Max Ernst. Histoire Naturelle. 1960 Fournier printing.

Max Ernst. Histoire Naturelle. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1960. Small oblong 12mo (14 × 11 cm). Unpaginated, ca. 80 pp. Spiral binding with printed orange wrappers. Illustrated throughout with Max Ernst’s frottage plates, each titled below in French. Introduction by Hans Arp. Printed by Henri Fournier, Paris, completed 28 February 1960. A later edition of Ernst’s famous Histoire Naturelle, originally published in 1926, one of the seminal Surrealist works employing frottage to produce suggestive, dreamlike imagery. Bookplate of Dr. Ernest Krivanec to inside front cover. Very nicely preserved. Inv. I1