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Louis SCHEYVEN - Diviners and dragons. Illustrations by K'O SHUANG-SHO. Brussels], Terres Latines, (1949). In-8, in sheets, in illustrated cover, uncut, publisher's folder and slipcase (spine of folder and slipcase faded). FIRST EDITION. 114, [4] pp. 7 plates. The 7 plates by K'o Shuang-Sho were reproduced on lithographic stone by the Marci workshops (Brussels) and hand-coloured by Roger Nervet, the chapter headings in Chinese characters were drawn by Lin Chi Han. The volume is also decorated with various colour illustrations in the text. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies plus a few offprints. OUT OF COMMERCE COPY ON JAPON FOR BARON J. GUILLAUME, Belgian ambassador to France, with a letter from the author "in grateful memory of our years in China". Copy accompanied by a suite in colour on Japon and a suite in black. The suites contain 8 plates. Baron Louis Scheyven (Brussels, 1904 - Uccle, 1979) took the diplomatic competition, where he came out first, in 1930. After various posts, he was appointed to Peking in 1937, where he stayed for 5 years. He was an attentive and seductive witness to the turbulent decline of the old Chinese society, which he describes in this book. The book was prefaced by René Grousset. NBS, 13, 301.
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