A GROUP OF TWENTY-THREE REFERENCE BOOKS ON CHINESE ARCHAIC BRONZES |

including: Phyllis Ackerman, Ritual bronzes of Ancient China, New York, 1945, W. Thomas Chase, Ancient Chinese Bronze Art. Casting the Precious Sacral Vessel, New York 1991. Freer Gallery of Art , A Descriptive and Illustrative Catalogue of Chinese Bronzes: Acquired During the Administration of John Ellerton Lodge, Washington DC, 1946. Grace Dunham Guest and Archibald G. Wenley, Outline for the Study of Far Eastern Arts: China, Washington D.C., 1946. Carl Hentze, Die Sakralbronzen und ihre Bedeutung in den fruehchinesischen Kulturen, 2 vols., Anvers, 1941. Carl Hentze, Ko- und Ch'i-Waffen in China und in Amerika, et Carl Hentze et Ch. Kim, Göttergestalten in der ältesten chinesischen schrift, Anvers, 1943. Carl Hentze, Bronzegeraet, Kultbauten, Religion im aeltesten China der Shang-Zeit, vol. I (Textband), Anvers, 1951. Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-Chia, Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946. Max Loehr, Chinese Bronze Age Weapons. The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace, Peking, Londres, 1956. Nasionale Kunsmuseum van Suid-Afrika, Sjinese Uitstalling, Le Cap, 1953. Yuan Ruan, Ji gu zhai zhong ding yi qi kuan zhi, 4 vols, Shanghai, 1936. Alexander C. Soper, Early, middle and late Shang: a note, reprinted from Artibus Asiae, Vol. XXVIII, Ascona, 1966. Jörg Trübner, Yu und Kuang. Zur Typologie der Chinesischen Bronzen, Leipzig, 1929. E. A. Voretzsch, Altchinesische Bronzen, Berlin, 1924. Liming Wang, Zhong ding zi yuan, 3 vols (complet), Shanghai, 1931. William Charles White, Bone Culture of Ancient China. An Archaeological Study of Bone Material from Northern Honan, dating about the twelfth century, B.C., Toronto, 1945. William Charles White, Bronze Culture of Ancient China. An Archaeological Study of Bronze Objects from Northern Honan, Dating from about 1400 B.C.-771 B.C., Toronto, 1956 (23)

There are wear and losses to the spines and to the binding of each book. There are some foxing and discolorations.
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