Anthropology
73 items found
Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. [Complete, in four volumes].
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (two showing adjacent regions). Original uniform quarter cloth over printed boards.
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Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. Tweede, geheel omgewerkte druk. [2nd, revised edition. Complete, in five volumes].
Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1950-1951. In five volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.0 x 18.0 cm). [AND] Deel platen; octavo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). total of 1558 pp. [xii, 478; viii, 557; viii, 484; 11]. [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.2 x 27.0 cm); 159 photographs in "Deel platen"; 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and two coloured folding maps. Original uniform printed wrappers (text and platen volumes); atlas in original printed portfolio with linen spine.
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Bastian, A. [P. W.]
Ideale Welten nach uranographischen Provinzen in Wort und Bild. Ethnologische Zeit- und Streitfragen nach Gesichtspunkten der Indischen Völkerkunde. [Complete].
Berlin, Emil Felber, 1892. Three volumes in one. 4to (27.2 x 19.7 cm). Title to the whole work; titles to the parts; 791 pp. [289; 270; 232]; 22 plates [9; 9; 4]. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Brinkley, F.
Oriental Series. Japan [and] China. [the rare "Lotus"-edition].
Boston and Tokyo, J. B. Millet, 1901-1902. Twelve volumes in twelve. 8vo (23.1 x 15.7 cm). 3752 pp.; 255 plates, of which 115 monochrome and 114 in full colour - all with printed tissue guards, and 26 lithographed, captioned on the plates; three maps, of which two very large, multi-folded and in full colour. Uniform original full dark green morocco. Spines with three raised bands, gilt, pink-and-red inlay morocco lotus vignette and gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined borders and pink-and-red inlay morocco lotuses.
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Bruin, C., De [De Bruyn or Bruijn]
Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die door gevonden worden: voor al derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlijke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door befaemde hof van Persepolis, by den Persianen Tchilminar genaemt. Alles door den Autheur zelf met groote naeukeurigheit na 't leven afgetekent, en nooit voor dezen in 't ligt gebragt.
Amsterdam, R. and G. Wetstein, J. Oosterwyk and H. van de Gaete, 1714. Folio (33.3 x 21.1 cm). Allegorical frontispiece (by Picart, dated 1711), title page (in red and black); engraved portrait of de Bruyn (by G. Kneller), [vi], 472, [xii] pp.; 260 numbered engraved plates (many double, folded), two large maps, and 34 large text engravings, not numbered, including portraits, views, etc. Contemporary blind ruled and embossed vellum. Spine with six raised bands, title written in ink, in a neat contemporary hand.
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Darwin, C.
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. With Illustrations.
London, John Murray, 1871 [REPRINT Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation, 1969-1970]. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.5 x 14.0 cm). 913 pp. [viii, 423; vii, 475]; several text illustrations Full, uniform mock leather. Spines with gilt title.
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Darwin, C.
The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals. With Illustrations.
London, John Murray, 1872. [REPRINT Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation, 1969-1970]. 8vo (21.5 x 14.0 cm). vi, 374 pp.; 20 text illustrations, six photographic plates (two double-sized, folded). Full mock leather. Spine with gilt title.
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Dawson, W. R.
A bibliography of works relating to mummification in Egypt with excerpts, epitomes, critical and biographical notes.
Le Caire [Cairo], Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1929. Large 4to (28.2 x 22.7 cm). Frontispiece portrait. 49, [i] pp. Original printed wrappers.
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Dorman, R. M.
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.
Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vignette and title; boards with red border; front board with pictorial gilt vignette. Dark green endpapers.
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Duppa, R.
Travels on the continent, Sicily and the Lipari Islands. Second edition.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co., 1829. Large 8vo (26.8 x 17.2 cm). x, 494, [ii] pp.; 21 fine engraved plates, and 34 text engravings. Contemporary grained half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, stipple-gilted bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and a brown morocco label with gilt title.
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Finsch, O.
Ethnologische Erfahrungen und Belegstücke aus der Südsee. Mit einem Vorwort von Franz Heger. Erste Abtheilung: Bismarck-Archipel. [AND] Zweite Abtheilung: Neu-Guinea. [AND] Zweite Abtheilung: Neu-Guinea. I. Englisch-Neu-Guinea (Schluss); Zweite Abtheilung: Neu-Guinea. II. Kaiser Wilhelms-Land.
Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1888-1891. Four parts in three. Large 8vo (28.0 x 18.4 cm). 246 [78; 50; 24, 94] pp., 17 [5, 12] lithographed plates (three in fine chromolithography). Uniform original printed wrappers.
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Garrigou, [T. É.] A.
Ibères, Ibérie. Étude sur l'origine et les migrations de ces Ibères, premiers habitants connus de l'occident de l'Europe.
Foix, Veuve Pomiès, 1884. 8vo (19.8 x 12.9 cm). xv, 183 pp. 20th-century Iberian style half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Godefroy, P. J. and M. J. E. Muller and P. A. Fromm and P. Bleeker (eds.)
Natuur-en Geneeskundig Archief van Nederlands Indie. Volumes I-IV. [All published].
Batavia, the editors, 1844-1847. Four volumes in four. 8vo (22.0 x 12.7 cm). More than 2300 pp. (Volume I: vi, [1], [8], vi, [1], [7], 638 pp; Vol. II: v, 710 [1] pp.; Vol. III: v, 616 [1] pp.; Vol. IV: 340 [2] pp.), several plates (some larger, folding), many folding tables (mostly with meteorological data), errata leaf to Volume I. Matching red cloth with snakeskin-patterned boards.
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Gräffe, E., and others
Journal des Museum Godeffroy. Geographische, ethnographische und naturwissenschaftliche Mittheilungen. Heft II. [The complete geographical and ethnographical part].
Hamburg, L. Friederichsen, 1873. Large 4to (34.1 x 25.7 cm). 58 pp. Two maps (one very large, multi-folded), seven tinted plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Guillemin-Tarayre, E.
[Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale.] Description des anciennes possessions mexicaines du Nord.
[Paris, Ministre de l'Instruction Publique (Imprimerie Nationale)], 1871. Large 4to (36.9 x 28.1 cm). 216 pp.; 29 text engravings, one coloured engraved map "Carte de la Haute Californie et de la Nevada" (not numbered), one lithographed plate of indigenous people ("p. 15"), 18 lithographed plates and maps, all but two double-sized or larger [numbered I-XVII, one not numbered], for a total of 20 plates and maps [Complete]. All leaves loose, as issued. Original printed wrappers.
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Hardouin, E. and W. L. Ritter
Java. Tooneelen uit het leven. Karakterschetsen en kleederdragten van Java's bewoners in afbeeldingen naar de natuur geteekend door E. Hardouin met tekst van W. L. Ritter en een voorwoord van H. M. Lange, gepensionneerd Luitenant Kolonel van het O. I. leger. Benevens eene kaart van Java naar de nieuwste bronnen bewerkt.
Leiden, A. W. Sythoff, 1855. Large 4to (28.7 x 20.7 cm). Title page with finely engraved vignette; xv, 242 pp.; hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 25 other hand-coloured lithographed and tissue-guarded plates; large, triple-folded coloured double map of Java, Madoera and Bawean. Original green embossed cloth. Spine and front board rich gilt with floral patterns and ethnographical vignettes. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Hla, M. T.
[Burma - Myanmar] A pair of late nineteenth to early twentieth century Burmese costume studies.
Burma [Myanmar], ca. 1920. Two watercolour and gouache paintings on Whatman paper. 8vo-sized (images ca. 24.0 x 19.9 cm). Heightened with white body colour; each signed "M. T. Hla" in lower right corner, uniformly mounted. Mounts 30.5 x 24.6 cm.
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Hogendorp, W. van, a.o.
Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Konsten en Wetenschappen. Tweede deel. [Volume 2].
Rotterdam, R. Arrenberg, 1784. 8vo (22.5 x 13.7 cm). 488, 90 pp.; two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; two morocco labels with gilt title and volume number.
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Humboldt, W. von
Ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts. Mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und Excursen sowie als Einleitung: Wilhelm von Humboldt und die Sprachwissenschaft von A. F. Pott.
Berlin, S. Calvary, 1876. Two parts in two. 8vo (17.3 x 11.8 cm). General title, two title pages, 965 pp. [ccccxxi; 544]. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards. Spines with dark blue leather label with gilt ornamental bands and title.
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Kaempfer, E.
De beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen staat en regeering van dat Ryk.
The Hague, P. Gosse and J. Neaulme; Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1729. Folio (37.5 x 25.0 cm). 500 pp. Half-title, title page explanation, frontispiece (engraved title) by I. C. Philips, letterpress title in red and black; 48 double-sized maps and plates (I-XVII, XXX-XLV, XXIV*, A-BXXVIII, A-BXXIX). Contemporary full mottled calf; spine with six raised bands; compartments rich gilt with fine, elaborate floral ornaments, and red morocco label with gilt title; boards with double gilt roll stamped border, gilt floral corner pieces and central vignettes. Mottled edges.
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Lagden, G. [Y.]
The Basutos, the mountaineers & their country. Being a narrative of events relating to the tribe from its formation early in the nineteenth century to the present day .
London, Hutchinson, 1909. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.7 x 14.2 cm). 718 pp. [xvi, 1-338; xii, 339-690]; nine maps of which one large, folding, and 70 photographic plates. Original, uniform brown cloth with gilt title on the spines, gilt borders and gilt vignette on the front boards. Top edges gilt.
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Lesseps, [J. B. B.] de
Herrn von Lesseps Gefährten des Grafen de la Perouse Reise durch Kamtschatka und Sibirien nach Frankreich. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt. Mit Anmerkungen von Johann Reinhold Forster.
Berlin, Voss, 1791. 8vo (22.4 x 14.5 cm). xxviii, 302 [303-544] pp.; two engraved, folded maps, one folded table. Original blind boards.
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Lorentz, H. A.
Three important papers by Nobel Prize winner Lorentz [and one by Eugène Dubois].
Haarlem, Les héritiers Loosjes, 1912. 8vo (23.3 x 15.8 cm). xiii, 149 pp. Contemporary burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Printed title on the spine. Original printed front wrapper with title bound in.
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Marquart, J.
Die Benin-Sammlung des Reichsmuseums für Völkerkunde in Leiden. Beschrieben und mit ausführlichen Prolegomena zur Geschichte der Handelswege und Völkerbewegungen in Nordafrika.
Leiden, E. J. Brill 1913. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.7 cm). 515 [16, ccclxvii, 132] pp.; 31 text engravings, 14 plates and two folding maps. Original burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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[Maupertuis, P. L. M. de]
Venus Physique. Premiere partie. Contenant une dissertation sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux [AND] Seconde partie. Contenant une dissertation sur l'origine des Noirs.
(Paris? No publisher mentioned), 1746. Small 8vo (14.0 x 10.0 cm). Half-title, title page, 224 pp., with two additional half-titles. Original boards.
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Meredith, L. A.
Tasmanian friends and foes, feathered, furred, and finned. A family chronicle of country life, natural history, and veritable adventure. With coloured plates, from drawings by the author and other illustrations. Second edition.
London, Marcus Ward, 1881. Small 4to (21.9 x 16.7 cm). Title page, 259 pp.; eight chromolithographed plates depicting fishes and flowers from Tasmania, numerous text engravings. Original green, black and gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Gilded, patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Niebuhr, C.
Description de l'Arabie d'apres les observations et recherches faites dans le pays meme.
Copenhague [Copenhagen], Nicolas Möller, 1773. Large, thick 4to (27.8 x 21.0 cm). Title page with engraved vignette; xlvi (including dedication leaf, dated 1772, with engraved vignette), 372; 25 engraved plates and maps, of which several larger, folded; the very large map of Arabia, and two other plates with original, additional hand-colouring; one large, folded table. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral corner-pieces and central vignette, and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-rolled decorative border. Patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Palmer, W. [E.]
Memoir of the distinguished Mohawk Indian chief, sachem and warrior. Compiled from the most reliable and authentic records. Including a brief history of the principal events of his life, with an appendix. And portrait. [Of Thayendanegea, or Joseph Brant].
Brantford Ontario, C. E. Stewart, 1872. 8vo (17.6 x 11.6 cm). 89 pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece. Original blind, green, laminated wrappers.
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Petermann, A. [H.] (ed.)
Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen. Volumes 1-12. [Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem gesammtgebiete der Geographie von Doktor A. Petermann].
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1855-1865. 12 volumes in 12. 4to (22.2 x 26.8 cm). Over 3,500 pp., numerous maps of which many large, folded, and nearly all in fine chromolithography. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt and black-lined bands, red and black morocco labels with gilt title, number and year (volumes 1-9), and gilt ornaments and title (volumes 10-12). Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Poortenaar, J. C.
De Boroboedoer. Zes etsen door Jan Poortenaar, Inleiding van Prof. Dr. N. J. Krom.
[Naarden, privately published, 1929]. Folio (37.9 x 28.0 cm). Two leafs of text and six fine etchings under passe-partouts, all signed and numbered in pencil, this being #161. All as issued with the original cloth portfolio with gilt title on front.
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Praetorius, J. [H. Schultze]
Collegium curiosum privatissimum physiognom-chiromant-metoposcop-anthropologicum ... Oder ein sehr nützliches Werck, darinnen curieus und doch vollkömmlich abgehandelt wird, was zur Physiognomie, Chiromantie, Metoposcopie und Anthropologie gehöret. [BOUND WITH] Die von Aberglauben Vanitaeten und Zeuscherey gereinigte Chiromantia und Physiognomia.
Frankfurt und Leipzig, Philipp Wilhelm Stock, 1713. Small 8vo (16.4 x 9.6 cm). Title page in red and black; [xii], 128 pp.; nine (five copper-engraved, four woodcuts) multi-folded plates, three large text woodcuts. [AND] Title in red and black, 61 pp.; engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved plates; a few woodcut endpieces. Contemporary full vellum. Gilt title between gilt ornamental lines on the spine. Speckled edges.
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Preuss, K. T.
Die Nayarit-Expedition. Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter Mexikanischen Indianern. Erster Band. Die Religion der Cora-Indianer in Texten nebst Wörterbuch. [All Published].
Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1912. 4to (28.9 x 21.6 cm). cviii, 396 pp.; ten plates including one in full colour acting as frontispiece and one being a map; one folded chart (with music), 30 text figures. Original printed wrappers.
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Rees, W. A. Van
De Bandjermasinsche Krijg van 1859-1863. Nader toegelicht.
Arnhem, D. A. Thieme, 1867. 8vo (21.9 x 13.5 cm). Very large, triple-folded chromolithographed plate (as frontispiece); engraved, folded map; and very large, quadruple-folded engraved plate of a Kotta Mara (wooden warship), Title page, 139 pp. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and number.
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Reinburg, [M. J. G.] P.
Mission officielle commanditée par le Ministère de l'Instruction Publique pour un voyage d'étude en Amérique latine (1909-1913).
Paris, unpublished, 1909-1913. 266 framed glass positives (including colour positives), 9.9 x 8.5 cm with handwritten descriptive labels (positive size 7.0 x 7.0 cm); preserved in one wooden box (28.5 x 11.0 x 11.1 cm) and 25 contemporary cardboard boxes, mostly with pictorial printed labels.
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Rouffaer, G. P. and H. H. Juynboll
Die Batik-Kunst in Niederländisch-Indien und ihre Geschichte bearbeitet auf Grund von dem im Reichs Museum für Volkerkunde und öffentlichen wie privaten Sammlungen in den Niederlanden befindlichen, reichhaltigen Material. De batik-kunst in Nederlandsch-Indië en haar geschiedenis. Op grond van materiaal aanwezig in 's Rijks Ethnographisch Museum en andere openbare en particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland.
Haarlem, H. Kleinmann & Co.; Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1899-1914. Two volumes in two (text, atlas). Large 4to (33.5 x 25.8 cm). Double title pages (in German and Dutch), 646 pp. (15, [iii], xxx, 534, xxix, xxxi-lxv); several text illustrations (1914 text volume); ix pp.; 100 plates (many double-sized, and/or in colour), one very large, double folded map (in red and black) of Java and Madura (1899 atlas volume), a second map, of "Voor India" (i.e., India proper) in red and black, double folded, tipped in between plates 80 and 81. Uniform full batik cloth. Patterned endpapers.
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Schebesta, P.
Die Bambuti-Pygmäen von Ituri. Ergebnisse zweier Forschungsreisen zu den Zentralafrikanischen Pygmäen.
Bruxelles, Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1938-1949. Three volumes bound in two. 4to (28.2 x 22.8 cm). 1279 pp.; one coloured folded map, 73 fine photographic plates. Uniform later half cloth over reptile-skin patterned boards.
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