Orientalische Kostume in Schnitt und Farbe
by Tilke, Max
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 32 pp. + 128 colour collotype plates of examples. Folio. Text in German. Repsined in orange leather (green spine label), with original covers. Two corners bumped, some mild foxing to fore-edge. Bright inside.
The peasant and holiday costumes of Africa, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Afghanistan, Tibet, China, and Japan. Tilke was German ethnologist and illustrator who had a fascination with ethnic costume. This, his most popular work, has 128 excellent and clear illustrations of the subject, depicting costumes wide geographical regions in such a way as to allow close study and, in the authors hope, true reproduction.
The peasant and holiday costumes of Africa, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Afghanistan, Tibet, China, and Japan. Tilke was German ethnologist and illustrator who had a fascination with ethnic costume. This, his most popular work, has 128 excellent and clear illustrations of the subject, depicting costumes wide geographical regions in such a way as to allow close study and, in the authors hope, true reproduction.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119231
- Title
- Orientalische Kostume in Schnitt und Farbe
- Author
- Tilke, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ernst Wasmuth
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Art, Fashion, Oriental, Ethnic Costume, Africa, Middle East, Asia, German
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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