EUROPEAN VISION AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1768-1850. A study in the history of art and ideas.
Pp. xx+288(last blank)+60 pages of plates at end, bibliography & graphic sources, index; tall cr. 4to; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards faintly scuffed and with a couple of small edge bruises; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn; foxed on flaps and reverse, edges rubbed and chipped, the backstrip slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960. First edition. *With the author's presentation inscription to Dr. & Mrs. H. V. Evatt, May 1960, on the upper free endpaper: 'a small token of my very real appreciation of the magnificent part you have together played in preserving our traditional rights and liberties, and the elementary human decencies in our country during some of its most difficult years'. Loosely inserted is a TLs from Smith to Mrs. Evatt, dated 20th Oct, 1950. Australian politician and judge Herbert Vere ('Doc') Evatt (1894-1965) 'contributed significantly to Australian cultural life, especially in the 1930s. A discerning and influential patron of modern art, he supported the Contemporary Art Society and collected extensively - he and his wife may have been the first Australians to own a Modigliani' [Australian Dictionary of Biography]. Item #182279
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