Wundergarten der Natur. Neue Bilddokumente schöner Pflanzenformen

by Karl Blossfeldt

$2,750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Berlin: Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1932 . First edition. xvi , 120 pp with 120 photogravure plates presenting 137 images. Bound in publisher's linen stamped in maroon, lacking the dust jacket. Text in German. Very Good with spine lettering dulled, worn, foxed endpapers and edges, former owner's name at front pastedown. The uncommon first edition of what is considered one of the most influential photobooks of the 20th

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.