New and Noteworthy
from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Browse New and Noteworthy | Return to Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio | Even more Literal booksTokyo: Kodansha International, 1983. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Reference: See the Rigpa Wiki page on Sonam Gyatso, http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Thartse_Khen_Rinpoche. 52 cm square. Two volumes in separated deluxe boxes. 339 pages; [139] leaves. Text in English, Japanese, Tibetan and Sanskrit. Vol. 1 bound in grey shantung, embossed in gold; v. 2 bound in gold shantung, embossed in silver. Each volume housed in a cloth covered case. Extra shipping charges apply. Stunning deluxe limited edition of the collection of 139 thangha paintings or mandalas held in the Ngor Monastery (formerly in Tibet, re-established in India). The extraordinary catalogue raisonne was the life work of Sonam Gyatso Rinpoche (1930-1988) of the Ngor Monastery. The exhaustive text identifies the meditational deities depicted in each thangka, together with their accompanying Sanskrit antecedentsand relatives in other teachings. In the wake of cultural vandalism, the Ngor Collection is the only surviving complete set of mandalas in existence.
more informationRome: Michel' Angelo, e Pier Vincenzo Rossi , 1700. Reference: Biblioteca del Accademia dei Lincei, "Il Libro Romano del Settecento," 129; Vinciana, 1367 (earlier edition).. 12mo (17 cm); [12] 614 [14] pages, extra engraved title page and 24 folded engraved plates featuring maps and plans of Italian cities. Printer's device (salamander in flames) on title page. Bound in contemporary full vellum over boards, discolored but undamaged. Hinges split; lacks endleaves. Thumbed copy, a bit toned, yet sound and entire. Provenance: library stamp of Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. First published in Latin in 1610, this richly illustrated geographical survey of Italy became a standard home reference book for more than a century. The copy offered here was once in the home of the outstanding art collector Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci (1885-1971), the grandniece of Pope Leo XIII, who in 1919 married an American Jew, Cecil Charles Blunt (ne Blumenthal), and adopted the surname "Pecci-Blunt." (The Pope made Cecil a count.)
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