ANTHROPOLOGY from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

New York: James Ackerman, 1989. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. A facsimile edition of the New York edition of 1845 which incorporates 6 additional plates from the London edition of 1844 not included in the American edition. Set number 626 of 950, signed by Dana Pratt Director of Publishing Library of Congress, and Robert Abrams President of… Read more about this item

Vienna: Anthropological Society, 1920. Paperback. Very good condition. Signed presentation copy to noted anthropologist Dr. B. Oetteking. With 2 illustrations. "Travel and Research in the Melanesian South Sea." References Muliama (Papua). Written in German. 4to, 6pp, green paper wraps. Top edge ruffled, original center fold, staplebound.

Berlin: C.W. Kreidel, 1922. Paperback. Otherwise very good condition. Text volume only. Lacking atlas. Text includes 55 curve drawings and illustrations. "Anthropology of New Calendonians and Loyalty Islanders.' Written in German. 4to, XIV, 651pp, blue paper wraps in slip case. Slipcase dusty. Volume cover dusty, spine crack at first fascicle, still attached. Internally clean.

Sydney: Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 1925. Paperback. Otherwise very good condition. Signed presentation copy to noted anthropologist Dr. B. Oetteking. Griffith Taylor (1880- 1963) was a British geographer & explorer who survived the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica of 1910 lead by Capt. Robert Scott. Offprint with tan printed… Read more about this item

Boston: Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 1856. Print. Very good condition. Beautiful half page image of a New Zealand War Chief, and Canoe with 4 column inch article printed. The image shows a "portrait of a gentleman" wth facial tattoos and an elaborately carved canoe with a manned canoe in the background and coastal mountains. The article mentions the… Read more about this item

Sydney: Australian Museum, 1974. Eighth edition. Wraps. Very good condition. Aus. aboriginal art in an early popular format. Expanded to 61 pp, col. frontis with two color & b&w plates in text. Black decorated pictorial wrapper.

London, 1789. Print. Good + overall. Striking image of Hawaii, with native Hawaiians paddling a canoe in the foreground against the distinctive mountainous terrain of Oahu. From Dixon's 'A Voyage Round the World'. Copper engraving, plate mark 10 1/8 x 7 3/4" on 10 7/8 x 8 3/8". Mark at top center and upper left corner.… Read more about this item

London: Royal Geographic Society, 1935. Paperback. March 1935. Scott, J.M. Antarctic Notes. pp 274-276. (+) Roberts, B. The Cambridge Expedition to Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, in 1933. pp 234-251. (+) Baker, J. Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. pp 209-233. Ills in text. Orig. blue wrps, sml. tear in early pp, o/w good.

Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales, 1892. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Article extracted from the Proceedings of Royal Society of New South Wales. 8vo, 14pp text, 22 b&w photogravure plates, in tan full linen boards. Bound with an article by R.H. Mathews, "Some Stone Implements Used by the Aborigines of New South Wales" with… Read more about this item

Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales., 1904. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Article extracted from the Proceedings of Royal Society of New South Wales. 8vo, 198pp text, 1 b&w photographic plate, rebound in tan full linen boards, no titles on boards, one mark on upper left of front board.

London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1936. Hardcover. Important volume of the RGS journal including content on the Greenland Expedition, the Graham Land Expedition, New Hebrides, and Mount Everest, such as: The Oxford University Greenland Expedition, 1935, pp 148-162, by H. O'B. Hayward, with map; The British Graham Land Expedition, pp 165-168 (+), with map; The Third Commission of the… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Text by the author's wife, Therese O. Deming. Beautiful illustrations with "'picture-writing' at the bottom of each [...] painting giving the story of the year told in the way an Indian would record it on his robe or his lodge lining." Folio, unpaginated, illustrated paper-covered… Read more about this item

Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1991. Paperback. Very good overall. Inscribed by the author to Mervyn Meggitt- "For Mervyn. the No. 1 Anthopologist. Amitie, Barbara". Large 8vo, 362 pp, index. "Specimen" stamped on foredge, discoloration on top edge.

Paris, 1833. First edition. Very good condition. An interesting lithograph comparing aboriginal habitations in Albany, Western Australia, Jervis Bay and New Zealand, from the official report of the voyage, "Voyage de la Corvette L'Astrolabe..." under the command of Jules Dumont D'Urville. The voyage had a particular focus on the aborigines and ethnography they encountered. Plate 18,… Read more about this item

Wellington NZ: Polynesian Society, 1953. Second edition. This is the second section of the catalogue of the famous Oldman collection, highly prized for its ethnographical content. Neatly dedicated at the top of the title page "To George Neilson, with Compliments from Ken Webster ~ May '56." Including Polynesian artifacts from Tahiti, Austral and Cook Groups, the preface notes "Since… Read more about this item

Glasgow: John S. Marr, 1867. Very good overall. Scarce Glasgow edition of this dime western novel by Harry Hazelton, a writer of stories for Beadle Dime novels, American Tales and the Fireside series. Disbound. Title page, 127 pp. OCLC: 794812104 records only 2 copies, at the National Library of Scotland and the Library of Congress.

1942. Otherwise very good condition. A 1943 calendar mounted below a silver tone photograph of a young Fijian woman, bare breasted wearing a necklace in a grass skirt with spear. Photograph laid in on card mount, complete with tie to hang on wall. Hand writing on upper right corner: '1942 USS Colorado'. Card 5 7/8 x 9", photo… Read more about this item

Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales, 1889. Hardcover. Very good condition. Two extracts from the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. The Aborigines of Australia by Edward Stephens, read before the Royal Society NSW, October 2, 1889. [With] "New South Wales as a Health Resort in Phthisis Pulmonalis" (tuberculosis), read before the… Read more about this item

1880. Good + condition. Two large impressive photographs laid down on a thick album page, and captioned in a period hand, in ink below the image. The first, titled "New Caladonia" (sic) shows a panoramic view of a port settlement on a peninsula, possibly Noumea or a nearby mining town. The French established a settlement in New… Read more about this item

1920. Very good overall. One b&w split back post card with image of two New Guinea hunters holding bows and arrows, wearing decorated chestplates, and one with shells at his waist and a nautilus shell in his bowhand. Not stamped but addressed to Miss Helen Loenstein in New York City. 3.5 x 5.5", b&w, one corner… Read more about this item