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...Marilyn Leese The Art of Tibet . By Pratapaditya Pal . New York : The Asia Society , 1969 . vii, 163 pp. Map, Illustrations, Bibliography. $15.00. Nepal: Art Treasures from the Himalayas . By Ernst and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt . Translated by David Wilson . New York : Universe...

...Ronald M. Bernier Newar Art: Nepalese Art during the Malla Period . By A. W. MacDonald and Anne Vergati Stahl . Warminster : Aris & Phillips, Ltd. , 1979 . xiv, 154 pp. Seven plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. (Distributed in N. America by International Scholarly Book...

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...Joan Hertzog O'Mara Modern Currents in Japanese Art . By Mlchiaki Kawakita , translated By Charles S. Terry . New York: Weatherhill and Tokyo : Heibonsha (Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art 24), 1974 . 159 pp. Plates. $15.00 Japanese Art in World Perspective . By Toru Terada...

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