Book Description

PIENTURES ET GRAVURES MURALES DES CAVERNES PALÉOLITHIQUES Publiées sous Les Auspices De S. A. S. Le Prince ALBERT Ier DE MONACO. LES CAVERNES DE LA RÉGION CANTABRIQUE (ESPAGNE). Folio, Bound in half Red Morocco with gilt lettering to spine. Binding solid, no loose pages. All edges speckled. Former Reference Library copy with discreet small stamps to title and plates. Text and plates in very good condition. Text in French. This is the text and plates volumes bound together. Complete with 100 plates, some folding, some accompanied by a leaf with outline drawings of objects represented. Plus a folding plan within text. A very scarce, heavy and monumental work, beautiful plates of rock art.
Dealer Notes
This copy was presented to the library by Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), British journalist, writer and publisher. One of the leading bibliophiles of his generation. His presentation plate is on the front paste down.
Author Alcalde Del Rio, H. - Breuil, Henri - Sierra, Lorenzo
Date 1911
Binding Half Red Morocco
Publisher Monaco: A. Chêne
Illustrator Breuil, H.
Condition Very Good
Pages viii, 265p c plates

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