London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, [4], 529, [1]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Color frontispiece. Scarce anthropological study on the Melanesians of the South-East Solomon Islands exquisitely illustrated throughout with 3 color and 18 half-tone plates and numerous..... More
Cape Town: D. Philip, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Oblong. 96pp. Illustrated orange cloth in original dj. Corners bumped and rubbed. Two bumps with wear to upper edge of front cover. Some creasing and chipping to dj. Head and tail of spine on dj repaired with tape. Tears and wear..... More
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1859. Early printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxv, (1), (39)-345, (1)pp. Blind & gilt stamped pictorial red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Illustrated with eight hand colored woodcut plates. New Edition Improved and Enlarged. The first edition was published in 1843 by Nafis and Cornish with..... More
Wellington: National Museum of New Zealand, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 66pp. Original illustrated boards with brown lettering on cover and spine. "Traditional materiel culture in both Western and Eastern (American) Samoa has been described in minute detail by Buck (1930).... The primary aim of my project was to describe..... More
Jerusalem: Hebrew University Department of the History of the Jewish People, 1986. First edition. Softcover. "To Walter and Esther with best wishes, Bezalel Porten" on front free endpaper. Folio. ix, 143pp. Original illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Texts and studies for students. Newly copied, edited and..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xx, 306pp. xxxii plates. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph. Title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Anthropological study on the Asur, primitive and most ancient ethnic groups in the state of Jharkhand known..... More
Santa Fe: Published by the Passenger Department, 1901. Thirty-Seventh Thousand. Softcover. Sm. 8vo. 58pp. Illustrated wrappers. "With the signature of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of The American Indians in Pasadena, California'. "A popular account of that unparalleled dramatic pagan ceremony of..... More
New York: American Museum Press, 1924. Softcover. 8vo. 35pp. Gray wrappers. Some discoloration, creasing and chipping to wrappers. Small pieces of backstrip on head and tail of spine missing. "With the signature of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of The American Indians..... More
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1965. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 357pp., 100 plates. Original gray wrappers with publisher's logo and black lettering on cover and spine. First part of inquiry covering household appliances made from materials other than clay, stone and iron based on Sumerian and Akkadian sources. Profusely illustrated with distinctive..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Quarto. xv (i), 110pp. Original orange cloth with black lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, green lettering on spine. Green endpapers. "This study, by a leading authority in the field of Egyptology, probes the intricate system of pharaonic theology, identifying the..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxvi, 394pp. Index. Dark over light blue boards, lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. Ten years after the creation of the state of Israel, David Ben Gurion wrote to 50 of the best thinkers and researchers in the world asking "Who..... More
London: Religious Tract Society, 1902. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, 312pp. Original illustrated blue cloth with white and black lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard and six additional illustrations. Contains sketches of travels and labours in New Guinea during the years 1878 to 1886 and covers preparations..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. xvi, 360pp. Original illustrated red dust jacket with black and white lettering on covers, red lettering on white spine. Plum colored cloth boards with debossed gilt stamped motif on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. End papers illustrated with a...... More
Rio de Janeiro: Livroarte Editora, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 209 (4)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth with embossed illustration on cover, black lettering on spine. Comprehensive documentation of Brazilian folklore festivals with texts by Cascia Frade, Domingos Vieira Filho, Lena Frias, Maria de Lourdes Borges Ribeiro, Paul Lody..... More
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 384 (1)pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph. Study of the Waropen tribe, the only coastal tribe in Northern New Guinea which at that time still remained pagan, under the instructions of the Netherlands..... More
Globe, Arizona: Privately printed for The Medaillion, 1930. First edition. Softcover. pp. 163-201. Tan wrappers with the signature of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of The American Indians in Pasadena, California. Some discoloration, creasing and minor chipping to wraps. Frontispiece. "The present..... More
London: Privately Printed for Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd., 1952. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large octavo (8), 319, (1)pp. Index. Black dust jacket, spine lettered in red, over red cloth with gilt lettered spine. Title printed in red & black. Dust jacket has minor rubbing, plus two small closed tears and..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1934. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. vi (1 fold-out map), 94pp. Original blue wrappers with black lettering on cover. Ibero-Americana 5, issued January 12, 1934. "The Map... published is a reconstruction from primary sources of language and tribal areas as they existed in aboriginal northwestern..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxviii, 221pp., 4 color plates, lxxiv b/w plates. Original black cloth with gilt lettering ruling and publisher's device on spine, in original dustjacket with color illustration on paper plate glued to cover, blue lettering on spine. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. "This..... More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1968. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 193 pp. Original beige wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 232. Anthropological study of Fijian life and customs. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps. Binding with coffee stain on back cover visible through back..... More
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. xxix, 428pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. Reprinted by the Columbia Planograph Company. "The earliest method by which, so far as we know, proprietary rights were recorded in the East was by..... More
London: MacMillan and Co., 1865. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii. 636pp. Decorated gilt embossed brown cloth. Frontispiece with bookmark and signature of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of the American Indians in Pasadena, CA. Illustrated with b/w annotated in text drawings. Head..... More
Paris: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 1998. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 237pp. Original illustrated wrappers. A shortened version of João Rodrigues' biography who was a Portuguese member of the Society of Jesus and a missionary in Japan. He wrote several books such as "Vocabulario da Lingoa de Lapam" and "Arte de Lingoa..... More
Holon, Israel: Privately Printed, 1975. Softcover. 8vo. 82 pp. Deborah Bertonoff 's Studio and Dance Research Institute. Text printed only on single side of pages. Brown illustrated papers wraps. #1 1975/1976. With essays about travel in Ghana. Typewritten pages. With light wear, in very good condition. More
London: Macmillan, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 255pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece Photograph. Sociology and psychology of the Fijians, the meeting-place of the Polynesian and Melanesian races. Comprehensive study of the make-up of Fijian society including means of communication and cannibalism. Illustrated with 10 b/w..... More