Jun 17, 2010 - Sale 2217

Sale 2217 - Lot 439

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(ARCHITECTURE.) Gallée, Johan Hendrik. Het boerenhuis in Nederland en zijn bewoners. Dutch text. 63 plates. 2 volumes. Text volume is 8vo, pictorial cloth. Plate volume is tall folio, contents loose as issued in same binding. Both volumes with external wear and the portfolio joints splitting; fairly clean internally, occasional creasing. Utrecht: Oosthoek, 1908

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first edition of the seminal work on the domestic architecture of Dutch farms, and its place in rural life, with images of Dutch families, community members, and costume. Considered a masterpiece of cultural anthropology. Facsimiles are common (as is the German edition of 1908-09), but this original edition is quite rare.