Anthropology
103 items found
Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. [Complete, in four volumes].
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (two showing adjacent regions). Original uniform quarter cloth over printed boards.
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Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt
De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. Tweede, geheel omgewerkte druk. [2nd, revised edition. Complete, in five volumes].
Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1950-1951. In five volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.0 x 18.0 cm). [AND] Deel platen; octavo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). total of 1558 pp. [xii, 478; viii, 557; viii, 484; 11]. [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.2 x 27.0 cm); 159 photographs in "Deel platen"; 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and two coloured folding maps. Original uniform printed wrappers (text and platen volumes); atlas in original printed portfolio with linen spine.
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Andree, R.
Abessinien, das Alpenland unter den Tropen und seine Grenzländer. Schilderungen von Land und Volk vornehmlich unter Koenig Theodoros (1855-1868) nach den Berichten älterer und neuerer Reisenden bearbeitet.
Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1869. 8vo (19.1 x 13.7 cm). x, 300 pp.; wood-engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece of King Theodoros with four lions; six engraved plates, 80 text illustrations (several page-sized). Original pictorial cloth. Spine with gilt title and pictorial vignettes; boards blind-stamped with floral borders, front board with large, gilt vignette. Endpapers with printed publisher's catalogue. Marbled edges.
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Bastian, A. [P. W.]
Ideale Welten nach uranographischen Provinzen in Wort und Bild. Ethnologische Zeit- und Streitfragen nach Gesichtspunkten der Indischen Völkerkunde.
Berlin, Emil Felber, 1892. Three volumes in one. 4to (27.2 x 19.7 cm). Title to the whole work; titles to the parts; 791 pp. [289; 270; 232]; 22 plates [9; 9; 4]. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Belon, P.
Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvees en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois liures. Reueuz de nouveau & augmentez de figures. Le catalogue contenant le plus notables choses, est en la page fuyuante.
Paris, H. de Marnef & G. Cavellat, 1588. 4to (22.1 x 15.4 cm). [xiv], 468, [ii] pp.; numerous woodcuts, some page-sized. 18th-century full tree calf. Spine with five raised bands, compartments rich gilt with floral patterns. Red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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Bertholon, L. and E. Chantre
Recherches anthropologiques dans la Berbérie Orientale, Tripolitaine, Tunisie et Algérie.
Lyon, A. Rey, 1912-1913. In two volumes. Folio (37.3 x 28.0 cm). Two half-titles, two title pages with phototype vignettes; xiv, 662 pp.; full colour frontispiece, 385 text figures, several tables, 58 phototype plates (numbered I-LVII, XLIIbis), with, in total, 174 ethnographical portraits, four other plates, and five very large, folded coloured maps. Original uniform portfolio's with blind cloth spines and printed boards.
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Blume, C.
De Indische Bij, Tijdschrift ter Bevordering van de Kennis der Nederlandsche Volkplantingen en Derzelven Belangen. Eerste Deel. [Volume I; All published].
Leiden, Hazenberg en Comp., 1843. iv, 663 pp.; four lithographed plates, of which one hand-coloured, depicting a Dyak called Sigan as a warrior, with his shield, spear, and feathers. The others depict landscapes and Dyak writing. Original pictorial paper boards.
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Brinkley, F.
Oriental Series. Japan [and] China. [the rare "Lotus"-edition].
Boston and Tokyo, J. B. Millet, 1901-1902. Twelve volumes in twelve. 8vo (23.1 x 15.7 cm). 3752 pp.; 255 plates, of which 115 monochrome and 114 in full colour - all with printed tissue guards, and 26 lithographed, captioned on the plates; three maps, of which two very large, multi-folded and in full colour. Uniform original full dark green morocco. Spines with three raised bands, gilt, pink-and-red inlay morocco lotus vignette and gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined borders and pink-and-red inlay morocco lotuses.
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Brodtmann, C. J.
Naturhistorische Bilder-Galerie aus dem Thierreiche gezeichnet von Carl Joseph Brodtmann.
Lindau, Brodtmann, 1816. Folio (43.6 x 35.0 cm). Engraved title, [ii], 72 pp.; 144 lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five embossed bands and gilt title. Marbled edges.
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