COLLECTED ESSAYS IN ORNAMENTAL ART.; (Two volumes).
Stockholm: Aftonbladets Tryckeri, 1927. Both volumes, new and unopened, are bound in decorated board and leather covers in their original (slightly chipped) dust jackets. The edition was limited to 300 copies. Text volume: viii, 128 pages, 137 figures--all are drawings of objects of tribal material culture. This volume contains two Stolpe essays: "On Evolution in the Ornamental Art of Savage Peoples", and "Studies in American Ornamentation--a Contribution to the Biology of Ornament". 10"x13".
Atlas volume (South American Atlas): 84 pages (unpaginated), 20 leaves of finely executed drawings--11 leaves of clubs from Brazil and Guinea, 6 leaves of other objects of material culture, and 3 leaves of shirts from Patagonia, Chile, Peru, and Brazil. Folio size, 18 1/2"x13" Item #15444
The pair of essays in this work, written in the 1890s, was the recipient of the Loubat prize, awarded by the Antiquities Acadamie in Stockholm, to a Scandinavian author for the best, "...essay upon American ethnography...". Lauded internationally, but previously available to only a few, this two-volume work was printed on special paper, strikingly bound, and published in 1927 in an edition of 300 copies.
"...the plates record invaluable raw material...". "All ethnographers and students of comparative art will be profoundly grateful to the publishers...for so worthily preserving Stolpe's otherwise relatively inaccessible investigations".
Robert H. Lowie, American Anthropologist, N.S., 32, 1930.
Price: $975.00