BURIED TREASURES OF CHINESE TURKESTAN.

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New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929. First American edition of the Longmans, Green publishing house but printed in England. Translated by Anna Barwell. 8vo. 180pp. Blue cloth covered boards, blind embossed border on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Includes 52 b/w photo plates, along with b/w illustrations and two maps. Bookplate. Very fine. Von Le Coq's description of the second and third German Turfan expeditions. These expeditions served to document and record archaeological sites on the northern Silk Road (now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Discoveries included a series of Buddhist temples and the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves. Albert Le Coq (1860 - 1930) was responsible for removing some of the Caves' best-preserved murals and transporting them back to Germany. He was the assistant to the head of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, Albert Grünwedel. N° de ref. del artículo 009978

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