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MANNERS AND MONUMENTS OF PREHISTORIC PEOPLES.

MANNERS AND MONUMENTS OF PREHISTORIC PEOPLES.

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MANNERS AND MONUMENTS OF PREHISTORIC PEOPLES.

by Nadaillac, The Marquis de. Translated by Nancy Bell (N. D'Anvers)

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892. 412 pp, 8 3/4" H. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering/decoration on front board, top edge gilt. 113 b&w illustrations, including tissue-covered frontispiece. Contents: The Stone Age, its Duration, and its Place in Time; Food, Cannibalism, Mammals, Fish, Hunting and Fishing, Navigation; Weapons, Tools, Pottery - Origin of the Use of Fire, Clothing, Ornaments - Early Artistic Efforts; Caves, Kitchen-Middings, Lake Stations, "Terremares", Crannoges, Burghs, "Nurhags", "Talayoti", and "Truddhi"; Megalithic Monuments; Industry, Commerce, Social Organization - Fights, Wounds and Trepanation; Camps, Fortifications, Vitrified Forts - Santorin - The Towns upon the Hill of Hissarlik; Tombs; Index. Inside rear hinge has splitting to paper but is holding firmly, two edge tears on page leaf 403/404 - archivally taped, small 'v' tear on page leaf 407/408 - archivally taped, small area of browning at bottom of inside front hinge, browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, light edge wear - more at corners and at top/bottom of spine, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light waviness on spine, faint staining on half of rear board.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

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Capricorn Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
29613
Title
MANNERS AND MONUMENTS OF PREHISTORIC PEOPLES.
Author
Nadaillac, The Marquis de. Translated by Nancy Bell (N. D'Anvers)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First American Edition
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1892
Keywords
Africa, Stone Age, Algeria, America, Mound Builders, Cliff Dwellers, Extinction, Extinct Animals, Prehistoric Art, Avebury, Bear, Belgium, Birds, Animal Bones, Brittany, Bronze Age, Bronze, Bruniquel Cave, Cannibalism, Cartailhac, Caves, Chaleux Cave, Coi
Bookseller catalogs
History and Travel; BRITISH HISTORY; American History & Travel;

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