Excursions chez les peuples étranges : causeries ethnographiques

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

/ avec une préface de A.Quatrefages, membre de l institut-professeur au muséum d histoire naturelle; illustrations en couleur par H.Leutemann . Paris : Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre et Cie., Emile Guérin, éditeur, [1889]. First edition. Quarto (315 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), pp vi, 71, [1 table of contents], with 12 double-leaf chromolithographic illustrations bound in hors texte , the subjects being: les hindous; les chinois; les japonais; les arabes; les nubiens; les nègres; les hottentots et les bochimans; les esquimaux; les guaranis et les patagons; les papous; les polynésiens; les australiens; occasional light foxing, a fine copy. Text in French. A beautifully produced late-nineteenth-century children s ethnography. German illustrator Henrik Leutemann s superb chromolithographs depicting a total of fourteen different ethnic groups are each accompanied by six pages of text describing the material culture and traditional way of life of a particular people. A key beneath each illustration draws the young reader s attention to details within the picture. The six-page chapter on Les polynesiens includes references to the European explorers and description of the customs of the inhabitants of the different islands. This is followed by a six-page chapter on Les papous , describing the Melanesian region, and subsequently a six page chapter Les australiens , with discussion of the Dutch and English explorers, the founding of the co

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