Cultural Relics Unearthed in Sinkiang / Reliques Culturelles Exhumées au Sinkiang

Museum of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Cultural Relics Unearthed in Sinkiang / Reliques Culturelles Exhumées au Sinkiang. Peking: Wenwu Press, 1975. First edition. Folio. 141, [5], 29pp. Original red cloth with white and gold lettering on front cover and decoration in gilt on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Laid in a slim softcover folio being a translation in English and French of the main volume. The main volume has text in Chinese and Uighur. Books preserved in original publisher’s slipcase with Chinese and Uighur lettering on front cover. Situated on China’s northwestern highlands where the natural conditions are favorable to the preservation of historical objects, Sinkiang has an extremely rich cultural heritage and a wealth of historical relics. There, archaeologists have carried out numerous excavations and investigations. The present work displays in numerous color and b/w photographic reproductions mainly cultural relics, sites and ruins of various periods prior to the Ming Dynasty. Edges of slipcase and softcover folio age-toned. Spine of main volume slightly yellowed. Slipcase in overall good, softcover folio in good+, binding and interior in good+ to very good condition. g. Softcover. (28886) $50