Anthropology

2 Volumes. lii+395+[4] pages; vi+427 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") volume one rebound in red leather with gilt lettering to spine; volume two original quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. First editions.The first Mexican linguist worthy of this name is Francisco Pimentel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. He attempted to systematize what was known until then about the Indian languages of Mexico. His work is the starting-point for the development of a more scientific approach to linguistic studies on Mesoamerican languages. A scholar versed in European typology and comparative linguistic studies of the nineteenth century Pimentel is clearly indebted to his predecessor the Spaniard Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, as well as Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Schlegel, Ernest Renan, Jacob Grimm and others. His work on linguistic classification in Mexico, unlike that of Orozco y Berra, was as up to date as that of any of his North American contemporaries. The second… Read More

London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Part of The Ethnographical Library. 6pp of advertisements, xiv, [4], 239pp. Modern brown half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Four color plates, two folding maps (one of the seats of the Papuan Race in the Indian Archipelago; the other of New Guinea), one folding plate with illustrations of the different typologies of heads of Papuans and North Australians, two tables, one of which lists specimens of Papuan and North Australian dialects, and two in-text illustrations. Internally very clean with a few small spots to four of the leaves, very mild foxing to the verso of the plates and to the folding plate. A near fine copy. ; Octavo.

Moisture marks to front cover. Particulars in gilt to spine, which is severely lacking the fabric. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Odd pagination with corrections in pen to pages 161-163. Text block separated at page 258/259. ; xiii, 418 pages.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1872. First edition. Hard cover. Reprinted, with the author's additions, from the Athenaeum. A posthumous publication edited by De Morgan's widow. Published London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. 8vo., vii, [1 erratum], 511, [1 colophon], illustrated with tables, drawings within the text, plus Longman's Catalog of September, 1877 appended [30pp.]. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor's copy with his signature and bookplate. Tylor was Fellow of the Royal Society, the founder of cultural anthropology and the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford. This copy of "Paradoxes" was presented to Oxford University by his wife upon his death in 1917, with a commemorative bookplate: "From the Library of Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, KNT., D.C.L., F.R.S., The first Reader and Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford. Presented to the Radcliffe Trustees by Dame Anna Rebecca Tylor, June, 1917." Blue cloth with gilt spine titles, gray endpapers.… Read More

London: Printed for J. Salisbury, 1697. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo [3.25" x 6"]. ...Commodities, Divisions, Subdivisions, Cities, Rivers, Mountains, Lakes, with their Archbishopricks, Bishopricks and Universities. In a more Plain and Easie Method, more Compendious and Useful than any of the Lesser sort. Together with an Appendix of General Rules for making a large Geography, with the great Uses of that Science. Very Necessary for the right Understanding of the Transactions of these Tmes. Collected according to the latest Discoveries and agreeing with the Choicest and Newest Maps. The Fourth edition, Corrected and much Improved. Contemporary brown calf, red spine label with gilt title, blind panels with floral designs in corners to boards. Three raised bands, decorated in blind. Outer edges blind dentelle. [16], 236 pp., [12]. With four small maps on two leaves, one showing California as an island. Wear to edges and corners. A few scuffs to boards. Spine ends chipped, cracking to joints.… Read More

xii, 314 pp., 5 folding plates. Paper covered boards with gentle wear all around. No previous owners' names or other markings.

254+[2] pages sextodecimo (4 ¾" x 3 ¼" bound in nineteenth century quarter leather and boards, spine tooled in gilt. Second Edition.
Consists of 3 parts: Part 1, "Reglas de orthographia" (pages 1-12); Part 2, "Diccionario de los nombres, y verbos mas comunes, y necessarios en el idioma othomì", listing Otomi equivalents for approximately 2000 terms in Spanish alphabetical order (pages 13-95) and concluding with a list of numbers 1-1000 (pages 95-96); and Part 3, "Arte del idioma othomi; breve compendio de reglas, para que los principiantes puedan con facilidad formar oraciones, ê instruirse en los mayores rudimentos de este idioma" (pages 97-160), in Spanish with Otomi examples. Author identified as "cathedratico proprietario de dicho idioma en el Real, y Pontificio Colegio Saminario, examinador synodal, è interprete de el Tribunal de Fè en el Provisorato de Indios de este Arzobispado"
Neve y Molina was a native Otomi and the preliminary matter of the volume indicate that he was professor of the… Read More

Extraordinary pocket edition of exotic travel illustrations for a Regency armchair traveller.Set of fine plates only from Sonzogno's attractive Italian editions of great travels books from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.Covering ethnography, costume, landscape, ceremonies, natural history and more from Africa, China, South America, Europe, Turkey, the Pacific, etc.With 175 copperplate engravings (15 b/w) by Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Duche-de-Vancy, etc., most handcoloured by Lazaretti, after various artists.The plates from:John Mawe's Travels in the Interior of Brazil, 1812. Felix de Azara's Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale, 1809.Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage, 1797.Samuel Holmes' Journal of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1798. Joseph Billings and Martin Sauer's An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, 1799.Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa, 1799.Francois Le Vaillant's Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa, 1795.Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's Travels in the… Read More

A 1st ed. (2.000 copies) very good paperback (flaps),minor signs of wear on cov. as in image, text block near fine., FON. 592p. 22x16cm. 900gr. Indice/Index: image_2 / image_3.
Notice:This item ships from Hamburg, Germany. (Versand innerhalb Deutschlands, zu viel Porto wird zuruckerstattet).

1682 1ed Customs of BRABANT Dutch Netherlands Belgium JB Christyn Antwerp FOLIO
Jean-Baptiste Christyn was a 17th-century Dutch diplomat of the Spanish Netherlands. Prior to serving as the Brabant government, he wrote an extensive and thorough history of the Brabant (European low countries) in which he outlined laws, customs, and people from all over the Netherlands and Belgium.
This enormous 17th-century folio covers Dutch and Belgian cities including Antwerp, Louvain, Bergen op Zoom, Geel, Steenokkerzeel, and many more.
Item number: #18125
Price: $750
CHRISTYN, Jean-Baptiste
Brabandts recht dat is Generale costumen vanden lande ende hertoghdomme van Brabandt midtsgaders van het hertoghdom van Limborgh stede ende lande van Mechelen
T'Antwerpen : By Michiel Knobbaert, 1682. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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Pagination errors expected
· Language: Dutch
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~15in X 10in (38cm… Read More

Hanover: Ben Nikolaus Förster, 1718. Leather bound. Very good. A lovely old copy of of "A Brief and accurate system of modern geography, By a new and curious method." Translated and expanded by Johann Bernhard Heinzelmann from the sixth edition of Patrick Gordon's "Geography anatomized." Covers countries, customs, religions, and currency of the time and places.Bound in calfskin, with repaired cracking at the joint and wear to leather on front cover. Spine titled in faded gilt lettering. Missing the first free endpaper. Page edges stained with age. Double sheet title page in red and black ink. Part II divided by a double page illustration. Final page of the "Register" missing 1" circular section. Fraktur typeface. Text in German. 964 pp. octodecimo 4" x 6" tall

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Large octavo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches; 265 x 185 mm). xxiii, 91, blank], 407, [1, blank] pp. With seventeen black-and-white photographic plates, including frontispiece and over eight hundred illustrations in the text. Publisher's full blue cloth. Front board ruled and stamped in blind, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. A few leaves unopened. Brown coated endpapers. Previous owner, Dr. Wesley Wilbur Beckett's bookplate on front pastedown. Beckett was a Southern California surgeon and president of the California Medical Association. Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth. A bit of soiling to top of front board. Otherwise a near fine copy. Caroline Furness Jayne "was an American ethnologist who published the first book on string figures in 1906 titled String Figures: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands... Jayne became interested in string figures through… Read More

Mee-seen Loong Fine Art LLC, 2014. As New. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Softcover First Edition as issued in Good+ condition. xii+643pp. NOT Ex-library and NOT a facsimile. Wraps are slightly foxed on the margins of the front cover; interior bright and clean. All maps, photos and drawings intact; binding is tight but is cracked on the spine with all parts present and legible; edges rubbed and bumped, upper corner repaired with transparent tape; one foldout was apparently cut too long and the far edge is chipped and browned as indicated in the images; Morley's comprehensive study of the monuments and their inscriptions at the Honduran site of Copan, now a World Heritage Site. The volume is in remarkable shape with the foldouts appearing not to have been opened.

[32]+336+[80 index] pages with vignette title page, showing ships approaching a coast; engraved portrait of Thomas Aquinas and 5 small engravings in the text. Small folio (11 3/4" x 7 3/4") bound in period sheep, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers. (Medina IV, 2713; Borba de Moraes I, 346; Sabin, 26567) Second edition.
This work was originally published in 1607 and reissued in 1627 with additions by Gonzalez de Barcia and was originally anonymous. The anonymous 1729, or "pseudo-Garcia," as it is sometimes called, also reuses the old legends of Atlantis, Carthage, and the Hesperides, and is proceeded by supposed cultural and physiological analogies.
It takes advantage of Kircher's speculations, inclined towards Christian orthodoxy, to devalue Eastern cultures. Feijoo proceeds like the reeditor in attacking the preadamismo of Isaac de La Peyrre that affirmed that God had created men before Adam and that only the Hebrews descended from this one [1655]. Chapter… Read More