Jean Guiart - Nouvelles Hébrides - 1965

Jean Guiart, Nouvelles Hébrides. Archée Éditeur, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1965. Large-format first edition from the Mondes et cultures series, this being numbered copy 972/1000. Important French work on the art and material culture of the New Hebrides/Oceania, illustrated with numerous full-page colour and black-and-white plates. Original publisher’s cloth binding with mounted cover image and gilt title.
Condition: fair to good. Interior generally clean and visually strong, but the book has shelf wear, no dust jacket, some flaking/fragility to the binding, and one detached leaf near the end, present. A desirable and impressive oversized tribal art / Oceanic ethnography volume.