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"Tsisab Ravine" Cave Paintings, Abbe Henri Breuil 1959. Limited Edition RARE!

$ 73.39

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Author: Henri Breuil
  • Place of Publication: London
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Subject: Art & Photography
  • Year Printed: 1959
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition
  • Language: English
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Illustrator: Abbe Henri Breuil
  • Topic: Archaeology
  • Modified Item: No
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Trianon Press
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Region: Africa
  • Condition: Interior – Pristine. Cloth cover: some wrinkling to fabric. Dust jacket is only fair with some tares and shelf ware. See images.

    Description

    Tsisab Ravine by Abbe Henri Breuil 1959 Ltd. Ed RARE!
    Book: Interior – Pristine. Cloth cover: some wrinkling to fabric. Dust jacket is
    only
    fair with some tares and shelf ware.
    See images.
    4 lbs. Large: 15 x 11.5 inches.
    A remarkable work of artistic beauty and rich, yet readable scholarship on the cave art found at the Brandberg, a vast (25 km by 21 km) monadnock rising from the sparse plains and deserts of Namibia. Apparently a source of religious inspiration to aboriginal populations of the region for thousands of years, the gorges, ravines and rock faces of The Brandberg ("Fire Mountain") are filled with cave art ranging in age from several hundred to unknown thousands of years (but definitely, for many, more than 1,800 years, a point of age determination beyond which dating becomes impossible at these sites, for technical reasons). Chateau De Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura, France, by the Trianon Press (plate reproduction) and Dijon, France by Imprimerie Darantiere (text) both for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; 1959.
    Remarkably illustrated; color plates from the original rock art in the original varied earth tones (reds, browns, yellows, whites, and black), as well as some in B&W, some as photographs, and other photographs in B&W. Rather mammoth Folio, 14½ x 11¼. Of this book,1,000 were unsigned, 30 more were to have been numbered in roman numerals, 90 more in standard arabic numerals, and 26 were to have been lettered, with all three of the latter forms signed by the Abbe Breuil.
    Noted French palaeo archaelogist Abbe Henri Breuil and others spent much time tracing, cataloguing and recreating these drawings. It's a tossup whether the non-verbal or verbal experience of this volume is the greater thrill. Beautiful edition designed by Arnold Fawcus and produced by the Trianon Press; No. 3 in the Rock Paintings of Southern Africa series.
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