Various locations, circa 1921. Photographs 8.5 x 14 cm, album 28 x 20 cm. Fifty black and white photographs housed in a navy blue binder with "First Day Covers" stamped in gold to title and spine, with corresponding blue cardboard slipcase. Some slight creasing and light staining, overall about very..... More
289 pp. ethnographic text by E. Torday and T. A. Joyce on the native peoples of Zaire, their arts (including tatooting and ritual scarification), games, and history, notes, index, 403 txt. illus., incl. maps, drawings, plans, patterns for textiles, etc., 29 fine pl. (16 color), many photos, and two loose..... More
2 vols., XXXII, 454, XIII, 291 pp. text documenting the history of guilds in Barcelona, mainly during the 15th and 16th centuries, including the apothecaries, silver-makers and book sellers, list of members, transcriptions of documents, extensive scholarly notes, 19 plates. Slight foxing on opening pages. Lg. 8vo. Wrpps. Barcelona (Libreria..... More
389 pp. anthropological text discussing various topics relating to the tribe, including artifacts, myths, social organization, songs (including transcriptions of lyrics), etc., extensive scholarly notes, 47 plates showing images from photographs. Some notes in pencil. Title page missing? Small 4to. Cloth. N.p. (Washington, D.C. (Bureau of American Ethnology)) n.d. (1908)..... More
XXIX, 977 pp. collection of 76 scholarly papers on subjects in ethnology, theology, prehistory, etc., ext. notes, list of Schmidt's writings, 158 text illus., 2 maps, portrait frontispiece, 41 plates. Small 4to. Cloth, orig. wrpps. bound in. Vienna (Mechitharisten-Congregations-Buchdruckerei) 1928. More
Moscow: Välismaatööliste Kirjastusühisus NSV Liidus (Association of Foreign Workers in the USSR), 1936. Octavo (20 × 12 cm). Original gray embossed boards; 140, [3] pp. 8 leaves of illustrations by V. Kurdov. Very good. Estonian translation of a novella by one of the first writers of the Russian peoples of..... More
Irkutsk: Irkutskoe Otdelenie Sibgosizdata, 1923. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Dmitrii Boldyrev-Kazarin; 28, [2] pp. With numerous vignettes and smaller illustrations throughout. Spine expertly restored; else very good. First edition of a scarce regional work on the folk art of Siberia. Born in Bern, Switzerland, the..... More
