Battiss, Walter
The Artists of the Rocks
Books
LOT 457
Battiss, Walter
The Artists of the Rocks
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 6 000 - 9 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 12 296
About this Item
Battiss, Walter
The Artists of the Rocks
(1948). Pretoria: The Red Fawn Press, with 15 full colour plates, edition limited to 500 copies which this is no. 61, signed by the artist and H. Breuil, with inscription 'To Professor C. van Riet Lowe, with unusual pleasure, from Walter Battiss, Nov 1948' on the inside front cover, accompanied by two letters to Professor van Riet Lowe, cover and spine wornand dicoloured, some staining, water damage to some pages along spine
Notes
Battiss adhered additional hand-printed colour plates, from his own drawings, in the book making this a unique copy.
Professor Clarence van Riet Lowe (1894-1956) was Professor of Archaeology at the University of the Witswatersrand.
More from South African & International Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Books
Aschenborn, Hans Anton
Lino Cuts
ZAR 200 - 300
Baldwin, William Charles
African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi
ZAR 800 - 1 200
Berman, Esme
Alexis Preller: Retrospective, Pretoria Art Museum, Oct 24 – Nov 26 1972
ZAR 500 - 700
Clancey, PA
The Birds of Natal and Zululand
ZAR 150 - 200
Naude, Adele
Hugo Naude
ZAR 250 - 300
Wallis, J.P.R. (ed.)
The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines, Volumes I, II and III
ZAR 800 - 1 000
