Lot 611
611
SCHMELTZ, J.D.E., ed. Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie. Vols. I-VIII. Leiden, etc, 1888-1895. 8 vols. of the series. W. many b&w text-ills. & 154 cold. lithogr. plates. Fol. Later hcl. w. gilt lettering on spine. (Slight shelfwear, library stamps on title-pp. & (discreetly) on the backs of the plates, but a well-kept set w. all the lithographs called for).
The Society of Ethnography and Johannes Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz (1839-1909) published the series on the ethnography of non-European peoples from 1888-1968 in a total of 51 volumes in French, German and English. The plates show different American-Indian nations, African tribes and also Asian and Indian ethnic groups in traditional clothing, painting, tattooing and various related tools, but also art objects, scenes from everyday life and isolated maps.€ 800
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