Scarce, Important African Art Books for Holiday Giving
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Paris. Unpaginated--approximately 104 pages, 114 lots auctioned, 85-90 lots illustrated. Price list included. Mint condition. An eerly catalogue of African art from this famed collection. More
New York. Parts 1 & 2: 250 pages, 262 lots auctioned (248 African, 14 Oceanic), 201 lots illustrated. The Rubinstein auction, the benchmark primitive art sale of all time, overnight changed the art world's perception of primitive (tribal) art, most notably African art. Prices never before imagined were realized, and..... More
New York. 260 pages, 431 lots auc-tioned, 430 lots illustrated in color photographs. Cloth cover. Price list included. More
London. 85 pages, 73 lots auctioned, all lots illustrated. Prices written in. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Price list included. More
Uppsala: 1974. xxi, 212 pages (some uncut) of text containing 45 b/w photographs (principally of Kota reliquary figures and masks), plus 6 leaves of color photographs. Ediiton limited to 500 copies. More
Paris: 1982. 293 pages, 350 large b/w and 21 full-page color photographs, 9 drawings. 1 map. Coth cover. Mint condition. The almost overpowering art of the Tshokwe is subjected to an intense analysis of its styles, influences, and iconography in this volume, written by the authority on the art of..... More
Brussels: 2000. 352 pages (text in English and French), 330 full-page, half-page, and quater-page color photographs of objects, 6 other color and b/w photographs. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
Innsbruck: 1947. xvi, 703 pages of text, plus 48 unnumbered pages of photographs of peoples, dances rituals and structures and 9 maps – most of which are fold-out. Vol II: pp. xix – xxii, 709 – 1429, plus 32 unnumbered pages of photographs dealing with the same subjects as in..... More
Paris: 1966. 632 pages (some uncut), 63 plates containing about 400 drawings of masks. Mint condition. More
London & New York: 1990 (first published in French in 1988). 205 pages, 60 full page color plates (drawings) of people (in the 1930s) dressed in indigenous costume, 10 pages of b/w drawings of clothing and jewlery, 1 map. Cloth cover, with dust jacket, 10 1/2" x 14". Mint conditon..... More
Maastricht: 1992. 327 pages (10 papers), 210 pages of color photographs of 190 objects plus an additional 4 pages of color and 3 pages of b/w photographs, 6 maps. Cloth cover, small folio size (9 1/2"x12"). Central Africa, principally occupied by peoples speaking Bantu related languages, for centuries shared common..... More
Berkeley: 1973. 290 pages, 110 photographs. Cloth cover. More
Meudon: 1984. 271 pages, text in English and French. 16 color and 283 b/w photographs, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
Bruxelles: 1902-1906. pp. 145--316 pages containing 55 photographs, mainly of fetishes, followed by 40 leaves of photographs of 696 fetishes. Biebuyck, 590, "Inventories and describes 696 anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines and a few masks, staffs, and boards available by 1906 in the Musee royal de l'Afrique centrale. "Classifies the sculptures..... More
Milan: 1982. 343 pages, 244 b/w photographs, 50 color photographs, 216 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover, dust jacket slightly creased: book in mint condition. Once again Fr. Cornet has published an important volume on the art of the Zairian people. This time the rites, dances, symbols and masks of the..... More
Paris: Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva and Institute du Monde-Arabe, 1993. 349 pages, approximately 70 large (1/4 page, 1/2 page, full-page, and double-page) color photographs, approximately 175 b/w photographs--all of textiles in the Bouvier collection that were exhibited in 1993 in Geneva and Paris, 2 maps. Cloth cover (10" x...... More
Louvain: 1980. ix, 293 pages (text in English and French), 143 b/w and 6 color photographs, 4 pages of drawings. Inscribed by author to noted collectors Paul and Ruth Tishman. Inner hinges reinforced by clear binders tape. The collection of ancient West African terracottas assembled by Bernard de Grunnne is..... More
Louvain: 1980. ix, 293 pages (text in English and French), 143 b/w and 6 color photographs, 4 pages of drawings. Front cover scuffed. The collection of ancient West African terracottas assembled by Bernard de Grunnne is the subject of this absolutely splendid publication from Louvain. These seldom seen terracottas are..... More
Brussels: 1988. 337 pages, 48 full-page color photographs and 289 full-page, half-page, and quarter-page b/w photographs of objects in the exhibition, 20 smaller b/w photographs, 4 drawings, 1 fold-out map. Bound in later contemporary cloth over original wrappers. Fine condiiton. REDUCED FROM $895. More
Munich: 1990. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. 505 pages, text in English and German, 481 photographs, 8 drawings, 3 figures, 12 maps. Cloth cover, new unopened copy. The first treatise on the mwana hiti, the wooden, highly stylized torso of a female figure, this important volume accompanied a major 1990..... More
London: 1938. xii, 578 pages, 2 full-page photographs, 8 full-page maps. Cloth cover. More
Hagen: 1922. 181 pages, 121 full-page photographs of artifacts, 58 small drawings. Hard board cover, worn spine. More
London: 1979. 216 pages, 215 b/w and 24 color photographs. Cloth cover. Written by a collector, for collectors, this volume surveys the art of over 150 tribes, including those lesser known tribes in eatern and southern Africa. There are chapters on "The Artist, His Materials and Techniques" and "The Science..... More
Anthropological Series, Vol. XXVI, Parts I and II. Field Museum: 1937. 953 pages, 111 pages of illustrations, 5 maps. At the time of its publication in 1937, this voluminous two volume work contained "...more information about Africa, and a better bibliography of the literature for that continent than any other..... More
1931. 85 pages of text, plus 8 leaves of photographs. Inscription by author. Cover slightly worn, otherwise fine. More