Hardcover
1969 · New York
by von den Steinen, Karl
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1969. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library, with labels on spines, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pockets; page edges are tanning only lightly; few scuffs to covers; missing third and final volume; otherwise clean.). 2 vols. Brown buckram, 491 total pp., 488+ BW illustrations and drawings. Text is in German. Two volumes of the three-volume reprint set detailing the development of specific decorative arts in the French Polynesian islands. Originally published in the 1920s. The first volume is about the art of tattooing; the second is about ceramics. (The third and missing one is about collections of art.) With hundreds of illustrations. Uncommon.
(Inventory #: 158115)