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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Breuil (Abbé Henri)

ANIBIB & OMANDUMBA and other Erongo Sites (1960)

Inscribed by one of the collaborators Mary Boyle to diplomat Jeremy Shearar

Published: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / Trianon Press, France, 1960

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $200

Approximately:

Estimate: $250

Bidding opens: 16 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 23 Jan 16:30 GMT

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Publisher's blue cloth binding with pictorial dust jacket.

The first edition of ANIBIB & OMANDUMBA consists of 946 copies.

Written with the collaboration of MARY E. BOYLE, Dr. E. R. Scherz and R. G. Strey.

This copy is inscribed by one of the collaborators Mary E. Boyle on the half-title page, "To Dr. Jeremy Shearar, in remembrance of the hours spent by him with Abbé Breuil, Mary E. Boyle, 9 November 1961, Paris."

Original Trianon Press compliments slip loosely inserted, "With the compliments of Mr. Arnold Fawcus (who designed the book) and the Trianon Press. Jeremy Shearar, Esq., The South African Embassy, PARIS".

Frontispiece, 39 pages of letterpress, 79 colour plates and 71 figures on 45 leaves (5 folding).

  • Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Size: 4to


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