Search Results: Archaeology and Anthropology from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1999; First Edition; quarto; two volumes; black cloth; gilt titles; woven cloth marker ribbon. Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s extraordinary photographic study chronicling pagan ceremonial rites of the various black tribes from across the African continent -- North, East, South, West, and Central Africa. Much-detailed chapters covering practices related to birth and initiation, courtship and marriage, royalty and power, changing of the seasons, spirits and ancestors, etc., with explanations of the beliefs behind them. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of mesmerizing color photographs. A unique and astonishing work, nearly 750 pages in length. Fine, in a Fine slipcase. Warmly inscribed and signed in the blank margin of the title page of each volume by Hollywood screen actress Yvette Mimieux to notable screenwriter Gloria Katz, "For Gloria, celebrating the big adventures of life. With Love, Yvette." The women first met In 1975 while Mimieux’s… Read More

Virgilio Montalvo, Santo Domingo, D.R., 1927; First Edition; 8vo, 301 pages; printed wraps. Fifty-seven writings by distinguished Dominican writer/poet/educator Ramon Emilio Jimenez describing the traditions, beliefs, customs, character, personality, occupations,environment, and everyday lives of the Dominican people. A Dominican native, Jimenez (1886-1970) held numerous government administrative positions throughout his lifetime, most notably that of State Secretary of Education and Public Instruction. Inscribed on the dedication page by the author in his official capacity as follows: "Obsequio de la Secretaria de Estado de Just. e Inst. Pub. al Club Cultural Panamericana, Sto. Dgo. R.D, Oct. 26/ 1929" and accompanied by the official departmental seal. The title (’On Love For The Bohio’) is a reference to the simple cane and thatch dwelling of the rural population. Very Good Plus. Text clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, pages unopened. Rare.

The Itzan Society, Los Angeles, 1939; First Edition; 8vo, 32 pages; illustrated. First issue of the official bulletin of the Itzan Society, dedicated to pre-Columbian American research, with emphasis on the history of the Ancient pyramid-building peoples of Middle America: their origins, colonization, religion, civilization, and legacy to the modern world. Contains a 14 page history of Ancient America, with speculation on the Asiatic antecedents of mesoamerican societies, plus statements on the aims of the Society, description of its organization, regulations, list of members and officers, and list of library accretions for the years 1938-1939. Illustrated with a small map of the ancient American world on the eve of the European invasion, plus charts and in-text line drawings. Very Good, in printed yellow wraps. Clean, bright, no creases, tears, or chips. Scarce.

University Of California, Los Angeles, 1995; First Edition; 4to, 191 pages. Detailed ethnological study of African headwear, published in conjunction with the 1995 Fowler Museum Of Cultural History exhibit at the University Of California at Los Angeles. Beautifully illustrated in color and b&w, with the addition of a 7-page bibliography at the back. Fine, in color illustrated wraps.

Bison Books, Nebraska, 1978; First Edition; 8vo, 298 pgs. Collection of oral folk tale performances of the Zuni, translated by Dennis Tedlock. Very Good Plus, in illustrated stiff wraps.

Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1962; First Edition, third printing; 8vo, 398 pages plus a 13-page index at the back; illustrated. Geoffrey Thomas Bibbey’s engrossing study, from contemporary archaeological evidence, of a connected worldwide history of the second millennium B.C., a span of time in which some of the most well-known events in man’s history took place, but which previously had remained only a vague series of disconnected stories. Illustrated with thirty-two b&w photo plates, forty-five text illustrations, and six in-text maps. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has mild tanning of the spine panel and a few diminutive edge chips. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

University of California Press, Berkeley, 1970; First Edition; large 8vo, 340 pages; black cloth; silver titles; silver front board illustration; pastel blue end papers; blue topstain. Rudenko’s landmark study of the frozen barrow digs at Pazyryk undertaken by Gryaznov in 1929, and by the author himself from 1947-1949. Text in English. First publication in any translation since the original Russian edition of 1953. A monumental work, with 33 color plates, 147 b&w plates, and 146 in-text illustrations. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a 3/4" closed edge tear, not affecting titles or graphics.

Linguististic Society Of America, Baltimore, 1954; First Edition; 8vo, 67 pages. University of Pennsylvania dissertation by Richard Saunders Pitman on a descriptive grammar of the Masiewalli Nahuatl dialect of the village of Tetelcingo, Morelos, where the author and his family lived for seven years. Published as a supplement to the January-March, 1954 issue of LANGUAGE, the Journal of the Linguistic Society Of America. Very Good, in printed wraps.

Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1982; First Edition; Second Printing; 8vo, 115 pages; illustrated stiff wraps. An examination of the concept of wind in Navajo life and thought. Very Good.

Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico, 1989; First Edition; large 8vo, 290 pages; illustrated. Collection of writings related to the work of noted California anthropologist and archaeologist Isabel Kelly (1906-1982), who made her first visit to Mexico in 1935 and subsequently became a leader in the field of Mexican archaeology. Twenty-four articles, some in English, some in Spanish, by numerous anthropologists and archaeologists including, "La Doctora Kelly en Tajin," by Roberto Williams Garcia; "Isabel Kelly, Una Vida Entregada A La Antropologia," by Carolyn Baus de Czitrom; "The Letters of Isabel Kelly and Carl Sauer, 1935-1975," by Lucy Jarosz; "The Isabel T. Kelly Ethnographic Archive, A Descriptive Guide," by Robert V. Kemper and John Marcucci; "The Cult of Xipe Totec in Pre-Hispanic West Mexico," by H.B. Nicholson; "La Flor Cempoalxochitl, Su Simbolismo En El Arte y La Vida Prehispanica," by Doris Hayden; "La… Read More

Alaska-Northwest Publishing Co., Juneau, 1959; First Edition; Signed; square 8vo, 86 pages; illustrated. First person account of Alaskan Eskimo life by full-blood Eskimo Paul Green, born 1901 in Kotzbue, and whose Eskimo name was Aknik. Tells about how he got his name, the Alaskan Arctic, hunting bear, seal, whale, and caribou, how to make a snow house and sod igloo, Eskimo dances, Eskimo stories and legends, Eskimo foods, customs, duck hunts, ice fishing, and much more, all preserved in his unique style of Eskimo English. Illustrated by renowned Eskimo artist George Ahgupuk. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author in both his English and Eskimo names on the title page. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket which has two tiny chips on the top edge of the front panel, not affecting titles or graphics.

Naturegraph Publishers,, Healdsburg, CA, 1970; First Edition; Signed: 8vo, 112 pages; illustrated. A complete photo-illustrated guide to Plains Indian sign language. Inscribed and signed by Iron Eyes Cody. Very Good, in color photo illustrated wraps.

Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1966; First Edition, 4th printing; 4to, 530 pages; illustrated. Formidable archaeological study of North and MIddle America, spanning the period of time from man’s first appearance on the American continent to the coming of the Europeans. Authored by distinguished American archaeologist Gordon R. Willey, Ph.D., Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and staff archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Profusely illustrated. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket.

Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1971; First Edition, first printing; 4to, 530 pages; illustrated. Second volume of the intensive two-volume archaeological study of the Americas, here focusing on the continent of South America from man’s first appearance there to the coming of the Europeans. Authored by Gordon R. Willey, Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and staff archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Profusely illustrated. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket.

The Herbert Press, London, 1980; First Edition; 8vo, 288 pages. Detailed descriptions and historical backgrounds for over 70 of the most important and interesting places, islands, and buildings of Greece, each illustrated with maps and photographs. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket. A clean, bright, and sharp copy.

Editorial Porrua, Mexico, 1961; Second Edition, revised and enlarged by the author; 8vo, 385 pages. A professional instruction in Nahuatl grammar and pronunciation, accompanied by twenty selections from primary source 16th century Nahuatl literary manuscripts, followed by their corresponding translations into Spanish. Also included are a number of later-century texts demonstrating dialectical variations and the evolution over time of the Nahuatl language. Painstakingly authored by Catholic priest Angel Maria Garibay K. (1892 - 1967), renowned linguist, philologist, and historian of Mesoamerican cultures, most especially of the Nahua peoples. Revised and enlarged from the 1940 edition by the author, with explanatory preface at the front. Finely bound in full tree calf with morocco spine labels, beveled boards, gilt titles, decorative end papers, and green silk marker ribbon, original wraps bound in. Forty-eight page Nahuatl-Spanish dictionary at the back. Inscribed and signed on f.f.e.p. by the… Read More

The Itzan Society, Los Angeles, 1940; First Edition. Large map showing in detail the geographic ranges of the Amerindian tribes of the Americas at the close of the pre-Columbian era, with copious notations as to their territories, cities, populations, racial types, languages, cultures, etc. Compiled and edited in 1940 by distinguished American archaeologist Max Wells Jakeman (1910-1998) for the Itzan Society, founded in Los Angeles in 1938 to investigate the origins of the ancient native civilizations of the Americas. Measures 24"x 36" fully opened, 7" x 10" folded. An original 1940 map, not a reprint. Fine condition.

Dover Publications, NY, 1976; First Edition; 4to, 248 pages. Authoritative study, profusely illustrated with 264 b&w photographs of masks from all regions of the African continent, each identified as to tribe, place of origin, and use. Includes masks of the Dogon, Bambara, Senufo, Guere (Ngere)-Wobe, Baule, Kuyu, Yoruba, Baga, Bapende, Bwa, Bobo-Fing, Ibo, and many other tribes. Lengthy text on psychology of the masks, roles of the dancer, naturalism vs. abstraction, carving styles, position of the carver in tribal society, and much additional background material. Tribal location map at the front. A Dover original first edition. Fine, in illustrated wraps.

Antigua Libreria Robredo y Editorial Aurora, Mexico, D.F, 1961; 8vo, 142 pages. A grammar, vocabulary, and reader of Nahuatl to Spanish, and Spanish to Nahuatl. Very Good, in red, white, and green stiff wraps. Page margins tanned.

Smith College, Northhampton, MA, 1964; First Edition; 8vo, 43 pages of text plus 31 pages of b&w photographic plates; white boards; gilt titles. Thesis study focusing on the question of the dating of the metopes from the temple of Athena at Ilion, unearthed by Schlieman in 1872. Were they part of the structure Strabo claims Lysymachos erected, or did they belong to a later building, dedicated in the time of Augustus? Very Good Plus, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.