PEISSEL, Michel.

Tibetan pilgrimage. Architecture of the sacred land. Text and watercolors by Michel Peissel.

New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

Oblong 4to, pp. 135, [1]; colour illustrations throughout; very good in publisher’s pictorial hardback binding with matching dust jacket; inscribed by the author in blue ink to the title ‘With my best wishes for the Rolex awards Michel Peissel’, bookplate ‘From the library of Fleur Cowles Henry Sotheran Ltd’ to front pastedown.

£75

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‘Tibetan Pilgrimage … is the result of forty-five years of study by author and illustrator Michel Peissel … With nearly a hundred exceptional watercolour illustrations, this book reveals the elegance, variety, and originality of Tibetan architecture in all its splendor’ (dust jacket).

Provenance: inscribed by the author to the American writer, editor, and artist Fleur Cowles (1908-2009), founder of Flair magazine.

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