FIVE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF MISSION PELLIOT, EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

FIVE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF MISSION PELLIOT

EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

二十世紀初 伯希和東方考察相集五冊

each album comprising black and white photographs documenting the Kumtura Caves and Thousand Buddha Caves visited by Paul Pelliot during his expedition to Northwest China between 1906-1908, each image numbered and accompanied with a caption, bound together between board covers, the front covers labeled 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 1-300', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 301-400', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 701-800', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 800-801', 'Mission Pelliot 18-24 901-987' respectively (5)

包括其1906至1908年於庫木吐喇石窟及千佛洞考察照片

Height 12⅜ in., 31.5 cm ; Width 19⅝ in., 49.8 cm