Chinese Jades in the Collection of Stanley Charles Nott: Being an Illustrated Descriptive Record: Exhaustively Reviewing the Symbolic Ritualistic Appurtenances of Chinese Jades and Their Various Sacrificial Usages, [etc.]

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Downtown Books & News (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

3810

Title

Chinese Jades in the Collection of Stanley Charles Nott: Being an Illustrated Descriptive Record: Exhaustively Reviewing the Symbolic Ritualistic Appurtenances of Chinese Jades and Their Various Sacrificial Usages, [etc.]

Author

Nott, Stanley Charles; Lin Yutang and Chih Meng

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - Good+

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First edition, limited

Publisher

The Record Company/Stanley Charles Nott

Place of Publication

St. Augustine, FL

Date Published

1942

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