Search Results: Anthropology & Archaeology from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Toronto: L. K. Cameron (William Briggs), 1911. Illustrated by color tissue frontis (Wampum Belt), port tissue plate (David Boyle), b&w figures, line drawings and reproductions. First edition. "Compliments of Provincial Museum, Toronto, R. B. Orr M.B., Director" stamp of ffep. Original card printed wraps, coated paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 103. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. College library stamp and pen numbers on front cover and withdrawn stamp on pastedown; internally fine. Contents: Butler in "The Wild Northland", Dr. David Boyle, Archaeology of the Province of Ontario, Queenston Heights, Murray Collection, Attiwandarons, Ground Stone, Bird Amulets, Ceremonial weapons, Stone pipes and axes, Gouge forms, Smelser-Orr Collection, Pipes, wood and bone, Awis, Shell relics, Huronia, The Hurons. Includes article: Archaeological Evidence, as Determined by Method and Selection by Harlan I. Smith. [Note: Annuals (starting in 1887) were not officially numbered until the 27th of 1915, making this… Read More

Toronto: L. K. Cameron (William Briggs), 1912. Illustrated by port tissue frontis (Robert Allen Pyne M.D.), color tissue plate of "Dress of an Algonquin Woman, James Bay, New Ontario", b&w figures, reproductions, charts, folding map. First edition. "Compliments of Provincial Museum, Toronto, Rowland B. Orr M.B., Director" signature stamp of ffep. Original card printed wraps, coated paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 116. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. College library stamp and numbers front cover and withdrawn stamp on pastedown; internally fine (including folding map: Archaeological Map of Victoria County by Col. George E. Laidlaw, 1912). Articles: Path and Trail; Algonquins (dress and New Ontario); Pipes; Gouge and Gorgets; West Indian Stone Axe; Pottery, Ceremonial Banner Stones; Bar Amulets, Beat Stones, Flints, Pre-Columbian Copper, Indian Skulls; List of Village Sites, Victoria County; Snow Snake and the Indian game of Snow-snaking; Aboriginal Net fishing (Long Pt. Bay), Indian Pottery… Read More

Toronto: A. T. Wilgress (Ryerson Press), 1919. Illustrated by b/w figures, plates, reproductions. First edition. "Compliments of Provincial Museum, Toronto, Rowland B. Orr M.B., Director" signature stamp of ffep. Original tan card printed wraps, coated paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 120. Very Good+/Ex-Lib. College oval stamp to cover and with drawn stamp on pastedown, light cover soil, internally near fine. Contents: Burial sites, Iroquois in Canada, Mortuary customs, Canadian Indian Pottery, Algonquin Pottery, Trail to Hudson Bay. Authors: Parker, Harris, Laidlaw..

Toronto: United Press, (1927). Illustrated by port tissue frontis (G. H. Ferguson), figures, plates, reproductions. First edition. Original russet card printed wraps, coated paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 126. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. College library stamp front cover and and withdrawn on pastedown; internally fine. Contents: Religion of Pre-Columbian Indians by Orr (RBO), Bella Coola animal beliefs by McIlwraith, Technique of Certain Aboriginal Cords by Wintemberg, Michipicoten by Ferguson, Ojibwa Myths and Tales (7th paper: No. 443-513 of 513) by Laidlaw, Brant's Rifle, C. W. Nash obituary..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. First edition. Green boards. 8vo. pp. 806. VG+/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Light edgewear, 1 page underlined..

Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1986. Illustrated by charts, graphs, maps and line drawings. First edition. Monograph No. 11. Printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 170. Each referenced, Appendix, Contributors. Near Fine. Traces of edgewear. Multi-contributor work from SERC Conference, October 1985. ISBN: 0947816119..

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1984). Illustrated by bw maps, photograph and drawings. First (NAP) edition. Cloth backed boards. 8vo. pp. 223. Near Fine/VG/Clipped price in mylar. Light edgewear, closed tear back panel..

Toronto: Warwick Bros. & Butler, Printers, 1898. Illustrated by 19 plates, listed illustrations, musical notation. First edition. Original clay wraps. Super Royal 8vo. pp. viii, 211. Appendix, Index. Very Good/Ex-Lib. College library stamp only marking, top corner bumped throughout. Contents: Specimen notes: pottery, pipes, bird amulet, cutting tools, Bone harpoon, copper tools, Indian flute; Pagan Iroquois, Pagan conditions, Old Time Paganism, Recent Indian Religions, Skaneodye and Iroquois Paganism, Mid-Winter Festival, burning of the white dog, Scattering of the Ashes, Cayuga and Seneca Spring Dances, Green Corn Dance, Peach Stone Game, Feast of the Skeleton, Children's New Year Feast, The word "Niyoh", Pagan Hell, Spraying of heads, Dream Interpretations, Iroquois music, Song Words, Society of False Faces, Society of Husk Masks, Some Myths (6 listed of 513), Iroquois Gentes, Chiefship, Dress, Dwelling houses, Marriage and Separation, Death Customs, A Chief's Death, Council… Read More

Menasha, WI: The American Anthropological Assn, October 1959. Illustrated by several charts and graphs. First edition. Vol 61, No 5, Part 2, Memoir 89. Stiff illustrated card wraps. Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 165. Acknowledgments, Sponsors, Index. Near Fine. Faint ink owner only flaw. Preface by A. L. Kroeber. Nine essays..

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1913. Illustrated by Frontis, 3 figures and 15 additional plates with titled tissue guards. First edition. Department of Mines, Geological Survey No. 1290. Printed yellow wraps. 8vo. pp. 40, [60] tissues & plates recto. Very Good/Ex-Lib. Two circular college library stamps and pen numbers, tape reinforced spine, light cover soil and foxing starting about frontis..

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1970. 2nd edition. Rust cloth. 8vo. pp. 200. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. Edgewear, soiling, light sunning to spine jacket..

Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution, 1985. Illustrated by b/w map frontis and numerous text reproductions, charts and maps. First (SD) edition. Anthropological Society of Washington . Cloth backed boards, gilt print spine. Royal 8vo. pp. vi, 320. References, contributors. Near Fine/VG/No price in mylar. Owner stamp concealed under front flap, one bumped corner in jacket with traces of offset to rear. Work divided into Arctic Section, New England, Chesapeake and The South..

Milwaukee, WI: Published by Order of the Board of Trustees (Aetna Press), June 15, 1933. Illustrated by 10 plates numbered as Vol.10, 61-70 bound with paginated guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. First thus edition. Printed grey wraps, uncut. 4to (27cm). pp. [iii], 332-374, [2] blank (10 plates not paginated). Near Fine. Red Museum stamps to lightly soiled cover, unread and unopened signatures with overall toning. The Bulletins comprised 55 separate monographs, some with multiple parts, covered in Twenty volumes from May 1910 to mid-1950's..

Forlag: Redigeret af Rigsantikvarens Ark¾ologiske Sekretariat, Udgivet af National museet og de danske naturagasselskaber (Poul Kristensens), 1987. Illustrated by 1686 line drawings, charts, and photos (some in color) of pieces with b/w maps corresponding to sites of pieces found along pipeline. First edition. Blue decorated cloth, printed white. 4to. pp. 514, [1], [2] blank, [1] colophon. Indices (Registers) in Danish, English, German: Chronological (Kronologisk), Category of Find (Sagregister), Place-Name, (Stedregister). Near Fine/No jacket. Light cap and corner wear. Text in Danish with English summaries. Catalog of all 1686 plates interlinear. A remarkable eight year collaborative effort of the State Antiquary's Archaeological Secretariat and the Natural Gas Company in the excavating of nearly 1700 pieces as the "Big H" gas pipe lines were laid in Denmark 1979-86. Highlights include ceremonial house with Bronze Age Petroglyphs excavated near Sandagergard on Sealand, the… Read More

London, Boston and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1979). Edited by Michael W. Young. Illustrated by pp. [8] b/w plates (gloss photos), charts and maps in text. First thus (FPu,y) edition. Burgundy boards, silver stamped spine. Demy 8vo. pp. ix, [1], 254. Index. Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Major monographs of Polish anthropologist's work on Kula and Trobriand culture..

New York: J. J. Augustin Publisher, (1947). Illustrated by b&w 4 plates, 4 figures, 2 text maps, 2 folding maps in looser rear envelope (collated). First edition. Stiff card wraps. Short Royal 8vo (23,5cm). pp. 110, [6]. Very Good. Sunning and trace edgewear to cover, internally near fine..

Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Illustrated by 150 total photos, drawings and (14) maps. Stated First edition. Med. brown cloth, gilt print spine. Royal 8vo. pp. xv, [3], 510. Notes, Bibliography, Index. VG/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Thin dust line and light cap crushing, jacket with shallow edge chipping at caps and fold, light edgewear, rubbing and overall soil. Two years of first hand travel and research..

Boston: Gambit, (1969). Illustrated by color plates (photos & maps), one fold-out. First US edition. c.1969, London under slightly different title. Blue cloth. 8vo. pp. 244. Index. VG/Good+/Clipped price in mylar. Light edgewear to binding with several stickers removed from ffep o/w internally fine, in bright jacket with closed tears and light edgewear..

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Illustrated by Alan Crump. First (N) edition. Paper covered boards. 8vo. pp. 199. Index. As New/In like jacket/No price in mylar. ISBN: 0226121992..

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. First edition. Flash printed gray cloth. 8vo. pp. xi, 462. VG+/No jacket. Light edgewear and bumping, small tear top spine..