Laufer Bertold (5 results)

Pb., 78 S., 14 SW-Fotos, gut erhalten,

paperback. Condition: very good(+). First. 12 plates in photogravure + 96 pages of text. Tall slim 8vo, original printed wrappers. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1928. First Edition. A very good(+) copy. Anthropological Series. Volume XVIII, No. 1.

Gr.-8°, gebundene Ausgabe. 51 Seiten, 39 Abbildungen (Plates); Deckel mit Goldprägung; Einband etwas berieben; Ecken und Kanten minimal bestoßen; vorderer Vorsatz mit kleinen Bleistiftnotizen und Besitzervermerk (Aufkleber); Seiten sind etwas nachgedunkelt; Schnitt hat leichte Lagerungsspuren; herstellungsbedingt unsauber geschnitten; sonst in einem guten Zustand. Abgleich des Titelbildes bitte bei nika-books. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Now in Field Museum of Natural History Chicago;.

Hardcover. Later printing. Octavo; xvi, 339pp. Copiously illustrated with 75 photographic plates and 55 in-text illustrations. Good only in brown cloth (not a pretty copy with some staining to covers and paper adhered to rear; contents Very Good). 'The author not only describes the pieces of Han pottery brought home by him from China, but examples of Han pottery in the possession of public museums and private collectors. The description of the pieces, however, is but a prelude to an exhaustive discussion of the culture of the Han dynasty as illustrated by its pottery.' (Edward S. Morse in American Anthropologist).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. Quarto. xvi, 339pp., 75 plates. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Green endpapers. Publication of the East Asian Committee of the American Museum of Natural History The Jacob H. Schiff Chinese Expedition. "The main bulk of the pottery forming the basis of the present paper was collected by me in Hsi an fu, Shensi Province, in August, 1903, while on mission in China for the American Museum of Natural History. The material is supplemented by a number of other pieces received on loan from private collectors." (Laufer). The book is illustrated with seventy-five plates of lithographic reproductions of photographs of Chinese pottery, with up to five items represented per page, an in-text drawings. Contains contains Chinese characters on some illustrations and in the text. index at rear. Binding with very light wear along edges and lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Endpapers partially sunned and one brief pencil note in margin.