Angkor

1929 · 4007 — Paris: G. Van Oest 1929. Première Partie. L’Architecture du Monument. I. Introduction et Planches. Deuxiéme Partie. II. La Sculpture Ornementale du Temple.Paris: Les Éditions G. Van Oest 1929 and 1930. Two parts of Memoires Archéologiques published by L’École Française d’Extrême -Orient; complete in itself.Two thick folio volumes in a handsome new binding of red calf spines and gray cloth boards; spines banded with blind-stamped ornaments in compartments and gilt-lettered black leather title labels. Stab marks from stapled original wrappers not bound in are visible at extreme inner margins. Very clean and fresh with introductory text two large folding plans and a total of 286 superb full page photographic plates.A remarkable early record of the splendid achievement of Khmer culture with the architecture ornament and sculptures of the temples and other structures prior to depredations and removals. Calf and Boards. Fine. Thick Folio. G. Van Oest Hardcover books