Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 430pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. In 1931-32, Alfred Bühler (1900-81), who for many years was director of the Museum of Ethnology and the Swiss Museum of European Folklife..... More
Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs A. Calavas, ND (ca 1922). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [12]pp (text), 46 (of 48) loose plates, as issued. Original half cloth portfolio over paper covered boards with string ties. Title page in red and black lettering. Remarkable work featuring 46 photographic plates (including 6 in..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 224pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over half cloth and paper covered boards. Color frontispiece. Pictorial title page. This remarkable work presents a dramatic overview of the art of Northwest New Guinea, or present-day Irian Jaya. Some 200 outstanding objects of ritual and daily..... More
West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 160pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over burgundy cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Marbled endpapers. Half-title page inscribed and signed by the author. This remarkable work offers the reader to grasp the art of Kachina wood carvings..... More
Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2001. First edition. Softcover. Small folio. 231, [5]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Drawing upon diverse sources, including Daniel P. Biebuyck's seminal fieldwork of the 1950s, Elisabeth Cameron investigates the culture and the art of the Lega peoples of the Democratic Republic of the..... More
Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, 2001. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 165, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Color frontispiece. “A Personal Journey” brings together seventy-five highlights of central African art formerly in the Lawrence Gussman Collection, now dispersed among the exhibition's three organizing institutions: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Neuberger..... More
Ivrea: Priuli & Verlucca, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Small folio. 153 pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Buddhist, Tibetan and Swiss paintings and Exhibitions. Tankas (Tibetan scrolls) and exhibitions of Geneva. Studies colors, spacial arangement and flowing lines. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of paintings and drawings including 72 beautiful..... More
Basel: Tribal Art Center, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 217pp. Original illustrated boards with white lettering on spine. Vignette on half-title. Frontispiece photograph. Catalog of the traveling exhibition starting at the Tribal Art Center in Basel, 1985. Profusely illustrated with 16 captivating color photographs and 191 b/w reproductions of artifacts..... More
New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 349pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over beige illustrated cloth on cover with brown lettering on spine. Endpapers illustrated with color maps. Heyerdahl's investigation of Easter Island produced archeological evidence of when Polynesia was first populated, disclosing existence of portable sculptures..... More
Honolulu: Topgallant Publishing Co., Ltd., 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 176pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece. Hawaiian featherwork objects are among the most treasured objects to be found in the Pacific collections of the world's greatest museums. To..... More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1978. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. X, 186pp. Original decorative wrappers. Color frontispiece. This remarkable monograph features a selection of objects collected by the famous discoverer of numerous peoples inhabiting the Pacific Ocean basin. These objects represent an eloquent historical record depicting the culture of the people..... More
New York: Center for African Art, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by author on half-title. Quarto. vii (3), 425pp. Photo-illustrated dustjacket over black cloth with green lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers, maps. Profusely illustrated exhibition catalog with over 400 exquisite b/w and 24 color photographs by Swantje Autrum-Mulzer..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1973. First edition. hardcover. Quarto. 60 (4)pp., 103 (2) plates. Original color illustrated dustjacket over black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "Near the great bend of the Niger River in Mali, not far from the river marketplace of Mopti, are the fortress-like cliff villages of..... More
New York: E. Weyhe, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 50 plates, (8)pp. Original decorative gray cloth-backed boards with blue lettering on label on cover, gilt lettering on spine. 1000 printed copies of this catalog by the owner with twenty plates in full color and thirty in halftone with intricate Japanese..... More
Johannesburg: Wits University Press; Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2007. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/3000. Quarto. X, [2], 227, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Pictorial title page. This remarkable work showcases the art of the 'Tsonga' (Vatsonga) and 'Shangaan' (Machangani) - some of South Africa's most treasured heritage. It brings an awareness of..... More
Stockholm: Statens Etnografiska Museum, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 30pp. Original beige wrappers with black lettering on cover. Comparative essay on Taveta initiation sticks and bows with in-text b/w photographs and drawings from the original artifacts in text and addendum based on collections from ethnographical expeditions to Taveta. Fore-edge of..... More
New York: Henry Malkan, 1902. Second edition revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Quarto. 274 (6)pp. Original gilt decorated green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Profusely illustrated with b/w in-text drawings and photographs throughout. An in depth treatment of the legends, making and symbolism of Indian baskets, including chapters..... More
Firenze: Cantini, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 190pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Splendid exhibition catalogue featuring outstanding examples of Melanesian art. This work is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous b/w and color photographic reproductions. Minor shelf wear. Moderate age-toning along paper margin. Previous owner's blind stamp on lower margin of first..... More
Milan: Skira Editore, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 161, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Frontispiece. This remarkable catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of the Barbier-Mueller pieces at the Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, 28 April to 20 June 1997. It offers a...... More
New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 100pp., 1 map. Original illustrated dustjacket over black boards with white lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with over 200 b/w photographs, a diagram, some drawings, and one folding map at rear, showing the full range of..... More
Paris: Editions Dapper, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 88pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Exquisite catalogue published to cover the exhibition "The Way of the Ancestors" presented at the Dapper Museum from November 6th, 1986 to February 7th, 1987. This work is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous color and b/w photographic reproductions..... More
Zürich: Fretz & Wasmuth, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv. 46pp. Original pictorial dustjacket over beige cloth with brown lettering on spine. Illustrated with 4 color and 40 b/w reproductions, full page, on glossy paper this publication aims to familiarize the reader with the art of terra-cotta of the Mayas..... More
Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. The 650-mile-long Benue River - the largest tributary of the great Niger - flows across the geographic center of Nigeria. Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue, "Central Nigeria Unmasked" introduces major artistic genres and..... More
Bruxelles: Crédit Communal, 1982. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 211, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. This exquisite exhibition catalogue is a splendid account of Polynesian art profusely illustrated throughout with numerous b/w and color photographic reproductions. Moderate sunning and sporadic rubbing on covers. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good- to..... More
New Dehli: Lalit Kalã Akademi, 1971. First edition. Softcover. Elephant Folio. (4)pp., 6 color plates. Original illustrated portfolio with string ties and decorative ruling and white and red lettering on cover. Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 8. Reproductions of "Kangra" murals from a temple in Sujanpur in the 'Punjab Hills'..... More