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Marcokeris · 3rd December 2006, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Dajak

Hi Marcokeris can you tel me the writer from the book and what name the book have

Ben

Hi Ben
the author is P. Holstein (a french collector)
The name of book is "Contribution a l'etude des armes orientales" edit in Paris in 1931 (french language!)
This work is divided in two big books:
the first is about description of oriental white weapons (india and indonesia),
the second is about author collection (extraordinary!) and all books are many plates
Even if it was edit in 1931 the quality of plates is really very good.
The book is rather rare (mybe is still possible to find a copy in ebay at good price).

VVV · 3rd December 2006, 08:29 PM

Thanks Marcokeris for sharing these nice illustrations.
I somehow didn't see them last time I read the books.
Pierre Holstein's classical books are extremely expensive but fortunately they have them in one of the museum libraries here.
The text of the pages I read was only descriptions of the featured weapons, not cultural background etc. But the weapons in his books are all great.

I noticed that all of the illustrations on the these two pages were familiar.
It seems as if he has "ripped" most of the illustrations from Tromp and Hein's works?

Michael

3rd December 2006, 08:29 PM	#2
VVV Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,637	Thanks Marcokeris for sharing these nice illustrations. I somehow didn't see them last time I read the books. Pierre Holstein's classical books are extremely expensive but fortunately they have them in one of the museum libraries here. The text of the pages I read was only descriptions of the featured weapons, not cultural background etc. But the weapons in his books are all great. I noticed that all of the illustrations on the these two pages were familiar. It seems as if he has "ripped" most of the illustrations from Tromp and Hein's works? Michael