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ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES OF THE SHANG AND CHOU DYNASTIES. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Van Heusden Collection with a historical introduction.
by VAN HEUSDEN,, Willem
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Tokyo, Privately Published by the author, 1952.. xii+193pp. 4to. Original cloth with gilt lettering, a touch bumped on edges, b&w plates, colour frontispiece, very minor foxing to preliminary leaves, otherwise an excellent copy.. No. 523 of the first edition, privately published in one thousand copies, signed and sealed by the author.
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- Bookseller
- Grant's Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102450
- Title
- ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES OF THE SHANG AND CHOU DYNASTIES. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Van Heusden Collection with a historical introduction.
- Author
- VAN HEUSDEN,, Willem
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Tokyo, Privately Published by the author, 1952.
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