TIBETAN PAINTED SCROLLS, 3 VOLUMES

Guiseppe Tucci was an Italian scholar and one of the founders of the field of Buddhist Studies. Originally published in 1949, his anthology of Tibetan painting, Tibetan Painted Scrolls, is revered as the seminal work on Tibetan Buddhist painting. The present work contains all of the original color plates and is in pristine condition. Another set of this publication from the Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth sold at Christie's New York on 21 March 2015 for $25,000 (lot 1636).