Bibliotheca buddhica – 30 vol. set BUDDHISM: The scholar mainly responsible for inviting the books to the series was Th. Stcherbatsky. The Sanskrit originals of several ones are not extant and are represented here by tranlations, mostly in Tibetan. The set is a veritable library of rare and famous Buddhist
Botticelli- Life And Work There is no more radiant picture in European art than this,” writes Lightbown of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus . An absorbing text, fresh photographs of every autograph work and marvelous enlarged details of the cleaned ones situate the Florentine innovator in the hothouse of 15th-century politics