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L'Ile de Paques et ses Mystères. La Première étude réunissant tous les documents connus sur cette île mystérieuse
by CHAUVET, Dr Stephen
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Paris: Editions Tel, 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Paris, Editions Tel, 1935. Quarto, 88 pages plus 68 plates (2 in colour) presenting hundreds of illustrations. Colour pictorial card covers a little foxed, tanned and rubbed; corners lightly bumped (with light associated creasing to some leaves); head of the spine a little worn and torn; front free endpaper and initial leaves slightly marked; a very good copy with the original translucent dustwrapper (a little rubbed and opaque, with a few tiny closed tears). Text in French. Preface by E. Loppé. The trade edition of the first illustrated book on Easter Island. Although Stéphen-Charles Chauvet (1885-1950) 'derived much of his information from sources of mixed reliability, his book remains an important work, in particular, because of the copious illustrations, some of which show objects that no longer exist ... The French version has never been republished' .. (World Bibliographical Encyclopedia website).
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134555
- Title
- L'Ile de Paques et ses Mystères. La Première étude réunissant tous les documents connus sur cette île mystérieuse
- Author
- CHAUVET, Dr Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Editions Tel
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Dustwrapper
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- Leaves
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Quarto
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- Foxed
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