47 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers (frayed), orig. stitching. [Tianjin]: Shangyu Luo shi 上虞羅氏, 1924.

First edition of this collection of texts regarding materials unearthed at Dunhuang. The discovery of a sealed monastic library at Dunhuang in western China in the early 20th century was one of the most important archaeological discoveries in modern Chinese history. Countless texts in various languages were found, offering unique insights into the literary culture of the Chinese periphery in the first millennium CE. After Aurel Stein, Paul Pelliot, and other foreign explorers brought much of the material out of China, getting... More