First edition: 53 pages of letterpress, frontispiece and 76 plates on 32 leaves - 1 folding reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process, 72 photographs on 14 leaves - 1 folding reproduced by collotype, 14 figures on 2 leaves, book sellers ticket on the front paste down end paper, 2 book plates on the front free end paper, brick red cloth boards, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.
Editor's note: The Tsisab Ravine in the Brandberg Mountain range of Nambia/South-West Africa, which is the site of the famous "White Lady of the Brandberg", is also the site of a great number of painted rock shelters clustered together nearly. These are described in the present volume. Unlike the "White Lady", which depicts a single ceremonial procession, they show an amazing variety of subjects, ranging from some of the finest rock paintings of animals in Southern Africa to scenes of vivid human and ethnological interest - scenes as diverse as the woman "taken in adultery" in Jochmann Shelter, the charming Hottentot musicians in the "Girls School", and the spectacle of Death dismembering his victims in Skeleton Shelter. This double volume is the third in a series incorporating the work done by the Abbé Breuil.'
Published by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, through Trianon Press, France, 1959.
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: Large 4to (380 x 290 mm)
