XRARE BOOK 1931 A. V. NOVAK TAHITI RAJSKE OSTROVY w/ LUCIAN GAUTHIER PHOTOGRAPHS

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X RARE BOOK Dated 1931 BY A. V. NOVAK TAHITI RAJSKE OSTROVY Also With LUCIAN GAUTHIER PHOTOGRAPHS / HARD BOOK BLUE LINEN WITH TITLE GOLD HOT STAMPED & EMBOSSED ON FRONT AND SPINE / BOOK MEASURES 9 x 6.5 INCHES / 199 PAGINATED PAGES PLUS MAP CHART / NO RIPS OR TEARS / NO PREVIOUS OWNERS / BOOK FROM BONHAMS AUCTION HOUSE MANY YEARS AGO COMES WITH ORIGINAL AUCTION TAGS / COMPLETE AND BOUND TIGHT / SHIPS USPS PRIORITY CLASS MAIL / INTERNATIONAL SHIPS FLAT RATE.
Czechoslovakia Author: Archibald Václav Novak
Traveller and writer Archibald Václav Novák engaged in a wealth of lecturing and literary activity in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s, with a focus on non-European countries. He drew on his own experiences from his time in the US and Tahiti in 1919-1921 and from his travels around south and south-eastern Asia, China and Japan in 1926-1927. Novák accompanied his lectures in a way that was common at the time – by projecting hand-coloured glass slides. In 2011 868 of them entered the collection of the National Museum as a gift, together with 520 negatives that were used to make them and 12 original negatives from his travels. The existence of source negatives means that in the case of a number of slides it is possible to tell whether and from where they were taken. Using information from Novák’s work and from other sources, we can then reconstruct the collections that were used for various lectures and establish how complete they are.