Seven collections of inscribed oracle bone
By: drawn by Frank H. Chalfant, edited by Roswell S. Britton.
Contributors: Britton, Roswell S. 1897-1951, ed.
Publisher: [Printed by General offset company, inc., for the Chalfant publication fund]
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Inscriptions, Chinese.; Bone carving.; Divination.; China -- Antiquities.; China -- History -- Early to 1643 -- Sources.
Other titles: Oracle bone.
Notes: Title also in Chinese.
"These 31 sketch-plates are further selections from the manuscript work Bone inscriptions left by Dr. Frank Herring Chalfant at his death in 1914. A set of 132 plates from the same work was published as the Couling-Chalfant collection of inscribed oracle bone, Shanghai, 1935, in Chinese format."--Pref.
Bone inscriptions from the Bergen collection, the Wilhelm collection, the Sun collection, the Royal Asiatic society collection, and from the collections of the Tientsin Anglo-Chinese college, Shanghai museun and Princeton university.