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185-191 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLIII Number 2 complete issue. First edition.
This essay discusses a traditional model of the maternal nurturing of newborn babies in the Shoshoni tradition from a native-language perspective. It examines the 30-day period of confinement called nagotooh(gahni), which was viewed as a symbolic extension of a mother's womb (no aabi). Nagotooh(gahni) implied behavioral and dietary prescriptions and recommendations that guided a woman during a socially structured transition to motherhood. (Confinement practices, mother-infant interactions, nagotooh(gahni), Shoshoni)
Condition: Light edge wear with bumped corners, head page ends soiled else very good

x+287 pages with diagrams, tables, appendixes and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4 " x 6 1/4") issued in green cloth with white lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. Texas Pan American Series. 1st edition.James Taggart compares the folklore of two communities of Nahuat speakers of the northern Sierra de Puebla, in Mexico. Because of close historical, linguistic and cultural ties, these groups share many stories, but Taggart clearly illustrates how their differing positions as Indians in Mexican society influence the content of these stories. One community, for example, is unusually autonomous in their dealings with the Hispanic populace. In their tales they retain many Aztec religious personalities, including the anthropomorphized serpent gods Quetzalcoatl and Coatlicue. Like that of the ancient Aztecs, their oral tradition exhibits and integrated view of human-animal relationship. In contrast, the Nahuat whose ethnic community is dominated by their Hispanic populace have replaced many of… Read More

298 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers.
The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most popular, reputable, and deeply studied of all chess openings. The opening is named after the Polish-Argentine grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, although he was not the first strong player to play the variation. Many players have relied on the Najdorf (notably Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, although Kasparov would often transpose into a Scheveningen)The Najdorf begins:
1. e4 c52. Nf3 d63. d4 cxd44. Nxd4 Nf65. Nc3 a6Black's 5...a6 aims to deny the b5-square to White's knights and light-square bishop while maintaining flexible development. If Black plays 5...e5?! immediately, then after 6.Bb5+! Bd7 (or 6...Nbd7 7.Nf5) 7.Bxd7+ Nbxd7 (or Qxd7) 8.Nf5, the knight on f5 is difficult to dislodge without concessions. Games in the Najdorf frequently feature opposite-side castling, where White castles long and both sides launch simultaneous… Read More

296 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over light green boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.She may be a bestselling author, but ex-librarian Jacqueline Kirby's views on the publishing biz aren't fit to print. In fact, she's thinking of trading celebrity for serenity and a house far away from fiendish editors and demented fans when her agent whispers the only words that could ever make her stay: Naked in the Ice.Seven years ago, this blockbuster skyrocketed Kathleen Darcy to instant fame. Now the author's heirs are looking for a writer to pen the sequel. It's an opportunity no novelist in her right mind would pass up, and there's no doubting Jacqueline's sanity...until she starts digging through the missing woman's papers--and her past. Until she gets mixed up with Kathleen's enigmatic lover. Until a series of nasty accidents convince her much too late that someone wants to bring Jacqueline's story--and her… Read More

293 pages. royal octavo (99 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with silver lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author to title. First edition. Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont investigates the New Year's Eve murder of a high-tech executive with a degenerate personal life. By the author of Lying in Wait. Tour. Condition: Slightly cocked, page ends lightly soiled else very good in a fine copy.

257 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Lawrence Thornton is an American novelist and critic living in Claremont, California. His most well known novel, Imagining Argentina, employs the methods of magic realism to tell a story of the Dirty War. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.

276 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2') bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Returning to Nantucket for a midwinter reunion with her old friends, Mrs. Potter finds her friends dangerously thin as a result of diet doctor Count Tony Ferencz's influence and finds the community plagued by "accidental deaths". Condition: Previous owner's neat name to front end paper else near fine in a fine jacket.

259 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with black lettering to spine over grey boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When director William Olds arrives on the island of Nantucket with his entourage to shoot soap opera, Professor Neil Kelly must sort through the death and destruction they leave behind. Condition: Previous owner's blind stamp to front end page, spine end lightly sunned at edges else very good in a near fine jacket.

v+354 pages with diagrams, plates and indexes. Royal octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/2") issued in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. First edition.William Ewart Napier (17 January 1881 in East Dulwich, Surrey - 6 September 1952 in Washington, D.C.) was an American chess master of English birth. His parents emigrated to the United States when he was five years old. From 1895 he lived in Brooklyn and came into contact with some of the best chess players of the country. He had his first successes with simultaneous games, among other things winning in December 1894 versus the acting United States Chess Champion Jackson Whipps Showalter. At the beginning of 1896 he, despite his young age, became a member of the Brooklyn Chess Club and won the club championship later that year, at the age of 15. In the same year he defeated the later grandmaster Frank James Marshall in a match, winning 7:1 with 3 draws. 1897 saw him win a tournament game against ex-world champion Wilhelm… Read More

xxix+212 pages with plates, illustrations, maps, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Antonio Nariño (1765 1823) as a prosperous merchant who served as alcalde and as royal treasurer of tithes. He also headed a group that met to discuss the issues of the day in the light of new intellectual currents emanating from the European Enlightenment, whose principal authors were represented in Nariño's extensive personal library. He gained political notoriety when he was arrested in 1794 for having printed and secretly distributed a Spanish translation of the French revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man. He traveled where he attempted to sound out the British concerning possible help in case a revolution broke out in Spanish America. In 1797 he returned to New Granada, where he boldly surrendered to the authorities. He was not sent back to exile, but over the… Read More

[8]+194+[4] pages with full-page engraving on verso of title page. Quarto (7 3/4" x 6") bound in contemporary vellum with edges tinted red. (European Americana 740/121; Medina, BHA 6467; Palau 92347; Sabin 24815) Second edition, first published in 1692.
Francisco de Florencia was the first Jesuit to be born in the territory that is now known as the United States, in the current state of Florida. At the age of twenty-three, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1612 and was professor of philosophy and theology at the Colegio Máximo de México. In 1668 he was sent as procurator of his province to Rome and Madrid. He then returned to the Mexican capital, where he died in 1695. Of his sixteen works (almost all with very baroque titles), the History of the Province of the Society of Jesus in New Spain stands out , published in Mexico in 1694, where he recorded the missionary work of the priests, without making concessions to the Indians, whom he almost totally ignores.
Before entering the Society of Jesus… Read More

225 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed. First edition.To most of his family, and to the residents of the Wisconsin town in which he had lived so many years, the death of cynical, blasphemous old Van Vliet Narracong was quite natural. He had led a hard life and his exit from it was nothing to arouse conjecture. But his stern old sister thought otherwise and called in Judge Peck, the juridical detective whose uncannily penetrating mind had solved other strange cases of murder. For it was soon apparent that Van Vliet had been murdered--so cleverly that only the most observant eyes could discover the method. There were plenty of people who disliked him but it was Judge Peck's job to find out who hated Van Viet enough to go to the extreme of murder. So Judge Peck probed the secrets of the curious Narracong household, sounded its devious undercurrents, and untangled the strange family… Read More

2 volumes. xii-[13]-405 pages with frontispiece, folding map and one lithographic plate; xii-[11]-406 pages with frontispiece and two lithographic plates. Octavo ( 8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth and blind-stamped gilt titles to spine. and blind stamped pictorial design to covers. (Best of the West 84; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 116; Graff 2304; Howes K75 "aa"; Wagner-Camp 110:1; Rittenhouse 347; Sabin 37360; Streeter, Texas 1515) First edition, second issue binding with 1845 imprinted on spine.George Wilkins Kendall, journalist and pioneer Texas sheepman. In 1841 at Austin Kendall joined the Texan Santa Fe expedition, launched by Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar. Near Tucumcari, New Mexico, the expedition, suffering hardships and confusion, surrendered to the Mexican army. Kendall marched as a prisoner to Mexico City, where he and others were imprisoned for a time in a leper colony. The Picayune published twenty-three of his letters (June 17, 1841-April 30, 1842) detailing… Read More

xx+220+[3 report]+[12 ad and member] pages with figures and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and edge ruled decorative blind stamp to covers. Edited and with introduction by Clements Markham. Hakluyt Society, First series: Volume 48. First edition.
Contents: An Account of the Fables and Rites of the Yncas by Christoval de Medina; An Account of the Antiquities of Peru by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-Yanqui Salamayhua; A Narrative of the errors, false gods and other superstitions and diabolical rites in which the Indians of the Province of Huarochiri lived in ancient times by Dr Francisco de Avial; Report by Polo de Ondegardo.
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Spine darkened, gilt dulled, book plate to front paste down else very good.

xx+[folding map]+417 pages with frontispiece map. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in modern half calf with five raised spine binds and black label in gilt lettering over marbled boards. ( Arctic Bibliography 16124; Field 1411; Lada-Mocarski 115; Sabin 81374; Wagner-Camp 101) First edition.
Thomas Simpson was a Scottish Arctic explorer, Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and cousin of Company Governor Sir George Simpson. He helped chart the northern coasts of Canada.
From 1836 to 1839, Simpson was involved in an expedition to chart the Arctic coast of Canada in order to fill two gaps left by other expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage. The expedition was headed by Peter Warren Dease, a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Thomas was the junior officer but Dease ceded most of the responsibility to him. Several writers[3][4] present Simpson as an ambitious and over-confident young man, whereas Dease was 20 years older, experienced in Arctic travel, and efficient but perhaps under-confident.… Read More

xxiv+740 pages with frontispiece, 24 plates (three of which are color printed mezzotints), 6 maps (two folding), errata leaf at front, without half-title, ads and addenda. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") Early half purple morocco over pebbled cloth, the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with raised bands, the edges marbled. (Abbey Travel 636; Arctic Bibliography 14866; Sabin 73381) First edition.Admiral Sir John Ross was a British naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was the uncle of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, RN who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica. In 1819, William Parry, his lieutenant on the previous expedition, returned to the Arctic, and sailed 600 miles west beyond the "Crocker Hills", thereby discovering the main axis of the Northwest Passage. Partly to redeem his reputation Ross proposed to use a shallow-draft steam ship to break through the ice. The Admiralty was not interested, but he was able to convince the gin-magnate Felix Booth to finance a second… Read More

vii+[blank]+456 pages with frontispiece, terminal folding chart of Hudson's Strait, 12 lithographic plates, tables and appendix. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in half period purple calf over marbled sides with four raised spine bands in gilt decoration and black label lettering in gilt, all edges sprinkled red. (Arctic Bibliography 850; Hill 44; Ricks p. 30; Sabin 2617; TPL 2033) First edition.George Back left England in February 1833, reached the Great Slave Lake in August where George McLeod of the Hudson's Bay Company had built winter quarters at Fort Reliance at the eastern end of the lake. He located the river on 29 August and returned to the fort to winter. In March 1834 he received a packet of letters saying that Ross was back in England and telling him to explore the coast from Ross's King William Land to Franklin's Point Turnagain. This was the main unknown region, along with a few hundred miles eastward from Point Barrow and the area around King William Island which was completely… Read More

6 volumes. lx+434 pages with frontispiece, 7 plates, 15 vignettes (including music scores), 67 woodcuts, tables and one internal folding map; xvi+476 pages with frontispiece, 13 plates, 14 vignettes (including music scores), 46 woodcuts, and 3 folding maps; xv+438 pages with 12 plates, 10 vignettes (including music scores) and 50 woodcuts; xv+539 pages with fold out frontispiece map, 15 plates, tables, 5 vignettes and 35 woodcuts; xii+558 pages with frontispiece fold out map, 15 plates, 3 vignettes, 49 woodcuts, tables, 3 maps and index; atlas 5 engraved folding maps and charts (one hand-colored) Quarto (10 3/4" x 7") bound in uniform half-blue calf over marbled boards, cornered in calf (Cowan p.683; Forbes 1574; Hill 1867; Haskell 2B, 17; Howes W-414; Rosove 353.B1) The first edition published by Sherman in 1844 of which 100 copies were printed for sale and 63 sets which were given to states and foreign nations and which 25 were destroyed in a fire. An unofficial edition by Lea And Blanchard in 1845… Read More

2 volumes. xx+404+[2 ad] pages with 14 chromoxylographs, 33 woodcuts and 5 maps (one folding); xvi+472+[iii] pages with 6 chromoxylographs plates from photographs taken by Humphrey Lloyd Hime, photographer to the expedition, or from sketches by John Fleming, assistant surveyor and draughtsman, 43 woodcuts, 3 maps and plans (two folding) and appendix. Royal octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped ruled edges with terracotta stamping. (Abbey, Travel, 630; Field 699; Graff 1892; Lande 1235; Pilling, Siouan, p. 36; Sabin 31933; Wagner-Camp 361) First editions)
Henry Youle Hind a Victorian-era scientist, explorer, surveyor, and writer of popular exploration texts, Hind made a range of contributions to the advancement of science in Canada. His surveys of the North-West between 1857 and 1860 produced the country's first scientific information about the region, including the earliest photography and accurate maps. His identification of travel… Read More

xiii+324 pages with frontispiece, maps, plates, illustrations, appendix and index. Quarto (10 3/4" x 7 1/4") bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine housed in custom enclosure. Translated by Buckingham Smith. Edited by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Bradford Club Series number 5. First edition limited to 125 copies of which this is number 76.
Hernando de Soto (c1500-1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.
De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout what is now the southeastern United States, both searching for gold, which had been… Read More