Author: SIVARAMAMURTI, C.,
Title: Le Stupa du Barabudur. French translation by G. Barthel. First french edn.
Description: Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1961. sm. 4°. orig. limp lettered wraps., coloured illustration at tail of front wrapper. Hftitle(verso blank), (viii), 86pp. frontisp.(overall view of Borobudur), num. detailed ills. on 42 plates out-of-text, indonesian-french glossary, list of illustrations, bibliogr. [Publications du Musée Guimet, Recherches et Documents d'Art et d'Archéologie, Tome VIII]. The coloured illustration on front boards depicts a group of women at the fountain, after a scene illustrating the Sudhanãvadãna. Important report on the results of field-work in 1948, by the then keeper of the National Museum, Delhi, researching into the symbolism and meaning of Barabudur-reliefs. Very fine, uncut copy.

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