Lot 25 D α

Collection Henri Moser-Charlottenfels. Oriental Arms and Armour

Reference book. First edition, no. 33 of 300 copies, this one of 75 copies with text in English, 43 of 44 photolithographed plates eight in colour, (three after a watercolour, plate II missing, all captioned in German, English and French), 18 p. text with 2 photographic illustrations (one of Moser in "Oriental" dress), loose as issued in publisher's light blue cloth gilt portfolio, gilt-stamped decorative "Arabic" panel design to upper cover, large folio, Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1912. Bookplate George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum and stamp “The George Walter Vincent Smith Collection, Art Museum Springfield, Massachusetts".
53 x 42.4 cm