Asian Art.- Whitfield (Roderick) & Seigo Otsuka. Dunhuang: Caves of the Singing Sands. Buddhist Art from the Silk Road, 2 vol., colour illustrations, original cloth, together in slip-case and publisher's original cardboard packaging, 1995 § Vandier-Nicolas (N.) Sariputra et les Six Maîtres d'Erreur: Facsimile du Manuscrit Chinois 4524 de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Mission Pelliot en Asie Centrale V, text in original wrappers, colour facsimile of scroll on conjoined sheets and folding concertina style, loose with text in original cloth-backed board drop-back box, slightly rubbed, Paris, 1954 § Warner (Langdon) The Long Old Road in China, first edition, plates, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, a little faded at edges, dust-jacket (faded), Garden City & New York, 1926, 4to & 8vo (4)
⁂ On the beautiful Buddhist cave temples at Dunhuang in Gansu, western China. The scroll was discovered there in 1899 by Paul Pelliot and the last relates the art historian Warner's travels across China to Kharakhoto and Dunhuang.
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