Dreißig Jahre in der Südsee
Stuttgart: Strecker & Schröder, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxii, 876 (4)pp. Original color photo-illustrated gray cloth with white lettering on cover and spine. Decorative endpapers. This pre World War I German ethnographic report is considered the masterwork of the Danish explorer and anthropologist on land, people, and customs of the Bismarck-Archipelago and the German Solomon Islands. Profusely illustrated with 56 full-page b/w photographs, 4 maps, and 141 in-text photographs and drawings. Contains chapters on languages as well as cultivated plants, domesticated and wild animals, secret societies, and legends and fairy tails. Binding rubbed, minor soiling on cover and spine, and small cracks at hinges. Blind stamp of Library of Norman Hurst on half-title. Small newspaper clip on German surrender after WWI glued to first map, not affecting information on map. Brief notes relating to longitudes penciled into margins of maps. Some age toning to back block, particularly at back of photographic plates. Binding in good+, interior in good+ to very good condition. vg. Item #34863
Price: $200.00