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Volume 2 of 2. Volume 1:  https://archive.org/details/ChineseJadeVolume1 Compiled by P. de Tanner. "One of the outstanding jade books but not well known due to its rarity. [...] its principle value lies in the enormous variety of objects of which there are approximately 2,000 portrayed."-​-​Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 6488. "The first volume provides brief remarks on the collection, its arrangement, classification of the carvings, discussion of jades placed on the corpse prior to burial, inscriptions, colors of jades, and a table of color classification adopted by the Chinese. The second volume describes jade pieces upon the frontispiece plate, as does the first, and gives a list of inscriptions and their translations."-​-​Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 6488.  Noted in Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 1291.