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48 pages with maps. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition.
An exhibition at the library in conjunction with the 2010 Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of cartography August 2010 through January 2011.
Condition: Very good to fine.

63-75 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXXI, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Some Recent Approaches to Japanese Nationalism by Kenneth B Pyle; Restorationism in the Political thought of Yamagata Daini (1725-1767) by Tetsuo Najita; Kotoku Shusui and Nationalism by Fred G Notehelfer; Nagai Ryutaro and the "White eril," 1905-1944 by Peter Buus; The Significance of Nationalism in Modern Japanese Thought by Matsumoto Sannosuke; Nationalism as Intellectual History by Harry D Harootfunian; Phan Boi Chau: Asian Revolutionary in a Changing World by William J Duiker; The Chinese Student Movement of `1945-1949 by Jessie G Lutz; Nirala and the Renaissance of Hindi Poetry by David Rubin. Condition: Previous owner's name to contents page, edge wear, corners and spine ends bumped, light edge wear lightly soiled else very good.

79-88 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXII, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Cultural Continuities and Discontinuities in Southeast Asia b Lauriston Sharp; On the Road: A Maharashtrian Pilgrimage by I Karve; The Meiji Constitution in Practice: The First Diet by George Akita; The Reliability of Industrial Output Data in Communist China by Kang Chao; Communication Channels and Functional Literacy in the Philippine Barrio by John E de Young and Chester L Hunt. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed else very good.

85-93 with cited references. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. American Antiquity Volume 42, number 4 complete issue. First edition. An interdisciplinary approach to Late Classic Maya polychrome-painted ceramics from Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech, Belize allows for preliminary observations relevant to a better understanding of elite pottery production and use in the western Belize Valley. The combination of typological and contextual data from archaeological investigations of ceramics along with art-historical stylistic analyses and ceramic-paste chemical-composition data identifies ordinary and special-purpose vessels excavated from palace-midden contexts as having been created in the same elite-oriented or "palace" workshop(s) at Buenavista del Cayo. The method allows for the identification of unslipped, monochrome, and polychrome pottery excavated from "palace" contexts at nearby Cahal Pech as products of the "palace" school workshop(s) at Buenavista del Cayo, which… Read More

xiv+190 pages with figures, charts, maps and appendices. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's green wrappers. Middle American Research Institute Publication number 43. First edition.The 1969-71 National Geographic society-Tulane University project was organized specifically to deal with two problems. The first concerned the precise definition of the Rio Bec architectural style and its proper chronological placement. The second involved the determination of the chronological and cultural relationships existing among the Rio Bec, Chenes and Puuc sub-regions. Several secondary results were expected as well. These included the construction of an independent chronological framework for the Rio Bec zone; the establishment of a firm chronological and typological bridge between the isolated culture sequences of northwestern Yucatan and the southern Maya lowlands; and the dating of the massive defensive network at Becan, suspected to be of either Late or Terminal Classic age. Central… Read More

x+131 pages with two page pictorial title, photographs and appendix. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped wolf picture to the cover in original jacket. Second printing. A rich portrait of the life and behavior of the wolf, and a moving meditation on man's kinship with the natural world. Condition: Corners bumped, previous owner's blackened on front paste-down, old sticker to front end paper. Jacket spine ends and corners chipped, edge wear with some chips and tears else a very good copy in about a very good jacket.

85-92 pages with map, tables and cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 35, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Two objective quantitative models for estimating maximum human population densities are reviewed and modifications of the published baseline data estimates are presented. One of these models (Pmax(2) is applied to data for hunter-gatherer groups in central Desert of Baja California and the results are compared with population size and density estimates from independent sources. Predicated population sizes duplicate those derived from independent sources for the region as a whole and match well with those for separate mission areas. Condition: Corners gently bumped, spine sunned else very good.

442-467 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 34, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. The "time-out" conception of drunken comportment (MacAndrew and Edgerton 1969), which holds that intoxication allows drunken individuals to avoid the social sanctions that are normally applied to untoward behavior, is critically examined in relation to the drinking patterns of the "everyday" Indians of Sioux City, Iowa. The time-out view is found to be inappropriate because offended individuals do negatively sanction drunken norm violators. It is argued that by stressing the possibility of a society viewing alcohol as a producer of moral incompetency MacAndrew and Edgerton underplay the extent to which intoxication helps to establish "boundary markers" or "framing cues" for a variety of situations within a single society. Condition: Spine sunned, Light edge wear else very good.

xxiv+383 pages with frontispiece, plates, maps, glossary, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. First edition. This community study of an Andean peasant village is noteworthy not only for its competence as a descriptive monograph but also for its theoretical and practical applications. Stein's vivid description of these Peruvian Indians is ample evidence of his skill in field techniques and his humane sensitivity. His interpretations of his data are guided by a comprehensive body of theory that incorporates concepts of society, culture and personality. Most unusual in the report of a professional anthropologist of human potentialities from community development through social action. George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he… Read More

59 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. The Sicilian Defense Dragon Variation is one of the sharpest chess openings you can play. It is also known to be one of the most extensively analyzed opening systems in chess and one of the most-feared counterattacking options for Black against the move 1.e4. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped else very good.

22 typescript pages. Quarto (10 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. All 45 games with notes from the Premier tournament. (Betts: 25-224) First edition.The 29th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1953. After resuming annual tournaments in 1945 after the war, the chess club at 7 Carlisle Parade had struggled to keep the event ongoing without many foreign participants to make the contests more engaging to the public. This edition of the premier tournament saw an opportunity that would shape the course of the event for the remainder of the 1950s. The Soviet Chess Federation, in the interest of displaying their dominant grandmasters to the West, sent as emissaries David Bronstein and Alexander Tolush to participate in the festival. They were met by four time Hastings winner Dr. Savielly Tartakower, and Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander who had won the 22nd edition of the Hastings event and been a code-breaker for the Allies during WWII. The remaining seats were… Read More

33 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. (Lusis: 1773) First edition.The 45th USSR Championship was held at Leningrad, November 28 - December 22, 1977. The following players finished up just in time to spend Christmas with their families: Lev Alburt; Vladimir Bagirov; Yuri Balashov; Iossif Davidovich Dorfman; Efim Geller; Karen Ashotovich Grigorian; Boris Gulko; Alexander Kochyev; Gennadi Kuzmin; Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian; Lev Polugaevsky; Oleg Romanishin; Vasily Smyslov; Evgeni Ellinovich Sveshnikov; Mikhail Tal; Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov. Well, maybe it wasn't Christmas, but it was a time of peace as two-thirds of the games were drawn, a USSR Championship record. Perhaps it comes as no surprise that Petrosian found his way to the lead. However, a loss in round 8 allowed Gulko to first catch him, then take the lead with a win over Smyslov in round 9. At this point both players went into draw mode, spliting point after… Read More

256 pages with diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Lusis: 584) First American edition. The authors have set out as if to brief a leading grandmaster in all the important variations, games sources and analyses that would need to be digested before any one of the systems could be adopted in a critical game and before serious work could be started on preparation of new ideas. Thousands of sources in many languages have been sifted in order to provide the information. Include are many background games, with brief annotations at critical junctures. Condition: Page ends soiled, shelf wear. Jacket edge wear, corners rubbed else a very good copy in like jacket.

vii+191 pages with diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Lovett F Edwards. First edition.
The history of the World Chess Championship continues in this volume with the epic struggles between Botvinnik, Bronstein, Smyslov, Tal and Petrosian. All games from the matches are annotated and this book with its companion volume, World Chess Championship: Steinitz to Alekhine, forms a valuable addition to the library of any chess enthusiast who wishes to possess a complete collection of games played at the very highest level.
Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper. Jacket with edge wear and some closed tears, spine ends chipped else very good in like jacket.

x+133 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Lusis: 2273) Originally published by Turnstile Press 1951. The 1951 World Chess Championship was between 39 year old defending champion Mikhail Botvinnik of the Soviet Union and 27 year old challenger David Bronstein who was also the defending champion. The match was a best of 24 games. The first player to reach 12 1/2 points would be the winner. If the match ended in a 12-12 tie, then the defending champion (in this case Botvinnik) would retain the title. The match took place in Moscow. The first game was played on March 14th, 1951. The match ended on May 11th, 1951. After a draw in Game 24, the match was tied 12-12. Since the match was tied, the defending champion (Botvinnik in this case) retained his title. Condition: Very good to fine.

2 works bound as one. Histoire de la Virginie [iv]+432-folding typographical table+[xvi index] pages with title page printed in red and black, illustrated engraved frontispiece featuring the arms of the Commonwealth, fourteen full-page engravings of Native Americans. Second edition in French (translated from the English and published in the same year as the first French-language Paris edition) with Voyage de Guillaume Dampier, avec le Voyage de Lionel Wafer 274+[xiv index] pages with title page printed in red and black, illustrated with eighteen folding engravings including maps, plants, birds, fish, and Native American Indians. Only six copies of the 1705 edition found in OCLC. Duodecimo (6" x 3 3/4") the two bound in full contemporary mottled calf with five raised spine bands in gilt-tooled spine.
Histoire de la Virginie, written by a native Virginian and published originally in English in 1705, Robert Beverley's work is considered the most important and reliable history of early life in the… Read More

302 pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Matthias Wahls's "Modernes Skandinavisch 1" was a huge success when it was published in Germany in 1997. Wahls's book contributed to the growing popularity of the Scandinavian (or Center Counter-) Defence as a solid weapon. The Scandinavian is especially practical for black players who don't want to learn too much theory and who don't want to be dependent on White's choices. The original edition of The Modern Scandinavian has acquired cult status among chess aficionados. Some have even confessed to have learned German in order to be able to read it! Condition: Corners bumped, light edge wear else better than very good.

xxxiii+[2]+251 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7" 4 1/2") bound in original pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:495) First edition.George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London, 1835), Chess Made Easy (London, 1836), and Chess Studies (London, 1844). In 1839 visited Paris and the Café de la Régence, where he lost (+1-2) a short match to Boncourt. In 1845, he teamed up with Henry Thomas Buckle, William Davies Evans, George Perigal, and William Josiah Tuckett in London in two telegraph games (one win and one draw) against a team of Howard Staunton and Hugh Alexander Kennedy in Portsmouth. He won a match against Daniel Harrwitz (7-5) at London 1846. Walker used his column in Bell's Life to propagate organizing… Read More

xvi+110 pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7" x 4 3/4") bound in original publsihers green cloth with label to front cover. With notes and additions by George Walker. Provenance gift inscription to Birmingham Chess Club on title. Subsequently reprinted, without notes, in Walker's Chess Studies (1844). Whyld & Ravilious: 1835:4) First edition.As a writer on the game, George Walker's reputation was European. His first publication, a pamphlet of twenty-four pages, on New Variations in the Muzio Gambit (1831), was followed in less than a year by his New Treatise, which gradually supplanted the chess Studiesof Peter Pratt (1803, &c.) and the far from thorough Treatise by J. H. Sarratt (1808) as amended by William Lewis in 1821; of the New Treatise a German version went through several editions. Walker's style was bright and often witty. To later editions was appended an excellent bibliography; but this has been almost entirely superseded by the Schachlitteratur of A. Van der Linde… Read More

112 pages with 3 plates including frontispiece and diagrams. Duodecimo (7 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt decorative stamp with gilt letter and blind stamping to cover. 60 openings, mates and situations by W S Kenny with remarks, anecdotes, etc., and an explanation of the round chess-board. (Hagedorn: 18) First edition.This loosely-compiled volume contains, after Franklin's essay, first, Walker's Chess Made Easy (pages 13-115); the Philidor's games with Conway, Sheldon and Smith (pages 116-1230; then a few brief games and positions (pages 124-142); and, lastly, the round chess, a a few antidotes (pages 133-155)Condition:Corners bumped, spine ends rubbed, 1/4" split at front heal hinge, page 149 heal corner lacking not affecting text, lightly soiled. Very good copy of a scarce American chess item.