Boeginesche spraakkunst by Matthes,B. F - 1875

cxxi+366 pages with frontispiece, 125 plates, 49 figures and index. Quarto (11 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. Papers by William Henry Holmes, Stone implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake tidewater province page 3-152, plates I-CIII and frontispiece, figures 1-29a; W J McGeen, The Siouxan Indians: A preliminary sketch, pages 153-204; James Owen Dorsey, Siouxan sociology: A posthumous paper, pages 205-244 and figures 30-38; Jesse Walter Fewkes, Tusayan katcinas, pages 245-313 plates CIV-CXI and figures 39-48; Cosmos Mindeleff, The repair of Casa Grande ruin, Arizona, in 1891 pages 315-349 and plates CXII-CXXV. Edited by J W Powell. (List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology pgs 5-6) From the library of David H Snow. First edition.Although classified by most conventional texts, John Wesley Powell always maintained that he was not an adventure or an explorer. He considered himself a scientist, motivated by a… Read More

2 volumes: 434 pages with diagrams and fold out map laid in; 375 pages with bibliography. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") issued in wrappers. Limited to 2000 copies. First edition.Contributors: Pedro Armillas by Jose Lorenzo; Pedro Armillas y la Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia: 1952-1956 by Carlos Navarrete; Presencia de Pedro Armillas en la arqueologia mexicana by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; Armillas y el Primer Taller del Programa de Adiestramiento Avamzado en Arqueologia by Teresa Rojas Rabiela.Pedro Armillas Garcia (1914 – 1984) was a Spanish academic, anthropologist, archaeologist, and an influential pre-Columbian Mesoamerica scholar of the mid-20th century. As an archaeologist he was known both for his fieldwork and excavations at numerous sites in central and northern Mexico, and his contributions in archaeological theory. His study of how Mesoamerican agriculture and subsistence modes of production influenced the development of Mesoamerican cultures was a pioneering one, and he was one of… Read More

Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes place.

Phoenix, Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology, Office of Cultural Resource Management, 1985, bound paperback draft report (8.5" x 11"), ix-169 pp, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to cover corners and edges. An in-depth study of the ancient irrigation systems developed, built, and used by the prehistoric Hohokam people in the Salt River Valley where today we find the modern cities of Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and other Anglo communities. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawn figures, graphs, charts, maps, and photographs. Appended: References Cited.

2 volumes: 434 pages with diagrams and fold out map laid in; 375 pages with bibliography. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") issued in wrappers. Limited to 2000 copies. First edition.Contributors: Pedro Armillas by Jose Lorenzo; Pedro Armillas y la Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia: 1952-1956 by Carlos Navarrete; Presencia de Pedro Armillas en la arqueologia mexicana by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; Armillas y el Primer Taller del Programa de Adiestramiento Avamzado en Arqueologia by Teresa Rojas Rabiela.Pedro Armillas Garcia (1914 – 1984) was a Spanish academic, anthropologist, archaeologist, and an influential pre-Columbian Mesoamerica scholar of the mid-20th century. As an archaeologist he was known both for his fieldwork and excavations at numerous sites in central and northern Mexico, and his contributions in archaeological theory. His study of how Mesoamerican agriculture and subsistence modes of production influenced the development of Mesoamerican cultures was a pioneering one, and he was one of… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1935. Near Fine, a bit of toning to end pages, top edge dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket, small chips at spine ends and flap fold tips, light rubbing. Translated from the French by Lilian A. Clare. One of his classic works on the "primitive" mind, Levy-Bruhl influenced the psychological theory of C. G. Jung.. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes place.

Phoenix, Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology, Office of Cultural Resource Management, 1985, bound paperback draft report (8.5" x 11"), ix-169 pp, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to cover corners and edges. An in-depth study of the ancient irrigation systems developed, built, and used by the prehistoric Hohokam people in the Salt River Valley where today we find the modern cities of Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and other Anglo communities. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawn figures, graphs, charts, maps, and photographs. Appended: References Cited.