Album Polynésien de M. C. Noury, Capitaine de Vaisseau

by Charles-Gaëtan Noury

A$28,750 · Offered by Hordern House

Nantes: Olivier Merson, 1861. Folio 390 x 260 mm , 17 leaves in all, untrimmed and unbound as issued, with lithographed title-page and single sheet of description, and 15 lithographed plates, seven of which are coloured and eight in black on a tinted background, on paper watermarked either Rives or D & C Blauw ; in a modern full morocco fitted case. Rare and beautiful study of tattooing in the South Pacific

• Binding: Leather

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