Hardcover
1928 · Paris
by Basler, Adolphe and Ernest Brummer
Paris: Librarie de France, 1928. Original. Hardcover. VG- contents (clean and tight; a hint of age toning to page margins); Covers wearing, and someone has cleanly removed the upper half of the cloth from the spine. tetxblock lightly worn and foxed; front cover lightly cocked. Art museum ex-libris). Decorative orange paper/boards. Title block laid on. Orange cloth spine. Decorative map end papers (Central/South American/Mexico). 64 pp. with color frontis; 7 color and 190 bw plates + XXII pp. Occasional bw illus. within text. Text in French. With an extensive essay followed by notes. Excellent, clear examples of Pre-Columbian art, each plate annotated at the back. A classic.
(Inventory #: 156750)