Anthropology, Archaeology & Ethnography

Adair, Mattie A. Folk Tales of New Zealand: The Legends of the Maoris. Selected and Adapted from Early Translations. Illustrations by Vladimir James. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison, 1969. 4th printing. 114 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author and signed by the illustrator on the half-title page. First published in 1966. Very good pictorial hardcover. #23930. $40
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Anati, Emmanuel. The Mountain of God. Har Karkom. Part One: The Mountain and the Discoveries. Part Two: The Identification of Mount Sinai. Part Three: Documentation. New York: Rizzoli, 1986. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 360 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Archaeological excavation at Karkom Mount, Negev Desert, Israel, Mount Sinai, Egypt. Exlibrary. Very good hardcover and dust jacket in library acetate cover. Spine label; stamps on top edge; barcode and pocket on front free endpaper. ISBN 0847807231. #22733. $40
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Covey, Cyclone. The Yuchi/Yuki Nonplus. Columbus, Georgia: ISAC Press / Institute for the Study of American Cultures, 1983. 1st printing. 81, [20] pages. Index. Illustrations. An epigraphic exploration of the relationship between the Yuki Indians in Mendocino Country, California and the Yuchi of Creek County, Oklahoma. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26376. $70
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Cyr, Donald L., editor. Glastonbury Treasures. Santa Barbara, California: Stonehenge Viewpoint, 1989. 4to (large book). 96 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. The Best of Stonehenge Viewpoint Series. Stonehenge Viewpoint, 81-82. Investigations in the mysteries of Glastonbury, England. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26379. $30
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Deal, David Allen. Discovery of Ancient America. Irvine, California: Kherem La Yah Press, 1984. Small 4to (medium-large book). 136 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Research of writings in a volcanic mesa in Valencia County, New Mexico, known as Hidden Mountain or Mystery Mountain, with the Indian name of 'Cerro Los Moqujino' (Cliff of the Strange Writings). Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0933677006. #26377. $40
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Desborough, V. R. d'A. The Last Myceneaeans and Their Successors: An Archaeological Survey, c.1200-c.1000 B.C. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Reprinted. 4to (large book). xviii, 288, [1] pages, and 24 pages of plates. Index. Bibliography. Frontispiece. First published in 1964. 'The book assembles for the first time the archaeological data for the whole of Greece and the Aegean - and for certain adjacent areas - during the twelfth and eleventh centuries B.C.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover and dust jacket in library acetate cover. Exlibrary: Spine labels, stamps on top and bottom edges; rear free endpaper removed. #24228. $75
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Downing, Bruce T., and Douglas P. Olney, editors. The Hmong in the West: Observations and Reports. Papers of the 1981 Hmong Research Conference, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis: Southeast Asian Refugee Studies Project, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1985. 2d printing. ix, 401 pages. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Publication No. CURA 82-1. First published in 1982. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); small stain and some soiling on rear cover. Former owner's name on title page. #24438. $150
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Farley, Gloria. In Plain Sight: Old World Records in Ancient America. Preface by George F. Carter. Columbus, Georgia: ISAC Press / Institute for the Study of American Cultures, 1994. 4to (large book). xiii, 481 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. 'This book is an attempt to record, as factually as possible, the last 45 years of my research into the prehistory of America which pertains to visitations or colonization by people who were not American Indians.' - Page 1. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and creased dust jacket, lower right-hand corner of front cover creased. ISBN 1880820080. #26369. $120
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Fell, Barry. Bronze Age America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. 2d printing. 304 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. A Ruggles de Latour, Inc. Book. 'The author continues to reinterpret history, with well-documented evidence that supports the startling assertion that Bronze Age Norsemen reached North America thousands of years before the voyage of Columbus. Barry Fell's theory is based on the recent archaeological discovery of what appears to be King Woden-lithi's own accounts of adventure.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0316277711. #26364. $40
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McGlone, William R., and Phillip M. Leonard. Ancient Celtic America. Appendix by Rollin W. Gillespie. Introduction by Norman Totten. Fresno, California: Panorama West Books, 1986. 1st printing. 319 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendix on Ancient Astronomy by Rollin W. Gillespie. 'A definitive work on the epigraphic aspects of pre-Columbian Celtic contact.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 091433090X. #26365. $45
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McKnight, Robert T. Orachl's Drawings. Painting reproductions by Norman Caton, Gordon Danniells, John K. Omelau, Adalbert Obak. Foreword by John deYoung. Saipan, Mariana Islands: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Printing and Publication Division, 1970. Reprint. Small 4to (medium-large book). 28 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Micronesian Research Working Papers, 1. First published 1964. Orachl's Drawings, Palauan Rock Paintings. Very good softcover. #22402. $40
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Morgan, John H., editor. Understanding Religion and Culture: Anthropological and Theological Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979. iv, 238 pages. Bibliographical references. This publication is dedicated to Clifford Geertz. Contributors are John W. Morgan, James Preston, E. Jean Langdon, Ann Marie Powers, Fritz Holscher, James O. Buswell, III, and Alice Higman Reich. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0819108480. #24790. $35
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Ortner, Donald J., and Walter G. J. Putschar. Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Small 4to (medium-large book). xi, 479 pages. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 28. Good hardcover; original wrappers rebound in library cloth. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover, on front flyleaf, inside original soft cover and on title page; barcode label on rear flyleaf. #26330. $70
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Robicsek, Francis. Copan: Home of the Mayan Gods. Foreword by Gordon F. Ekholm. Preface by Frederick J. Dockstader. New York: Heye Foundation & Museum of the American Indian, 1972. 4to (large book). xiv, 166, [2] pages. Index. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Endpaper illustrations. Copan, located in the Central American Republic of Honduras, was one of the most beautiful centers of the Classic Maya. Exlibrary. Spine labels; stamps on top and bottom edges, front flyleaf, dedication page; pocket removed from rear endpaper, stamp on rear free endpaper. Very good hardcover and dust jacket in taped-down library acetate cover. #23576. $25
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Schliemann, Henry. Troja. Results of the Latest Research and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy, and in the Heroic Tumuli and Other Sites Made in the Year 1882, and a Narrative of a Journey in the Troad in 1881. Preface by Professor A. H. Sayce. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. xl, 434 pages. Index. 150 woodcuts. 4 Maps and plans. Folding Plans and maps at the end of the volume. The first map appears to lack the top half of the map; the remaining part is partially torn along a fold and reinforced with a piece of tape near top. Plan VII: Plan of the Acropolis of the Second City is slightly torn along one fold. Plan of the Homeric Troy and of the Later Ilium has slight tear along fold and along right margin and has been repaired with tape. Frontispiece Map of the Troad slightly worn and torn. Exlibrary. Call number on spine labels; stamp on bottom edges, front flyleaf, preliminary leaf, barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper. Rebound in decorative buckram. Good hardcover. #23142. $225
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Shaeffer, Margaret W. M. Made in New York State: Handwoven Coverlets, 1820-1960. Essays by Virginia Parslow Partridge and Rita J. Adrosko. Watertown, New York: Jefferson County Historical Society, 1985. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book). 71 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. A traveling exhibition organized by Margaret W. M. Shaeffer. Very good pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Edges slightly rubbed. #24225. $35
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Sherrod, P. Clay, and Martha Ann Rolingson. Surveyors of the Ancient Mississippi Valley: Modules and Alignments in Prehistoric Mound Sites. Preface by Melvin L. Fowler. Fayetteville: Arkansas Archaeological Survey, 1987. 4to (large book). xiv, 151 pages. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series, 28. 'It is hypothesized here that the late prehistoric Indians of the Mississippi River Valley had a body of knowledge concerning celestial phenomena and mound engineering that provided principles for planned construction of ceremonial centers.' - Abstract, iii. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26380. $90
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Sircar, D. C. Inscriptions of Asoka. Bound in: Archaeology in India. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, 1957. 84 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Bound in: 'Archaeology in India.' Delhi: Same Publisher, no date. 42 pages. Very good hardcover. It appears that illustration VI, listed in the Table of Contents, was not included in this publication. #25796. $35
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Tennessee Archaeologist. Ten Years of the Tennessee Archaeologist. Selected Subjects. Volume II, 1954-1963. Edited by E. Raymond Evans. Knoxville, Tennessee: Tennessee Archaeological Society, 1972. 482 pages. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), covers slightly sunned and worn. #26336. $50
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Thompson, Gunnar. Nu Sun: Asian-American Voyages, 500 B.C. Fresno, California: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1989. 1st printing. 4to (large book). xi, 229 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. 'The amazing story of Chinese expeditions to America - two thousand years before Columbus. - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and chipped dust jacket. ISBN 0962199001. #26368. $25
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Yeoman, Peter. Medieval Scotland: An Archaeological Perspective. London: B. T. Batsford / Historic Scotland, 1995. 1st edition, 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). 128 pages. Index. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white photographs. Illustrations. Historic Scotland. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0713474645. #22746. $40
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Young, T. Cuyler, Jr. Excavations at Godin Tepe: First Progress Report. Excavations of the Godin Project: Second Progress Report. Louis D. Levine, co-author Second Progress Report. Toronto, Canada: Royal Ontario Museum, 1969, 1974. Small 4to (medium-size books). 2 volumes (145, 167 pages). Bibliographical references. Photographic plates. Illustrations. Folding plates in Second Progress Report. Both volumes signed by author Young. Royal Ontario Museum, Art and Archaeology, Occasional Paper, 17 & 26. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Former owner's bookplate inside front cover of both volumes. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #24715. $75
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