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An attractive photographic record of the art of the Graeco-Buddhist school that flourished in Gandhara along the silk road in the first century AD on the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan where the cultural influences of Alexander the Great's empire and those of Buddhist India inter-mingled to produce unique sculptures of the human form only brought to light through the work of the French Archaeological Delegation to Afghanistan which the photographs in this book also document.  Illustrated with twenty-four full-page colour plates.  Hardback. 80 pages.  Very good clean condition in original dustjacket.   Cat No 4111

£ 4.50

Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter

Assouline

Very Good

Hardback

2843232945

2001

Region: Central Asia

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