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[RUSSIANS IN THE FAR EAST] Outlines of Tao-ism: the journeyings of the eight immortals beyond the seas.
Harbin: Printing-Office Chinese Eastern Railway, 1926. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed blue wrappers; 50 pp. With a 2 pp. bibliography of the author's works. Three plates of illustrations, featuring traditional Taoist subjects and one painting by the author, on better stock. About very good; wrappers lightly creased and discolored along the edges; small nick to upper edge of rear wrapper. Item #P002586
An abridged translation of the author's "Ocherki daosizma" (1926). Pavel V. Shkurkin (1868–1943) was a famous scholar of Far Eastern languages and cultures who taught in Harbin before emigrating to Seattle in 1927. Three black-and-white plates reproduce traditional Taoist subjects, as well as one painting by the author himself.
KVK, OCLC show copies at the University of Minnesota and Washington only.
Price: €250.00