FORMAN, WERNER., RUDOLF MRAZEK, AND BEDRICH FORMAN.
Coloured photographic illustrations throughout, 129pp, notes, bibliography, index. Edges and dustjacket lighltly browned, very good hardback copy. 31 x 23.5cm. Drawing on the vast and fascinating literature on Bali, from ancient texts to most recent researches, as well as on his own considerable experience of the country, Rudolf Mrazek shows that religion has always been implicated in every moment of the Balinese peasant's existence. Bedrich Forman's chapter shows how Balinese collaboration with nature has resulted in works of art uniquely combining function and beauty. And Werner Forman's beautiful photographs are themselves visual statements of the harmony in which the Balinese live with one another, their land, and their gods. (publisher's description)
Second corrected edition. Three volumes, two text volumes 29.4 x 23 cms and a folio atlas 57 x 44 cms, the text volumes lacking the frontispieces, but otherwise complete with 27 engravings (one of the Camellia Sasanqua full-page): [iii]-xxxiv, 518 pages and [iii]-xx, 626 pages (including two Appendices), the folio atlas complete with 44 maps and full-page plates, (including one folding Chart and 6 double-page maps); the text volumes in contemporary gilt-ruled calf (a little scuffed), re-backed, the folio in modern half calf, the hinges of each volume strengthened with olive binders' tape, a few leaves in the text volumes a little age-toned, but otherwise in very good, clean condition, three plates in the text volumes rather spotted and 6 of the charts with a marginal tide-mark, three with a neat paper repair to the verso (not affecting the image), but otherwiise in very good, clean condition, with the armorial bookplate of soldier and Whig politician General Campbell of Lochnell (1763-1837) on the marbled pastedowns of each volume. Löwendahl 697 (first edition); Lust 545 (first edition) and 547 (atlas) A very good copy of the second edition.
