Item #134555 L'Ile de Paques et ses Mystères. La Première étude réunissant tous les documents connus sur cette île mystérieuse. Dr Stephen CHAUVET.
L'Ile de Paques et ses Mystères. La Première étude réunissant tous les documents connus sur cette île mystérieuse

L'Ile de Paques et ses Mystères. La Première étude réunissant tous les documents connus sur cette île mystérieuse

Paris, Editions Tel, 1935.

Quarto, 88 pages plus 68 plates (2 in colour) presenting hundreds of illustrations.

Colour pictorial card covers a little foxed, tanned and rubbed; corners lightly bumped (with light associated creasing to some leaves); head of the spine a little worn and torn; front free endpaper and initial leaves slightly marked; a very good copy with the original translucent dustwrapper (a little rubbed and opaque, with a few tiny closed tears).

Text in French. Preface by E. Loppé. The trade edition of the first illustrated book on Easter Island. Although Stéphen-Charles Chauvet (1885-1950) 'derived much of his information from sources of mixed reliability, his book remains an important work, in particular, because of the copious illustrations, some of which show objects that no longer exist ... The French version has never been republished' .. (World Bibliographical Encyclopedia website).

Item #134555

Price (AUD): $150.00