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Nephrite and Jadeite
Heinrich Fischer
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Translated from the Original German 1875/1889 Edition
出版R W H Publishing, 2025-01-31
主題Nature / GeneralScience / General
ISBN09645097769780964509771
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=POYH0QEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In 1875, Leopold Heinrich Fischer (b. 1817; d. 1886) published an extraordinary work on jade, Nephrit und Jadeit, by far the most comprehensive ever to appear. Fischer examined jade not just from China, but from around the world. Fischer's book was the first ever to appear in a Western language entirely devoted to jade as we know it today. As you thumb through the pages that follow, the depth of Fischer's work will amaze. There is an astonishing amount of detail here. That this could be the product of a single author is simply beyond belief. Fischer goes on and on, as he tracks virtually every Western (and some Oriental) source. One senses an obsession, days in cold museums and libraries examining dusty texts, sleepless nights poring over a candle-lit desk scratching out sentences with a quill, condensing this enormous body of human history into a book of just a few hundred pages. It is truly astounding and a book that will delight those who open its pages.