Mar 09, 2023 - Sale 2629

Sale 2629 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

COVER BY ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)

LETEM CESKYM SVETEM / [A FLIGHT OVER THE CZECH WORLD]. Two bound volumes. 1898.


11x14 1/4 inches, 28x36 1/4 cm. Jos. Pfeiffer, Prague.
Condition A. Minor wear to covers.

This is the two-volume first edition of this massive photographic project, with over 500 views from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia. The second edition, from 1898, includes the changes in the "Czech world," and is bound in gray cloth with a printed title. Arco p. 353.