Aug 05, 2021 - Sale 2577

Sale 2577 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

COVER BY ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

LETEM CESKYM SVETEM / [A FLIGHT OVER THE CZECH WORLD.] Book. 1898.


11x14 1/4 inches, 28x36 1/4 cm. Jos. Pfeiffer, Prague.
Condition A-: minor abrasions to covers; minor foxing on verso; pages clean. In original Mucha binding.

This is the first edition of this massive photographic project, with over 500 views from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia. The second edition, from 1998, includes the changes in the "Czech world," and is bound in grey cloth with a printed title.