Anthropology

Chicago: University of Chicago [0-226-13481-4] [1971]. (Hardcover) 350pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, charts, tables, indices. Ex library. (Anthropology, Morphology, Dental, Teeth).

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY - signed on the ffp "Paul Watkins, Winona Minn" (of the Watkins Products Company). xv [1] 329pp [1] 6 pages of Publisher's advertising. Bound in original maroon cloth, with gilt on spine still bright, binding and hinges tight. Some pages are uncut. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. ETHNOLOGY.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo, 6 x 9, xii + 480 pages. No dust jacket. Nominal edgewear (see image); else as issued with bright, clean interior

London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853 The first monograph to be published in the Ethnographical Library series conducted by Edwin Norris. xiv, 239pp. five lithographic plates in colour with tissues guards, two folding maps and two folding charts. Spine ends lightly rubbed otherwise very good throughout.

Ralph Houlbrooke - Death, Ritual and Bereavement - London, Routledge, 1989 - First Edition - Hardcover with dust jacket - 250 pp - 22x14 cmCondition: Perfect, as new.Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s. The book focuses on the death-bed, funerals, burials, mourning customs and the expression of grief. Seems to be the only first edition available worldwide.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.

Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta, 1554. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (22 cm); 45, [3] pages (last leaf blank). Title within woodcut architectural border. Historiated woodcut initials throughout. In half vellum over 17th- or 18th-century woodblock printed paste paper, titled in manuscript on spine. Lower board ruptured near corner, subsequently rebuilt. Some leaves toned brown. Early ownership inscriptions and later bibliographical notes on front free endpaper and on rear pastedown. References: Adams F-182; Olschki, Choix de livres anciens, VI, 5817 This essay extolling marriage is an early artifact of modern ethnography, in that it poses as a survey of marriage customs through history and around the world. In true humanist fashion, Fausto mines the ancient historians for most of his material. So we find out that in Lacedaemonia (or, Atlantis), men who refused to marry were forced to run naked through the forum in the dead of winter, and that in Assyria, husbands were bound by law to obey… Read More

A book about Siberian indigenous people the Ket. Wonderfully illustrated with photos made by the author. In the Russian language.
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Sankt Peterburg: A. F. Devrien, [1908]
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Binding: Half-cloth binding with original wrapper pasted on front cover.
Condition: Previous owner's signature on title page. Covers slightly worn along the edges. Pp. VII/VIII lose. Title leaf with some faded stain. Otherwise, clean and fresh copy.
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Pp. VIII + 182 with photo illustrations.
Size: 16, 4 x 22, 9 cm.
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Blending science, sociology, and personal experience, this book is an exploration into how hunger works. It is inscribed and autographed by the author.

This book relates the tale of a classic adventure in the wilds of Afghanistan. There is a former owner's name inside the cover.

New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First U.S. Edition / First Printing. Green cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Caracas, Venezuela: Ediciones de la Presidencia de La República / Editorial Arte, 1978. Limited, deluxe first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket and hardwood slipcase, limited to 20 Roman numeral numbered copies, copy number XVIII. Text by Carlos Gottberg in Spanish, with English translation at end of book. Published Caracas, Venezuela: Ediciones de la Presidencia de La República / Editorial Arte, 1978. Oblong folio, 12 1/4" x 10", unpaginated, illustrated with 232 black and white photographs of Thea Segall. Bound in blind embossed black leatherette, pictorial endpapers. "Thea Segall came to Venezuela to take pictures in the tropical light and ended up capturing the country's ancestral culture in images. The Romanian artist, who received the National Photography Award in 2003, understood the importance of preserving a memory for the Venezuelan nation." Near fine in near fine dust jacket and hardwood slipcase. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio. Numbered,… Read More

Antropologia y patologia comparadas de los negros esclavos traduccion por el profesor israel castellanos primera edicion habana cuba 1922.publicada en la coleccion cubana de libros y documentos ineditos o raros dirigida por fernando ortiz.libro muy raro.con interesantes estudios sobre la antropologia y la patologia

Doyle, A. Conan. The Land of Mist. 1926, Hodder & Stoughon/ George H. Doran 1st US Edition. A PROFESSOR CHALLENGER ADVENTURE. RARE. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Apple green cloth boards with large black titling on front board and spine. Bright pages. 285 pages with appendix. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.

Caldwell, Erskine. A BANNED BOOK. GOD'S LITTLE ACRE. Copyright 1933, #51 Viking Press Modern Library Edition. Used. Very Good/ Very Good UNCLIPPED Original publisher's $1.65 Dust jacket. RARE THUS. Summary: a 20th century American story about a disfunctional farming family in Georgia, obsessed with sex and wealth. Controversial sexual themes caused this book to be banned in New York and Boston. Our copy does not include the Greenspan Judgement statement on obscenity. 5 X 7 1/4. 303 pages plus adverts. This book was made into a film by the same name in 1958 starring Robert Ryan.

2 volumes. viii+[folding map]+264 pages with color frontispiece and 114 color plates. viii+266 pages with frontispiece color map, 312 color plates, maps and appendices. Quarto (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black to spine and cover with gilt hed page ends. (Howes C241. Lipperheide 1618. Pilling 689. Streeter Sale 4277. Field 260. Wagner-Camp 84:4) First edition to have the plates printed in color. First published in 1841.
George Catlin was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American Frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D.… Read More