Objets interdits.
Contributors: Dapper, Olfert, 1639-1689.; Fondation Dapper.
Series: Publication ;; no 9; Publication (Musée Dapper (Paris, France)) ;; no 9.
Publisher: Fondation Dapper
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Sculpture, West African -- Exhibitions.; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Accompagné d'une exposition Objets interdits présentée du 23 novembre au 7 avril 1990 au musée Dapper."--Verso of t.p.
Includes reprint (p. [91]-357) of preliminary pages, chapters 1, 4, 7, and table of contents of Description de l'Afrique / O. Dapper. Amsterdam : Chez Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom et van Someren, 1686.
Table of contents: title: De la curiosité à l'art / Laurence Husson; title: De l'indicible à l'œuvre / Cristiane Falgayrettes; title: Du Loango / Phyllis M. Martin; title: Olfert Dapper et sa description de l'Afrique / Adam Jones; title: Description de l'Afrique / O. Dapper.