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Lapland (Frank White's copy)

By: Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Constable & Co. Ltd: 1937

Seller ID: 015586

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 136, a map at the rear, fore-edge foxed, also affecting the first few pages and the last page, otherwise clean internally, original pale brown cloth, faded dull and a little marked, the spine age-toned, the covers very slightly bowed. [The scarce first edition. From the library of the botanist Frank White, with his signature on the front endpaper.]
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The Clouds and the Rain - the art of love in China

By: Beurdeley, Michel; Schipper. Kristofer; Fu-Jui, Chang & Pimpaneau, Jacques

Price: £27.50

Publisher: Fribourg & London, Office du Livre, and Hammand, Hammond & Company: 1969

Seller ID: 013230

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, including many mounted colour plates, folio, pp xiv, 209, a very good copy in a dustwrapper showing very slight signs of age-toning. In the original plain card slipcase. [A heavy book - extra postage may be required].
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Human Ecology

By: Bews, J.W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1935

Seller ID: 010526

Condition: Good

Small 8vo, pp xii, 312, cloth very slightly worn, faded on the spine, binding leaning, but otherwise very clean and sound.
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Summary of the Fourth Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1953) {Eric Groves' copy}

By: Brass, L.J.

Price: £12.50

Publisher: New York, American Museum of Natural History: 1956

Seller ID: 015480

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, slim quarto, pp (70), upper corners very slightly bruised, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. [Originally a presentation copy from the author to the botanist A.H.G. Alston, but this crossed out and now with the signature of another British Museum botanist Eric Groves.]
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To the Mountains of the Stars

By: Brongersma, L.D. & Venema, G.F.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1962

Seller ID: 014122

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 318, slightly used throughout, fore-edge a little age-toned, traces of a label removed from the front endpaper, grey cloth very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and shortly smaller than the book. [An account of an anthropological expedition to Dutch New Guinea.]
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Science in Archaeology: a survey of progress and research (Jack Hawkes' copy)

By: Brothwell, Don & Higgs, Eric (editors)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 1969

Seller ID: 013959

ISBN: 0500270104

Condition: Good

Second edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp 720, very clean and sound internally, paperback, upper cover a little scuffed, spine creased. Professor Jack Hawkes copy, with his signature on the front endpaper. Very heavy - extra postage may be needed. [A stimulating collection of papers.]
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Biosocial Man - Studies Related to the Interaction of Biological and Cultural Factors in Human Populations

By: Brothwell, Don (edited by)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Eugenics Society: 1977

Seller ID: 001758

ISBN: 0900490098

Condition: Very Good

8vo, pp. viii, 296. paperback, slightly worn. (This collection of essays is an attempt to show the various ways in which biological aspects of man are linked with social man.)
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Earth and the Great Weather : The Brooks Range

By: Brower, Kenneth

Price: £8.50

Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Earth:

Seller ID: 002651

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with stunning photographs,and with many poems from a variety of authors, folio, pp 188, a good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper, Anthony Huxley's copy, with his ownership stamp. This book will be heavier than average to post - extra charge may be needed.. [ A beautiful account of nature and of Inuit life in the tundra and ice of North America.]
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The Lapps

By: Collinder, Bjorn

Price: £6.00

Publisher: New York, Princeton University Press for the American Scandinavian Foundation: 1949

Seller ID: 009697

Condition: Fair

Illustrated, pp (6), 252, fore-edge marked, slightly worn and marked internally, foxing and browning to the early pages, blue cloth blotched and a little worn. Signature of the botanist Frank White on the front endpaper.
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We Have Eaten the Forest The Story of a Montagnard Village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

By: Condominas, Georges

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Allen Lane: 1977

Seller ID: 014058

ISBN: 0713906715

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxii, 423, very clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is a little worn and torn. [A classic year-long study of the Mnong Gur tribe, in the remote village of Sar Luk, two hundred miles north of Saigon.]
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Indian Art of Mexico and Central America

By: Covarrubias, Miguel

Price: £25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1957

Seller ID: 005462

Well illustrated with colour plates and line drawings by the author, quarto, pp xvi, 360, xvii, (3), decorated cloth showing very faint wear, otherwise a good sound copy.
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Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges - retracing the epic journey of 1924-25 in South-East Tibet

By: Cox, Kenneth, (editor), [Frank Kingdon Ward]

Price: £19.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 2001

Seller ID: 014080

ISBN: 1851493719

Condition: Very Good

FIRST EDITION THUS. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 319, owner's large bookplate opposite the half-title, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Little explored and virtually inaccessible, the Tsangpo Gorge in south-east Tibet is the world's deepest gorge. Through it twists the Yarlong Tsangpo, Tibet's great river, emerging from below on the plains of India. This is the story of its exploration and the rich plant and animal life found there. Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges , first published in 1926, is the fascinating account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward's most important...
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Portraits of North American Indian Life

By: Curtis, Edward S. (introduction by A.D. Coleman & T.C. McLuhan)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: A&W Visual Library: 1972

Seller ID: 015495

ISBN: 089104003xs

Condition: Good

Large horizontal octavo, pp xvi + 88 illustrations from photographs, paperback, covers very slightly worn.
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The Death Rituals of Rural Greece

By: Danforth, Loring M.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 015438

ISBN: 0691000271

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 170, a few neat pencilled notes relating to greek words on a few pages, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, very good. [This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village - the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in o...
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Ecological Studies in Southern Africa

By: Davis, D.H.S. (et al)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Hague, Dr. W. Junk: 1964

Seller ID: 008587

Condition: Good

A few plates, illustrations and maps, large 8vo, pp xxiv, 415, brown cloth, slightly worn. [A diverse and interesting collection of papers, including The Pleistocene environment in southern Africa; Bushman hunter-gatherers : a study in human ecology; plant lore of the bushmen; the eels of South African rivers; the oestroid flies of Africa, south of the Sahara, Karoo vegetation in relation to development of deserts etc.]
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PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN ETHIOPIA (Jack Hawkes' copy]

By: Engles, J. M. M.; Hawkes, J. G.; Melaku Worede (editors)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 014209

ISBN: 0521384567

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp xvi, 383, a tiny mark to the fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy indeed, pictorial laminated boards. From the library of Professor Jack Hawkes, with his signature on the front endpaper. [One of the world centres of crop evolution and origin, Ethiopia has long been recognized as an important area of diversity for several major and various minor crops. Based on an international conference held in Addis Ababa, this book describes how this genetic diversity is of vital importance in breeding varieties of crops with desirable characteristics such as increased resistance to pests and di...
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Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants - A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes

By: Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte

Price: £9.00

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications Inc.: 1989

Seller ID: 010520

ISBN: 048625951x

Condition: New

Well illustrated with line drawings, thick 8vo, pp xxii, 512, paperback, a very good new copy.
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The Religion of the Tempasuk Dusuns of North Borneo

By: Evans, I.N.H.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, Opus Publications: 2007

Seller ID: 005104

ISBN: 9833987230

Condition: New

NEW. (1953) Reprinted 2007 with a new introduction, black and white illustrations, folding map, thick 8vo, pp xxviii, 579, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [The Religion of the Tempasuk Dusuns of North Borneo, which was first published in 1953, is one of the most important books written about the Dusun of the Tempasuk district, one of the numerous ethnic groups in Sabah (formerly called North Borneo). It is based on the author’s fieldwork in the early 20th century and in the pre- and post-World War II periods when he lived amongst these people. The book gives a very comprehensive account of ...
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The Aztecs

By: Fagan, Brian M

Price: £6.00

Publisher: New York, W.H. Freeman and Company: 1984

Seller ID: 013369

ISBN: 0716715856

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xiv, 322, a few pencil notes on the rear endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. [Traces the history of the Aztecs, describes their government, religion, and culture, and recounts their conquest by the Spanish.]
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Folk-Lore in Borneo : a Sketch

By: Furness, William

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, Opus Publications: 2009

Seller ID: 005123

ISBN: 9833987184

(Originally privately published in 1899). Small slim 12mo, pp 29, paperback, a very good copy. [This booklet, first published in 1899, begins with a description of the way of life of the peoples of Sarawak in the 19th century - their houses, social structure and their beliefs in the spirits. Creation myths of the Kayans and the Dayaks, a legend on the origin of the tradition of head-hunting, stories of visits to regions below the earth and above the earth; all are told. One of the stories of a visit to a land above the earth recounts how Si Kira gave the Dayaks three types of rice, but the aut...
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