from 1906 to 1909. A China expert and philologist, Paul Pelliot (1878-1945), accompanied by the doctor Louis Vaillant covering the natural sciences and the photographer Charles Nouette, conducted a journey of archaeological exploration. His discoveries led to an important step forward in understanding the spread of the Nestorian Church in China.
The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in Dunhuang, on the ancient Silk Road, are renowned for their frescoes executed in the 4th century CE by pious travellers, intended to help the completion of the perilous journeys they had undertaken.
The plates of the original photographs reproduced in this work are today kept in the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet (Paris). Pelliot also brought back several thousand manuscripts from the caves, which today make up one of the museum’s most important collections; another part of these exceptional manuscripts are now kept in the Louvre.
A very rare and very good copy complete in 6 portfolio volumes.

First edition of this reprinted from "At the crossroads of Libyan-Berber studies."
Rare and touching autograph signed Germaine Tillion under his pseudonym resistance, Kouri, her friend Denise Vernay resistant, nicknamed Miaska the Resistance, with whom she was interned in a concentration camp and her husband Alain, "... Alain and Miaska this dull luster with the friendship of the old tree past the saw. Kouri. "
title label pasted on the first cover plate.
Nice copy.

First editions.
Tiny marginal spots to upper cover of first volume.
A good copys.

New edition.
A good copy.