The Gibbon in China. An essay in chinese animal Lore

Brill Leiden, 1967.,

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Details

Author

Van Gulik Robert H.

Publishers

Brill Leiden, 1967.

Keyword

CINA China Chine

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

Very Good

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

4to, 123 pp. Ills. original gilt blue Boards.including a small record on the animal's sounds, almost mint copy of this very scarce.work .incudes a delightful pasted ex-libris of former owner, engraved in the early 1980s by reputed chiese artist. Hua Jungwu Table of contents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; First part: From the earliest Times to the Han dynasty, ca. 1500 to 202 B.C.; Second part: From the Han dynasty to the end of the T'ang period, 202 B.C. to 907 A.D.; Third part: Sung, Yuan and Ming dynasties, 960 to 1644 A.D.; Appendix: The Gibbon in Japan; Key to the Gibbons mentioned in the text and appearing in the plates; Map of China; Folio: Chinese texts; Index; Addenda and corrigenda. Approximately 95 B&W photos and illustrations of Gibbons, paintings, scrolls, designs, drawings, woodblock prints. . Pocket on inside of back cover containing a 45 rpm record of the "Morning calls of a Hylobates Agilis, female 3 1/2 years old". 123 pages. 12 by 8 3/4 inches.