Objets Interdits Tapa dura - 1989

Fondation Dapper, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Original black cloth, dust jacket, richly illustrated in colour and b/w, foldable map, folio.; Dust jacket slightly damaged.

Fondation Dapper, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Original black cloth, dust jacket, richly illustrated in colour and b/w, foldable map, folio.; Dust jacket slightly damaged and repaired.

Paris: Fondation Dapper. 375pp hardback, black blind-embossed boards in wrapper, well illustrated in colour and bw, small ownership label to ffep, French text, fold orf wrapper over front board rubbed . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1989.

Fondation Dapper. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. No defects, book is As New, lacking the dust jacket. Bound in black cloth with white titles to spine. Former owner is social anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey, and his address label is found on the first endpaper. . Olfert Dapper was a geographical researcher of 17th century Holland. He is considered the first writer to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to his research that avoided ethnocentric views and value judgements about the societies he described. His best known work is Description of Africa, published in 1686 in Amsterdam. The present work describes Dapper's life and work and concludes with a 285 page abridgement of Description of Africa. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and drawings from the original. Text is in French. . Publication Series. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 375 pages. M0 .

Paris: Fondation Dapper, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Some moderate handling wear to covers; jacket shows several short closed tears and edge-wear. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat..

Text in French. A beautiful book with high quality printing, illustrations and map. An important artistic and reference work. Dimensions: apx. 33 x 25 cm. Book is in new condition. DJ has wear along edges and corners and two tears: about 3/4" at top and apx. 1 inch at bottom of rear of Dj .

Paris: Editions Dapper, 1989. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Quarto. Hardcover. Very good/good. black cloth, white lettering to spine, dust jacket, 375 pp, text in French, small tear to dj, laid in are clippings from exhibition Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.