Hardcover
1921 · Budapest
by Batky, Zsigmond
Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Museum, 1921. Original. Hardcover. Good- (Color plates are VG, clean and vibrant with no tears, etc. Text pages are brittle, age-toned, and have edge wear. Some pages unseparated at top edge.. Original cream wraps with black lettering, bound into plain brown card folio (Gaylord style) with red cloth tape spine. 12 pp. text with color frontis and 31 color plates. Text in Hungarian and German. Volume IV of a series featuring the ethnographic collections of the Hungarian National Museums. Shows the intricate designs/colors/motifs of the Ostyak, an indigenous people (and language) living in the Yenisei River Basin area of Siberia/Russia. Beautiful plates. With an introductory essay by Zsigmond Batky and the list of plates, annotated.
(Inventory #: 153045)