Pelliot, Paul; Hambis, Louis

MISSION PAUL PELLIOT DOCUMENTS ARCHÉOLOGIQUES PUBLIÉS SOUS LES AUSPICES DE L'ACADÉMIE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLES-LETTRES [Three Volumes]

Paris: Libraire Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1961-1967. First Edition. Quartos, Three Volumes. In Very Good plus condition. Bound in original tan cloth binding with red titling to spines. Corners, fore edges, and heads and tails of spines lightly bumped. Text blocks age-toned. Text in French.

CONTENTS: Vol. I. “Toumchouq: Planches” (4 pages plus 154 plates and 12 maps, 3 of which are folding) – Vol. II. “Toumchouq” (xxxiii, 450 pages, 13 plates with "Table des Dessins et Illustrations" in rear pocket) – Vol. III. “Douldour-Aqour et Soubachi: Planches” (17 pages, 124 plates, 11 maps, 7 of which are folding, 8 leaves of drawings, 3 of which are folding, and 5 additional drawings in a rear pocket). SH Consignment.

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Four volumes from the Mission Pelliot en Asie Centrale.

Paul Pelliot (1878-1945) was a French orientalist who led a major expedition to Xinjiang, China, between 1906 and 1909. Though the expedition is perhaps best known for Pelliot's visit to the famous library cave at Dunhuang, his first stop was at the archaeological site of Tumshuq (or Toumchouq), which was home to a particularly rich collection of clay Buddhist sculptures dating to the 4th-7th centuries. He also visited the ruins of two large, wealthy Buddhist temples known as Duldur Aqur (Douldour-Aqour) and Subeshi (Soubachi) near the ancient city of Kucha; these volumes provide reports and photographs from those portions of the expedition.