Milan: Tipografia Editrice Lombarda, 1879. Hardcover. Folio. 395, 450pp. Rebound in three-quarter burgundy leather over black pebbled leather with gilt lettering on spines; raised bands. Title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Frontispiece map in color and engraved portrait. Decorative and historiated headpieces, decorative endpieces and initials..... More
London: Society of Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii. 642pp. Decorated purple cloth and gilt decorated spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and worn. Some wear to edges. Spine sunned. Sporadic staining and minor foxing not affecting text. "With the bookplate of Bruce Bryan..... More
Melbourne: Colorgravure Publication (The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd.), 1957. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 200 pp. Tan cloth binding in slipcase. Red top edge. Head of spine slightly bumped. Title on spine on leather strip laid in, lightly worn. Decorated endpapers. Frontis. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color annotated..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Hardcover. Lg. 4to. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on cover. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Corners bumped and worn. Some discoloration and rubbing to boards. Free front endpaper and half-title page missing. Foxing throughout. An interesting geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiii; 537pp. Decorated dark blue cloth with gilt. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Bottom edge shelf worn, top edge slightly rubbed and the corners are worn. Previous owner's book plate on inside front cover and is also written..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1872. Hardcover. Decorative stamped green cloth binding. 548 pp. Eight color chromolithographs and 243 wood engravings. 19th century discussion of the "races" of man. Quarto. Age-worn, but still in good condition. More
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1971. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. VII, [1], 432, [8]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. This anthropological monograph is the result of field work carried out by the author as a member of the Franco-Belgian Expedition to Easter Island (1934-1935). It is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous in-text drawings..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 632, [2], 287, [3]pp. Original illustrated dust-jackets over turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spines. Half-title of first volume inscribed and signed by Robert L. Welsch. Photo-illustrated title pages. This two-volume work, based around the field diaries and..... More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1936. Ex-Library. Softcover. Quarto. 239 [11] pp. Original brown wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138. Bishop Museum's survey of Polynesia features the little know island of Futuna. Consists primarily of detailed ethnographic materials on all phases of the culture..... More
Wien: Springer-Verlag, 1948. Softcover. Blue paper wrappers with paste-down title label on cover and spine. Many pages are unopened. 419 pp. Ninety-nine illustrations - mostly b&w photos. Fold-out map at rear. Quarto. Very good condition. More
Boston: The Academy, 1935. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 2 leaves, 53-134pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering and ruling on cover. Contains introduction with an overview of the work published on the subject, followed by the following sections: A General Survey, a Summary of the Principal Data, a chapter on..... More
Brooklyn, N.Y. The Brooklyn Museum, 1974. Hardcover. Inscribed "To Susan and Michael with best wishes Harry James 9-IV-89" on front free endpaper. Quarto. xxiv, (1) 215pp. + 89 plates, incl. frontispiece (photo by Scott Hyde). Original gray cloth with gilt-blue Brooklyn Institute emblem on cover, gilt-framed gilt lettering on blue..... More
Albany: weed, Parsons & Co., 1850. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 175pp. Original salmon wrappers with black lettering on cover and black, handwritten lettering on spine. Detailed report on zoological, botanical, mineralogical and geological, and historical and antiquarian collections. list of papers accompanying the report. The catalog of additions to the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 273-292pp., four plates. Original printed tan wraps with publisher's device on cover. From Journal of Genetics, Vol. 1. No. 3, September 8, 1911. "The racial position of the Jew has engaged the attention of all modern ethnologists. The problem is extremely..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). xxvi, 565, [3]pp. Original green cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. During the last two decades, the number of anthropologists conducting research in the Middle East has increased considerably. Together they have produced an..... More
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901. Ex-Library First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 342pp., 16 plates, 2 folding maps. Bound in light brown three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling on cover, gilt-stamped vignette, lettering and ruling on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. "The Queen of..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. x, 221pp. Original black cloth with blind-stamped emblem on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. " With this volume the publication of the Zenon documents in the Columbia University collection is completed, with the exception..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. LXXIV, 606 pp. Gilt-stamped olive cloth and spine. Magnificently illustrated with 200 b/w figures and 44 b/w and color plates, 2 of which are color lithographs (which are truly remarkable, strikingly bright colored facsimiles of Yucatan artwork) including maps, drawings..... More
Salem, Mass. George A. Bates, 1881. Hardcover. Octavo. vi,[1],560,[3]pp. Original gold-stamped olive cloth. Beveled edges. Authoritative work on American Indian handicraft such as weapons, tools, ceremonial objects, pipes, pottery, etc. Profusely illustrated with in-text reproductions of b/w drawings. Age wear and staining on binding. Gold emblem on front cover faded..... More
Oxford: Printed for the Griffith Institute at the University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xv, 44pp., 25 plates. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "The history of the group of papyri to which the texts published in this volume belong has been recounted so fully by Sir..... More
Albany: J. Munsell, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. 489pp. Red cloth, black and gold embossed decoration on front and spine. Full title expressed as "The Indian Miscellany; Containing Papers on the History, Antiquities, Arts, Languages, Religions, Traditions, and Superstitions of The American Aborigines; with Descriptions of Their Domestic Life..... More
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (6) 227–493pp., 83 photographic plates. Original gray wraps with black lettering and publisher's device on cover, black lettering on spine. Frontispiece map. Publisher's device on title page. Anthropological Series Vol. XIV, No. 2. In-depth account of the social, religious..... More
Madras: J. Higginbotham, 1862. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxxii, 410, v (i)pp. Original brown cloth. Full page advertisement of publisher on inside front cover, with lithograph of publishing house in blue on inside front cover. Frontispiece original portrait photograph with arched top pasted into black border, with facsimile of handwritten..... More
Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2). 3 volumes (complete). xx, 386, (2); (4), 412; (4), 386, (4)pp. Index. Original marbled paper covered boards (rubbed), rebacked with black binders tape, with hand lettered titles in white on spines. Vol. I illustrated with 58..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. Fifth printing, revised. Hardcover. Quarto. xviii, 421pp., folding map of the Nile Valley; xv, 526pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spines, in illustrated dustjackets, pink and white lettering on spine. Frontispieces. A background for the study of the Egyptian antiquities..... More