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$960.00
1s18b/7

Observations on the State of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand


FENTON, F D

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE, quarto, blue stiff card boards, black handwritten lettering to title plate on front cover, blue buckram spine, unpaginated prelims, 44pp, folding appendices, VG- (heavy creasing & scuffing to spine & covers with heavy staining & loss also, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to front & rear gutter/hinge- front cover shaky/partially detached, heavy staining to top page edges)

PUBLISHER: W C Wilson, Gov't Printer 1859

KEYWORDS: anthropology New Zealand Australia Australian Aboriginal population history tribes first editions

$40.00
1s18b/13

Yamakarra! Liza Kennedy and the Keewong Mob


WESTERN HERITAGE GROUP (Compiled by)

SIGNED BY 3 MEMBERS OF THE HERITAGE GROUP, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, beige lettering to spine, illus prelims, 280pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (v sl scuffing to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Western Heritage Group 2013

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian aborigines aboriginal nsw New South Wales western division communities family culture anthropology

$245.00
1t4d/17

Capitain Jacobsen's Reise an der Nordwestkuste Amerikas 1881-1883; zum Zwecke ethnologischer Sammlungen und Erkundigungen nebst Beschreibung personlicher Erlebnisse fur den deutschen Leserkreis bearbeitet


WOLDT, A.

TEXT IN GERMAN, Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt & black ink stamped decorative rule to spine & front board, marble page edges, patterned eps, vi + 431pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (light staining, rubbing & chipping to boards & spine, light cracking to gutters - boards v. slightly shaky, light tanning/discolouration to page edges, prev. owner's name & bookseller's label to verso fep)

PUBLISHER: Verlag von Max Spohr 1884

KEYWORDS: text in german travel exploration expeditions voyages captain jacobsen alaskan northwest americans united states history indigenous natives anthropology

$22.50
xxpni194236

Health Studies: A Critical and Cross-Cultural Reader


SAMSON, COLIN (Ed)

Imperial octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishers 1999

KEYWORDS: health medicine culture medical anthropology

$15.00
xxqcf194429

Creating a Nation


GRIMSHAW, PATRICIA & LAKE, MARILYN & McGRATH, ANN & QUARTLY, MARIAN

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: McPhee Gribble Publishers 1994

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history anthropology British ancestry culture

$15.00
xxqcj194448

A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI)


TOYNBEE, ARNOLD J & SOMERVELL, D C (Abridgement by)

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1949

KEYWORDS: history historiography Arnold J Toynbee anthropology civilisations civilizations

$35.00
xxajaa194921

Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil


HILLEL, DANIEL

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1992

KEYWORDS: soils civilisation civilization water agriculture supply supplies anthropology

$15.00
xxaqo195073

Nothing in This Book is True, But it's Exactly How Things Are


FRISSELL, BOB

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Frog Books 2009

KEYWORDS: planets geology extraterrestrial anthropology ufos occultism esoteric aliens

$15.00
xxase195213

The Last of the Nomads


PEASLEY, W J

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2002

KEYWORDS: history Australia Australian indigenous communities Mandildjara tribe tribes desert nomads anthropology

$40.00
1u25a/56

Natural Fashion; Tribal Decoration from Africa


SILVESTER, HANS & WILSON, DAVID H. (trans)

MODERATELY DAMP WRINKLED; Quarto green cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, photo illus eps & prelims, 167pp, illus colour photo plates, VG- (moderately heavy warping from moisture to boards, moderate damp wrinkling/staining to pages throughout, a few small-medium closed tears throughout, impacting on two photo plates, light cracking to gutters with some pages starting to come loose, occasional light-moderate creasing to pages) in d/w, VG (light creasing & damp staining, light sun-fading to spine, in protective plastic sleeve)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson Ltd 2008

KEYWORDS: photography art collections documentary photojournalism anthropology east african omo ethiopia kenya sudan surma mursi tribes ethnology tribal decoration costumes customs rituals traditions hans silvester

$60.00
1u26a/8

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley


HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY & HUXLEY, LEONARD

2 VOL. SET; Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces, xi + 539pp / vii + 541pp, illus, VG/VG- (moderate chipping to spine extrems of Vol. II, boards slightly cocked & soiled, light cracking to gutters on both volumes, a few pages coming loose & one or two small open tears not impacting text, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to Vol. I fep)

PUBLISHER: D. Appleton and Company 1901

KEYWORDS: england english history letters writings autobiography autobiographies memoirs biography biographies thomas henry h huxley biology biologists anthropology anthropologists science scientists theory of evolution natural selection darwin

$24.50
xxaxf195410

War and Peace in Jalemo: The Management of Conflict in Highland New Guinea


KOCH, KLAUS-FRIEDRICH

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: first editions New Guinea conflict war Jalemo anthropology demography ideology

$22.50
xxbad195443

Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific


FORTUNE, R F & MALINOWSKI, B (Intro)

Octavo softcover (VG) reprinted from an underlined/annotated copy; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Not Stated (Modern Reprint/Facsimile)

KEYWORDS: anthropology Dobu islands western Pacific

$25.00
xxbad195444

The Anthropology of Cannibalism


GOLDMAN, LAURENCE R (Ed)

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Bergin & Garvey 1999 (From Facsimile/Reprint)

KEYWORDS: cannibalism ethnology anthropology

$38.50
xxbfaa195588

Structural Anthropology


LEVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE & JACOBSON, CLAIRE & SCHOEPF, BROOKE GRUNDFEST (trans)

FIRST UK EDITION; Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1968

KEYWORDS: first uk editions structural anthropology anthropological social sciences theory history analysis

$19.50
xxbgd195649

Technology in the Ancient World


HODGES, HENRY & NEWCOMER, JUDITH (illus.)

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Barnes & Noble Books 1992

KEYWORDS: henry hodges ancient history world civilisation civilization civilizations civilisations technology engineering transport anthropology deep tools tool machine machinery machines

$175.00
1w13a/2

No Money on Our Skins: Hagen Migrants in Port Moresby


STRATHERN, MARILYN

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 467pp + errata to rear, illus/photos, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine with minor archival tape reapirs, light curling to cover edges with minor fading also, light to moderate soiling to page edges, lg ex-libris ink stamp to ffep)

PUBLISHER: New Guinea Research Unit, The Australian National University 1975

KEYWORDS: hagen migrants png Papua New Guinea Port Moresby anthropology migration

$45.00
1w18a/30

Letters from Tokelau


PARNELL, WINSOME

Oblong octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to blue spine, illus eps, title page & prelims, photo illus, 96pp, VG+ (light rubbing to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Trinity Publishing (NZ) Ltd 2021

KEYWORDS: tokelau atolls pacific islands new zealand territories letters memoirs travel writing food science nutrition nutritionists dieticians diet culture anthropology

$45.00
1w28a/38

Bali


HISS, PHILIP HANSON

Second printing; Quarto, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt archer motif to front board, illus eps, xiv + 112pp, illus plates, VG (moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light soiling & tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to fep & prelim) in d/w, VG- (heavy chipping & creasing with tape repairs to spine & extrems, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale Limited 1941

KEYWORDS: photography photographers art documentary pictorial anthropology ethnology travel writing exploration cultural social history bali indonesia indo pacific islands south east asia oceania

$225.00
1w28a/42

The New Zealanders (The Library of Entertaining Knowledge)


CRAIK, GEORGE

Sm. octavo, half-bound in maroon leather with marbled heavy card boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, marbled eps, frontispiece: map of New Zealand, iv + 424pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to boards & spine, moreso to edges, moderate discolouration to prelims/terminals incl. frontispiece, otherwise occasional light soiling to pages/page edges, prev. owner's label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Charles Knight 1830

KEYWORDS: new zealand early settler colonial popular history 19th nineteenth century exploration discovery navigation cultural social anthropology indigenous colonialism

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