Anthropology
96 items found
Thilenius, G. [C.] (ed.)
Ergebnisse der Südsee Expedition 1908-1910. II. Ethnographie: B. Mikronesien. Band 3. Palau. 4. Teilband: Abteilung VII: Geschichten und Gesänge. Abteilung VIII: Botanischer, zoologischer und Palauwörter-Index. Mit 6 Abbildungen im Text und 127 Zeichnungen von Eingeborenen.
Hamburg, Friedrichsen, De Gruyter, 1929. 4to (30.8 x 23.2 cm). xiv, 376 pp.; 127 illustrations. Original printed wrappers.
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Andree, R.
Abessinien, das Alpenland unter den Tropen und seine Grenzländer. Schilderungen von Land und Volk vornehmlich unter Koenig Theodoros (1855-1868) nach den Berichten älterer und neuerer Reisenden bearbeitet.
Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1869. 8vo (19.1 x 13.7 cm). x, 300 pp.; wood-engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece of King Theodoros with four lions; six engraved plates, 80 text illustrations (several page-sized). Original pictorial cloth. Spine with gilt title and pictorial vignettes; boards blind-stamped with floral borders, front board with large, gilt vignette. Endpapers with printed publisher's catalogue. Marbled edges.
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Darwin, C.
The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals. With Illustrations.
London, John Murray, 1872. [REPRINT Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation, 1969-1970]. 8vo (21.5 x 14.0 cm). vi, 374 pp.; 20 text illustrations, six photographic plates (two double-sized, folded). Full mock leather. Spine with gilt title.
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Thilenius, G. [C.] (ed.)
Ergebnisse der Südsee Expedition 1908-1910. II. Ethnographie: B. Mikronesien. Band 3: Palau. 5. Teilband (Schluss): Abteilung IX: Zierkunst und Kulturvergleich. Abteilung X: Baiverzeichnis.
Hamburg, Friedrichsen, De Gruyter, 1929. 4to (30.8 x 23.2 cm). 171 pp. (xiii, 156, [ii]); 20 text figures, 35 (20 double-sized) plates of which two in full colour. Original printed wrappers.
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Vouga, P.
La Tène. Monographie de la station publiée au nom de la commission des fouilles de la Tène (lac de Neuchâtel).
Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923. 4to (31.4 x 24.5 cm). 169 pp.; 50 plates, of which two larger, folded and one in duotone; one very large, coulored maps, and 12 text illustrations. Original decorated red cloth. Spine with gilt ornamental lines bands; front board with gilt title and embossed black vignette.
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Lagden, G. [Y.]
The Basutos, the mountaineers & their country. Being a narrative of events relating to the tribe from its formation early in the nineteenth century to the present day .
London, Hutchinson, 1909. Two volumes in two. 8vo ()21.7 x 14.2 cm). 718 pp. [xvi, 1-338; xii, 339-690]; nine maps of which one large, folding, and 70 photographic plates. Original, uniform brown cloth with gilt title on the spines, gilt borders and gilt vignette on the front boards. Top edges gilt.
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Frobenius, H.
Die Heiden-Neger des ägyptischen Sudan. Der östliche Sudan in geographischer, historischer und etnographischer Beziehung.
Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1893. 8vo (22.4 x 15.8 cm). viii, 483 pp.; one large folded coloured map. Contemporary mottled boards. Spine with handwritten paper label.
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Lorentz, H. A.
Three important papers by Nobel Prize winner Lorentz [and one by Eugène Dubois].
Haarlem, Les héritiers Loosjes, 1912. 8vo (23.3 x 15.8 cm). xiii, 149 pp. Contemporary burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Printed title on the spine. Original printed front wrapper with title bound in.
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Dawson, W. R.
A bibliography of works relating to mummification in Egypt with excerpts, epitomes, critical and biographical notes.
Le Caire [Cairo], Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1929. Large 4to (28.2 x 22.7 cm). Frontispiece portrait. 49, [i] pp. Original printed wrappers.
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Oppenoorth, W. F. F.
Homo ( Javanthropus) soloensis, n. subg. n. sp. Eene Plistoceene Mensch van Java. Voorlopige Mededeeling.
Batavia [Jakarta], Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië, 1932. Large 8vo (26.4 x 18.3 cm). 15 pp.; two text figures on one page, in black and red; two maps in the text, of which one partly coloured; six plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
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Verneau, R.
L'Homme de la Barma-Grande (Baoussé-Roussé). Étude des collections anthropologiques & archéologiques réunies dans le Museum Praehistoricum fondé par le Commandeur Thomas Hanbury près de Menton.
Baoussé-Roussé, Fr. Abbo, 1908. 8vo (18.6 x 11.4 cm). 204 pp.; 52 text illustrations. Original printed wrappers.
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various authors
Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap Ex Oriente Lux. Volumes 1-29 (1938-1987).
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1938-1987. 29 volumes in 12. Large 8vo (26.6 x 20.7 cm). Text and numerous pages, plates and text illustrations. Uniform green buckram. Front boards and spines with gilt title and gilt vignette. Last six volumes in issues, with original printed wrappers.
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Bastian, A. [P. W.]
Ideale Welten nach uranographischen Provinzen in Wort und Bild. Ethnologische Zeit- und Streitfragen nach Gesichtspunkten der Indischen Völkerkunde.
Berlin, Emil Felber, 1892. Three volumes in one. 4to (27.2 x 19.7 cm). Title to the whole work; titles to the parts; 791 pp. [289; 270; 232]; 22 plates [9; 9; 4]. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Hume-Griffith, M. E.
Behind the veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia. An account of an Englishwoman's eight years' residence amongst the women of the East. With narratives of experiences in both countries by A. Hume-Griffith, M.D., D.P.H.
London, Seeley & Co., 1909. Large 8vo (21.9 x 14.0 cm). 336 pp.; one full colour folding map, 37 photographs. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board.
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Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, A., Freiherr von
Die Frauen des Orients in der Geschichte, in der Dichtung und im Leben.
Wien, Leipzig, Hartleben, 1904. Large, thick 8vo (26.2 x 18.5 cm). [iv], 792 pp.; 11 full colour plates with tissue-guards, 15 b/w plates, and 338 text illustrations includingnumerous photographs. Original blind-tooled half cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board, original patterned gilt-paper flyleaves and blue edges.
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Vouga, D.
Préhistoire du pays de Neuchâtel, des origines aux Francs. Préface de D. Viollier. Avec 70 figures dans le texte, 34 planches hors-texte et une carte archéologique du Canton de Neuchâtel au 1:100.000.
Neuchâtel, Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles, [1943]. 4to (28.2 x 22.1 cm), 253 pp., 34 plates (one in colour), one large, folded, tinted map in rear pocket. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt title and vignette on the front board. Original printed wrappers (of the soft cover edition) bound in.
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