Material: Maroon publisher's cloth with decorative blind stamping; photogravure plates; paper text block
Date: 1893 (First Edition)
Measurements: Folio, 37 cm; 193 pp.
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Text in Swedish. Complete with all 17 plates including double-page photogravure 'The Cliff Palace'; 159 smaller illustrations, maps, and plans.
Nordenskold, Gustav. Ruiner at Klipponigar I Mesa Verde's Canons (Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde). Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners, 1893. First Edition. The foundational monograph on what is now Mesa Verde National Park, documenting the ancestral Pueblo people who built and inhabited the cliff dwellings of the Four Corners region of the American Southwest for nearly six centuries. This comprehensive work includes all seventeen original plates, among them the celebrated double-page photogravure of The Cliff Palace, along with 159 smaller illustrations, maps, and plans. A complete copy in maroon publisher's cloth with decorative blind stamping to the front board and gilt title to the spine.
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Material: Maroon publisher's cloth with decorative blind stamping; photogravure plates; paper text block
Date: 1893 (First Edition)
Measurements: Folio, 37 cm; 193 pp.
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Note: Text in Swedish. Complete with all 17 plates including double-page photogravure 'The Cliff Palace'; 159 smaller illustrations, maps, and plans.
Nordenskold, Gustav. Ruiner at Klipponigar I Mesa Verde's Canons (Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde). Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners, 1893. First Edition. The foundational monograph on what is now Mesa Verde National Park, documenting the ancestral Pueblo people who built and inhabited the cliff dwellings of the Four Corners region of the American Southwest for nearly six centuries. This comprehensive work includes all seventeen original plates, among them the celebrated double-page photogravure of The Cliff Palace, along with 159 smaller illustrations, maps, and plans. A complete copy in maroon publisher's cloth with decorative blind stamping to the front board and gilt title to the spine.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand
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