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KARL BLOSSFELDT
La Plante. Paris: by Ganymed of Berlin for A. Calavas [c.1928].
Quarto (312 x 244mm). 120 black and white photographs. (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Original green cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (scattered spotting on the endpapers, dust-jacket extremities expertly repaired, dampspots on the spine and some soiling on the rear panel).
FIRST EDITION, FRENCH ISSUE, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. Blossfeldt's masterpiece, highlighting the relationship between nature and art, is 'one of the most striking books in photographic history, as well as one of the most popular' (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.48-9; Fotografia Publica, p.59; The Open Book, pp.66-7; The Photobook, vol. I, p.96 ('striking and beguiling').
