Antique Works of Art from Benin, collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers
by Pitt Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Lisbon, Portugal
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Printed Privately, 1900 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (blue gilt decorated cloth).; 25 x 31.5 cm; 1.5 kg; 100 pages with 389 illustrations, each with captions.; Used book with signs of wear on the exterior, including scratches and scuffs. Wear marks on spine, which is slightly faded on the bottom and as a P written with a black marquer. Interior in good condition apart from minor yellowing throughout. Good readable copy.; The design on the binding of this volume is a fac-simili of that on a tablet of Kimmeridge shale found by Lieut.-General Pitt-Rivers in the Romano-British Village at Rotherley near Rushmore, 1887.; Catalogue with Works of Art from Benin, West Africa, obtained by the punitive expedition in 1987, and now at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jorge Welsh Books (PT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 595B
- Title
- Antique Works of Art from Benin, collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers
- Author
- Pitt Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Printed Privately
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- benin,art,africa,works of art,african art,scarce
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collections and exhibitions; African Art;
Terms of Sale
Jorge Welsh Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Jorge Welsh Books
Biblio member since 2016
Lisbon
About Jorge Welsh Books
Jorge Welsh Books has been dealing in art reference books since 1999. What started as a platform for the distribution of publications by Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing has now evolved into an established bookselling division. We focus in our fields of expertise, specifically cross-cultural works of art from Africa, India, China and Japan, with an emphasis on Chinese porcelain. Our aim is to source and deliver relevant publications in the best possible condition to collectors and academics alike, while providing a high-quality, personalised service.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....