München: Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., 1966. Framed. xxv/xxx. Folio (12 3/4 x 10 3/4") Matted drypoint on Japan paper, behind glass in black frame (22 1/8 x 20"). Numbered in pencil below image, not signed. From the 1966 posthumous portfolio "Gesichter (Faces)" of 110 copies, 30 on "Japan" paper..... More
Salem, MA: Peabody Museum, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. VII, [1], 38, [2]pp (text), XX plates. Original printed wrappers. Frontispiece. Publisher's logo on title page. This work is the third of a series describing the Peabody Museum's Polynesian collections. It is a catalogue with detailed descriptions, and in some cases..... More
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Paris: APAM, 1951. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 138, [6]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. A presentation of 212 works of primitive art from Oceanic locations such as Polynesia, Micronesia, Madagascar, and Australia. A fabulous publication with contributions by several authors. Moderate age-wear on wrappers with tiny closed tears on spine and slight..... More
Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1966-1968. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 40, 20, 40pp. introductory text. 11 color plates, 1293 b/w photographs with unpaginated, numbered descriptive list of objects presented. Original photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering on spine. Standard work on the most significant artistic region Oceania's, the Sepik river region. First..... More
London: British Museum Publications, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 94pp. [16] plates. Original illustrated orange dustjacket over black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Catalog presents the material from the Julius L. Brenchley collection in typological groups with an introductory essay for each group with information about the cultural role..... More
San Francisco / Milan: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco with 5 Continents Editions, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 629, 206pp. Color illustrated dust jackets over dark blue cloth with silver lettering on spine housed in decorative slipcase with pull lever. Decorative endpapers. Three frontispieces. Removable color map of New..... More
Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Science, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto Oblong. 227 (1)pp., [5] leaves. Original photo-illustrated dust jacket over illustrated beige cloth with red lettering on spine. Comprehensive study of art in North-East New Guinea including geographical setting, discovery and colonization, material, social, and religious culture. Summarization of what..... More
London: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 1976. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 48pp (text), [38]pp (photographic plates). Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Color frontispiece. Remarkable auction catalogue of African art from the late James T. Hooper's collection. This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous color and b/w photographic plates. Minor shelf wear..... More
London: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 1980. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 52, [6]pp (text), [46]pp (photographic plates). Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Folding color frontispiece. Remarkable auction catalogue of Art and Ethnography from the Islands of the Solomons, Australs, Marquesas, Samoa, Tonga, Micronesia and elsewhere in the Pacific area from the late..... More
London: Chriestie's, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 52, [6]pp. (text), [46]pp (photographic plates). Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Folding color frontispiece. Remarkable auction catalogue of Art and Ethnography from the Islands of the Solomons, Australs, Marquesas, Samoa, Tonga, Micronesia and elsewhere in the Pacific area from the late James T. Hooper collection..... More
London and Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet and Oxford University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 2 volumes. xxxiv,448;vi,335,(1)pp. Index, glossary and concordance. Black pictorial dust jackets. Red cloth, gilt. Volume I with 2 mounted color plates and a double-page map. Volume II with a color frontispiece and over 900 black..... More
Bruxelles: Editions du Cercle d'Art, 1945. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/1500. Quarto. 65, [7]pp (text), [32] leaves (photographic plates). Original illustrated wrappers. Remarkable monograph on Negro sculpture in Belgian Congo, profusely illustrated with 32 b/w photographic reproductions of African tribal sculptures on wood and ivory. Each photographic plate faces a...... More
Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1992. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 163pp. Original color illustrated dust jacket over gray cloth with gilt illustration on cover and gilt lettering on spine. A richly illustrated volume on gold weights of the Akan people in the African regions known as Ghana, Togo, and Ivory Coast today..... More
Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 637, [3]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over tan cloth with red lettering on spine and color illustration mounted on front cover. Book housed in its original publisher's slipcase. Pictorial endpapers. Remarkable survey on Oceanic art exquisitely illustrated with 955 b/w and color..... More
Cape Town: Amazulu, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 301 (3)pp. Original photo-illustrated dust jacket over brown paper-covered boards with yellow lettering on cover an spine. Decorative end papers. Quadruple photographic frontispieces in color, and double page sepia toned photographic title page. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of artwork in color, magnificent..... More
Paris: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1929. Softcover. Folio (13-3/4" x 10-1/2"). 111,(5)pp. Indices. Text in French. Publisher's glassine dust wrapper. Pictorial stiff printed wrappers. Illustrated with 88 heliotype plates containing 157 examples. Minor foxing at fore-edge of wrappers and on the fore-edge of the text block. "Ars Asiatica. Etudes..... More
Paris: Groupe Comelli, 2001. Only edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 393, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Splendid Auction Catalogue in French and English showcasing the extensive and spectacular African tribal art collection of Hubert Goldet, considered one of the most important in the world..... More
London: Christie's, 1976. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 48pp (text), [38]pp (photographic plates). Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Print on inside covers. Color frontispiece. Remarkable auction catalogue of African art from the late James T. Hooper's collection. The auction was held on July 14, 1976. It includes lists of realized prices as well..... More
Stuttgart: Strecker & Schröder, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxii, 876 (4)pp. Original color photo-illustrated gray cloth with white lettering on cover and spine. Decorative endpapers. This pre World War I German ethnographic report is considered the masterwork of the Danish explorer and anthropologist on land, people, and customs of..... More
Los Angeles: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University; UCLA Fowler Museum, 2006. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 291, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, this volume examines Tuareg art..... More
Rome: Quasar, 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. Folio. 424 (4)pp. Original color illustrated dust jacket over illustrated brown cloth cover with with lettering on spine. Important catalog of the prehistoric and ethnographic collections of the Pigorini Museum in Rome. Established in 1876 the museum covers Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Oceania, and..... More
Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1979. First edition. hardcover. Quarto. 365 (1)pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Beige endpapers, illustrated free endpapers. Frontispiece. Catalog of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Pacific Art selected from private and public collections of Europe, the United..... More
Frankfurt: Propyläen, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Original sketch by Horst Janssen on free endpaper of volume two. Folio. Vol. 1: 12pp. unpaginated, 48 plates. Vol. 2: 12pp. unpaginated, 32 plates. Original maroon, respectively olive cloth with black facsimile signature on covers and black lettering on spine housed in a decorative..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 405 (1)pp. Original color illustrated dust jacket over illustrated gray cloth with with brown lettering on spine. Color plate of artifact on title page. Beautiful tipped-in color plates and b/w photographs throughout. Chapters separated by fold-outs with maps of..... More
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1941. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. VIII, 56, [2]pp (text), XXIVpp (plates). Original printed wrappers. Frontispiece. Publisher's logo on title page. This remarkable work is the fourth of a series of catalogues giving detailed descriptions and illustrations of the specimens in the Polynesian collections of the Peabody Museum..... More