THE TSISAB RAVINE, AND OTHER BRANDBERG SITES. (The Trianon Press)

Breuil (Abbé Henri)

Description:

With the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle, Dr. E.R. Scgherz and R.G. Strey.


Frontispiece, 53 pages of letterpress, 76 colour plates and 86 figures on 48 leaves – 3 folding, full brown leather gilt, edges uncut, light foxing on the endpapers, page edges and the margins of some plates.

The first edition of THE TSISAB RAVINE consists of 1,146 copies.

1,000 numbered copies.

30 copies numbered I to XXX, printed on pure rag paper made by hand at the Moulin de Val de Laga, Auvergne, and signed by Abbé Breuil.

The book was designed by Arnold Fawcus, and produced by the Trianon Press, Château de Boissea, Clairvaux, Jura, France, for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

No. XIII

Signed by Abbé Breuil on the colophon page.

Details:

  • Publisher: The Trianon Press
  • Publisher Place: France
  • Date of Publication: 1959
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 4to (385 x 300 mm)
  • Lot No: 81
  • Hammer Price: $754
  • Bids: 5
  • Visits: 41
  • Estimate: $700/800
  • Reserve: $600

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