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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 22.5 x 29.5 cm.; 9.1 kg.; 1,391 pages with colour illustrations (Volume 1: 225 pages; Volume 2 327 pages; Volume 3 317 pages; Volume 4 277 pages; Volume 5 245 pages).; Condition: all volumes show wear signs on the exterior and interior. The dust jackets show edge wear, small air bubles on the laminated layer, scuffs and scratches. The back cover of volume 5 show a big scratch, which damaged the cloth (only seem if the jacket is removed). Interior with signs of wear throughout. Good condition overall.; Located in the southwestern border of China. the Tibetan Plateau has a unique history. For several thou-sand years this culture developed concurrently with other cultures of the world, but it also bore a strong Tibetan characteristics. The picture album titled Precious Deposits, by means of over seven hundred pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics, introduces the history and culture of Tibet which developed from the Paleolithic Age to the 1940s. It covers politics, military affairs, religions, science, technology, culture, arts, trade and business, transportation, social life, etc. It is divided into five volumes in terms of different periods of social development. Volume One: Prehistoric Age and Tubo Period (50,000 years ago-mid-ninth century); Volume Two: The Period of Separatist Regimes (mid-ninth century-thirteenth century); Volume Three: Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty (1206-1644 A.D); Volume Four: Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 A.D); Volume Five: Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China (-1949 A.D). Each volume has many special topics with a brief essay about the important events and cultural features in the related historic period. Thus, readers can have a better understanding of its full view and have a clear line while reading. Cultural relics selected in this picture album leap over several historical periods and are rich in content. Most of them are rarely known and are published for the first time. Besides the introduction to historical, cultural and artistic values, captions on each photo also offer a great variety of background materials, enriching greatly the contents of general appearance of those photos. In all, this is a set of large picture albums combining academic studies with art work.