Stolpe Hjalmar Henry Balfour (2 results)

First edition. 2 volumes. Text volume 33 cm; atlas volume 47 cm; viii, 128; [46] pages and 20 plates. 137 drawings and photographic illustrations in text. Edition limited to 300 copies, of which this is copy #2. Association copy, inscribed by ethnographer Gerhard Lindblom, to the aviator, ethnographer, and adventurer Eric von Rosen, who was a student of Stolpe. Bound in half calf over decorated boards, with titles in gilt on upper boards and spines. Some slight rubbing and abrading at extremities, more to atlas volume, but overall about fine. Von Rosen's "Rockelstad" bookplate on front pastedown of volume one. Posthumously published edition of researches by Knut Hjalmar Stolpe (1841-1905), director of the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm, on textile design and other ornamental objects in North America, South America, Africa, and the Arctic. This copy is inscribed by the ethnographer and Africanist Gerhard Lindblom, to Count Eric von Rosen, who had been a student of Stolpe. After Sven Hedin, von Rosen was the principal patron of the Swedish Ethnographical Museum during the whole course of its existence, donating thousands of objects from his expeditions in Africa, South America, and Oceania. Incidentally, von Rosen's wife's sister married Hermann Göring.

Text volume: viii, 128 pages, 137 figures--all are drawings of objects of tribal material culture. This volume contains two Stolpe essays: "On Evolution in the Ornamental Art of Savage Peoples", and "Studies in American Ornamentation--a Contribution to the Biology of Ornament". 10"x13". Atlas volume (South American Atlas): 84 pages (unpaginated), 20 leaves of finely executed drawings--11 leaves of clubs from Brazil and Guinea, 6 leaves of other objects of material culture, and 3 leaves of shirts from Patagonia, Chile, Peru, and Brazil. Folio size, 18 1/2"x13" The pair of essays in this work, written in the 1890s, was the recipient of the Loubat prize, awarded by the Antiquities Acadamie in Stockholm, to a Scandinavian author for the best, ".essay upon American ethnography.". Lauded internationally, but previously available to only a few, this two-volume work was printed on special paper, strikingly bound, and published in 1927 in an edition of 300 copies. ".the plates record invaluable raw material.". "All ethnographers and students of comparative art will be profoundly grateful to the publishers.for so worthily preserving Stolpe's otherwise relatively inaccessible investigations". Robert H. Lowie, American Anthropologist, N.S., 32, 1930. Both volumes, new and unopened, are bound in decorated board and leather covers in their original (slightly chipped) dust jackets. The edition was limited to 300 copies.