Batak Sculpture
Singapore, Editions Didier Millet, 2007.
Quarto, 368 pages with hundreds of colour illustrations from photographs (many full-page).
Papered boards lettered in silver; extremities a little bumped; covers lightly scuffed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little scuffed, bumped and rubbed (with a tiny closed tear at the foot of the rear hinge).
'Collectors and scholars have admired the art of the Batak tribes in the mountains of northern Sumatra since the 19th century. Unfortunately, only a limited number of pieces, and often the same ones, have been published over the years. 'Batak Sculpture' brings together hundreds of previously unpublished masterpieces of Batak sculpture' (from the blurb).
Item #134577
Price (AUD):
$125.00