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WARD, William. Account of the Writings, Religion, and Manners, of the Hindoos:Serampore : 1811
The first volume was first published in 1806, but no copies traced, this full edition being issued in 1811 from the Mission Press that Ward laboured so hard to establish. Extremely uncommon, just one set traced at auction, maybe 20 locations institutionally. Trained as a printer, and working in that capacity on various newspapers in the Midlands, and... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 102883
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HAMILTON, Augustus. Maori Art: The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand.Wellington : 1896
First edition, issued in five parts between 1896 and 1900, bound in the publisher's cloth upon the issue of the fifth and final part. Hamilton's Maori Art was a monumental publication documenting and depicting a wealth of Maori artwork. A total of 900 copies were printed and bindings were offered as here or in brown morocco with a matching design.
Augustus... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146555
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MALCOLM, John, Sir. Sketch of the Sikhs;London : 1812
First edition of this scarce account of Sikhism, the cornerstone of later publications on the topic, annotated over four pages by a British Officer who interacted with the Sikhs during his service. This "preliminary effort" (Khurana, p. 22) on the subject sheds some light on the history of the Sikhs, their countries and government, and their religion.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 135209
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SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States:Philadelphia : 1853-57
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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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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PICART, Bernard, & Jean Frederic Bernard. The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World:London : 1733-39
First complete edition in English of one of the great books of the 18th century, a beautifully illustrated survey of religious observances around the world, marking "a major turning point in European attitudes toward religious belief" (Hunt, Jacob & Mijnhardt, p. 1).
Originally published in French at Amsterdam between 1723 and 1737 (Ceremonies... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 148148
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FRAZER, James George. The Golden Bough.London : 1890
First edition of Frazer's ground-breaking study of comparative religion, a major and enduring influence on the discipline of anthropology, and which scandalized its Victorian readership by placing Christian beliefs alongside pagan religions.
"Frazer's true subject is nothing less than humanity's long upward struggle towards an understanding of... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 148905
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FRAZER, James George. The Golden Bough.London : 1890
First edition of Frazer's ground-breaking study of comparative religion, a major and enduring influence on the discipline of anthropology, and which scandalized its Victorian readership by placing Christian beliefs alongside pagan religions.
"Frazer's true subject is nothing less than humanity's long upward struggle towards an understanding of... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 147703
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LELAND, Charles Godfrey. The Algonquin Legends of New England.Boston : 1884
First edition of Leland's uncommon collection of the folklore of the "principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians". All of the material was gathered directly from native American narrators, the great majority by Leland himself and the sources identified. The illustrations are from birch bark originals by Tomah Josephs, Indian Governor at... Learn More£775.00Stock Code: 144666
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POUJADE, Jean. Documents d'Ethnographie Navale.Paris : 1946-48
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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DURKHEIM, Émile. Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse.Paris : 1912
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title "A mon collegue D. Parodi, Bien cordialement, E. Durkheim". Dominique Parodi (1870-1955) was among Durkheim's collaborators on their journal Année sociologique, subsequently the General Inspector of Public Instruction in France from 1919 to 1934, where he presided... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 140596
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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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ARKELL-HARDWICK, Alfred. An Ivory Trader in North Kenia:London : 1903
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on recto of frontispiece, "To H. E. Sir William MacGregor KCMG, with the author's compliments, 3/8/1904", and additionally inscribed on the frontispiece portrait, "yours faithfully, A. Arkell-Hardwick". This a particularly appealing and smart copy of a classic and decidedly... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 148747
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CATLIN, George. North American Indians.Edinburgh : 1926
A handsomely produced edition, scarce in the dust jackets. A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to record on canvas the indigenous tribes of North America and their way of life. His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his "Indian Gallery," an enormous... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 121781
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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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WINSOR, Justin (ed.). Narrative and Critical History of America.1889
This Riverside Press edition, one of a limited edition of 550 numbered copies of what was for a century the standard reference work on American History. The editor, Justin Winsor (1831-1897) was a writer and prominent librarian at the Boston Public Library and later at Harvard University, where he professionalized library management and became one of... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 68725
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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
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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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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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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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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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PARMENTIER, H. Les Sculptures Chames au Musée du Tourane.1922
First Edition. Volume IV in the "Ars Asiatica" series published under the aegis of L'École Française d'Extrème-Orient. A trained architect and one of the founding fathers of the EFEO school of archaeology, Parmentier's work on Cham culture and later at Angkor were key in the interpretation of the early civilizations of Indochina. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 39622
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BAKER, John R. Race.London : 1974
First edition, first impression, of Baker's popular yet poorly received work, which attempted to classify human races in the same way that animal subspecies are classified. An attractively bound copy in an elegant Bayntun binding executed for Birmingham lawyer Gordon William Quance, with his monogram to the front cover. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 148240
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SCHMALHAUSEN, Samuel D., & V. F. Calverton (eds.) Woman's Coming of Age. A Symposium.New York : 1931
First edition, first printing, of this collection of 28 "radical" essays on the role of women in the modern world and their historic treatment. This copy, in the uncommon and attractive jacket, is from the library of the folklorist and anthropologist Harold Courlander, with his contemporary ownership inscription and bookplate on the front pastedown,... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 132007
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THOMSON, John, & Adolphe Smith Headingley. Street Life in London. With permanent photographic illustrations taken from life expressly for this publication.London : [1877]
First edition, book issue. A work which pioneered the genre of photojournalism. The photographer John Thomson (1837-1921), who had made his reputation with photographic records of his Far Eastern travels, joined forces with the radical journalist Adolphe Smith Headingley (fl. 1870-1920) to document the lives of ordinary Londoners, combining hard-hitting,... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 135678
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ELLIS, William. Polynesian Researches,London : 1829
First edition of Ellis's most important work, and "one of the most important books on the history and ethnology of the Society Islands, by one of the most perceptive of the missionary travelers in the Pacific" (Forbes). This copy is in the original boards, and distinctly uncommon thus.
William Ellis (1794-1872) joined the London Missionary Society... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 146691
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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
