Author: Kaufmann, Carl Maria.
Title: Graeco-ägyptische Koroplastik. Terrakotten der griechisch-römischen und koptischen Epoche aus der Faijûm-Oase und andren Fundstätten. Zweite, wesentlich vermehrte Auflage mit 818 Abbildungen auf 74 Tafeln.
Description: Leipzig & Kairo, Heinrich Finck, 1915. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Quarto. Pp. 157. Plus a suite of 74 plates with a total of 818 illustrations. Additional plate with vignette on verso bound at end. Illustrated head- and tail-pieces. Title-page printed in red and black. Original printed stiff wrappers printed in red and black, vignettes to both sides and to spine; old institutional stamp to title, shelf label under clear plastic on spine, spine slightly frayed with clear tape repair at top. In a very good condition. ~ Second, substantially enlarged edition. Rare. Beinlich-Seeber 10694. The first edition, published in 1913, comprised of 138 pages of text and of 700 illustrations only. Carl Maria Kaufmann, (1872 -1951), German clergy, archaeologist and writer. Kaufmann donated approximately 1,200 terracotta objects from Abu Mina and the Fayum to what is now the Liebieghaus. About 100 items from this donation were transferred in 1927 to the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst. His "Graeco-ägyptische Koroplastik" remains in many respects the standard work on the subject. 007-2 .

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