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Robley Major-General - Moko or Maori Tattooing
Closed $850 (6 bids, reserve met)
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Lot Details
With 180 Illustrations From Drawings By The Author And From Photographs. Chapman And Hall, Limited, London, first edition, 1896, ex libris BP of Augustus Hamilton former director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington and author of The Art and Workmanship of the Maori in New Zealand, with 5 prints of extra designs not usually found in the standard volume, also tipped in and loose related ephemera and cuttings, spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, old marks to boards, otherwise good. Scarce.
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