[EASTER ISLAND] L’Ile de Pâques et ses mystères. (Original prospectus)

Paris : Editions Tel, 1935. Bifolium, 270 x 135 mm, [4] pp, text in French printed on all sides, with 3 photographic illustrations of an archaic wooden statue in profile and a stone statue (front and rear views) both in the collection of the British Museum; front with ‘Septembre’ crossed out and wet stamped ‘Octobre’ (the rescheduled release date), contemporary wet stamps of Parisian bookseller Denise Verte, some very light creases and a few light marks to front, but a good copy of this very rare prospectus to Chauvet’s landmark work on the discovery and culture of Rapa Nui.