Post #646402 by El Buho on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 11:25 PM

Yes Sven, it is by Fines Mundi. A real high-quality product and a real gem for every bibliophilic.

@ virani
I ask myself if the French version comes in the same way, three books etc. and if its just translated...

On 2012-07-31 08:54, bigbrotiki wrote:
Is that a reprint by these guys?:

http://www.fines-mundi.de/buchbstart.htm

They do a great job. One day when I am rich I will go shopping there, they have many other turn-of-the-century (18th-19th) travel books and colonial literature reprints that sound sooo interesting.

Anyway, these books by Karl von den Steinen are THE standard work on Marquesan art, he managed to record a dying culture just before it disappeared, and now they are the basis and reference used by many local artists - (like the work of another German :wink: )

Before living in the Marquesas, he had been researching indigenous tribes in the lower Amazon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_den_Steinen

[ Edited by: El Buho 2012-07-31 23:26 ]