Bod Kyi Thang Ka [Ga] [= Tibetan Thangka]

[Beijing: Cultural Relics Press, 1987]. Second printing (first published in 1985). Quarto (35cm); beige cloth hardcover stamped in red and gilt; unprinted plastic protector and slipcase; 19, 200pp (chiefly illus). Light bump to base of spine, else a tight, Fine copy. Inscribed in ink in Umē script (illegible to this cataloguer); ink hand-stamp, "Souvenir of the Potal Palace" to front free endpaper. Illustrated with 140 full-page color plates reproducing antique Tibetan thangka (scroll paintings); text primarily in Tibetan; image captions bilingual (Tibetan and Chinese). From the library of noted poet, translator, and Buddhist scholar Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.