Hielscher, Kurt

Das Unbekannte Spanien [Unknown Spain]

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1925. Folio, 12 x 9 1/4 inches (204 x 233 mm); xxiv, 304 pp. Photogravure illustrations throughout with captions in English, German, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Bound in brown cloth with gilt title and decorations on front and spine, brown endpapers. Grey paper dust jacket with rotogravure image pasted in printed frame. DJ split and fragile especially spine panel. Small stain at bottom of front cover, pages clean and bright, binding square.

The German photographer K. Hielscher (1881-1948) traveled to Spain in 1914-1918. There he took more than 45,000 photographs, the best of which he published in this travel photo book.
From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 – 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago 1952 – 1965.

Condition: Near fine / Fair.

Item number: 1074

Price: $200.00

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