. Being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839. In two volumes. With three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings. Pp. xii+208+xii+304(last colophon), 180 coloured plates, including 3..... More
Being an enhanced facsimile of Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; With ten plates. First published in 1814 and now faithfully reprinted. Pp. [36], 20 plates in the facsimile (10 coloured, each accompanied by a tinted version of the same image), plus 2 tinted..... More
Pp. 256, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 7 plates; tall demy 8vo; pictorial green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, black & blind, the boards faintly soiled and slightly flecked, edges lightly rubbed and fore-corners faintly bruised; early inked ownership inscription on upper free endpaper, the upper endpapers lightly..... More
Pp. xx+332, frontispiece, text illustrations, text maps and charts, patterned endpapers, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; grey boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, small bruise to head of spine extending into top edge of upper board; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, the laminate lifting at a few points, edges lightly rubbed..... More
A copious selection of passages for the study of social anthropology from the Manuscript notebooks of Sir James George Frazer, arranged and edited from the Mss. by Robert Angus Downie. In four volumes, each demy 4to, Volume I dark green, others pale blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt; comprising: THE..... More
Pp. xxii+296(last blank), indices; med. 8vo; blue cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gilt; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Greenwood Press, New York, 1992. Bibliographies and Indexes in Anthropology, Number 6. More
(In continuation of [C.5039, April 1887.) [C.-7679]. Pp. iv+38(last blank), large folding map, short closed tear in one margin; stabbed and tied; folio; leaves lightly browned, first few pages slightly creased; His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895. More
Pp. viii+108(last colophon)+[2](map, verso blank) frontispiece, plus 24 plates, full page map; pictorial light green cloth, lettered and decorated in darker green, lightly soiled and worn, the spine and part of lower board browned, fore-corners lightly bruised, the spine extremities a trifle frayed; hinges cracking, outer leaves browned, 2 related..... More
Pp. [237]-308(last blank), text figures; small cr. 4to; printed paper wrappers; Hassell Press, Adelaide, 1943. *Includes articles by H. Womersley on Spiders, and H. V. V. Noone on Aboriginal stone implements. More
Illustrated with paintings by Beatien Yazz. Pp. 192, coloured title page illustration and 7 plates, demy 8vo; turquoise cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board decorated in brown, the boards a trifle warped, spine slightly faded; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers offset, outer..... More
through June 1975. Pp. 24(last blank); cr. 4to; tape-backed pictorial paper wrappers, tiny chip to lower edge of upper wrapper; 2 small corrections to title page; Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch, Darwin, 1975. More
Pp. [xii]+148, illustrated throughout in colour and occasional black & white, pictorial endpapers, location map, glossary; med. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; faint signs of security sticker removal from lower pastedown; Magabala Books, Broome, Western Australia, 1994. Second printing. More
Pp. xiv+368, 16 plates, glossary, tribal distribution list, notes and references, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, the boards faintly marked, bottom fore-corner of lower board bruised, spine dulled; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and rubbed, edges chipped and split; Harcourt Brace & World, New York, 1968..... More
Pp. [vi]+462; demy 8vo; qr. blue cloth, spine lettered in black, grey/brown papered boards, upper board decorated in black; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel faintly soiled; small damp stain to top edge of a few leaves; Philosophical Library, New York, 1960. First edition. *An..... More
