Schafer, Heinrich (and) Walter Andrae — Die Kunst Des Alten Orients
Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, 1925. Hardcover. A green casebound book with a blue fabric spine. There is gilt text and design on the spine. There is a gilt design on the front cover. Black textblocks. 685 pages; profusely illustrated with a good number of color tipped-in plates on heavy black pages with protective rice paper (the remainders are black-and-white plates on heavy black paper). Text is in German. Contents are as follows: Die Kunst Ägyptens / Heinrich Schaefer -- Die Kunst Vorderasiens ; Zeittafeln ; Abbildungen ; Katalog der Abbildungen ; Karten ; Register / Walter Andrae. G+: Wear to the edges and corners. Rubbing and smudging to the wraps. Rubbing to the spine. There is also a bump in the spine that pushes the binding forward slightly. Crack between the end pages. Foxing and tanning to the pages. Stains to the inside margins of some pages. Clean plates and solid binding.