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Title: Korean Treasures: Volume 2
Condition: New
Subtitle: Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University
Author: Minh Chung
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 185124526X
EAN: 9781851245260
ISBN: 9781851245260
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Topic: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 28/06/2019
Description: Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of specialist knowledge in this area, many of these Korean items were largely neglected. Following on from the publication of the first volume of these forgotten treasures, this book collects together further important and often unique objects. Notable items include the only surviving Korean example of an eighteenth-century world map, hand-drawn, with a set of twelve globe gores on a single sheet; rare Korean coins and charms including excellent examples of the 1423 Chosŏn t’ongbo 朝鲜通寶; official correspondence from the archives of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, shining a light on the history of Christian missions from the opening of Korea in the 1880s until after the Korean War; photographs from the end of the nineteenth century up to the 1960s showing village and street scenes; a rare silk coat with inner armour plates of lacquered hide; a massive iron padlock inlaid with silver character inscriptions, bronze shoes and Nightingale robe; spectacles with dark crystal lenses and frames of horn; an elaborately decorated bow, arrows and quiver and many other rare artefacts.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 250mm
Item Length: 210mm
Release Year: 2019

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