VALUABLE PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEATH-MASKS
BENKARD, Ernst Das Ewige Antlitz Berlin: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, 1926
FIRST EDITION., 8vo, [viii], 9-44, [2]; [ii], 3-77, [3] pp. plus 123 pages of death masks
Front original stiff wrapper bound into cloth . Masks are on glossy paper, text is somewhat browned, A sampling of the plates include the death-masks of Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Paine, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Charlotte Wolter (the only female), Nietzche, Tolstoi, Shakespeare, Washington and Goethe.
$US100
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