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16 mo. (6 3/8 X 4 1/8 inches) Baltimore: Phillips and Fardon, 1806. 45 page disbound pamphlet; stab holes with original sewing, lacks frontis. Original in good condition.

Includes the remarks of Little Turtle on the adverse affects of alcohol on his "Red Brethren."

Small quarto (10 by 6 3/4 inches) 291 pages illustrated with black and white photos, drawings, and diagrams. Stiff card cover wrappers, good condition, with mild shelf wear to top of spine, not affecting contents.

The illustrations represent, among other descriptions, the food, housing, clothing, fishing, and ways of life of a small population living on an atoll in the South Pacific. The author was a "... Maori anthropologist, physician, and politician who made major contributions to Maori public health and became one of the world's leading Polynesian studies scholars."

Small quarto (9 1/4 X 6 1/4 inches) Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 1937. Second Printing. 325 pages, 33 full page illustrations (many in color) plus several illustrations in the text, red hardcover cloth stamped in gilt with title and author on the spine, plus Notes, and Bibliography.

Among the chapters covering regions of "The Far North," "The Forest Tribes," "The Gulf Region," "The Great Plains," "Mountain and Desert," "The Pueblo Dwellers," and the Pacific Coast," are sections that include studies on "The Eskimo World," "Sun-Worship," "Animal Stories," "Migration Legends," "Prophets and the Ghost-Dance," "The Navajo and their Gods," "Gods and Katcinas," "The California-Oregon Tribes," "Secret Societies . . . .," and "The Raven Cycle."

Very good condition.

Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches) Columbus, Ohio: Published by the Author, Printed by Scott and Wright, 1833 and 1829. First Edition of "A Description .... ". Hardcover: full early original leather. 408 pages, two separate titles bound together as one book, with consistent, and uniform pagination, illustrated by 10 engraved plates (6 are fold out; plate 8 is misnumbered), and 6 woodcuts, and an appendix. Good condition: original early full leather binding, showing minimal wear, with title "Western Antiquities" in gilt lettering on red leather label on spine. Some foxing, nominal staining to margins mostly to the last pages of second title - not affecting the text, which is readable and intact; old rubber stamp of previous owner's name on front fly leaf, same name in faint pencil below title on title page, faint pencil marks to last fly leaf, top edge stained blue.

An early study of the ethnology, and anthropology of the Ohio Valley. The plates reflect the author's focus on Indian mounds. Also included… Read More

Small Quarto (9 1/2 X 7 inches) London: Bernard Quaritch, 1890. First Edition. 101 + (1) pages, almost 50 lithographic plates (more than 35 printed with color), quarter leather binding over cloth boards, front cover embossed with title, author, and publisher in gilt; back cover similarly embossed in gilt with "Ye Pipes of all Nations A. D. Up to Date," and gilt bust of a soldier in cap and tunic in the form of a pipe bowl. Very good condition, minimal wear to spine; age toning in margins of plates, but not affecting images or contents.

A beautiful book: "A collection of national smoking practices and illustrations of smoking paraphernalia," with descriptive text.