Add to Want List
Rare and Antiquarian Books

Anthropology

Results 16 - 30 of 231
Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indigenas de Mexico
More Photos

Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indigenas de Mexico

by Pimentel, Francisco (1823-1893)

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Fort Worth, Texas
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,266.90
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
2 Volumes. lii+395+[4] pages; vi+427 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") volume one rebound in red leather with gilt lettering to spine; volume two original quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. First editions.The first Mexican linguist worthy of this name is Francisco Pimentel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. He attempted to systematize what was known until then about the Indian languages of Mexico. His work is the starting-point for the development of a more scientific approach to linguistic studies on Mesoamerican languages. A scholar versed in European typology and comparative linguistic studies of the nineteenth century Pimentel is clearly indebted to his predecessor the Spaniard Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, as well as Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Schlegel, Ernest Renan, Jacob Grimm and others. His work on linguistic classification in Mexico, unlike that of Orozco y Berra, was as up to date as that of any of his North American contemporaries. The second… Read More
Item Price
NZ$1,266.90
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA
The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago. Papuans
More Photos

The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago. Papuans

by Earl, George Windsor

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Schenectady, New York
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,216.22
NZ$6.50 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Part of The Ethnographical Library. 6pp of advertisements, xiv, [4], 239pp. Modern brown half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Four color plates, two folding maps (one of the seats of the Papuan Race in the Indian Archipelago; the other of New Guinea), one folding plate with illustrations of the different typologies of heads of Papuans and North Australians, two tables, one of which lists specimens of Papuan and North Australian dialects, and two in-text illustrations. Internally very clean with a few small spots to four of the leaves, very mild foxing to the verso of the plates and to the folding plate. A near fine copy. ; Octavo.
Item Price
NZ$1,216.22
NZ$6.50 shipping to USA
All I Could Never Be
More Photos

All I Could Never Be

by Yezierska, Anzia

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Salem, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,351.36
NZ$5.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
ANZIA YEZIERSKA: 1932, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, First Edition, 1932. Printed and bound in the U.S.A. by Chas. H. Bohn & Co. . USED. Good/ No DJ Included. About the author: "Yezierska's fiction focuses on Jewish immigrant life at the turn of the century, and she sees herself as giving voice to her people".
Item Price
NZ$1,351.36
NZ$5.00 shipping to USA
A Budget of Paradoxes [Signed]
More Photos

A Budget of Paradoxes [Signed]

by De Morgan, Augustus. [Edward Burnett Tylor]

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Granville, New York
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$2,694.27
NZ$5.99 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1872. First edition. Hard cover. Reprinted, with the author's additions, from the Athenaeum. A posthumous publication edited by De Morgan's widow. Published London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. 8vo., vii, [1 erratum], 511, [1 colophon], illustrated with tables, drawings within the text, plus Longman's Catalog of September, 1877 appended [30pp.]. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor's copy with his signature and bookplate. Tylor was Fellow of the Royal Society, the founder of cultural anthropology and the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford. This copy of "Paradoxes" was presented to Oxford University by his wife upon his death in 1917, with a commemorative bookplate: "From the Library of Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, KNT., D.C.L., F.R.S., The first Reader and Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford. Presented to the Radcliffe Trustees by Dame Anna Rebecca Tylor, June, 1917." Blue cloth with gilt spine titles, gray endpapers.… Read More
Item Price
NZ$2,694.27
NZ$5.99 shipping to USA
A Most Compleat Compendium of Geography, General and Special; Describing all the Empires,...
More Photos

A Most Compleat Compendium of Geography, General and Special; Describing all the Empires, Kingdoms, and Dominions, in The Whole World. Shewing Their Bounds, Situation, Dimensions, Ancient and Modern Names, History, Government, Religions, Languages..

by Echard, Laurence

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Whitby, Ontario
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,676.56
NZ$20.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: Printed for J. Salisbury, 1697. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo [3.25" x 6"]. ...Commodities, Divisions, Subdivisions, Cities, Rivers, Mountains, Lakes, with their Archbishopricks, Bishopricks and Universities. In a more Plain and Easie Method, more Compendious and Useful than any of the Lesser sort. Together with an Appendix of General Rules for making a large Geography, with the great Uses of that Science. Very Necessary for the right Understanding of the Transactions of these Tmes. Collected according to the latest Discoveries and agreeing with the Choicest and Newest Maps. The Fourth edition, Corrected and much Improved. Contemporary brown calf, red spine label with gilt title, blind panels with floral designs in corners to boards. Three raised bands, decorated in blind. Outer edges blind dentelle. [16], 236 pp., [12]. With four small maps on two leaves, one showing California as an island. Wear to edges and corners. A few scuffs to boards. Spine ends chipped, cracking to joints.… Read More
Item Price
NZ$1,676.56
NZ$20.00 shipping to USA
Grundriss der Naturgeschichte der Menschenspecies [Menschen Species]
More Photos

Grundriss der Naturgeschichte der Menschenspecies [Menschen Species]: : für akademische Vorlesungen / entworfen von Christian Friedrich Ludwig, Professor zu Leipzig.

by Christian Friedrich Ludwig

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,858.12
NZ$9.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
xii, 314 pp., 5 folding plates. Paper covered boards with gentle wear all around. No previous owners' names or other markings.
Item Price
NZ$1,858.12
NZ$9.00 shipping to USA
Reglas de Ortografia, Diccionario y Arte del Idioma Othomi: Breve instruccion para los principiantes
More Photos

Reglas de Ortografia, Diccionario y Arte del Idioma Othomi: Breve instruccion para los principiantes

by Neve y Molina, Luis

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
Second
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Fort Worth, Texas
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,266.90
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
254+[2] pages sextodecimo (4 ¾" x 3 ¼" bound in nineteenth century quarter leather and boards, spine tooled in gilt. Second Edition.
Consists of 3 parts: Part 1, "Reglas de orthographia" (pages 1-12); Part 2, "Diccionario de los nombres, y verbos mas comunes, y necessarios en el idioma othomì", listing Otomi equivalents for approximately 2000 terms in Spanish alphabetical order (pages 13-95) and concluding with a list of numbers 1-1000 (pages 95-96); and Part 3, "Arte del idioma othomi; breve compendio de reglas, para que los principiantes puedan con facilidad formar oraciones, ê instruirse en los mayores rudimentos de este idioma" (pages 97-160), in Spanish with Otomi examples. Author identified as "cathedratico proprietario de dicho idioma en el Real, y Pontificio Colegio Saminario, examinador synodal, è interprete de el Tribunal de Fè en el Provisorato de Indios de este Arzobispado"
Neve y Molina was a native Otomi and the preliminary matter of the volume indicate that he was professor of the… Read More
Item Price
NZ$1,266.90
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA
1682 1ed Customs of BRABANT Dutch Netherlands Belgium JB Christyn Antwerp FOLIO
More Photos

1682 1ed Customs of BRABANT Dutch Netherlands Belgium JB Christyn Antwerp FOLIO

by CHRISTYN, Jean-Baptiste

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
COLUMBIA, Missouri
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,266.90
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
1682 1ed Customs of BRABANT Dutch Netherlands Belgium JB Christyn Antwerp FOLIO
Jean-Baptiste Christyn was a 17th-century Dutch diplomat of the Spanish Netherlands. Prior to serving as the Brabant government, he wrote an extensive and thorough history of the Brabant (European low countries) in which he outlined laws, customs, and people from all over the Netherlands and Belgium.
This enormous 17th-century folio covers Dutch and Belgian cities including Antwerp, Louvain, Bergen op Zoom, Geel, Steenokkerzeel, and many more.
Item number: #18125
Price: $750
CHRISTYN, Jean-Baptiste
Brabandts recht dat is Generale costumen vanden lande ende hertoghdomme van Brabandt midtsgaders van het hertoghdom van Limborgh stede ende lande van Mechelen
T'Antwerpen : By Michiel Knobbaert, 1682. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
[10], 766 (i.e. 862)
o
Pagination errors expected
· Language: Dutch
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~15in X 10in (38cm… Read More
Item Price
NZ$1,266.90
FREE shipping to USA
Kurtzes und accurates Systema Der Neueren Geographie Nach einer neuen und curieusen Methode, In...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
Hanover: Ben Nikolaus Förster, 1718. Leather bound. Very good. A lovely old copy of of "A Brief and accurate system of modern geography, By a new and curious method." Translated and expanded by Johann Bernhard Heinzelmann from the sixth edition of Patrick Gordon's "Geography anatomized." Covers countries, customs, religions, and currency of the time and places. Bound in calfskin, with repaired cracking at the joint and wear to leather on front cover. Spine titled in faded gilt lettering. Missing the first free endpaper. Page edges stained with age. Double sheet title page in red and black ink. Part II divided by a double page illustration. Final page of the "Register" missing 1" circular section. Fraktur typeface. Text in German. 964 pp. octodecimo 4" x 6" tall
Item Price
NZ$2,027.04
NZ$4.00 shipping to USA
The Hippodrome
More Photos

The Hippodrome

by Hayward, Rachel

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First American Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Salem, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,351.36
NZ$5.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Hayward, Rachel The Hippodrome , 1913 George H. Doran Company, New York. American First Edition. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilt still fairly bright. EXLIB Good condition. / No DJ Included. Early noir detective novel set in Paris in the 1860's- 70's, and the Story of Arithelli, the beautiful English equestrienne. 295 PAGES. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. 295 pages. QUITE RARE. We are pleased to consider offers.
Item Price
NZ$1,351.36
NZ$5.00 shipping to USA
String Figures. A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands
More Photos

String Figures. A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands: With an Ethnological Introduction by Alfred C. Haddon. Illustrated.

by JAYNE, Caroline Furness

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Seller
Beverly Hills, California
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$1,435.82
NZ$20.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Large octavo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches; 265 x 185 mm). xxiii, 91, blank], 407, [1, blank] pp. With seventeen black-and-white photographic plates, including frontispiece and over eight hundred illustrations in the text. Publisher's full blue cloth. Front board ruled and stamped in blind, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. A few leaves unopened. Brown coated endpapers. Previous owner, Dr. Wesley Wilbur Beckett's bookplate on front pastedown. Beckett was a Southern California surgeon and president of the California Medical Association. Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth. A bit of soiling to top of front board. Otherwise a near fine copy. Caroline Furness Jayne "was an American ethnologist who published the first book on string figures in 1906 titled String Figures: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands... Jayne became interested in string figures through… Read More
Item Price
NZ$1,435.82
NZ$20.00 shipping to USA
A Collection of Pagodas

A Collection of Pagodas: 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco

by Mee-Seen Loong

  • Used
  • as new
  • Paperback
Condition
As New
Binding
Paperback
Seller
Longmont, Colorado
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$2,111.50
NZ$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Mee-seen Loong Fine Art LLC, 2014. As New. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
Item Price
NZ$2,111.50
NZ$6.00 shipping to USA
I am Joaquin / Yo Soy Joaquin

I am Joaquin / Yo Soy Joaquin

by Rodolfo Gonzales

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
Seller
Longmont, Colorado
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$3,378.40
NZ$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972.122 pp. Text in English & Spanish. First paperback edition. CONDITION: Good. Paperback. Binding has a glue split at page 88. Name penned on title page; occasional underlining throughout with brown marker. Covers show soiling, rubbing, edge and corner wear, and a small tear at base of spine. Large crease across upper back corner; crease down spine. Profusely illustrated with photos and artwork. Overall, a good copy of an EXTREMELY SCARCE epic poem of the Chicano Movement in America. Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.
Item Price
NZ$3,378.40
NZ$6.00 shipping to USA
Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters &...
More Photos

Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters & Notes Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes now Existing

by George Catlin (1796-1872)

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - About Very Good
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Fort Worth, Texas
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$2,956.10
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
2 volumes. viii+[folding map]+264 pages with color frontispiece and 114 color plates. viii+266 pages with frontispiece color map, 312 color plates, maps and appendices. Quarto (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black to spine and cover with gilt hed page ends. (Howes C241. Lipperheide 1618. Pilling 689. Streeter Sale 4277. Field 260. Wagner-Camp 84:4) First edition to have the plates printed in color. First published in 1841.
George Catlin was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American Frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D.… Read More
Item Price
NZ$2,956.10
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA
Origen de los Indios de El Nuevo Mundo, e Indias Occidentales
More Photos

Origen de los Indios de El Nuevo Mundo, e Indias Occidentales

by Gregorio Garcia (1554-1633?) and Gonzalez de Barcia

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
Second
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Fort Worth, Texas
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$2,533.80
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
[32]+336+[80 index] pages with vignette title page, showing ships approaching a coast; engraved portrait of Thomas Aquinas and 5 small engravings in the text. Small folio (11 3/4" x 7 3/4") bound in period sheep, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers. (Medina IV, 2713; Borba de Moraes I, 346; Sabin, 26567) Second edition.
This work was originally published in 1607 and reissued in 1627 with additions by Gonzalez de Barcia and was originally anonymous. The anonymous 1729, or "pseudo-Garcia," as it is sometimes called, also reuses the old legends of Atlantis, Carthage, and the Hesperides, and is proceeded by supposed cultural and physiological analogies.
It takes advantage of Kircher's speculations, inclined towards Christian orthodoxy, to devalue Eastern cultures. Feijoo proceeds like the reeditor in attacking the preadamismo of Isaac de La Peyrre that affirmed that God had created men before Adam and that only the Hebrews descended from this one [1655]. Chapter… Read More
Item Price
NZ$2,533.80
NZ$7.00 shipping to USA