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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN REPRESENTATIONS OF TURTLES

By Fischer, Henry G

New York: Met. Museum of Art, [ 1968 ]. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Softcover. Very good+/No jacket issued. New York: Met. Museum of Art, [ 1968 ]. First edition, limited to 500 copies. One color plate and numerous b/w photos and line drawings. 34, [ 20 plts ] pp. Softcover. Large 4to. Beige stiff wrappers. A very tight, clean copy. Very good+/No jacket issued.

[HABITS AND OPINIONS OF THE SAVAGES IN AMERICA] GITTEN UND MEINUNGEN DER WILDEN IN AMERIKA, VOL 1 ONLY (OF 4)

By Purmann, Johann Georg

Wein: Schrambl, 1790. Hardcover. Good+/No jacket issued. Wein: Schrambl, 1790. 11 of 12 folding copperplate engravings. Text in German. Hardcover. 12mo. Full brown calf. Gilt tooled compartments with decorative gilt devices and contrasting leather lettering label laid on to spine; general wear to covers, with some loss to head; decorative endpapers; light scattered foxing. Good+/No jacket issued.

PREHISTORIC POTTERY AND CIVILIZATION IN EGYPT

By Raphael, Max

(Washington, D.C.): Pantheon Books, 1947. Hardcover. Very good-/No dust jacket. Bollingen Series VIII. (Washington, D.C.): Pantheon Books, 1947. Translation by Norbert Guterman. Numerous b/w examples. 160+ plates pp. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Extremities lightly to moderately bumped and rubbed; bottom edge slightly worn. Pressure points worn; corners splayed. Spine slightly cocked. Boards lightly surface scuffed with few, mild scattered stains. Edges and pages yellowed with light scattered foxing extending only along page edges. Else, interior bright, binding tight. Very good-/No dust jacket.

PLEASURE OF LOVE: AN EROTIC GUIDE TO THE SENSES

By Nash, Elizabeth and Richard Fox

( London ): Pavilion, (1995 ). Hardcover. Very good+/Very good+. ( London ): Pavilion, (1995 ). Copious full color illustrations. 192 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange paper covered boards. A nice copy in like dustjacket. Very good+/Very good+.

GARDENS OF WAR, LIFE AND DEATH IN THE NEW GUINEA STONE AGE

By Gardner, Robert and Karl G. Heider

New York: Random House, [ 1968 ]. First edition. Hardcover. Very good+/Very good+. New York: Random House, [ 1968 ]. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Gardner, with an ANS also by Gardner. Numerous b/w and some color photographs. 184 pp. Hardcover. 4to. Beige cloth. A very good, clean, tight copy in a very good+ dust wrapper Very good+/Very good+.

MONTAGNARDS OF SOUTH VIETNAM, THE

By Mole, Robert L

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very good+/Very good+. A Study of Nine Tribes. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1970. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. 277 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Lightly bumped to head & heel; signed by previous owner (same as addressee in author inscription) to front pastedown; else, no other noticeable damage or flaws; interior tight, clean and bright. Very lightly bumped and worn to dustjacket edges. A very nice copy. Very good+/Very good+.

ETHNOLOGY OF EASTER ISLAND

By Metraux, Alfred

Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press, 1971. Reprint of First Edition. Softcover. Very good+/No jacket issued. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press, 1971. Reprint of First Edition. Numerous b/w illustrations. 432 pp. Softcover. 8vo. White paper wrappers. Pages lightly toned; a nice copy. Very good+/No jacket issued.

POLYNESIAN REMINISCENCES; OR, LIFE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS

By Pritchard, W. T

London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. First edition. Illustrated with four tinted lithographs. xii, 428 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Black recent 3/4 polished morocco over cloth. Some notes in colored pencil on rear fly, else very good. Very good/No jacket issued.

IROQUOIS CRAFTS

By Lyford, Carrie A.

Np: United States Indian Service(1945), (1945). Softcover. Very good.

BASKETRY DESIGNS OF THE MISSION INDIANS

By Kroeber, A. L.

NY: American Museum of Natural History, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Very good.

NAVAJO NATIVE DYES: THEIR PREPARATION AND USE

By Young, Stella

Np: Education Division, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, 1940. Softcover. Very good+. Charles Keetsie Shirley, Navajo.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SALVAGE EXCAVATIONS AT THE TIBBEE CREEK SITE (22Lo600) LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

By OÕHear, John W., Clark Larsen, et al

Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State U., 1981. Softcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State U., 1981. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. 251 pp. Softcover. 4to size. Beige paper wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn; name inked out on front free endpaper, else vg Very good/No dust jacket.

WITCHES OF ANDILAMENA AND OTHER ESSAYS

By Linton, Ralph

Hartford, CT: Dominic Arbitrio in the Dept. of Graphic Arts Yale University, 1957. Hardcover. Very good+/Poor. Hartford, CT: Dominic Arbitrio in the Dept. of Graphic Arts Yale University, 1957. Signed by printer. 48 pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Beige paper covered boards. A very good, clean, square copy with a little sun-fading to spine and back board. Very good+/Poor. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply)

SEA DYAKS AND OTHER RACES OF SARAWAK

By No author given

Contributions to the Sarawak Gazette between 1888 and 1930. (Malaysia): Borneo Literature Bureau, (1973). Foreword by Anthony Richards. 378 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo size. Blue paper covered boards. Head, heel and corners mildly to moderately bumped. Spine lightly shaken. Boards mildly rubbed. Edges and endpapers uniformly yellowed with light scattered foxing and staining extending only to front and end matter. Interior clean, tight and bright. Dj is lightly edge rubbed, pressure point worn, and spine quite sunned with small chip and tear at top front corner. Very good-/Very good-.

DECIPHERING THE MAYA SCRIPT

By Kelley, David Humiston

Austin, TX & London: University of Texas Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very good-/No dust jacket. Austin, TX & London: University of Texas Press, (1976). Numerous b/w tables, maps and figures, some to fold-out. 334 pp. Hardcover. 4to size. Brown decorated cloth. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed. Few, very faint scattered stains on boards. Top edge lightly dust soiled and foxed. Edges and pages slightly yellowed. Interior still clean, tight and bright. Very good-/No dust jacket. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply)