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Maori portraits by Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville - 1834: Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle
by Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville
Maori portraits: Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle
by Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville
- Used
- good
- first
Rare print of Maori men with facial tattoos
Two heads of Maori men with tamoko or moko facial tattoos, New Zealand.
Vignette of Maori family with man holding a taiaha club, woman with carved club, and girl holding a fish.
Title "Homme: Race mongolique"
Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by de Saimon from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.
In good condition with slight age-toning to top of print.
- Seller Independent bookstores (JP)
- Illustrator de Saimon, Pedretti
- Format/Binding None
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition None
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition 1st
- Place of Publication Paris
- Date Published 1834
- Size Octavo, 23 x 14cm
- Keywords engraving, print, portrait, Maori, tattoo, illustration, tamoko, moko, New Zealand,
- Size Octavo, 23 x 14cm