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18812044London: Casell Petter Galpin & Co. c. 1881. Hardcover. Rust boards title in gilt. Good. vii 184 pp. Author of British Popular Customs and English Folk-lore Thiselton-Dyer notes in the Preface the importance of studying "Folk-Lore" as no easy task "as school boards and railways are fast sweeping away every vestige of the old beliefs and customs which in days gone by held such a prominent place in social and domestic life." The author also notes what he believes to be the emergence of the term "Folk-lore" by Mr. J. Thoms Athenaeum August 22 1846. This charming volume weaves together the superstitions sayings and customs pertaining to the daily routine of Domestic Life. Chapters include: Birth and Infancy Childhood Love and Courtship Marriage Death and Burial The Human Body Articles of Dress Table Superstitions Furniture Omens Household Superstitions Popular Divinations Common Ailments and Miscellaneous Household Lore. Interior clean and crisp boards heavily rubbed at head and tail of spine. <br/><br/> Casell, Petter, Galpin & Co. hardcover books
1807022522Boston: W. Hilliard and e. Lincoln 1807. Disbound. Very Good. Disbound but attached at spine some leather from binding still present otherwise very good. Old library stamp to title page and some offsetting to text throughout. Endpapers tones and worn 364pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Anthropology; Inventory No: 022522. <br/><br/> W. Hilliard and e. Lincoln unknown books
1890183287New York: Chicago Benziger Brothers 1890. 2nd edition. Hardcover. VG corners bumped. Brown cloth covers; gilt lettering. 178 pages. Contents: Prehistoric races.--Actual races in history.--Species; or Darwinism.--Cells; or Evolution. Chicago Benziger Brothers hardcover books
18162154London: Darton Harvey & Co. 1816. Hardcover. Quarter leather marbled boards. Good. 265 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. An in-depth look at the friction between state governments and the gypsy population. Hoyland a lapsed Quaker was particularly concerned with the problem of educating gypsy children. Some speculate that Hoyland fell in love with a "black-eyed gipsy girl". Bookplate of the junior Athenaeum Library. Marbled endpapers boards rubbed interior lightly foxed. Spine cracked but professionally repaired. <br/><br/> Darton, Harvey, & Co. hardcover books
1806039784Dedham: H. Mann 1806. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Early American edition in full period acid calf with a red morocco spine labe - hinges split boards attached but not well attached. 239pp plus a page of ads. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Endpapers browned text block clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; Anthropology. Inventory No: 039784. <br/><br/> H. Mann hardcover books
18962298Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1896. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. pp. 237-593 illustrated with plates some from photographs and line drawings in the text. Front wrapper heavily worn and detached back wrapper and much of outer paper on spine missing but text block sound and text clean. Good reference copy. Signed by author with short inscription on front cover. From the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum. Includes detailed descriptions of methods of travel and moving and carrying things in different primitive cultures. Government Printing Office paperback books
1826039485Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes 1826. Later Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2 volumes in blindstamped gray cloth modest wear volume 1 a bit shaken and the front joint split - bindings still generally tight. Foxing to frontis. Bright internally largely uncut. Fold out of The Temple at Jerusalem slightly foxed but intact and attractive. Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: anthropology; Ancient BC; History. Inventory No: 039485. <br/><br/> Waugh & Innes hardcover books
184113094New York: G. Lane & P.P. Sandford 1841. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 317 pp in original blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded some edgewear small wormhole at fore edge moderate foxing throughout. Binding tight hinges secure. Shaw arrived in Cape Town in 1816 and soon established the first Wesleyan Mission Station in the interior of South Africa. The book offers a history of the European discovery of the Cape of Good Hope and the development of the colony with "numerous facts relative to missions.which were never before made public" and "notices of natural history referring to lions tigers &c." According to Mendelssohn II p. 308 the chapters on the Hottentots Bushmen Corannas Namaquas Kaffirs Bechuanas and other tribes "afford one of the best descriptions of the native races of South Africa published up to this period." G. Lane & P.P. Sandford hardcover books
188619263Utica N. Y.: T. J. Griffiths Book and Job Printer 1886. First edition. Some light soiling and chipping to the wrappers; a few small fingerprint smudges to the wrappers; a very good copy. Original gilt-printed orange wrappers 47 1 pages. Title page vignette of a woodcut skull and crossbones. From the Civil War general and Oneida County amateur historian comes this survey of accounts of cannibalism including among Native American tribes. The wrappers printed in gilt Compliments of G. W. Darling Oneida N.Y. with an ink autograph inscription below that "To Edward Hubert Noyes. T. J. Griffiths, Book and Job Printer, unknown books
1802041902Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 1802. Sixth Ed. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf heavily worn front board loose morocco spine label worn. The sixth edition of the 1st U.S. dictionary originally printed in Worcester by Isaiah Thomas in 1788. Lacking the title page and last leaf 595/6 facsimiles laid in but otherwise complete with the Appendix with a separate title dated 1801. The dictionary is unpaginated but the pagination picks up with the appendix which is paginated 563-596. EAI 2886 Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Anthropology. Inventory No: 041902. <br/><br/> Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews hardcover books
1828A0226Two volumes: 8viii334 pages with engraved dedication in script engraved supplemental pictorial title page and two plates; 639116 pages with engraved supplemental pictorial title page appendix and one engraved plate. Octavo 8" x 6" bound in brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. Plates by J. Amillo. Sabin 51215 Palau 183810 First edition.<br /><br />An important work on the Indians of Mexico especially the Tarascans of Michoacan written in Mexico by Benito Maria de Moxo and printed here by his nephew Juras Reales. "A valuable set of dissertations upon the natives and history of the New World written by Don Benito Maria de Moxo Archbishop of Charcas whose papers fell into the hands of his nephew Luis Maria de Moxo y de Lopez and were printed by the latter under his own name without sufficient acknowledgement" - Sabin. The work contains fourteen essays by Benito Maria Moxo y Francoli written in 1805 in Michoacan where he served as auxiliary bishop from 1803 to 1805. The varied topics include Indian music; human sacrifice; Tarascan pre-Columbian painting; geometry; arithmetic and hieroglyphic writing; Black slavery in the Spanish colonies; and two essays on natural history. The appendix prints Moxo's 1807 speech in response to the British invasion of Buenos Aires. The fine engraved plates by J. Amillo include a scene of missionaries playing music for the Indians; a detailed representation of "Idolo Huitzilopochtli" lively dancing Huitzilopochtli with mask wearing feather headdress and holding a shield; and a stone idol on a broken base. A later edition appeared under the title Cartas Mejicanas in 1837<br /><br />Moxó y de Francoli 1763-1816 a controversial writer of the Spanish-American Enlightenment was accused of collaborating with both monarchists and revolutionaries. His work is also marked by ambiguity due to his loyalty to Spain and his sympathy for the original inhabitants of Mesoamerica resulting in a complicated example of literary colonialism. This work explores Mesoamerican archaeology astronomy pictorial codices human sacrifice mathematics comparative study of suicide among Native Americans and Europeans pre-Columbian music and other unusual anthropological subjects such as the Tarascan painted manuscript discussed by Glass. Dismissed are the claims by Robertson and De Pauw that Amerindian culture is inferior though the author rebukes Voltaire for minimizing the extent of human sacrifice and cannibalism among the Aztecs. He resolutely defends the Spanish conquest. Perhaps the most important result of the work was its contribution to an upsurge in interest in Mesoamerican archaeology and art. The copperplate engravings are handsome and well executed.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Modern rebinding with new end papers. A very good set. En la Imprenta de Jose Torner hardcover books
1852BOOKS005759vi1233 pages. Quarto 10 1/2" x 7" Bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Clavijero's History of Baja California which was first published in Italian then in English then a Madrid edition and then the Mexican edition. Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 13 page 293 First Mexican edition. <br /><br />Clavijero a Mexican native was exiled with the other Jesuits in the 1760s and lived in Italy thereafter. His history of Mexico is considered one of the best of the early histories of the subject. His history of Baja California is the first such and contains passages relating to the foundation of the mission at San Francisco as well as material on Kino and Salvatierra. Translated from the Italian manuscripts by Nicoles Garcia de San Vincente. The Palou volume is essential reading for the early history of Northern California. This is the second edition of the Vida of Serra. First published 1787. Francisco Palou 1723-1789 was a Franciscan missionary administrator and historian on the Baja California peninsula and in Alta California. Father Palou made significant contributions to the Alta California and Baja California mission systems. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Damp stains to end papers and heal edge of title page spine ends and corners professionally repaired Over all a very good copy of a scarce item. De Juan R Navarro hardcover books
1841BOOKS008231Very good in a near fine binding 1st American Hardbound Large Octavio 2 Volumes 2 volumes. viii 264 pages with folding map and a total of 114 plates including frontispiece plate 23 lacking as called for plates 12 ad 13 bound into volume2 plates 21 and 22 call for but lacking with three additional unnumbered plates and plates number 101 1/2 and errata tipped in; viii 266 pages with 2 maps 312 plates including plate 210 1/2 but lacking 137 142 149 159 and 247 as called for plates 160 27u3 2754 and 275 called for but lacking. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" recased in half morocco wit five raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Wagner-Camp 84:1. Howes C241. Streeter Sale 1805. Wheat Transmississippi 453 454 455. Clark III:141. Reese Best of the West 77 First edition.<br /><br />The first edition of Catlin's famous book one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the description of his travels throughout the West the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians as well as two significant maps showing the locations of Indian tribes. Catlin first went west in 1830 travelling extensively for the next six years accumulating his "Indian Gallery." LETTERS AND NOTES. was published when he brought the exhibition to London.<br /><br />Condition: Title of volume I with a large pale damp stain volume II title and first contents leaf with a couple of pencil marks both titles and most plates with some pale foxing a few plates and the folding map brittle at edges with tiny chips/tears not affecting images the folding map cleanly split at one fold one plate with gutter tear in margin two plates with chipped corners one of which is laid down on paper. A fine decorative binding internally very good. <br />First American edition of Catlin's landmark study of Native Americans. Catlin visited 48 Indian tribes on his tour of the West and executed some 600 paintings. Letters and Notes includes hundreds of engravings which were reduced from the original paintings under Catlin's supervision. The text and illustrations portray diverse aspects of Indian life including village scenes games dances funerals sudatories religious ceremonies buffalo hunting etc. plus detailed descriptions and depictions of native dress and custom. After taking the entire gallery of his paintings to England Catlin published his "Letters & Notes" using text from a series of articles he had written for the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1832 to 1837 and illustrating it with line-cut reductions of his original paintings. The folding map is of the Indian Localities in 1833 a second map in vol. II shows the effects of forced migration after 1840. Howes C24.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Recased in a very attractive binding with gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards new endpapers; lacking 3 plates frontispiece and title of volume I with a large pale damp stain volume II title & first contents leaf with a couple of pencil marks both titles and most plates with some pale foxing a few plates and the folding map brittle at edges with tiny chips/tears not affecting images the folding map cleanly split at one fold and repaired one plate with gutter tear in margin two plates with chipped corners one of which is laid down on paper; a fine decorative binding copy internally in a very good copy. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
1883List406Zuni Pueblo / Washington 1883. Albumen photograph 7 ¼ x 9 ¼ on 8 x 10 inch mount. Very Good. Frank Hamilton Cushing was an ethnologist and anthropologist who helped pioneer the practice of participant observation by living among Zuni in New Mexico. He joined James Stevenson's anthropological expedition to New Mexico undertaken by the United States Bureau of Ethnography in 1879. Enthralled by Zuni culture he lived with the Zuni from 1879 until a scandal related to his advocacy work forced him to return to Washington in 1884. <br /> <br /> John K. Hillers the German-born photographer of the American West was a photographer for the Bureau of American Ethnography from 1879-1881 during which time he took this picture of Cushing in Zuni dress. Cushing - we think - has inscribed the photograph on the verso as follows: "Tenatsali / Medicine Flower of the Spaces / Younger Priesthood of the Bow / War Chief of Zuni / Adopted American Name /Frank Hamilton Cushing. " <br /> <br /> A very good example of an important image with some light fading. Scarce in commerce with no copies in auction records. A very good example with some fading. From the estate of De Lancey W. Gill and Agnes Gill Webster. Gill was a prolific photographer of American Indians who worked for the Bureau of Ethnography in the early part of the twentieth century. unknown books
