TITLE: Himalaya
AUTHOR: Nicholas Roerich
PUBLISHER: Brentanos
PLACE: New York
YEAR: 1926
BINDING: Publishers brown gilt-lettered, decorated cloth cover neatly rebacked, decorated endpapers along with contemporary slip case
EDITION: First, limited, 203 of 500 numbered copies
NO.OF PAGES: 210 pages with 22 tipped in color plates (2 color plates missing, supplied in facsimile) and 76 monotone plates (2 plates missing, supplied in facsimile), including essays by writer Georgy Grebenshchikov, a critic of Ivan Narodniy, very important for understanding his work, as well as articles by Francis R Grant and Mary Zigrist, and "Banners of the East" by Nicholas Roerich
NOTE:
Missing pages 117-18, 121-22 and 183-84. Plates on these pages have been replaced with color copy of the same
SIZE:
Height: 15.2 in (38 cm)
Width: 12 in (30.5 cm)
Celebrated Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, philosopher and mystic Roerich settled with his family in the Kullu Valley in India in 1929. The mansion on the estate became the home to the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute that the Roerichs founded in 1928. This opulent volume pulls together excerpts from a diary kept during his often treacherous travels through the Himalayas and reproductions of many of his best known works including his "Banners of the East" series of nineteen paintings devoted to the world's greatest religious teachers including Buddha, Confucius, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. Many of these pictures are now in the Roerich Museum in New York City.
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