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89 pages with black and white photographs. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Section I: Travel and Exploration, including Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Subcontinent From a private West Coast collection.
Section II: Maps and Atlases
Section III: Natural History (Books)
Section IV Natural History (Prints and Graphics)
Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

Patrick Stephens 1979 Cambridge, 1979 Very good lacking dust wrapper 1st Wrappers Tall 8vo 64p [wrappers] Edge wear, corners bumped, hinges rubbed.. Hardcover.

Patrick Stephens 1981 Cambridge, 1981 Very good lacking dust wrapper 1st Wrappers Tall 8vo 64 [wrappers], spine sunned. Hardcover.

Patrick Stephens 1979 New York, 1979 Very good lacking dust wrapper 1st Wrappers Tall 8vo 64 [wrappers], back wrapper and spine ends lightly rubbed. Hardcover.

W W Norton & CO 1990 New York, 1990 Very good issued in wrappers 1st Wrappers Quarto 189pp Some minor underlining of text, corners bumped, edge wear.. Soft cover.

435-442 pages. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. The American Mercury: A Monthly Review. Volume XII, Number 48. First edition The legend of the Packing White Mustang was, as the author put it, ",,, the last of the great horse legends of the civilized world." The American oikotype of the the legend took root and grew in a country composed of two radical facts: horses and horsemen. The frontier West was a place where mobility was often the key to survival. Having a horse that would run fast and long occasionally made the difference between keeping one's hair and losing it. Consequently everyone who could beg, buy, borrow or steal a horse went mounted. The truth behind the proverb that "a man without a horse is no man at all" was seldom ignored by anyone with a yen for living a long and profitable life. Condition: Wrapper edges and spine ends chipped, rubbing to extremities. Advertisements from 1927 else a good to very good copy.

126 pages with Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with blue lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. First American edition.Again we find Paddington in excellent form?and, as usual, up to his ears in trouble. By accident he takes a driving test and is later presented with a certificate to drive something very special. Somehow his neighbor, Mr. Curry, is padlocked into Mr. Brown's new steaming-hot sauna bath, while Paddington has difficulty remembering his combinations. Paddington Takes the Test is packed full of the bear's well-meaning intentions, which go hilariously wrong.Condition: Previous owner's gift inscription to front end paper, slight stain to back end paper. Jacket heavily chipped wit loss, with insect damage, stained else very good in a poor jacket.

248 pages with pictorial title and plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Serie Historia XXV. first edition. Number 872 of 2000 copies. Francisco de la Maza was a historian , researcher and academic Mexican . He specialized in the history of New Spain art , but he ventured into the study of some other works or trends such as art nouveau. He made his first studies in his hometown and in the city of Puebla . He moved to Mexico City where he entered the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico to study history. During this time he met Justino Fernández , with whom he became friends, and was a disciple of Manuel Toussaint , who invited him to join the Institute for Aesthetic Research . He taught at his alma mater and at the National School of Anthropology and History . He was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and member number of the Mexican Academy of history to which he… Read More

xxii+630 pages with color frontispiece, plates, diagrams, tables, charts, drawings, illustrations, color chart in back pocket and index. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Note on technology by Anna O Shepard. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Number 38. Reports of the Awatovi Expedition Report number 8. First edition.J. O. Brew was organizing the Peabody Museum of Harvard's excavation program at Awatovi, a major pre- and post-conquest Hopi village. He had met Smith in Colorado in 1933. When he again met him in Flagstaff, he invited him to join the Awatovi Expedition. Smith's arrival in the summer of 1936 coincided with the finding of a kiva with extensive painted murals. Because no one else was available, Smith was asked to tackle the problem of exposing and recording these remarkable artistic and religious records. He has written, "That. . . beginning turned out to be one of the bonanzas of the whole expedition. In subsequent summers… Read More

xvii+159 pages with illustrations, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Introduction by B W Robinson. First published in 1928 by Oxford Press.
This book indicates the place of painting in the culture of the Islamic word, both in relation to those theological circles which condemned the practice of it, and to those persons who, disregarding the prohibitions of religion, consulted their own tastes in encouraging it. 60 illustrations.
Condition: Wrapper soiled, edge wear with bumped corners, previous owner's name to front end paper else goodl

294-314 pages with diagrams, photographs and cited references. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. American Antiquity Volume 40, number 3 complete issue. First edition. Two hitherto unrelated Teotihuacan mural paintings, no longer in situ, probably are companion pieces from upper and lower walls in the same portico or room or in related porticos or rooms of the same compound. The tassel headdresses worn by the figures in the paintings appear to be insignia of "Rain God"-related social units or institutions, signifying leadership and authority, with military associations. The contexts in which the tassel headdresses occur, both within the ancient city and outside its borders, suggest that persons with rights to the headdress may have been members of or attached to the ruling establishment or the bureaucracy of the Teotihuacan state. The unique two-part notation on the upper wall painting appears to be hierarchically ordered, corresponding to a ranking either of the social units to… Read More

173-192 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLV Number 3 complete issue. First edition.
During the mid-twentieth century in Oklahoma, young artists at a school for American Indians selectively used ethnographic accounts of Native American cultures written by anthropologists to enhance their artistic representations. While creating Indian art became an important means of preserving knowledge of tribal cultures, cultural preservation took on a larger significance in the school's goal to train professional Indian artists whose livelihoods depended on the patronage of private collectors and museums. Art students utilized anthropological accounts of Indian cultures to help them succeed, but they and their teachers ultimately rejected anthropologists as final authorities on their cultures. Through their participation in art competitions that demanded specific representations of Indianness, their use of ethnography, and their rejection… Read More

University of Texas Press 1992 Austin, 1992 Near Fine in a Near Fine Dust Wrapper First Edition Hardbound Quarto Mall xlvii, 140p. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

xx+377 pages with 86 color photographs, 9 black and photographs, 128 figures, 3 maps, appendices and index. Oblong Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 11") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Contributions by Joseph W Ball, Ronald L Bishop, Virginia M Fields and Barbara MacLeod. Photography by Justin Kerr. Forewords by Michael P Mezzatesta and Linda Schele. First edition.Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya ceramic painting yet published. Building on twenty years of research and debate, Dorie Reents-Budet and her collaborators Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L. Bishop, Virginia M. Fields, and Barbara MacLeod bring together many perspectives, including the art historical, archaeological, epigraphical, and ethnohistorical, to examine one of the world's great but overlooked painting traditions. With an emphasis on sixth- to eighth-century pottery featuring… Read More

206 pages with tables, charts, figures, bibliography and indices. Royal octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The book published by María Soledad de León Torres is part of her doctoral research, within which she carried out extensive field work with families and women in the municipality of Totatiche, Jalisco. The work consists of four chapters, as well as an introduction, a conclusion and a rich bibliography. The reading of the book is pleasant and fluid, due to its descriptive and lively style that corresponds to this type of work (ethnographic); "we enter" easily into the lives of these people, through which we discover what the author wants to teach us. The style and its content make the work accessible for a broad academic sector and not only for specialists. This anthropological and ethnographic work is located in linguistic anthropology, which deals with the study of the diversity of languages ​​spoken in different societies and how these… Read More

xv+269 pages with 153 plates. bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound originally paper back bound in red cloth with white lettering to spine. From the libraries of James C Gifford and Thomas R Hester. First paper back edition. A desire to recreate Minoan palaces, villas, and houses of the Late Bronze Age inspired the author of this book to undertake an eight year research program that has radically modified our conception of the appearance of Cretan dwellings. James Collier Gifford (1927-1973) was an anthropologist with a particular interest in the archaeology of the American Southwest and ancient Mesoamerica. He was born in New York City and attended private boarding high schools; the Thatcher School in Ojai, California and the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs. After receiving a bachelor s degree from the University of Arizona in 1951, he married fellow anthropology student Carol A. Gifford (b. 1930) who became his editor and closest colleague in Southwest and Mayan… Read More

344 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with blue gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition.For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now, the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia's coast to find solitude - and herself. As she becomes increasingly involved with the strange and handsome twin scions of the powerful Drummond family, she feels her traumatic memories begin to fade. But when a killer launches a series of gruesome murders, Liz discovers that there is no place to hide - not even in her lover's arms.Condition: Signed on title page. Jacket price clipped else near fine in like jacket.

xxviii+203 pages with photographs, tables, glossary, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Foreword by Sol Tax. First edition. This admirable book does three things that are especially worthy of note: It provides us with a longitudinal perspective. . . . a remarkably explicit and well-considered approach to the ethnography of belief. . . . [and]Hinshaw puts his study of Panajachel in a regional perspective. . . . In sum, this book is an unusual and important contribution to Middle American ethnography, and it will be read with profit by anyone interested in Indian populations in that area. Condition: A very good copy.

233-254 pages with figures and bibliography. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 1, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Gertrude Prokosch Kurath was an American dancer, researcher, author, and ethnomusicologist. She researched and wrote extensively on the study of dance, co-authoring several books and writing hundreds of articles. Her main areas of interest were ethnomusicology and dance ethnology, with some of her best known works being "Panorama of Dance Ethnology" in Current Anthropology (1960), the book Music and dance of the Tewa Pueblos co-written with Antonio Garcia (1970), and Iroquois Music and Dance: ceremonial arts of two Seneca Longhouses (1964), in the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin. She made substantial contributions to the study of Amerindian dance, and to dance theory. From 1958 to January 1972 she was dance editor for the journal Ethnomusicology. Condition: Light edges, corners bumped else… Read More

286+iv pages with five facsimile indigenous maps. Size Royal Octavo (9 1/2" x 7"). Issued in original wrappers. Volume five, Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Tlaxcala. Manuscripts of the Real Academia de la Historia de Mardrid y del Archivo de Indias en Sevilla. Year 1580-1582. First Edition.Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when… Read More