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INDIANS OF CANADA
by Jenness, Diamond
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Ottawa, Canada: National Museum of Canada Bulletin 65 Anthropological Series No. 15, 1963. Sixth Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Color and B&W photographs. ASSOCIATION COPY once belonging to Professor Lee Braude, Sociologist at the University of Chicago, small 4to, burgundy cloth,with gold lettering on spine and front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with drawings of Indians & masks, colored frontispiece 6 plates plus 130 B&W glossy photographic illustrations, large fold-out map of "Aboriginal Populatio" in rear pouch, xii + 452 pages. 3 POUNDS 5 OUNCES. Diamond Jenness, CC, FRCGS (1886, Wellington, New Zealand - 1969, Chelsea, Quebec, Canada) was one of Canada's greatest early scientists and a pioneer of Canadian anthropology. He was an expert on Copper Inuit/Eskimos and other native groups.--Wikipedia SUPERIOR CONDITION ASSOCIATION COPY: tight, bright, clean--with a few wrinkles and a piece lost from the otherwise Very Good dust jacket. Crisp "As New" folded ethnographic map. Small ownership stamps on 3 front endpapers of LEE BRAUDE, a prominent Sociologist professor formerly on the staff of the University of Chicago. Heavy book so any overseas' shipping costs are likely to be significant.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2869
- Title
- INDIANS OF CANADA
- Author
- Jenness, Diamond
- Illustrator
- Color and B&W photographs
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- National Museum of Canada Bulletin 65 Anthropological Series No. 15
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa, Canada
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Illustrated, photos, color, black and white, native Americans, Inuit, Copper Eskimos, languages, maps,
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Bindings & Editions Association Copy
- Countries & Cultures North America Canada Canadiana
- Countries & Cultures North America United States Americana
- History Western History Canadian History
- Social Sciences Cultures & Social Groups Native American
- Social Sciences Cultures & Social Groups Indigenous Peoples First Nations
- Social Sciences Cultures & Social Groups Indigenous Peoples Aborigines
- Social Sciences Anthropology
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