Anthropology
95 items found
Hogendorp, W. van, a.o.
Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Konsten en Wetenschappen. Tweede deel. [Volume 2].
Rotterdam, R. Arrenberg, 1784. 8vo (22.5 x 13.7 cm). 488, 90 pp.; two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; two morocco labels with gilt title and volume number.
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[Maupertuis, P. L. M. de]
Venus Physique. Premiere partie. Contenant une dissertation sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux [AND] Seconde partie. Contenant une dissertation sur l'origine des Noirs.
(Paris? No publisher mentioned), 1746. Small 8vo (14.0 x 10.0 cm). Half-title, title page, 224 pp., with two additional half-titles. Original boards.
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Humboldt, W. von
Ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts. Mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und Excursen sowie als Einleitung: Wilhelm von Humboldt und die Sprachwissenschaft von A. F. Pott.
Berlin, S. Calvary, 1876. Two parts in two. 8vo (17.3 x 11.8 cm). General title, two title pages, 965 pp. [ccccxxi; 544]. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards. Spines with dark blue leather label with gilt ornamental bands and title.
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Duppa, R.
Travels on the continent, Sicily and the Lipari Islands. Second edition.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co., 1829. Large 8vo (26.8 x 17.2 cm). x, 494, [ii] pp.; 21 fine engraved plates, and 34 text engravings. Contemporary grained half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, stipple-gilted bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and a brown morocco label with gilt title.
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Soemmering, S. T. et al. [translated and edited by A. J. L. Jourdan]
Traité d'anatomie générale ou histoire des tissus et de la composition chimique du corps humain. Volumes II-VIII, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1843-1847. Seven text parts in eight, and two atlas parts in one. 8vo text (20.5 x 12.7 cm), and folio atlas (31.1 x 23.5 cm) with 33 lithographed and engraved plates with descriptive text. Uniform contemporary green morocco over green mottled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers, speckled edges.
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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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Dorman, R. M.
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.
Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vignette and title; boards with red border; front board with pictorial gilt vignette. Dark green endpapers.
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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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Darwin, C.
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. With Illustrations.
London, John Murray, 1871 [REPRINT Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation, 1969-1970]. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.5 x 14.0 cm). 913 pp. [viii, 423; vii, 475]; several text illustrations Full, uniform mock leather. Spines with gilt title.
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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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Meredith, L. A.
Tasmanian friends and foes, feathered, furred, and finned. A family chronicle of country life, natural history, and veritable adventure. With coloured plates, from drawings by the author and other illustrations. Second edition.
London, Marcus Ward, 1881. Small 4to (21.9 x 16.7 cm). Title page, 259 pp.; eight chromolithographed plates depicting fishes and flowers from Tasmania, numerous text engravings. Original green, black and gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Gilded, patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Wheeler, G. M.
Report upon United States Geographical Surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler. Vol. I. - Geographical report.
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1889. Large, thick 4to (29.3 x 23.5 cm). 780 pp.; 38 fine, tinted lithographed plates (several in chromolithography, tissue-guarded), three (very) large folded maps [listed as plates I-XXXVIII and Maps 1-3]. Publisher's embossed cloth. Spine with gilt vignette and title. Printed errata slip bound in; Wheeler's printed compliments tipped in on the front pastedown.
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Turner, W.
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Zoology. Report on the human crania and other bones of the skeletons collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-76. Part I. The Crania. Part II. The Bones of the Skeleton. [Complete in two parts].
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1884-1886. Two parts in two. 4to (31.7 x 25.4 cm). 266 pp. [130; 136]; ten lithographed plates [7; 3] with explanatory text leaves. Disbound.
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Tizard, T. H. et al. (eds.) [Thomson, C. W. and J. Murray (general editors)]
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Volumes I - II. Narrative of the Cruise. [The complete narrative].
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1882-1885. Two volumes in three. 4to (29.2 x 24.6 cm). Volume I (in two parts) (1885): liv, 1111 pp.; two elongate photographic frontispieces; 340 numbered (groups of) woodcuts and many unnumbered, often acting as head- or tailpieces; 75 charts; 35 numbered photographic plates; 15 chromolithographed plates (numbered A-I, K-P), and a very large map (in two parts) of both hemispheres, with the complete itinerary, in a rear pocket in Part I; a second, very long, full-colour map on the salinity of the oceans in Part 2. Volume II (1882): viii, 744, 42, 29 pp.; several text engravings and two plates, of which one in chromolithography, and a tipped-in note on the reason for publishing Volume II ahead of Volume I. Original, uniform, dark-green blind-stamped pebbled cloth. Boards with bevelled edges. Gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.
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Tokunaga, S. et al.
Report of the First Scientific Expedition to Manchoukuo. Under the leadership of Shigeyasu Tokunaka. June - October 1933. Section II [Geology]. Part I-IV. [Complete].
Tokyo, Asahi, 1934-1939. Four volumes in four. 4to (26.0 x 19.0 cm). Ca. 700 pp. with 124 plates and three folding coloured maps. Original uniform printed stiff wrappers.
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Bruin, C., De [De Bruyn or Bruijn]
Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die door gevonden worden: voor al derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlijke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door befaemde hof van Persepolis, by den Persianen Tchilminar genaemt. Alles door den Autheur zelf met groote naeukeurigheit na 't leven afgetekent, en nooit voor dezen in 't ligt gebragt.
Amsterdam, R. and G. Wetstein, J. Oosterwyk and H. van de Gaete, 1714. Folio (33.3 x 21.1 cm). Allegorical frontispiece (by Picart, dated 1711), title page (in red and black); engraved portrait of de Bruyn (by G. Kneller), [vi], 472, [xii] pp.; 260 numbered engraved plates (many double, folded), two large maps, and 34 large text engravings, not numbered, including portraits, views, etc. Contemporary blind ruled and embossed vellum. Spine with six raised bands, title written in ink, in a neat contemporary hand.
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[Przewalski] Von Prschewalskij, N.
Reisen in der Mongolei, im Gebiet der Tanguten und den Wüsten Nordtibets in den Jahren 1870 bis 1873.
Jena, Hermann Costenoble, 1877. Large 8vo (21.9 x 14.1 cm). xl, 538 pp.; one coloured lithographed folding map and ten engraved plates and several text engravings. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with red, gilt-bordered label, title in gilt.
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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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Petermann, A. [H.] (ed.)
Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen. Volumes 1-12. [Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem gesammtgebiete der Geographie von Doktor A. Petermann].
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1855-1865. 12 volumes in 12. 4to (22.2 x 26.8 cm). Over 3,500 pp., numerous maps of which many large, folded, and nearly all in fine chromolithography. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt and black-lined bands, red and black morocco labels with gilt title, number and year (volumes 1-9), and gilt ornaments and title (volumes 10-12). Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Brinkley, F.
Oriental Series. Japan [and] China. [the rare "Lotus"-edition].
Boston and Tokyo, J. B. Millet, 1901-1902. Twelve volumes in twelve. 8vo (23.1 x 15.7 cm). 3752 pp.; 255 plates, of which 115 monochrome and 114 in full colour - all with printed tissue guards, and 26 lithographed, captioned on the plates; three maps, of which two very large, multi-folded and in full colour. Uniform original full dark green morocco. Spines with three raised bands, gilt, pink-and-red inlay morocco lotus vignette and gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined borders and pink-and-red inlay morocco lotuses.
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Siebold, P. F. von
Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländeren. Jezo mit den südlichen Kurilen, Krafto, Kooraï und den Liukiu-Inseln, nach japanischen und europäischen Schriften und eigenen Beobachtungen. Atlas.
Leiden, privately published by the author, [1832]-1835. Seven parts in three. Folio (54.8 x 35.4 cm [loose plates]; 58 x 39 cm [bound volumes]). Allegorical frontispiece (much larger and far more finely engraved than the similar one in the quarto edition), 2 pp. "Erklärung des Titelbildes"; 296 (of 365) plates and maps, of which 45 hand-coloured (including a few partially coloured). Captions in Dutch and German, partly in Japanese. Uniform contemporary style polished half calf over marbled boards. Spines rich gilt with arabesque patterns, and two red morocco labels with gilt title.
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Godefroy, P. J. and M. J. E. Muller and P. A. Fromm and P. Bleeker (eds.)
Natuur-en Geneeskundig Archief van Nederlands Indie. Volumes I-IV. [All published].
Batavia, the editors, 1844-1847. Four volumes in four. 8vo (22.0 x 12.7 cm). More than 2300 pp. (Volume I: vi, [1], [8], vi, [1], [7], 638 pp; Vol. II: v, 710 [1] pp.; Vol. III: v, 616 [1] pp.; Vol. IV: 340 [2] pp.), several plates (some larger, folding), many folding tables (mostly with meteorological data), errata leaf to Volume I. Matching red cloth with snakeskin-patterned boards.
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Brodtmann, C. J.
Naturhistorische Bilder-Galerie aus dem Thierreiche gezeichnet von Carl Joseph Brodtmann.
Lindau, Brodtmann, 1816. Folio (43.6 x 35.0 cm). Engraved title, [ii], 72 pp.; 144 lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five embossed bands and gilt title. Marbled edges.
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Shaw, [E.] M. [and others]
Native Snuff-boxes [AND] Supplement to Native Snuff-Boxes [AND] Ovambo Knives [AND] Native Pipes and Smoking in South Africa [AND: seven other papers on South African anthropology and ethnography].
Cape Town, The Trustees of the South African Museum, 1929-1938. 11 papers in one. Large 8vo (24.4 x 16.8 cm). 281 pp.; 88 b/w plates (some larger, folded), numerous text figures. 20th-Century half cloth over pebbled cloth boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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Titsingh, [I.]
Mémoires et anecdotes sur la dynastie régnante des djogouns, souverains du Japon, avec la description des fêtes et cérémonies observées aux différentes epoques de l'année a la cour de ces princes, et un appendice contenant des détails sur la poésie des Japonais, leur manière de diviser l'année, etc; ouvrage orné de planches gravées et coloriées, tiré des originaux Japonais par M. Titsingh; publié avec les notes et éclaircissemens par M. Abel Rémusat.
Paris, A. Nepveu, 1820. 8vo (19.3 x 12.0 cm). xxviii, 302 pp.; one hand-coloured folded frontispiece, one engraved folded table, five hand-coloured folded plates. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine rich gilt including empire vignettes and a red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled.
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Zavattari, E (ed.)
Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana. [Complete in four volumes].
Roma, Centro Studi Africa Orientale, 1939-1940. In four volumes. Large 8vo (24.9 x 17.6 cm). 2,154 pp. [537, 719, 463, 435]; over 500 text illustrations; 23 [0; 16; 7; 0] plates, mostly coloured, one coloured map and one large, folded map. Uniform original quarter cloth over printed boards. Spines with large, printed labels.
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Guillemin-Tarayre, E.
[Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale.] Description des anciennes possessions mexicaines du Nord.
[Paris, Ministre de l'Instruction Publique (Imprimerie Nationale)], 1871. Large 4to (36.9 x 28.1 cm). 216 pp.; 29 text engravings, one coloured engraved map "Carte de la Haute Californie et de la Nevada" (not numbered), one lithographed plate of indigenous people ("p. 15"), 18 lithographed plates and maps, all but two double-sized or larger [numbered I-XVII, one not numbered], for a total of 20 plates and maps [Complete]. All leaves loose, as issued. Original printed wrappers.
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Reinburg, [M. J. G.] P.
Mission officielle commanditée par le Ministère de l'Instruction Publique pour un voyage d'étude en Amérique latine (1909-1913).
Paris, unpublished, 1909-1913. 266 framed glass positives (including colour positives), 9.9 x 8.5 cm with handwritten descriptive labels (positive size 7.0 x 7.0 cm); preserved in one wooden box (28.5 x 11.0 x 11.1 cm) and 25 contemporary cardboard boxes, mostly with pictorial printed labels.
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Dalloni, M. and A. Lacroix (eds.)
Mission au Tibesti (1930-1931) dirigée par M. Dalloni. I-II. [Complete].
Paris, Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 1934-1935. Two parts in one. 4to (27.2 x 22.5 cm). 828 pp. [1-370, 1-458; one folded map, one coloured geological map and 32 plates (two coloured) [numbered 1-20, 1-12]. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title and gilt vignettes on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Menzies, J. H.
Maori Patterns. Painted and Carved.
Christchurch, Smith and Antony, [1910]. Oblong folio (36.6 x 50.1 cm). Engraved title page in red and black; explanatory leaf; 28 plates. Original white linen boards with colour-printed title mounted. Preserved in protective clamshell box of blue half morocco over blue linen boards; "spine" with wavy giltlines and gilt title. Marbled inside.
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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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Belon, P.
Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvees en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois liures. Reueuz de nouveau & augmentez de figures. Le catalogue contenant le plus notables choses, est en la page fuyuante.
Paris, H. de Marnef & G. Cavellat, 1588. 4to (22.1 x 15.4 cm). [xiv], 468, [ii] pp.; numerous woodcuts, some page-sized. 18th-century full tree calf. Spine with five raised bands, compartments rich gilt with floral patterns. Red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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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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Tissandier, G. (ed.)
La Nature. Revue des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts et à l'industrie. Journal hebdomadaire illustré.
Paris, G. Masson, 1873-1899. 27 volumes in 27. 4to (28.4 x 19.0 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations. Uniform contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt borders. Spines with five raised bands. Gilt ornamental compartments and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Gräffe, E., and others
Journal des Museum Godeffroy. Geographische, ethnographische und naturwissenschaftliche Mittheilungen. Heft II. [The complete geographical and ethnographical part].
Hamburg, L. Friederichsen, 1873. Large 4to (34.1 x 25.7 cm). 58 pp. Two maps (one very large, multi-folded), seven tinted plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Hardouin, E. and W. L. Ritter
Java. Tooneelen uit het leven. Karakterschetsen en kleederdragten van Java's bewoners in afbeeldingen naar de natuur geteekend door E. Hardouin met tekst van W. L. Ritter en een voorwoord van H. M. Lange, gepensionneerd Luitenant Kolonel van het O. I. leger. Benevens eene kaart van Java naar de nieuwste bronnen bewerkt.
Leiden, A. W. Sythoff, 1855. Large 4to (28.7 x 20.7 cm). Title page with finely engraved vignette; xv, 242 pp.; hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 25 other hand-coloured lithographed and tissue-guarded plates; large, triple-folded coloured double map of Java, Madoera and Bawean. Original green embossed cloth. Spine and front board rich gilt with floral patterns and ethnographical vignettes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
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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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Vincendon-Dumoulin, [C. A.] and C. [L. F.] Desgraz
Iles Taïti. Esquisse historique et géographique précédée de considérations générales sur la colonisation française dans l'Océanie. Première Partie - Deuxième Partie. [Complete].
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1844. In two parts. 8vo (21.5 x 14.1 cm). Half-titles, title pages, 1056 pp. (pagination continuous); two large, engraved maps. Original uniform, 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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Garrigou, [T. É.] A.
Ibères, Ibérie. Étude sur l'origine et les migrations de ces Ibères, premiers habitants connus de l'occident de l'Europe.
Foix, Veuve Pomiès, 1884. 8vo (19.8 x 12.9 cm). xv, 183 pp. 20th-century Spanish style half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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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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Grandidier, A. and G. Grandidier
Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar. Volume IV: Ethnographie de Madagascar. Tome Premier: Les habitants de Madagascar. Première Partie: Origine et division des Indigènes. Deuxième Partie: Les Étrangers.
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1908. Large 4to (32.2 x 24.5 cm). Half-titles, title pages (to each part), half-title and title to the complete work (printed later and, therefore, loosely inserted), 711 pp. [1-404; 405-711]; four plates, two coloured maps (one very large, folded). Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Vega, Garcillasso de la [El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]
Histoire des Yncas, Rois du Perou. Contenant leur origine, depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac, leur etablissement, leur idolatrie, leurs sacrifices, leurs loix, leurs conquêtes; les merveilles du Temple du Soleil; & tout l'etat de ce grand empire, avant que les Espagnols s'en rendissent maîtres. Avec une description des animaux, des fruits, des mineraux, des plantes, &c. Traduit de l'Espagnol de l'Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega, par J. Baudoin.
Amsterdam, Gerard Kuyper, 1704. Two volumes in two. 12mo (15.8 x 9.9 cm). Engraved frontispieces and titles in red and black. [xx], 512; [viii], 492, [xxxviii] pp.; one large, folded, engraved map and three engraved plates, of which one is larger, folded. Contemporary full calf. Spines with five raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and morocco labels with gilt title and volume number. Boards with gilt dentelles. Edges speckled red.
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Lesseps, [J. B. B.] de
Herrn von Lesseps Gefährten des Grafen de la Perouse Reise durch Kamtschatka und Sibirien nach Frankreich. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt. Mit Anmerkungen von Johann Reinhold Forster.
Berlin, Voss, 1791. 8vo (22.4 x 14.5 cm). xxviii, 302 [303-544] pp.; two engraved, folded maps, one folded table. Original blind boards.
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Thilenius, G. [C.] (ed.)
Ergebnisse der Südsee Expedition 1908-1910. II. Ethnographie: B. Mikronesien. Band 8: Inseln um Ponape: Kapingamarangi, Nukuor, Ngatik, Mokil, Pingelap.
Hamburg, Friedrichsen, De Gruyter, 1934. 4to (30.8 x 23.2 cm). xiv, 464 pp.; 306 text illustrations, 29 plates (of which one in full colour). Original printed wrappers.
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Thilenius, G. [C.] (ed.)
Ergebnisse der Südsee Expedition 1908-1910. II. Ethnographie: B. Mikronesien. Band 7: Ponape. 1. Teilband: Allgemeiner Teil: Geschichte, Geographie, Sprache, Eingeborene. 2. Teilband: Gesellschaft und geistige Kultur, Wirtschaft und stoffliche Kultur. 3. Teilband: Die Ruinen. Ponapegeschichten. [Complete].
Hamburg, Friedrichsen, De Gruyter, 1932-1936. Three parts in three. 4to (30.8 x 23.2 cm). 1238 pp. [xii, 376; xvii, 386; xi, 437]; 248 text figures [10; 176; 62], 44 plates [19; 10; 15] of which one in full colour. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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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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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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Thilenius, G. [C.] (ed.)
Ergebnisse der Südsee Expedition 1908-1910. II. Ethnographie: B. Mikronesien. Band 12: Luangiua und Nukumanu mit Anhang über Sikayana, Nuguria, Tauu und Carteret-Inseln. Nach den Aufzeichnungen von Ernst Sarfert bearbeitet von Hans Damm.1. Halbband: Allgemeiner Teil und Materielle Kultur. 2. Halbband: Soziale Verhältnisse und Geisteskultur.
Hamburg, Friedrichsen, De Gruyter, 1929-1931. In two parts. 4to (30.8 x 23.2 cm). One full colour frontispiece; xxviii, 506, xiv, [ii] pp.; 349 text figures [306; 43], 59 plates [41; 18]. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Sjöstedt, Y.
Die Tierwelt der Steppen und Berge. Die Mkulumusi-Höhlen bei Tanga, die Bevölkerung des Kilimandjaro-Meru-Gebiets.
Stockholm, P. Palmquist, 1910. 4to (30.2 x 24.0 cm). 80 pp.; 13 photographic plates, one map. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-lined, bands and gilt title. Speckled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Preuss, K. T.
Die Nayarit-Expedition. Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter Mexikanischen Indianern. Erster Band. Die Religion der Cora-Indianer in Texten nebst Wörterbuch. [All Published].
Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1912. 4to (28.9 x 21.6 cm). cviii, 396 pp.; ten plates including one in full colour acting as frontispiece and one being a map; one folded chart (with music), 30 text figures. Original printed wrappers.
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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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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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Schmidt, R. R.
Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart (Nägele und Dr. Sproesser), 1912. Very large 4to (35.5 x 30.0 cm). xiii, 283 pp.; 47 engraved or heliogravure plates with explanatory text leaves, loose in rear pocket. Original quarter vellum over cloth boards. Gilt title on front board; gilt-lettered morocco label on the spine.
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Marquart, J.
Die Benin-Sammlung des Reichsmuseums für Völkerkunde in Leiden. Beschrieben und mit ausführlichen Prolegomena zur Geschichte der Handelswege und Völkerbewegungen in Nordafrika.
Leiden, E. J. Brill 1913. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.7 cm). 515 [16, ccclxvii, 132] pp.; 31 text engravings, 14 plates and two folding maps. Original burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Rouffaer, G. P. and H. H. Juynboll
Die Batik-Kunst in Niederländisch-Indien und ihre Geschichte bearbeitet auf Grund von dem im Reichs Museum für Volkerkunde und öffentlichen wie privaten Sammlungen in den Niederlanden befindlichen, reichhaltigen Material. De batik-kunst in Nederlandsch-Indië en haar geschiedenis. Op grond van materiaal aanwezig in 's Rijks Ethnographisch Museum en andere openbare en particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland.
Haarlem, H. Kleinmann & Co.; Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1899-1914. Two volumes in two (text, atlas). Large 4to (33.5 x 25.8 cm). Double title pages (in German and Dutch), 646 pp. (15, [iii], xxx, 534, xxix, xxxi-lxv); several text illustrations (1914 text volume); ix pp.; 100 plates (many double-sized, and/or in colour), one very large, double folded map (in red and black) of Java and Madura (1899 atlas volume), a second map, of "Voor India" (i.e., India proper) in red and black, double folded, tipped in between plates 80 and 81. Uniform full batik cloth. Patterned endpapers.
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Schebesta, P.
Die Bambuti-Pygmäen von Ituri. Ergebnisse zweier Forschungsreisen zu den Zentralafrikanischen Pygmäen.
Bruxelles, Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1938-1949. Three volumes bound in two. 4to (28.2 x 22.8 cm). 1279 pp.; one coloured folded map, 73 fine photographic plates. Uniform later half cloth over reptile-skin patterned boards.
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Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)
[Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Mis en ordre et publié par M***]. Recueil des planches, sur les sciences et les arts. Tome I.
Paris, Briasson, etc. 1762. Folio (39.5 x 25.3 cm). Letterpress half title, title page with engraved vignette, text and 269 plates. Contemporary uniform full calf. Spines wih six raised bands, rich gilt compartments and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Red edges.
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Niebuhr, C.
Description de l'Arabie d'apres les observations et recherches faites dans le pays meme.
Copenhague [Copenhagen], Nicolas Möller, 1773. Large, thick 4to (27.8 x 21.0 cm). Title page with engraved vignette; xlvi (including dedication leaf, dated 1772, with engraved vignette), 372; 25 engraved plates and maps, of which several larger, folded; the very large map of Arabia, and two other plates with original, additional hand-colouring; one large, folded table. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral corner-pieces and central vignette, and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-rolled decorative border. Patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Wilken, G. A. [F. D. E. van Ossenbruggen (ed.)]
De verspreide geschriften van Prof. Dr. G. A. Wilken verzameld door Mr. F. D. E. Van Ossenbruggen. Deel I. Levensbericht. Monographie over de Alfoeren van Boeroe. Geschriften op het gebied van vergelijkende rechtswetenschap. Deel II. Geschriften op het gebied van vergelijkende rechtswetenschap. Deel III. Geschriften over Animisme en daarmede verband houdende geloofsuitingen. Deel IV. Geschriften over animistische geloofsuitingen, andere ethologische onderwerpen en geographische pathologie. Korte boekbeoordeelingen. Aanhangsel. Registers. [Complete].
Semarang, G. C. T. van Dorp, 1912. Four volumes in four. Large 8vo (23.9 x 16.0 cm). 2515 pp. [I: xvii, 628; II: xiii, 514; III: ix, 579; IV: xiii, 742]; frontispiece portrait of Wilken (tissue guarded). Uniform blind-stamped green cloth. Gilt title on the spines. Patterned endpapers. Edges green.
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Blume, C.
De Indische Bij, Tijdschrift ter Bevordering van de Kennis der Nederlandsche Volkplantingen en Derzelven Belangen. Eerste Deel. [Volume I; All published].
Leiden, Hazenberg en Comp., 1843. iv, 663 pp.; four lithographed plates, of which one hand-coloured, depicting a Dyak called Sigan as a warrior, with his shield, spear, and feathers. The others depict landscapes and Dyak writing. Original pictorial paper boards.
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Poortenaar, J. C.
De Boroboedoer. Zes etsen door Jan Poortenaar, Inleiding van Prof. Dr. N. J. Krom.
[Naarden, privately published, 1929]. Folio (37.9 x 28.0 cm). Two leafs of text and six fine etchings under passe-partouts, all signed and numbered in pencil, this being #161. All as issued with the original cloth portfolio with gilt title on front.
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Kaempfer, E.
De beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen staat en regeering van dat Ryk.
The Hague, P. Gosse and J. Neaulme; Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1729. Folio (37.5 x 25.0 cm). 500 pp. Half-title, title page explanation, frontispiece (engraved title) by I. C. Philips, letterpress title in red and black; 48 double-sized maps and plates (I-XVII, XXX-XLV, XXIV*, A-BXXVIII, A-BXXIX). Contemporary full mottled calf; spine with six raised bands; compartments rich gilt with fine, elaborate floral ornaments, and red morocco label with gilt title; boards with double gilt roll stamped border, gilt floral corner pieces and central vignettes. Mottled edges.
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Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. Tweede, geheel omgewerkte druk. [2nd, revised edition. Complete, in five volumes].
Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1950-1951. In five volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.0 x 18.0 cm). [AND] Deel platen; octavo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). total of 1558 pp. [xii, 478; viii, 557; viii, 484; 11]. [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.2 x 27.0 cm); 159 photographs in "Deel platen"; 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and two coloured folding maps. Original uniform printed wrappers (text and platen volumes); atlas in original printed portfolio with linen spine.
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Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. [Complete, in four volumes].
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (two showing adjacent regions). Original uniform quarter cloth over printed boards.
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Rees, W. A. Van
De Bandjermasinsche Krijg van 1859-1863. Nader toegelicht.
Arnhem, D. A. Thieme, 1867. 8vo (21.9 x 13.5 cm). Very large, triple-folded chromolithographed plate (as frontispiece); engraved, folded map; and very large, quadruple-folded engraved plate of a Kotta Mara (wooden warship), Title page, 139 pp. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and number.
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Praetorius, J. [H. Schultze]
Collegium curiosum privatissimum physiognom-chiromant-metoposcop-anthropologicum ... Oder ein sehr nützliches Werck, darinnen curieus und doch vollkömmlich abgehandelt wird, was zur Physiognomie, Chiromantie, Metoposcopie und Anthropologie gehöret. [BOUND WITH] Die von Aberglauben Vanitaeten und Zeuscherey gereinigte Chiromantia und Physiognomia.
Frankfurt und Leipzig, Philipp Wilhelm Stock, 1713. Small 8vo (16.4 x 9.6 cm). Title page in red and black; [xii], 128 pp.; nine (five copper-engraved, four woodcuts) multi-folded plates, three large text woodcuts. [AND] Title in red and black, 61 pp.; engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved plates; a few woodcut endpieces. Contemporary full vellum. Gilt title between gilt ornamental lines on the spine. Speckled edges.
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Hla, M. T.
[Burma - Myanmar] A pair of late nineteenth to early twentieth century Burmese costume studies.
Burma [Myanmar], ca. 1920. Two watercolour and gouache paintings on Whatman paper. 8vo-sized (images ca. 24.0 x 19.9 cm). Heightened with white body colour; each signed "M. T. Hla" in lower right corner, uniformly mounted. Mounts 30.5 x 24.6 cm.
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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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Squier, E. G. and E. H. Davis
Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the results of extensive original surveys and explorations.
Washington, [DC], The Smithsonian Institution, 1848. Large 4to (30.0 x 23.3 cm). 345 [xxxix, 306] pp.; 47 engraved or tinted lithographed (tissue-guarded) plates, 207 text engravings. Later black half morocco over black linen. Gilt title on spine, gilt logo on front board. Speckled edges.
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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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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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