Search Results: ANTHROPOLOGY from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

1942. Otherwise very good condition. A 1943 calendar mounted below a silver tone photograph of a young Fijian woman, bare breasted wearing a necklace in a grass skirt with spear. Photograph laid in on card mount, complete with tie to hang on wall. Hand writing on upper right corner: '1942 USS Colorado'. Card 5 7/8 x 9", photo 2 1/2 x 4 1/2", calendar 2 7/8 1 7/8". Card slt. bumped at edges with pin holes top and bottom.

Tahiti, 1896. Very good overall. Five lovely albumen snap shots of Tahiti by an unidentified photographer, captioned in a period hand, with one showing the Brig 'Galilee' in the harbor of Papeete, under the command of Capt. Dinsmore. The brig was a very fast ship, built by the Matthew Turner shipyard in Benicia California in 1891, for the packet line between San Francisco and Tahiti carrying passengers, freight and mail. 'Galilee' set a record of 21 days for her return trip from Tahiti; in 1905 she was chartered by the Carnegie Institution and converted into a magnetic observatory, making voyages throughout the Pacific, including to New Zealand, and measuring Earth's magnetic field for 3 years. The 'Galilee' and Papeete are pictured here at exactly the time in which Paul Gaugin was living near the town and travelling there to participate in the social and political life of the French colony, contributing to a local anti colonial journal and editing and illustrating his own monthly publication.… Read More

Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales, 1889. Hardcover. Very good condition. Two extracts from the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. The Aborigines of Australia by Edward Stephens, read before the Royal Society NSW, October 2, 1889. [With] "New South Wales as a Health Resort in Phthisis Pulmonalis" (tuberculosis), read before the Medical Section of the Royal Society of NSW, July 19, 1889. 8vo, "The Aborigines of Australia", pp 476-503, color folding map, 1 plate; "New South Wales as a Health Resort", pp 503 -510, with large folding map. Bound in modern gray cloth, not titled. Folding maps bright and clean.

Mankind, 1958. Paperback. Very good. Offprint from Mankind, Vol. 5, no. 5, Feb. 1958. 6pp, 2pp ills. Bibliography.

London, 1982. Paperback. Very good. London 1982, pbk. 43pp, map, vgc.

Granville NSW: Association for the Protection of Native Races, 1946. Paperback. Good +. August 6, 1946. 7pp, paper wrps.

Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia, 1928. Paperback. Very good. Author's offprint from "Trans. of the Roy. Society of South Australia", 1928. 4pp text, ills. in text, 1 plt. Pale green pp wrps, slt. sunned at edges o/w vgc.

1979. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: The Biology and Taxonomy of the Solanaceae. (Linnean Society Symposium Series No. 7, 1979. pp171-190, ills in text, plt. at end.

Houston Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, 1965. Hardcover. Very good. UnpagInated, (12 pp text), 24 plts & 2 pp checklist. 4to, orange dec. pp wrps. Includes numerous magazine & newspaper clippings.

Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1961. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 1961. pp199-218, table in text, stapled.

Norton, Frank. Aboriginal Art. Western Australian Art Gallery, n.p., n.d. 66pp. B&w ills and map in text. Brown cloth w/ gold stamping on spine. vg dj g+ chipped somewhat.

Weather, 1953. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: Weather, March 1953, Vol. 8. pp72-77, 1 plt. at end.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1894. Hardcover. Very good. 15th edition. iv + 55pp. Purple cloth covers w/ gold stamping on cover and spine, little marked at edges, hinge loose o/w vg. F7810.

1972. Paperback. Very good. Interesting early report in light of Mabo. Reprinted from: Racism: The Australian Experience, A Study of Race Prejudice in Australia, Vol. 2, 1971-72 (IWGIA-Document 3). 24pp, paper wrps.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965. Hardcover. Very good condition. A collection of essays in honor of Prof. A.P. Elkin. Thick 8vo. 491 pp, b&w ills, tables & music in text. Black boards, dj, vgc. Title in light brown on darker brown dj spine. Meggitt copy. Meggitt was a noted Australian anthropologist, recognized for his research on Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia.

Oceania, 1947. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: Oceania, March 1947, Vol XVII, No. 3. Sm. 4to, pp173-210, paper wrps.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1993. Paperback. Fine. 216 pp pbk, ills. throughout, some color. As new. Handsome production.

Perth: University of Western Australia. Wraps. Very good. Meggitt copy. Off print from University of Western Australia Law Review, Vol. VI. 1-10pp. With the original printed paper wrapper, signed by Mervyn Meggitt.

The Sociological Review, 1963. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from The Sociological Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (New Series), March 1963, pp 19-47. Minor penciling.

Canberra: ANU School of General Studies, 1969. Very good condition. 4to, 290pp. Off white stiff paper wraps, title in black at spine. Meggitt copy. Meggitt was a noted Australian anthropologist, recognized for his research on Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia.