Das Ornamentwerk

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth GMBH , 1937. This is a beautiful, flawless copy in dark blue cloth with bright gilt titles on cover and spine, in a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Protected in a mylar wrap. Text in German. Short foreword and introduction. 120 full-page plates in color and black & white. Extensive notes to the plates.… Read more about this item

Berlin, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937 Berlin, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937 120 pp with 68 plates on coated stock. Text in German A sumptuous compendium of decorative design from all around the world, with an emphasis on Asia. A clear picture of what types of ethnographic art were considered acceptable at the height of the Third Reich. Many plates… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Jacket. Book. Folio - over 12. F, VG DJ. 48 pp., plus 120 full page plates, 80 of which are in color. This is a sequel to Bossert's "Volkskunst in Europa", here extending that work's pathbreaking work at collecting specimens of European folk art to… Read more about this item

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1937. Blue cloth (hard cover), gilt titles. 48 text pages; 120 color plate pages. German Text. Eine Sammlung angewandter Schmuckformen fastaller Zeiten und Volker. 120 Tafeln, davon 80 in mehrfarbigen originalgetreuen Wiedergaben ausgewahlt und mit Erlauterungen versehen. Previous owner stamp on pastedown, else a clean, bright copy showing some wear to head of spine Size: Folio. First… Read more about this item

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth GMBH, 1937. 48 pp of text and catalogue description of the 120 plates (80 in colour) of prehistoric, ethnic and tribal designs on ceramics, textiles, wood, etc illustrating ornamental themes from all regions of the world. The colour plates are based on watercolour paintings of each of the objects. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and… Read more about this item

1937. Bossert, H. Th. DAS ORNAMENTWERK. Wasmuth, Berlin, 1937. Lg. 4to., 48pp. text, 120 plates, color and b/w. Endpapers foxed, else a very nice copy.