Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CHINESE ART.) Karlbeck, Orvar. Samlarfärd I Kina 1928-1929. 2 volumes. 41 mounted plates containing albumin photographs of Karlbeck's numerous Chinese antiquities shown at the exhibition at the Museum of Asian Antiquities in Stockholm. 21, [2] pages of type-printed introduction and descriptive text, cloth-backed printed wrappers, toned, few chips. Accompanying text volume is 4to, gilt-stamped stiff board, corners and edges rubbed, rear cover and final leaf with clean tear repaired with archival tissue. Stockholm, 1929
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scarce document created for investors of this archaeological expedition. Typed report of Karlbeck's trip commissioned by the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and conducted in China. The list corresponds to the examples shown in the album but is more extensive. Only about twenty copies of this set are known to have been produced and of those recorded, only a few institutional copies and two auction records are noted.