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BARZUN, Jacques. Race: A Study in Superstition.New York : 1965
Second edition, revised. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Lionel & Diana, with ever affectionate thoughts, this dull old book that faithfully reflects the dull old friend who sends it, Jacques. Dec 22/64". Literary critic Lionel Trilling (1905-75) worked at Columbia during the same period as Barzun, and for thirty years the two... Learn More£775.00Stock Code: 61792
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GALLOP, Rodney. A Book of the Basques.London : 1930
First edition, first impression, signed by Gallop and dated March 1939 on a loosely inserted piece of paper. A Book of the Basques "seems likely to remain the standard work in English on that small country" (V.A.).
Rodney Gallop (1900-1948), was a noted folklorist and member of H. M. Foreign Service. He travelled the world to gather folk-songs... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 143205
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[DEFOE, Daniel.] Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom.London : 1727
First edition, rare first issue. Contemporary critics attacked the work's title, which, according to Defoe, was viewed as "a Breach upon Modesty" and offensive to their ears, and the book was reissued the same year with a cancel title page, more politely titled as A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. The first issue is rare,... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 124762
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RASK, Rasmus Kristian. Vejledning til det Islandske eller gamle Nordiske Sprog.Copenhagen : 1811
First edition, a rare interleaved copy owned by Swedish philologist Sven Hylander (1797-1825) with his comments and additions to the work. Hylander was lecturer at the University of Lund and studied Icelandic manuscripts. The famous Swedish poet Esaias Tegner, who was a lecturer in Greek at Lund, wrote an elegy for Hylander on his early death in 1825,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 112682
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SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States:Philadelphia : 1853-1857
Second edition of this impressive, ground-breaking and expansive work, unchallenged as the most comprehensive study of Native American culture, enhanced by "Captain Seth Eastman's exceptional lithographs" (American National Biography); four of the five volumes here (I-II and IV-VI) are contemporary presentation copies, inscribed by a trio of Commissioners... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 137694
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MEAD, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa.New York : 1928
First edition, first printing, of Mead's first and pioneering book which launched her career as an internationally recognised anthropologist. Based on Mead's immersive field work in American Samoa in 1925, Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read anthropology books ever published. Its unwavering influence during the following decades is... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 118644
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PICHON, Thomas-Jean. La Physique de l'Histoire,Amsterdam : 1765
One of two 1765 editions of Pichon's work, the other printed in The Hague (also issued with a London-imprint title page), of unknown priority. The French churchman Thomas Jean-Pichon (1731-1812) can be claimed as part of the anti-philosophe reaction, with his writings countering the enlightenment and the Encyclopédie. The present work is a study of... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 129387
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POUJADE, Jean. Documents d'Ethnographie Navale.Paris : 1946-8
First editions, all published. Uncommon. An excellent set of these important works of naval ethnography, forming a series on boat construction around the world. The series was planned as a supplement to Admiral François-Edmond Paris' famous Souvenirs de Marine Conservés , first published in 1877, the Fascicule Introductif including an index to Paris'... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 94734
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ACOSTA, Jose de. The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies.London : 1604
First edition in English of "the most convincing, detailed, and reliable account" of the Americas at this time, in a notably attractive contemporary binding (Hill). While this influential work is well-held institutionally it is scarce in commerce, and especially so in a contemporary binding, with only five such copies appearing at auction in the last... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 141468
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LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Regarder écouter lire.Paris : 1993
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Raymond Firth warmest regards Levi-Strauss". Firth (1901-2002) was a prominent New Zealand anthropologist and student of Bronislaw Malinowski, whom he succeeded as Professor Anthropology at the London School of Economics in 1944, remaining there for twenty-four years. Lévi-Strauss... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 132941
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MYRDAL, Gunnar, assisted by Richard Sterner & Arnold Rose. An American Dilemma.New York : 1944
First edition, first printing, one-volume issue. Myrdal shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, for "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." However, the present study of race relations... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 107445
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HARRISSON, Tom. Savage Civilisation.New York : 1937
First US edition, same year as the UK first. Uncommon, Harrisson's first book of anthropology based on the work of the Oxford expedition to the New Hebrides, for which he was officially the ornithologist; "When the rest of the Oxford party left Santo Island for home in 1934, Harrisson got to Malekula, where cannibalism was still widespread. Unarmed,... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 51720
