ANTIQUE WORKS OF ART FROM BENIN, COLLECTED BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL PITT-RIVERS
London: Privately printed. 1900. iv, 100 pages of text plus 50 pages of photographs of 389 objects. Blue gilt decorated cloth cover (worn) 10 1/2" x 12", Very slight wear to bottom and top of spine and corners, gilt very bright. Very good condition. Item #9118
Hundreds of objects were acquired during the British Punitive Expedition that scoured Benin City; most were stored in the author's private museum in Dorset. This classic inventory, with the author's notes and descriptions of each illustrated object is one of the rarest of the Benin publications.
Price: $1,400.00
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