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Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1903-1904
by W.H. Holmes
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1907. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A very good first printing. Brown cloth boards with native portrait in gilt. Binding slightly cocked, yet sturdy.Spotting to cover and foxing to last free endpaper. Full of hundreds of black and white plates depicting lifeways and artifacts. xxvi, 285 pp. 8 x 11 1/2 inches tall, octavo. Contents: The aborigines of Porto Rico and neghboring islands Certain antiquities of Eastern Mexico
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 868
- Title
- Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1903-1904
- Author
- W.H. Holmes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Puerto Rico, first peoples, indian, native american, mexico, mexican, maya, Tampico
- Bookseller catalogs
- Native America;
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About Uncommon Works
Not your ordinary book store! Uncommon Works specializes in rare, odd, unique, and handmade books, with a focus on the Maya, Latin America, Native America, and the Spanish Conquest. You'll find rare, first editions and first or early printings. You'll even find a few first printings of living authors for sale. We provide services and referrals for book mending, repair, restoration, and binding.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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