Category: Anthropology

Les Races Humaines. [Bound with:] L' Armenie et les Armeiens. [Bound with:] Les Basques et Le Pays Basque: Moeurs, Language, et Histoire. [Bound with:] L'Espange: Des Goths et des Arabes. [Four volumes found in one; all first editions]. [Signed by Lafcadio Hearn].

By: Abel, Hovelacque. Gatteyrias, J.-A. Vinson, Julien. Geley, Leon.

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: Paris: Leopold Cerf, 1882. Paris: Leopold Cerf, 1882. Paris: Leopold Cerf, 1882. Paris, Leopold Cerf, 1882. Four volumes bound into one. All first editions.

Seller ID: 8612bd

Octavo, bound by Trow in 3/4 red morocco & marbled boards, top edge gilt, gilt-stamped spine, 159, [i] pp + 144 pp. + viii, [9] - 148, [i] pp + 156 pp. Plates, illustrations. This volume is from the personal library of Lafcadio Hearn. It bears his ownership signature on a front endpaper and his name stamp on the title page. In part, the book seems to have been a basis for HEarn's first book, Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, first published in 1884. He seems to also have had an interest in the Armenian, Basques, and Arabic culture. Books bearing Hearn's autograph are scarce, particul...
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Prehistoric Man: An Introduction to Anthropology.

By: Duncan, George S., Ph. D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Company Publishers, 1931. First Edition.

Seller ID: 51193fd

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), iii + 143 pp. Near-Fine, in a like dust jacket. From dust jacket: This book covers the whole field of man's development, physically, intellectually, and religiously. There are also chapters on the earth before the arrival of man. The work is based upon original research as well as on the findings of the foremost specialists in the various subjects covered by the book. All quotations are documented and there is a very full bibliography and index.
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America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture.

By: Harris, Marvin.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Simon and Schuster, [1981]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 16227scs

Octavo, tan cloth & boards (hardcover), 208 pp. Fine.
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Civilization and Climate.

By: Huntington, Ellsworth.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916.

Seller ID: 51274bd

Bearing a bookplate for Cyprus Hall McCormick. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine and upper cover, top edge gilt, xii + 333 pp. Very Good, with a half dollar sized spot to upper cover. Contents: Civlization and Climate; Race or Place; The White Man in the Tropics; The Effect of the Seasons; The Effect of Humidity and Temperature; Work and Weather; The Ideal Climate; The Distribution of Civilization; Vitality and Education in the United States; The Conditions of Civilization; The Shifting of Climatic Zones; The Shifting Centers of Civilization; The Clim...
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New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation -- Manus, 1928-1953.

By: Mead, Margaret.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3190qsl

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), xxi + 548 pp. Good+, with chips to head of spine, light foxing to endpapers; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with foxing and light edgewear. From dust jacket: The dramatic construction of a whole new world in twenty-five years -- that is the theme of this vigorous, optimistic, detailed report on the Manus of New Guinea. Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of the South Pacific in 1928. Then they were a people living, quite literally, in the Stone Age. Their civilization was an economic treadmill in which the adults lived angrily within a...
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The Migrations of Early Culture: A Study of the Significance of the Geographical Distribution of the Practice of Mummification as Evidence of the Migrations of Peoples and the Spread of certain Customs and Beliefs.

By: Smith, Grafton Elliot, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Manchester: The University Press, 1915.

Seller ID: 3530bd

Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 143 pp. Fair+, with chip to head of spine, library stamps clipped out from title and half-title pages, light pencilling.
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