Maori portraits: Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle
by Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Rare print of Maori men with facial tattoos
Two heads of Maori men with tamoko or moko facial tattoos, New Zealand.
Vignette of Maori family with man holding a taiaha club, woman with carved club, and girl holding a fish.
Title "Homme: Race mongolique"
Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by de Saimon from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.
In good condition with slight age-toning to top of print.
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Details
- Seller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Flo336
- Title
- Maori portraits
- Author
- Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville
- Illustrator
- de Saimon, Pedretti
- Format/Binding
- None
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1834
- Size
- Octavo, 23 x 14cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- engraving, print, portrait, Maori, tattoo, illustration, tamoko, moko, New Zealand,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Prints;
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