Elephants and Ethnologists
by Smith, C. Elliot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd. 1924. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Some age toning to covers and mild offset to free endpapers. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Black & white woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton. Also includes several black & white drawings and a small map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. viii, 135 pages. The author was a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory, in which cultural innovations are spread throughout various civilizations from one source. In this book he explores the potential Asian influences on early South and Central American culture. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB314003
- Title
- Elephants and Ethnologists
- Author
- Smith, C. Elliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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