Chinese Pictorial Art as viewed by the Connoiseur

Notes on the means and methods of traditional Chinese connoisseurship of pictorial art, based upon a study of the art of mounting scrolls in China and Japan by R.H. van Gulik. Serie Orientale Roma, XIX. Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Roma, 1958.

.4to., red cloth binding, gilt-stamped and black title, front cover with gilt-stamped title, first edition, XXXVII,537 pp., limited edition with 950 copies. This is no. 718. Binding with slight damaging, stamp and notation on cover page; without the separate appendix with 42 examples of Japanese and Chinese paper. Robert Hans van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch Sinologist, diplomat and author of, among others, the Rechter Tie crime novels.