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CHINA.-- SEGALEN, Victor (1878-1919); Comte Auguste Gilbert de VOISINS (1877-1939); and Jean Julien Pierre LARTIQUE. Mission archeologique en Chine: L'art funeraire a l'epoque des Han [text]. Paris, 1935 -- La sculpture et les monuments funeraires (Provinces du Chansi et du Sseu-tch'ouan) [Atlas vol. 1: Planches I à LXVIII]. Paris, 1923. -- Monuments funteraire (Region de Nankin). Monuments Bouddhiques (Province du Sseu-tch'ouan) [Atlas vol. 2: Planches LXIX à CXLIV]. Paris, 1924.
CHINA.-- SEGALEN, Victor (1878-1919); Comte Auguste Gilbert de VOISINS (1877-1939); and Jean Julien Pierre LARTIQUE. Mission archeologique en Chine: L'art funeraire a l'epoque des Han [text]. Paris, 1935 -- La sculpture et les monuments funeraires (Provinces du Chansi et du Sseu-tch'ouan) [Atlas vol. 1: Planches I à LXVIII]. Paris, 1923. -- Monuments funteraire (Region de Nankin). Monuments Bouddhiques (Province du Sseu-tch'ouan) [Atlas vol. 2: Planches LXIX à CXLIV]. Paris, 1924. Together 3 volumes, 4° text volume and 2 folio atlas volumes containing 145 plates. Text bound in original printed purple paper wrappers, atlas contents loose in original cloth-backed printed board portfolios, cloth ties. “Victor Segalen, a doctor, belonged to that early twentieth-century generation of enthusiastic world travelers. In 1909, he set out for Peking. He … spent more than four years there before returning to France in 1914 at the outbreak of war. The 1914 mission to China, … pursued objectives of geographical and archeological interest and carried out a topographical survey of little-known regions. “In the course of the expedition, which he led along with Edouard Chavannes (1865-1918), Segalen complemented his written notes with sketches and photographs of monumental statuary. Revealing an innate sense of composition and lighting, he ranks as the most talented photographer of the twilight period of Imperial China. In his eyes, the Middle Kingdom became ‘the country that epitomizes harmonious difference, the diversity of the world in a nutshell...” ( Catalogue of Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet ) Segalen was also a poet and publisher of the series Collection Coréenne (see below). [ With :] CLAUDEL, Paul (1868-1955). Connaissance de l’Est. Paris, 1914. Small 2°. Text in French with French and Chinese initials. Bound Asian style in drab paper wrappers, sewn; housed together in blue silk chemise. FIRST EDITION, limited to one of 630 copies. – another copy (wrappers dampstained). – MARDRUS, Joseph Charles, translator (1868-1949). Des contes des mille nuits et une nuit . Paris, 1914. Text in French with block-printed frames and Arabic headings. Bound Asian style in drab paper wrappers, sewn; housed together in blue silk chemise. FIRST EDITION, limited to one of 630 copies. – SEGALEN, Victor. Stèles . Paris, 1914. Text in French with Chinese titles, printed on one side only and folded accordion style. Unbound in plain wrappers with printed title label; housed within wood boards, ribbon ties. Second edition, one of 570 copies of an edition of 640. Together, 3 works (and one duplicate), from the Collection Coréenne , edited under the direction of Victor Segalen and printed at the Pei-T’ang Press.