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	ALEGRIA, RICARDO E. Taino - Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean New York, Monacelli Press. 1997. (ISBN: 1885254822) Wrappers-, 28 x 23.5 cms. 192 pages - in English - 129 color illustrations and various b/w figs. - published to coincide with the 1997-1998 showing at the Museo del Barrio in New York of over one hundred ceremonial and household artworks of the Taino, descendants of the Upper Amazon Arawaks who migrated to the Caribbean basin in the 6th Century and who flourished until the 13th Century in Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and other islands. They were, in fact, the first native Americans to greet Christopher Columbus - essays by a dozen specialists - appendices translated by Susan C. Griswold: Diary of Columbus' first voyage, De Orbo Novo Decades by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera and Apologetica Historia de las Indias by Fray BartolomÃ© de Las Casas - bibliography. New-. CHF 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 US$ 68.74 \| £UK 41.25 \| JP¥ 6113] Book number: 006287 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ALVA, W./ DONNAN, CH. Royal Tombs of Sipan Los Angeles, USA, Los Angeles Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 1993. (ISBN: 0930741293) Hardbound, 29 Cm X 22. 229 pages - in English - 249 illustrations, more than 200 in color. - published to coincide with the 1993 showings at various museums throughout USA - Sipan royal tombs - excavation - conservation of tomb contents - Moche civilization and much more - bibliography. New -/New -. CHF 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.75 US$ 108.02 \| £UK 65 \| JP¥ 9606] Book number: 006289 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	AUBERT, LAURENT/DUCOR, JEROME Theatres d'Orient - Masques, Marionettes, Ombres et Costumes Geneva, Swirzerland, Olizane. 1997. (ISBN: 2880862132) , 34 x 24 Cms. bound in gilt-embossed imitation leather - in a cloth slipcase with color pastedowns - 152 pages - in French - 70 full or double-page color illustrations and over a hundred b/w figs. and illustrations - photography by Jonathan Watts - a presentation of the puppets, masks, shadowgraphs and costumes in the collections of the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, Switzerland, incl. pieces from Turkey, the Near East, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Far East, China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Tibet and Nepal - plates - biblio. and discography. New-. CHF 130.00 [Appr.: EURO 86 US$ 127.66 \| £UK 76.75 \| JP¥ 11353] Book number: 008098 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER-MUELLER, MONIQUE ET AL Arts & Cultures No.3, 2002 Paris, France, Adam Biro. 2002. Soft Cover, 11 3/4 x 9 Inches. 350 pages - in French - over 300 mostly color illustrations and various maps - this issue was published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, which has some of the world's finest collections of ancient ethnic art, mainly African, Oceanic and pre-Columbian - essays by 15 specialists on Neolithic Vinca art, Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, eskimo masks from the Barbier-Mueller collections, Northern Ghana's Koma-Bulsa culture, Bali art, ceremonial sabers of Indonesian Nias headhunters, the Bagobos, carved drums, art by Detroit de Torres in the B-M collections, wakahuia & papahou Maori treasure boxes and much more - John Armleder's reveries of a solitary artists. New -. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 \| £UK 32.5 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 004687 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER, JEAN-PAUL ET AL Arts & Cultures No.2 Paris, France, Adam Biro. 2001. Soft Cover, 11 3/4 x 9 Inches. 210 pages - in French - over 200 mostly color illustrations and figs. - various maps - the 2nd issue of the luxurious yearly periodical of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of prehistoric, Oceanic, African, Asian and pre-Columbian art - essays by a dozen specialists on Shang ritual bronzes, an engraved Olmec bowl from Tlapacoy, vogage to the Kabye of Northern Togo, the Soninke style from Mali, Zimbabwan art & architecture, funerary Zaramo art from Tanzania, memoirs of a textile hunter, mortuary effigies of the living dead by the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, bas-relief doors and screens from Borneo, last trips to Sumatra, fly-swat handles from the Austral islands and more - interview with Georg Baselitz - afterword by Jean Paul Barbier. New -. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 \| £UK 23.75 \| JP¥ 3493] Book number: 004682 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER-MUELLER JEAN PAUL ET AL Arts & Cultures 2005 Paris, France, Somogy. 2005. Soft Cover, 11 1/2 x 9 Inches. 282 pages - in French - the 2005 issue of the plush periodical of the Barbier-Mueller Museums in Barcelona, Spain, and in Geneva, Switzerland, homes to world-class collections of prehistoric and ancient African, Oceanic, Asian and pre-Columbian art - over a dozen specialists describe Japanese armor & helmets, the Peat Bog Mummy, Oli'no Kal'ina ceramics, Ivory Coast Guro masks, Southern Philippines tomb-markers, portrait of an English duchess who runs the CafÃ© Greco, Rova wooden plates from Vaunatu and much more - interview with Josef Mueller in the Hereafter . New -. CHF 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.75 US$ 47.14 \| £UK 28.5 \| JP¥ 4192] Book number: 003395 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER-MUELLER, JEAN PAUL/ENTHOVEN, RAPHAÃ‹L Reves De Collection Paris, France, Somogy. 2003. (ISBN: 2850565393) Gilt-Embossed Black Cloth, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 196 pages - in French - 70 color plates and over 80 color figs. - 10 maps - published to coincide with the 2003 showing at the Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris, France of ancient objects, some 7,000 years old, from the fabulous Barbier-Mueller Collection - vases, jewellery, carvings, face masks and clay phalluses from Europe, Asia and Africa - intro. by Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller - RaphaÃ«l Enthoven on sculptures of oneself - Antiquity, from Europe to the Near East - Asia, from South China to Indochina - Africa, from the Sahara to Zimbabwe - maps - bibliography - list of drawings - index - notes. New -/New -. CHF 62.00 [Appr.: EURO 41 US$ 60.88 \| £UK 36.75 \| JP¥ 5415] Book number: 003046 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARRY / CORREA Amazonie Precolombienne Geneva Switzerland, 5 Continents. 2002. Wrappers, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 91 pages - in French - 26 color reproductions - This volume presents the Barbier-Mueller's collection of pre-Colombian ceramics presented at the exhibition held at the Geneva museum in 2002 - Very few unbroken pieces remain of the pre-Colombian period, and some of those still intact are gathered is this detailed catalogue (list of publications and exhibitions for each piece) with two comprehensive essays by Iris Barry and Conceição G. Corrêa - Bibliography. New -. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 001597 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BÃ‰GUIN, GILLES ET ALII Or Des Amazones (L') Paris , France, Paris Musees / Findakly. 2001. (ISBN: 2879005388) Wrappers, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 300 pages - text in French - catalog of an exhibition held at the Cernuschi Museum in Paris during the summer 2001 - color photographs of the antique objects exposed - little sculptures, ornaments, jewels, plates, etc.. - many objects in gold coming from nomads tribes of the south of Russia or north of Asia - between Antiquity and Middle-Age, between Europe and Asia, between classic civilisation and Barbarians, a great collection and a beautiful art - notices for each object - large bibliography. New -. CHF 67.00 [Appr.: EURO 44.25 US$ 65.79 \| £UK 39.5 \| JP¥ 5851] Book number: 000804 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOURGOIN, P. ET AL Tribal Art in Europe - Guide Geneva ,Switzerland, Editions D. 2004. (ISBN: 3952256722) Wrappers, 24 x 17 Cms. 242 pages - in French and English - around 150 color illustrations and figs. - hundreds of addresses of museums, antiques dealers, auctioneers, experts, booksellers, fairs and shows dealing with tribal art, interspersed with full-page color ads for upmarket dealers. New -. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 \| £UK 23.75 \| JP¥ 3493] Book number: 004306 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOYER, ALAIN-MICHEL ET AL Baule Milan,Italy, 5 Continents. 2008. (ISBN: 9788874393862) plastfied softcover-, 24.5 x 17 Cms. 178 pages - in English (for version in French of this book, see ISBN 9788874393855) - 60 color plates, 17 duotone and b/w illustrations and a b/w map - a presentation of the carvings and masks of the Baule of the Ivory Coast - essays - plates - plate captions and bibliography. new-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 008646 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOYER, ALAIN-MICHEL Baule Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2008. (ISBN: 9788874393855) plastfied softcover-. 176 pages - in French (for version in English of this book, see ISBN 97874393862)) - 60 color plates and 17 duotone and b/w illustrations - carvings and masks of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast - plate captions and bibliography. New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 009490 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BROGIOLO, GIAN PIETRO ET AL Longobardi (I) - Dalla Caduta dell'Imperio all'Alba dell'Italia Milan, Italy, Silvana. 2007. (ISBN: 9788836609505) Wrappers-, 28 x 23 Cms. 352 pages - in Italian - around 400 mostly color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2007 Italian showings in Turin and Novalesa of 5th to 8th Century Lombard mosaics, metalwork, jewelry, earthenware, weapons and other objects - essays by over a dozen specialists - bibliography. New-. CHF 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 US$ 68.74 \| £UK 41.25 \| JP¥ 6113] Book number: 009132 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARUANA, WALLY ET AL Aborigenes - Collections Australiennes Contemporaines Du Musee Des Confluences FAGE. 2008. (ISBN: 9782849751534) pictorial hardcover-, 32 x 25 Cms. 168 pages - in French - over 150 color illustrations, incl. many plates - a presentation of the collections of contemporary aboriginal art from Australia in the MusÃ©e des Confluences in Lyons, France - essays by six anthropologists and ethnologists - works: Arnhem territory, Tiwi Islands, Kimberley and the Detroit of Torrres - bibliography. New-/New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 58.92 \| £UK 35.5 \| JP¥ 5240] Book number: 009232 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	COCHRANE, SUSAN ET AL Aboriginal Art Collections - Highlights from Australia's Public Museums and Galleries Sydney, Australia, Fine Art Publishing. 2001. (ISBN: 9781877004056) Wrappers-, 27 x 22.5 cms. 128 pages - in English - 93 color illustrations - a survey of the collections of aboriginal art in 14 Australian museums and galleries - essays by 18 museum curators - list of plates, biblio. and index. New-. CHF 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 US$ 73.65 \| £UK 44.25 \| JP¥ 6550] Book number: 009220 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	COLLECTIF Orakel - Der Blick in Die Zukunft Zurich, Switzerland, Museum Rietberg. 1999. (ISBN: 3907070933) Hard Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 384 pages - in German - catalogue of an exhibition held in Zurich at the Rietberg Museum in 1999, this book enlightens self-interrogations, doubts, beliefs of people everywhere and all the time about supernatural powers of gods or destiny, helping them understand their fate - presentation of artifacts, idols, statues from various civilizations - a fascinating publication. New -. CHF 114.00 [Appr.: EURO 75.25 US$ 111.95 \| £UK 67.25 \| JP¥ 9956] Book number: 000116 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DALTABUIT, EUDALD ET AL Enigmas De La Montanas - Mascaras Tribales Del Himalaya Barcelona, Spain, Gustavo Gili. 2005. Cloth-, 29 x 22 Cms. 160 pages - in Spanish and French - 60 color plates, 60 color figures and a double-page color map - a presentation of Nepalese tribal masks from the Hiamalayan region of Nepal in the collection of Gustavo Gili and Rosa AmorÃ³s - essays by Eudald Daltabuit and FranÃ§ois Pannier on the collection and on Himalayan masks - catalogue - bibliography. New-/New-. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 62.75 US$ 93.29 \| £UK 56 \| JP¥ 8296] Book number: 008620 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DE LUMLEY, HENRY ET AL Tresors Meconnus du Musee De l'Homme Paris, France, Cherche Midi. 1999. (ISBN: 2862746827) Cloth, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 144 pages - in French - over 200 color illustrations - 35 distinguished specialists participate in an imaginary exhibition of objects in the National Museum of Man in Paris, France - a Mohara talisman from Madagascar, fake women's breasts used in New Guinea transsexual rituals and many other strange and wonderful objects acquired by or given to the museum by explorers - musical instruments - early Amerindian objects - European objects - Oceania: stone, coral, clay, teeth, shells, bones, feathers and more - Africa, the Middle East and Madagascar - Asia - the Arctic Circle - prehistory and anthropology: primitive farmers, artifically deformed skulls, phrenological collections, Neolithic empirical skull surgery, history and vicissitudes of a young Gallic mummy, the Cro-Magbon woman, the Green Hand and more. New -/New -. CHF 57.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.75 US$ 55.97 \| £UK 33.75 \| JP¥ 4978] Book number: 003398 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DEMOULE, JEAN-PAUL Naissance De La Figure - l'Art Du Paleolithique a l'Age De Fer Paris, France, Hazan. 2007. (ISBN: 9782850259937) hardcover-. 208 pages - in French - photography by Erich Lessing - over 200 color illustrations - a fine description of mankind's earliest art forms 30,000 years ago and their evolution - pre-image mankind, the birth of symbolism, the Middle Eastern Paleolithic revolution, European Neolithic images, the age of copper, gold, the Bronze Age, power and martial figures, the Iron Age, towards state art, and, more - conclusion, biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 62.75 US$ 93.29 \| £UK 56 \| JP¥ 8296] Book number: 008752 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DOUGOUD, ROBERTA COLOMBO ET AL Bambous Kanak Gollion, Switzerland, Infolio. 2008. (ISBN: 9782884740838) Wrappers-, 28 x 23 Cms. 184 pages - in French - 97 color and b/w illustrations - published to coincide with the 2008 showing at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, Switzerland, of 29 New Caledonian Kanak carved bamboo canes collected by Marguerite Lobsiger-Dellenbach and deposited now in the museum's collections - essays by 7 specialists - biblio. authors and glossary. New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 \| £UK 23.75 \| JP¥ 3493] Book number: 008547 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	FALGAYRETTES, CHRISTIANE ET AL Art d'Etre Un Homme (L') - Afrique, Oceanie Paris, France, Musee Dapper. 2009. (ISBN: 9782915258271) Cloth-, 34 x 25 Cms. 332 pages - in French - over 350 color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2009 showing at the Musée Dapper in Paris of African and Oceanic carvings, jewels, clothes and other objects from museum collections which relate to masculine identity - essays by Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, Anne Van Cutsem-Vanderstraete, Alfred Adler, Gilles Bounoure, Ina Césaire and Alain Mabanckou - biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.47 \| £UK 50.25 \| JP¥ 7423] Book number: 009499 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	FUERST, RENE Indiens d'Amazonie Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2008. (ISBN: 9788874394890) Hard Cover, 24,5 x 28,5 cms. 135 pages - in French - over 100 full-page black/white photographs and text by Rene Fuerst - Portraits and landscapes describing the life of natives of Roncador-Xingu, the Villas Boas brothers and the indigenous Park of Xingu - Conclusions - Bibliography - Author's biography. New -. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 \| £UK 32.5 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 009028 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	FUERST, RENE Xikrin - Hommes Oiseaux D'Amazonie Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2006. (ISBN: 8874393172) Hardcover, 30.5 x 25.5 cms. 228 pages - in French - 12 full-page color gouaches by Arlette Detruche, 12 by Willy Reinhard and several dozen duotone illustrations - a noted Swiss ethnologist describes the Xikrin, a Kayapo group, indian tribe from central Brazil which numbered 100 when discovered in 1967 and which grew to 750 thanks to the intervention of the author and other motivated persons - a look at a disappearing way of life and the extraordinary feather art of the Xikrin, also known as the Bird People - chronology of an unexpected vitality, distances covered by the Xikrin, writing, French-Xikrin vocabulary, biblio. and bio. of the author. New-/New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.25 US$ 117.84 \| £UK 70.75 \| JP¥ 10480] Book number: 005001 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GOY, BERTRAND Sculptures De Bois Au Nepal - Bouffons et Protecteurs Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2009. (ISBN: 9788874394951) pictorial hardcover-, 29 x 25 Cms. Ill.: Dubois Hugues. 168 pages - in French - around 100 color illustrations, incl many plates and various duotone illustrations - photography by Hughes Dubois - a learned description of Nepalese wooden carvings featuring fine pieces from the Max Itzikovitz Collection - essays by Bertrand Goy and ethnologist Gisèle Krauskopff - interview with Henri Bancaud, a pioneer of photography of Nepal - plates - bibliography. New-. CHF 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.47 \| £UK 50.25 \| JP¥ 7423] Book number: 009475 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GRONING, KARL Decorated Skin - a World Survey of Body Art London, England, Thames & Hudson. 1997. (ISBN: 9780500283288) Wrappers-, 32.5 x 25 Cms. 256 pages - in English - 418 illustrations, incl. 378 in color and 4 maps - a compendium of AmerIndian, aborigine, African, Asian and other tattoos from ethnic groups around the world - biblio. and index. New-. CHF 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43 US$ 63.83 \| £UK 38.5 \| JP¥ 5677] Book number: 008254 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.

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	ALEGRIA, RICARDO E. Taino - Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean New York, Monacelli Press. 1997. (ISBN: 1885254822) Wrappers-, 28 x 23.5 cms. 192 pages - in English - 129 color illustrations and various b/w figs. - published to coincide with the 1997-1998 showing at the Museo del Barrio in New York of over one hundred ceremonial and household artworks of the Taino, descendants of the Upper Amazon Arawaks who migrated to the Caribbean basin in the 6th Century and who flourished until the 13th Century in Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and other islands. They were, in fact, the first native Americans to greet Christopher Columbus - essays by a dozen specialists - appendices translated by Susan C. Griswold: Diary of Columbus' first voyage, De Orbo Novo Decades by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera and Apologetica Historia de las Indias by Fray BartolomÃ© de Las Casas - bibliography. New-. CHF 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 US$ 68.74 \| £UK 41.25 \| JP¥ 6113] Book number: 006287 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ALVA, W./ DONNAN, CH. Royal Tombs of Sipan Los Angeles, USA, Los Angeles Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 1993. (ISBN: 0930741293) Hardbound, 29 Cm X 22. 229 pages - in English - 249 illustrations, more than 200 in color. - published to coincide with the 1993 showings at various museums throughout USA - Sipan royal tombs - excavation - conservation of tomb contents - Moche civilization and much more - bibliography. New -/New -. CHF 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.75 US$ 108.02 \| £UK 65 \| JP¥ 9606] Book number: 006289 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	AUBERT, LAURENT/DUCOR, JEROME Theatres d'Orient - Masques, Marionettes, Ombres et Costumes Geneva, Swirzerland, Olizane. 1997. (ISBN: 2880862132) , 34 x 24 Cms. bound in gilt-embossed imitation leather - in a cloth slipcase with color pastedowns - 152 pages - in French - 70 full or double-page color illustrations and over a hundred b/w figs. and illustrations - photography by Jonathan Watts - a presentation of the puppets, masks, shadowgraphs and costumes in the collections of the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, Switzerland, incl. pieces from Turkey, the Near East, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Far East, China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Tibet and Nepal - plates - biblio. and discography. New-. CHF 130.00 [Appr.: EURO 86 US$ 127.66 \| £UK 76.75 \| JP¥ 11353] Book number: 008098 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER-MUELLER, MONIQUE ET AL Arts & Cultures No.3, 2002 Paris, France, Adam Biro. 2002. Soft Cover, 11 3/4 x 9 Inches. 350 pages - in French - over 300 mostly color illustrations and various maps - this issue was published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, which has some of the world's finest collections of ancient ethnic art, mainly African, Oceanic and pre-Columbian - essays by 15 specialists on Neolithic Vinca art, Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, eskimo masks from the Barbier-Mueller collections, Northern Ghana's Koma-Bulsa culture, Bali art, ceremonial sabers of Indonesian Nias headhunters, the Bagobos, carved drums, art by Detroit de Torres in the B-M collections, wakahuia & papahou Maori treasure boxes and much more - John Armleder's reveries of a solitary artists. New -. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 \| £UK 32.5 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 004687 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER, JEAN-PAUL ET AL Arts & Cultures No.2 Paris, France, Adam Biro. 2001. Soft Cover, 11 3/4 x 9 Inches. 210 pages - in French - over 200 mostly color illustrations and figs. - various maps - the 2nd issue of the luxurious yearly periodical of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of prehistoric, Oceanic, African, Asian and pre-Columbian art - essays by a dozen specialists on Shang ritual bronzes, an engraved Olmec bowl from Tlapacoy, vogage to the Kabye of Northern Togo, the Soninke style from Mali, Zimbabwan art & architecture, funerary Zaramo art from Tanzania, memoirs of a textile hunter, mortuary effigies of the living dead by the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, bas-relief doors and screens from Borneo, last trips to Sumatra, fly-swat handles from the Austral islands and more - interview with Georg Baselitz - afterword by Jean Paul Barbier. New -. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 \| £UK 23.75 \| JP¥ 3493] Book number: 004682 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER-MUELLER JEAN PAUL ET AL Arts & Cultures 2005 Paris, France, Somogy. 2005. Soft Cover, 11 1/2 x 9 Inches. 282 pages - in French - the 2005 issue of the plush periodical of the Barbier-Mueller Museums in Barcelona, Spain, and in Geneva, Switzerland, homes to world-class collections of prehistoric and ancient African, Oceanic, Asian and pre-Columbian art - over a dozen specialists describe Japanese armor & helmets, the Peat Bog Mummy, Oli'no Kal'ina ceramics, Ivory Coast Guro masks, Southern Philippines tomb-markers, portrait of an English duchess who runs the CafÃ© Greco, Rova wooden plates from Vaunatu and much more - interview with Josef Mueller in the Hereafter . New -. CHF 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.75 US$ 47.14 \| £UK 28.5 \| JP¥ 4192] Book number: 003395 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARBIER-MUELLER, JEAN PAUL/ENTHOVEN, RAPHAÃ‹L Reves De Collection Paris, France, Somogy. 2003. (ISBN: 2850565393) Gilt-Embossed Black Cloth, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 196 pages - in French - 70 color plates and over 80 color figs. - 10 maps - published to coincide with the 2003 showing at the Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris, France of ancient objects, some 7,000 years old, from the fabulous Barbier-Mueller Collection - vases, jewellery, carvings, face masks and clay phalluses from Europe, Asia and Africa - intro. by Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller - RaphaÃ«l Enthoven on sculptures of oneself - Antiquity, from Europe to the Near East - Asia, from South China to Indochina - Africa, from the Sahara to Zimbabwe - maps - bibliography - list of drawings - index - notes. New -/New -. CHF 62.00 [Appr.: EURO 41 US$ 60.88 \| £UK 36.75 \| JP¥ 5415] Book number: 003046 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BARRY / CORREA Amazonie Precolombienne Geneva Switzerland, 5 Continents. 2002. Wrappers, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 91 pages - in French - 26 color reproductions - This volume presents the Barbier-Mueller's collection of pre-Colombian ceramics presented at the exhibition held at the Geneva museum in 2002 - Very few unbroken pieces remain of the pre-Colombian period, and some of those still intact are gathered is this detailed catalogue (list of publications and exhibitions for each piece) with two comprehensive essays by Iris Barry and Conceição G. Corrêa - Bibliography. New -. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 001597 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BÃ‰GUIN, GILLES ET ALII Or Des Amazones (L') Paris , France, Paris Musees / Findakly. 2001. (ISBN: 2879005388) Wrappers, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 300 pages - text in French - catalog of an exhibition held at the Cernuschi Museum in Paris during the summer 2001 - color photographs of the antique objects exposed - little sculptures, ornaments, jewels, plates, etc.. - many objects in gold coming from nomads tribes of the south of Russia or north of Asia - between Antiquity and Middle-Age, between Europe and Asia, between classic civilisation and Barbarians, a great collection and a beautiful art - notices for each object - large bibliography. New -. CHF 67.00 [Appr.: EURO 44.25 US$ 65.79 \| £UK 39.5 \| JP¥ 5851] Book number: 000804 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOURGOIN, P. ET AL Tribal Art in Europe - Guide Geneva ,Switzerland, Editions D. 2004. (ISBN: 3952256722) Wrappers, 24 x 17 Cms. 242 pages - in French and English - around 150 color illustrations and figs. - hundreds of addresses of museums, antiques dealers, auctioneers, experts, booksellers, fairs and shows dealing with tribal art, interspersed with full-page color ads for upmarket dealers. New -. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 \| £UK 23.75 \| JP¥ 3493] Book number: 004306 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOYER, ALAIN-MICHEL ET AL Baule Milan,Italy, 5 Continents. 2008. (ISBN: 9788874393862) plastfied softcover-, 24.5 x 17 Cms. 178 pages - in English (for version in French of this book, see ISBN 9788874393855) - 60 color plates, 17 duotone and b/w illustrations and a b/w map - a presentation of the carvings and masks of the Baule of the Ivory Coast - essays - plates - plate captions and bibliography. new-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 008646 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOYER, ALAIN-MICHEL Baule Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2008. (ISBN: 9788874393855) plastfied softcover-. 176 pages - in French (for version in English of this book, see ISBN 97874393862)) - 60 color plates and 17 duotone and b/w illustrations - carvings and masks of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast - plate captions and bibliography. New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 009490 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BROGIOLO, GIAN PIETRO ET AL Longobardi (I) - Dalla Caduta dell'Imperio all'Alba dell'Italia Milan, Italy, Silvana. 2007. (ISBN: 9788836609505) Wrappers-, 28 x 23 Cms. 352 pages - in Italian - around 400 mostly color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2007 Italian showings in Turin and Novalesa of 5th to 8th Century Lombard mosaics, metalwork, jewelry, earthenware, weapons and other objects - essays by over a dozen specialists - bibliography. New-. CHF 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 US$ 68.74 \| £UK 41.25 \| JP¥ 6113] Book number: 009132 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARUANA, WALLY ET AL Aborigenes - Collections Australiennes Contemporaines Du Musee Des Confluences FAGE. 2008. (ISBN: 9782849751534) pictorial hardcover-, 32 x 25 Cms. 168 pages - in French - over 150 color illustrations, incl. many plates - a presentation of the collections of contemporary aboriginal art from Australia in the MusÃ©e des Confluences in Lyons, France - essays by six anthropologists and ethnologists - works: Arnhem territory, Tiwi Islands, Kimberley and the Detroit of Torrres - bibliography. New-/New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 58.92 \| £UK 35.5 \| JP¥ 5240] Book number: 009232 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	COCHRANE, SUSAN ET AL Aboriginal Art Collections - Highlights from Australia's Public Museums and Galleries Sydney, Australia, Fine Art Publishing. 2001. (ISBN: 9781877004056) Wrappers-, 27 x 22.5 cms. 128 pages - in English - 93 color illustrations - a survey of the collections of aboriginal art in 14 Australian museums and galleries - essays by 18 museum curators - list of plates, biblio. and index. New-. CHF 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 US$ 73.65 \| £UK 44.25 \| JP¥ 6550] Book number: 009220 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	COLLECTIF Orakel - Der Blick in Die Zukunft Zurich, Switzerland, Museum Rietberg. 1999. (ISBN: 3907070933) Hard Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 384 pages - in German - catalogue of an exhibition held in Zurich at the Rietberg Museum in 1999, this book enlightens self-interrogations, doubts, beliefs of people everywhere and all the time about supernatural powers of gods or destiny, helping them understand their fate - presentation of artifacts, idols, statues from various civilizations - a fascinating publication. New -. CHF 114.00 [Appr.: EURO 75.25 US$ 111.95 \| £UK 67.25 \| JP¥ 9956] Book number: 000116 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DALTABUIT, EUDALD ET AL Enigmas De La Montanas - Mascaras Tribales Del Himalaya Barcelona, Spain, Gustavo Gili. 2005. Cloth-, 29 x 22 Cms. 160 pages - in Spanish and French - 60 color plates, 60 color figures and a double-page color map - a presentation of Nepalese tribal masks from the Hiamalayan region of Nepal in the collection of Gustavo Gili and Rosa AmorÃ³s - essays by Eudald Daltabuit and FranÃ§ois Pannier on the collection and on Himalayan masks - catalogue - bibliography. New-/New-. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 62.75 US$ 93.29 \| £UK 56 \| JP¥ 8296] Book number: 008620 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DE LUMLEY, HENRY ET AL Tresors Meconnus du Musee De l'Homme Paris, France, Cherche Midi. 1999. (ISBN: 2862746827) Cloth, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 144 pages - in French - over 200 color illustrations - 35 distinguished specialists participate in an imaginary exhibition of objects in the National Museum of Man in Paris, France - a Mohara talisman from Madagascar, fake women's breasts used in New Guinea transsexual rituals and many other strange and wonderful objects acquired by or given to the museum by explorers - musical instruments - early Amerindian objects - European objects - Oceania: stone, coral, clay, teeth, shells, bones, feathers and more - Africa, the Middle East and Madagascar - Asia - the Arctic Circle - prehistory and anthropology: primitive farmers, artifically deformed skulls, phrenological collections, Neolithic empirical skull surgery, history and vicissitudes of a young Gallic mummy, the Cro-Magbon woman, the Green Hand and more. New -/New -. CHF 57.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.75 US$ 55.97 \| £UK 33.75 \| JP¥ 4978] Book number: 003398 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DEMOULE, JEAN-PAUL Naissance De La Figure - l'Art Du Paleolithique a l'Age De Fer Paris, France, Hazan. 2007. (ISBN: 9782850259937) hardcover-. 208 pages - in French - photography by Erich Lessing - over 200 color illustrations - a fine description of mankind's earliest art forms 30,000 years ago and their evolution - pre-image mankind, the birth of symbolism, the Middle Eastern Paleolithic revolution, European Neolithic images, the age of copper, gold, the Bronze Age, power and martial figures, the Iron Age, towards state art, and, more - conclusion, biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 62.75 US$ 93.29 \| £UK 56 \| JP¥ 8296] Book number: 008752 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DOUGOUD, ROBERTA COLOMBO ET AL Bambous Kanak Gollion, Switzerland, Infolio. 2008. (ISBN: 9782884740838) Wrappers-, 28 x 23 Cms. 184 pages - in French - 97 color and b/w illustrations - published to coincide with the 2008 showing at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, Switzerland, of 29 New Caledonian Kanak carved bamboo canes collected by Marguerite Lobsiger-Dellenbach and deposited now in the museum's collections - essays by 7 specialists - biblio. authors and glossary. New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.28 \| £UK 23.75 \| JP¥ 3493] Book number: 008547 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	FALGAYRETTES, CHRISTIANE ET AL Art d'Etre Un Homme (L') - Afrique, Oceanie Paris, France, Musee Dapper. 2009. (ISBN: 9782915258271) Cloth-, 34 x 25 Cms. 332 pages - in French - over 350 color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2009 showing at the Musée Dapper in Paris of African and Oceanic carvings, jewels, clothes and other objects from museum collections which relate to masculine identity - essays by Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, Anne Van Cutsem-Vanderstraete, Alfred Adler, Gilles Bounoure, Ina Césaire and Alain Mabanckou - biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.47 \| £UK 50.25 \| JP¥ 7423] Book number: 009499 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	FUERST, RENE Indiens d'Amazonie Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2008. (ISBN: 9788874394890) Hard Cover, 24,5 x 28,5 cms. 135 pages - in French - over 100 full-page black/white photographs and text by Rene Fuerst - Portraits and landscapes describing the life of natives of Roncador-Xingu, the Villas Boas brothers and the indigenous Park of Xingu - Conclusions - Bibliography - Author's biography. New -. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 \| £UK 32.5 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 009028 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	FUERST, RENE Xikrin - Hommes Oiseaux D'Amazonie Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2006. (ISBN: 8874393172) Hardcover, 30.5 x 25.5 cms. 228 pages - in French - 12 full-page color gouaches by Arlette Detruche, 12 by Willy Reinhard and several dozen duotone illustrations - a noted Swiss ethnologist describes the Xikrin, a Kayapo group, indian tribe from central Brazil which numbered 100 when discovered in 1967 and which grew to 750 thanks to the intervention of the author and other motivated persons - a look at a disappearing way of life and the extraordinary feather art of the Xikrin, also known as the Bird People - chronology of an unexpected vitality, distances covered by the Xikrin, writing, French-Xikrin vocabulary, biblio. and bio. of the author. New-/New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.25 US$ 117.84 \| £UK 70.75 \| JP¥ 10480] Book number: 005001 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GOY, BERTRAND Sculptures De Bois Au Nepal - Bouffons et Protecteurs Milan, Italy, 5 Continents. 2009. (ISBN: 9788874394951) pictorial hardcover-, 29 x 25 Cms. Ill.: Dubois Hugues. 168 pages - in French - around 100 color illustrations, incl many plates and various duotone illustrations - photography by Hughes Dubois - a learned description of Nepalese wooden carvings featuring fine pieces from the Max Itzikovitz Collection - essays by Bertrand Goy and ethnologist Gisèle Krauskopff - interview with Henri Bancaud, a pioneer of photography of Nepal - plates - bibliography. New-. CHF 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.47 \| £UK 50.25 \| JP¥ 7423] Book number: 009475 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GRONING, KARL Decorated Skin - a World Survey of Body Art London, England, Thames & Hudson. 1997. (ISBN: 9780500283288) Wrappers-, 32.5 x 25 Cms. 256 pages - in English - 418 illustrations, incl. 378 in color and 4 maps - a compendium of AmerIndian, aborigine, African, Asian and other tattoos from ethnic groups around the world - biblio. and index. New-. CHF 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43 US$ 63.83 \| £UK 38.5 \| JP¥ 5677] Book number: 008254 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.