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Ceylon and Indochina
The Landscape / Architecture / Life Of The People

A very beautiful photographic record of full page photographs (in high quality photo gravure technique)
featuring topography, remarkable sites, culture, arts and people of Southern Asia.
Particularly arresting photos of religious art and architecture.

This precious book was not affordable by too many people at that time.
And there is no other book of that time which comes close to the printing quality of that title.

As photographed by the famous photographer Martin Hurlimann

Photographs titled in English, German, French and Italian.

From the series "Orbis Terrarum", a series of early photobooks portraying the regions of the world.

from 1st edition with only 12,000 copies.

 

Hardcover

  • 328 pages
  • 2 maps (Ceylon and Indochina)
  • 4 floor plans
  • 288 rotogravure photos
  • gilt lettering and decoration

In good exterior and very good interior condition
Minor shelfwear along edges, spine lightly faded, top edge dusty, otherwise ok.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 12-1/4" x 9-1/2"  ~3.8 lbs.

Published by Atlantis Berlin / Zurich
in 1929










Inhaltsverzeichnis (table of contents) [excerpt]:

Ceylon [Sri Lanka] (Negombo, Galle, Colombo, Tissamaharama, Kandy, Adam's Peak, Diyaluma waterfall, Sigiriya, Polonnaruwa, Thuparama-Wihara, Jetawanarama, Anuradhapura, Issurumuniya, Mihintale Rock) - Burma [Myanmar] (Rangoon, Prome, Mandalay, Amarapura, Ava, Monywa, Sagaing, Irrawaddy, Pagan, Myinpagan, Kalaw, Namtok, Yawnghwe, Bailu river, Pekong, Lake Inle, Pinlaung, Konzi) - Siam [Thailand] (Chiengmai, Lampun, Lampang Luang, Upper Siam, Sawankaloke, Menam river, Ayuthia, Nakon Patom, Bangkok) - Cambodia (Pnompenh, Banteai Chmar, Angkor, Angkor-Thom, Sras Srang Lake) - Annam and Tongking, Champa [Vietnam] (Po-Nagar, Quinhon, Cha-ban, Annam, Dong-duong, Mison, Tourane, Marble hills, Hue, Hanoi, Along Bay, Black River, Upper Tonquin, Hoa-Binh, Cho-bo) - Yunnan [China] (Yunnan-fu, sacred Sischan mountain, Lake of Yunnan-fu) .... and many others


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