Skilled Handiwork of the Maori -- Being the Oldman Collection of Maori Artifacts Illustrated and Described' ... edited by C R H Taylor by W O Oldman - 1946

The Polynesian Society Wellington 1946. Super octavo, illus light card covers with brown lettering to spine & front cover, 41pp, illus, VG+ (soiling to covers)

Issued monthly by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London SW. No. 123, Vol. X. London: 1913 Wrpps, 8vo. 2pp. and 2 mounted photographs. Ecuador and Asiatic musical instruments, 12 pieces. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ]

Thomas Avery & Sons 1938. First edition, scarce, imperial octavo, green light card covers with black lettering to front cover, handwritten title to spine, 41pp + 97pp of b&w plates. Scruffy tatty copy but contents sound.VG- (heavy foxing to covers, handwritten title to spine, archival tape repairs to spine extrems, owner's name in black ink to front cover, staining & creasing to covers, some foxing & tanning to page edges, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, three owners' names/stamps in ink to fep,owner's name in ink to rear ep, some creasing to page corners, light foxing)

Wellington: The Polynesian Society, 1946. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 41 text pages, 98 b/w plates. Old name on front cover, slight foxing on some pages, otherwise very good. Description of the biggest ever private collection of Maori artefacts..

Being the Oldman Collection of Maori Artifacts Illustrated and Described. Second Edition. Wellington, Polynesian Society Memoirs Volume 14, 1946 Wrpps, Roy.8vo. ii,41pp. 98 plates, index. Some light scattered foxing, a very nice copy of the second edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[L]

Wellington: The Polynesian Society, 1946. Octavo, 98 plates with descriptive text, bound in recent blue cloth retaining original printed wrappers, fine copy. Second edition. 'Mr. W.O. Oldman of London was for many years a dealer in curios and artefacts fabricated by primitive peoples, and ended by becoming a connoisseur of such matters, with an extremely fine private collection selected from all that passed through his hands. It probably surpasses almost any other collection in quality, if not extent, and the Council of the Polynesian Society, recognizing this, set out to record a large group from the two series...' (Preface). .

New Plymouth: Polynesian Society, 1943. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 86 pages, 136 b/w plates. Spine a little darkened. Covers slightly soiled. Rare first edition of this unique documentation of the greatest private collection of Polynesian artefacts ever..

1976. Soft covers 21 x 14.5cms. 1976 reprint of the compilation of Oldman catalogues. From an edition limited to 1000 copies, of which this is number 604.