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By: Arthur, Richard
Price: $299.94
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1906
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 42039
Condition: Very Good+
253 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover and an onlay photograph of a ship's bow at sea. Illustrated with vignette photographs throughout. The American steam yacht Virginia set off on this voyage from the New York Yacht Club with the following travelers on board: Commodore Elias Cornelius Benedict, W. M. Ivins, E. M. Backus, C. Keep, L. Huntington, J. Howard Ford, Russell Colt, Charles Hastings, Dr. J. Gaines, Master M. Truesdale, and the author Richard Arthur. The hosts of the voyage were Benedict, Commodore of the S... View more info
![Image for ACROSS THE GOLDEN HEIGHTS OF ASSAM AND NEFA [North East Frontier Agency]](/assets/images/product/40349.jpg)
By: Baveja, J. D.
Price: $24.94
Publisher: Calcutta, Modern Book Depot: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 40349
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
147, v pages; Foreword by Verrier Elwin, D.Sc. (Oxon). Illustrated with photographs, large folding map of Assam and Nefa tipped in at rear. Contents clean and tight in original cream coloured boards in edgeworn dustjacket with chipping and staining (now in protective mylar cover); rear board has superfical stain. This work is an account of the author's travels to the tribal areas of Assam, NEFA, and the Naga Hills Tuensang area describing the cultural and social life of the people with a particular interest in the music and song of the region. The last two chapters "Tribal Faith" and... View more info
By: Bernus, Suzanne
Price: $9.48
Publisher: Paris, Universite De Paris: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41058
Condition: Near Fine
Institut D'Ethnologie - Musee de L'Homme. Urban Ethnic relations in the Nigerian city of Niamey. Memoirs de L'Institut D'Ethnologie - 1 Text in French. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
Price: $8.94
Publisher: New York, Harvard Alumni Bulletin: 1939
Seller ID: 38769
Condition: Very Good-
Contents clean and tight in original printed wrappers, which are edgeworn and dust soiled. Burlingame's report is well written and entertaining. He skillfully summarizes the contributions of each of the participants in the colloquium and knits them together with the intercourse that endued. Participants included Dean Landis, Professor Brinton, Professor Friedrich, Professor Slichter, Dean Williams, etc. The author William Roger Burlingame (1889-1967) graduated from Harvard University in 1913. After serving with the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I, he returned to A... View more info
By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas
Price: $10.94
Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38942
Condition: Near Fine
Clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Published in 2003. Articles include: Bienes Fuerarios del Cementario Chinchorro Morro 1: Descripcion, Analisis e Interpretacion by Vivien Standen; Proposicion de Estilos para el Arte Rupestre de Valle de Putaendo by Andres Troncoso; Santuarios de Altura en la Region de la Laguna Brava by Maria Constanza Ceruti; testimonios en Triangulo: Personajes de la Nueva Coronica de Guaman Poma y del Manuscrito Quechua de Huarochiri en el Pleito sobre el Cacicazgo Principal de Mama (1588-1590); etc. View more info
By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas
Price: $10.94
Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38943
Condition: Near Fine
Former owner's stamp on titlpage, otherwise clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Published in 2004. Articles include: Homenaje a Don Luis Alvarez Miranda; Dating the Tiwanaku State by Szymon Augustyniak; Arte Rupestre del Rio Grande, Cuenca del Rio Limari, Norte Chico, Chile; La Revista de Codpa (Altos de Arica) de 1772-73; Recursos Hidricos Altoandinos, Estrategias de Desarrollo Economico y Proyectos de Riego: Tarapaca, 1880-1930; El Mundo Andino, Poblacion, Medio Ambiente y Economia de John V. Murra; etc. View more info
By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas
Price: $10.94
Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38944
Condition: Near Fine
Clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Articles include: Quebrada Tacahuay: Un Sitio Maritimo del Pleistoceno Tardio en la Costa Sur del Peru; Ocupaciones Humanas del Holoceno Tardio en Los Vilos (IV Region, Chile); Variaciones Culturales en el Valle de Lima durante la Ocupacion Incaica; El Ushnu Inka y la Organizacion del Espacio en los Principales Tampus de los Wamani de la Sierra Central del Chinchaysuyu; El Inka y el Poder como Problemas de la Arqueologia del Norte Grande de Chile; El Tawantinsuyu en Aconcagua (Chile Central); Reconfiguracion de un Esp[acio Sagrado: Los I... View more info
By: Cologero M. Santoro Vargas
Price: $10.94
Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38945
Condition: Near Fine
Published in 2004. Former owner's stamp on titlpage, otherwise clean and tight in original glossy decorative wrappers. Upper rear corner creased of last few leaves. Articles include: Homenaje a Don Luis Alvarez Miranda; Dating the Tiwanaku State by Szymon Augustyniak; Arte Rupestre del Rio Grande, Cuenca del Rio Limari, Norte Chico, Chile; La Revista de Codpa (Altos de Arica) de 1772-73; Recursos Hidricos Altoandinos, Estrategias de Desarrollo Economico y Proyectos de Riego: Tarapaca, 1880-1930; El Mundo Andino, Poblacion, Medio Ambiente y Economia de John V. Murra; etc. View more info
Price: $14.94
Publisher: New York, Museum of Primitive Art: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41968
Condition: Very Good
32 pages; Clean and secure in original decorative wrappers. Illustrated with 31 b&w photographs of pieces from the exhibition, including sculpture, scepters, a funerary mask and textiles. OCLC: 929446498 View more info
Price: $9.94
Publisher: Arica, Chile, Universidad de Tarapaca: 1985
Seller ID: 38415
Condition: Very Good+
CHUNGARA ARICA Diciembre, 1985, No. 15; 229 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Articles include: San Lorenzo: Testimonio de una Comunidad de Agricultores y Pescadores Postiwanaku en el Valle de Azapa by Ivan Munoz Ovalle and Guillermo Focacci; La Formacion del Actual Pueblo de Toconce (siglo xix); etc. All text in Spanish. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Deverdun, Alfred Louis ; [SIGNED]
Price: $14.94
Publisher: Menasha, George Banta: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 41192
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Autograph; 303 pages; SIGNED by the AUTHOR on halftitle, otherwise clean and tight in original blue cloth binding with pictorial onlay at front cover and gilt lettering at spine. Dustjacket soiled and chipped at edges (now in mylar cover). Tenochtitlan was a Nahua city-state located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded in 1325, it became the capital of the expanding Mexica Empire in the 15th century, until captured by the Spanish in 1521. At its peak, it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. When paired with Mexico the name is a reference to Mexica, th... View more info
Price: $74.94
Publisher: Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black: 1887
Seller ID: 39074
Condition: Very Good
Former owner's name on endpaper, wear at head and tail of spine; otherwise clean and secure in original binding of red cloth with gilt lettering at front cover and entirely flaked from spine. Cloth worn at spine ends. Totem defined, clan totems, religious totems, sex totems, individual totems, phratic and subphratic totems, subtotems, etc. The scarce first published work of Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941). ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderi... View more info
By: Freyre, Gilberto
Price: $14.94
Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Jose Olympio: 1968
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 40160
Condition: Very Good
183 pages; Contents clean and tight in original wrappers; wrappers worn at spine ends and corners. B&W illustrations and folding map. Text in Portuguese. Recife is the largest city in the Northeast region of Brazil. Recife is located where the Beberibe River meets the Capibaribe River to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. It is a major port on the Atlantic Ocean. Its name is an allusion to the stone reefs that are present by the city's shores. The many rivers, small islands and over 50 bridges found in Recife city center characterize its geography and gives it the moniker of the "Brazilian Ven... View more info
By: Freyre, Gilberto
Price: $14.94
Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Jose Olympio: 1968
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 40161
Condition: Very Good
158 pages; Contents clean and tight in original wrappers; wrappers worn at spine ends. B&W illustrations and folding map. Text in Portuguese. Gilberto Freyre (1900 – 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman, born in Recife, Northeast Brazil. He is one of the great Brazilian cultural interpreters of the 20th century, best-known for his sociological treatise Casa-Grande & Senzala (published in English as The Masters and the Slaves), a classic of modern cultural anthropology and social history. Olinda is a historic city in the ... View more info
By: Freyre, Gilberto
Price: $74.94
Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Livraria Jose Olympio: 1951
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 40165
Condition: Very Good-
297 pages; 2a edicao, revista e aumentada. Illustracoes de Lula Cardoso Ayres e M. Bandeira. Special limited edition, signed by the author -- copy #24 of 200. Publisher's printed wrappers, fold-over flaps in the French style. Front cover lettered in black and blue-green, spine lettered in black. A clean tight copy, but the spine is toned, and has a short closed tear at the bottom end, and a pull (which has caused a chip missing) at the top. The slipcase is somewhat rubbed and worn at the joints, but is intact and has protected the fragile wrappers nicely. A significant book on his nativ... View more info
Price: $24.94
Publisher: Geneve, Musee d'Ethnographie: 2003
Seller ID: 40494
Condition: Very Good+
Bulletin du Centre Genevois d'Anthropologie, No. 6; 153 pages; Clean and tight in original glossy pictorial stiff wrappers. Blind stamp of previous owner on titlepage, otherwise clean and tight. OCLC: 66395291; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
Price: $12.94
Publisher: New York, Museum of Primitive Art: 1957
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41969
Condition: Very Good
32 pages; Contents clean and secure in original decorative wrappers. Illustrated with 34 b&w photographs of pieces from the exhibition, including sculpture, canoe prow, bird mask, etc. OCLC: 874314278 View more info
By: Hagemann, Gustav
Price: $99.94
Publisher: Berlin, Ferdinand Muller: 1938
Seller ID: 41967
Condition: Very Good
20 pages; Clean and secure in original stiff printed wrappers. OCLC: 186976768 Introduction and descriptive text accompanies twenty illustrations reproducing works by Gustav Hagemann. Gustav Hagemann was an important twentieth century German painter, sculptor and printmaker. From 1926 to 1939, Hagemann annually visited the northern lands of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Lapland. Lapland provided the inspiration for Hagemann's art and his paintings, engravings and woodcuts provide a valuable artistic and historical record of the Lapp world. Hagemann's early Lapland engravings and etch... View more info
Price: $14.94
Publisher: Wien, Museum für Völkerkunde: 1985
Seller ID: 41272
Condition: Near Fine
107 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout. OCLC: 13900346; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Harris, Dick
Price: $14.94
Publisher: The American Visitors Bureau of Madrid: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39193
Condition: Very Good
76 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers, front wrapper creased at lower corner, some wear at spine ends. An informative and charming guide to the various participants in the ring and the sequence of events and methods of engaging the bull. A great introduction to the traditional natinal sport of Spain. View more info
