Item #133777 Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection. Steven PHELPS.
Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection
Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection
Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection
Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection

Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection

London, Hutchinson, 1976.

Large quarto, 487 pages with numerous maps and 250 pages of plates plus 8 colour plates (illustrating a total of 1927 items).

Cloth a little rubbed (chiefly to the head and foot of the spine); edges lightly marked; top margin of the free endpapers and first and last few leaves slightly cockled; minor surface adhesion residue near the gutter of the frontispiece and title page (touched up with some white correction fluid); trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy with the lightly worn dustwrapper.

When the book was published, the collection, formed over a period of sixty years, was 'the least known and least published of the great collections made this century (Oldman, Beasley, Fuller and Hooper) and the last to remain in private hands... (Hooper's) particular love was for the works of Polynesia, this section being the finest private collection in existence'. The author is the grandson of James Hooper; the book is rare and still of importance.

Item #133777

Price (AUD): $1,100.00

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