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American Anthropologist
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American Anthropologist

by American Anthropologist

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120 volumes plus all indexes and supplements. Royal Octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") and Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") issued in wrappers. Early volumes from the library of George M Foster and bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Other volumes from the library of Robert V Kemper. First editions.American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It is known for publishing a wide range of work in anthropology, including articles on cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology and archeology. Its first incarnation (known as the "Old Series") started in 1888 and was published by the Anthropological Society of Washington, the first anthropology association in the United States. The "New Series" began in 1899 under an editorial board that included Franz Boas, Daniel G. Brinton, and John Wesley Powell and continues to this day. The four fields of Anthropology include cultural, linguistic, archeology and biological/physical. Sometimes applied anthropology is… Read More
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Schorr, J

by Schachkongreß Teplitz-Schönau im Oktober 1922

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664 pages with diagrams, tables, plates and indexes. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") in original decorative binding. Notes by Grünfeld and Beeker. Includes 214 pages on chess problems which in turn includes a part on retrograde analysis by Kluver. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5550) First edition."Not just the 91 annotated games of the tournament won by Reti and Spielmann ahead of Tartakover, Rubinstein. Grünfeld and so on (with Tarrasch in 13th place, next to bottom). This material with notes by Grünfeld and Beeker takes up only the first 286 pages, whereupon follows a report on a two-mover competition, then a three-mover, articles on various aspects of problem and study themes, a witty Tartakover 'chess alphabet', very detailed indexes and a 75 page account by chess historian Ludwig Bachmann... What leisured days they enjoyed then!" British Chess Magazine.Condition:Previous owners name and date "1923" on title, corners bumped else a very good copy.
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Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra firme del mar océano
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Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra firme del mar océano

by Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de (1478-1557)

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Four volumes: cxii+632+[1] pages with five plates; vii+511+[2 errata] pages with three plates (two of which are folding maps); viii+651+[2] pages two plates (of which one is a map); viii+619+[1 errata] pages plus five plates (of which one is a color folding map). Folio (13" x 9 1/2") bound in quarter leather with five raised spine bands decorated in gilt and red labels in gilt lettering over brown boards. Deckle edges. (Palau, 89532; Sabin 57990) First edition.Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (1478-1557) was a Spanish historian and writer who united a classical humanistic education with extensive experience in the New World. As a youth he entered the service of Alphonso of Aragon, nephew of Ferdinand the Catholic and soon afterward he became a page of Prince John, the son of Ferdinand and Isabella. Throughout his life he retained close contacts with the royal court. He was present at the return of Christopher Columbus in 1493. He traveled and studied in Italy. He went to the New World in 1514 in… Read More
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

by Mark Twain [PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

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366 pages with frontispiece and 174 drawings illustrated by E W Kemble. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's full sheep with four raised spine bands with gilt lettering in black and red labels. Points: on page 13 the uncorrected 88; on page 57 the uncorrected "was" for "saw" and on page 9 the uncorrected "Decided" instead of "Decides". The first printing was completed by November 1884 and comprised 30,000 copies before the various bindings. The above corrections were all made in the second and third printings of 10,000 copies each (Firsts: Vol 8, number 9, page 31). The American edition was released in February 1885 and the British edition was released in December 1884. First issue of the First American edition.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry… Read More
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De ludis orientalibus libri duo ... and Historia Nerdiludii
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De ludis orientalibus libri duo ... and Historia Nerdiludii

by Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) editor

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1694, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre. 3 parts in one volume: Part I. (De Ludis Orientalibus. Libri Duo ...) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem ... De ludis Orientalium Libri primi ... 36 sheets (including two title pages)+184 pages with one folded copper plate, diagrams and facsimiles. Part II. Shahiludium. Traditum in tribus scriptis hebraicis, quae sunt Rabbi Abraham Abben - Ezrae elegans Poema ryhtmicum ... Omnia ex Chartis MSS jam primus deprompsit & Latinè vertit Thomas Hyde ... 2 sheets (including title), 71 pages. Part III. Historia nerdiludii, high est dicere, trunculorum; cum quibusdam aliis Arabum, Persarum, Indorum, Chinensium, & aliarum gentium ludis tam politicis quàm bellicis, plerumque Europae inauditis, multò minùs visis: additis omnium Nominibus in dictarum Gentium Linguis. Ubi etiam Classicorum Graecorum & Latinorum loca quaedam meliùs quàm hactenùs factum est explicantur. Item, Explicatio amplissimi Chinensium Ludi,… Read More
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Lima limata conciliis, constitutionibus synodalibus, et aliis monumetntis. Quibus venerab. servus...
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1673, Romæ (Rome), Typis Josephi Corvi.[32]+xxxiv+379+[22] pages with portrait plate facing page 1. Folio (12 3/4" x 9") bound later stiff vellum with five raised spine bands. (Volume fort rare"--LeClerc 1757. European Americana 673/105; Medina BHA 1547; Palau 112325; Sabin 30415) First Latin edition.Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Lima from 1579 until his death. He first studied in the humanities and law before serving as a professor and later as the Grand Inquisitor at the behest of King Philip II. His piousness and learning had reached the ears of the king who appointed him to that position which was considered unusual since he had no previous government or judicial experience. His noted work for the Inquisition earned him praise from the king who nominated him for the vacant Lima archdiocese. The pope confirmed this despite his protests. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1578 in Granada (after four consecutive weeks of… Read More
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A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world; in which the coast of...
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Captain George Vancouver explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the American states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon, as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia.6 Volumes. 28+[33]-410 pages with 2 folding copper-engraved charts and one foldout plate; [2]+418 pages with four folding plates, lacking the plates which should face pages 77 and 134; [2]+435 pages with one folding plate; [2]+417 pages with three folding plates;[2]+454 pages with three folding plates; [2]+412+[2 ad] pages with three folding plates. Folding plates are copper-engraved; engraved by Landseer and others after W. Alexander, most from sketches made "on the spot" by Sykes, Heddington and others. Octavos (8 1/4 x 5") bound period tree calf with spines tooled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces. (Cowan p.654-5; Forbes 335; Hill, Pacific Voyages, pp.304; Howes V23; Sabin 98441; Streeter Sale 3497) First octavo edition. First published in 1798. George… Read More
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Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia
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Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia

by Garcia de Orta (or Garcia d'Orta) (1501?-1568)

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Groundbreaking treatise on exotic botany and tropical medicine
458+[6]+[blank leaf] pages with numerous woodcut illustrations. Duodecmo (6 1/4 x 3 3/4") octavo bound in quarter leather with five raised spine bands with spine tooled in gilt, over brown boards. Translated from the Portuguese into Latin by Carolus Clusius (Charles de L'Ecluse). Fourth Edition.Garcia de Orta's groundbreaking treatise on exotic botany and tropical medicine, to which are added two other important works on the subject. Orta's contribution comprises pp. 1-217+[7]. It is followed by:Christophori a Costa, medici et cheirurgi, Aromatum & medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium. Pp. [225]-312. Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina usus est, historia... descripta à d. Nicolao Monardis. Tertia editio. Pp. [313]-404+[4] Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina usus est, historia... descripta à d. Nicolao Monardis. Altera editio. Pp. [409]-456.Rare combined edition… Read More
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Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by...
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Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by Captain Freycinet, During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820; on a Scientific Expedition Undertaken by Order of the French Government. In a Series of Letters to a Friend.With Twenty-Six Engravings

by Arago, Jacques Étienne Victor (1790-1855)

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[6]+xxvii+[3, Table of Contents and Directions for Placing Plates]+285; [2]+297+[3] pages with folding frontispiece map and 14 lithographed plates (two folding) Part 2: 299 pages with 11 lithographed plates, tables, in-text red line diagram and appendices. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in half leather with new spine and original marbled boards. (Ferguson 885; Hill 298; Sabin 1865) First English Edition.
Jacques Étienne Victor Arago was a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a Voyage Round the World. Jacques Arago joined Louis de Freycinet as an artist when he left Toulon in 1817 in command of a scientific voyage around the world aboard the corvette Uranie. The expedition returned in 1820 and Arago was the first to publish an account, the Promenade autour du monde, in the form of letters to a friend named Battle, in 1822. An English translation followed in 1823. He continued to expand on his adventures in further editions and in the late 1830s published a much longer version under the title… Read More
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Diarium vel Descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi Itineris, factia Guilielmo Cornelli...
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Diarium vel Descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi Itineris, factia Guilielmo Cornelli Schoutenio, Hornano. Annis 1615, 1616 & 1617

by Willem Corneliszoon Schouten (1567?-1625)

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71 pages with two fold-out maps, one fold-out plan, and four fold-out views. Octavo (8" x 6 1/4") bound in vellum like material with hand lettering to spine. (Sabin 77961) Third Vlasblom edition of Schouten's diary. This account of Schouten's voyage was first printed in Dutch in 1617. All editions of great rarity.Willem Schouten, Dutch explorer whose 1615–16 expedition discovered a new route, the Drake Passage, around the southern tip of South America, connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific.
The Dutch East India Company held a monopoly on all East Indies trade by ships routed through the Strait of Magellan when, in 1615, an Amsterdam merchant, Isaac Le Maire, mounted an expedition to find a new route to the Pacific. His son Jakob and veteran sea captain Schouten led the voyage that set sail in May 1615 with two ships—the second piloted by Schouten's brother Jan. By December they reached the far southeastern coast of South America, where the smaller ship caught fire and had to be abandoned.… Read More
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Voyage des Capitaines Lewis et Clarke, depuis l'Embouchure du Missouri, jusqu'à l'Entré de la...
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xviii+443 pages with folding copper-engraved map. Octavo (8¼" x 5"), early half calf-backed boards, morocco lettering piece. Translated by A.J.N. Lallemant. (Graff 1519; Howes G77; Wagner-Camp 6:3; Wheat Transmississippi 300.) First French Edition.
First publication in a foreign language of any detailed information of the Lewis and Clark expedition, of especial interest to the French, since it was through lands they had so recently laid claim to. Perhaps more notable, however, is the presence of the map by J.B. Tardieu, "Carte Pour servir au Voyage des Capes. Lewis et Clarke..." which seems to be the first one published that mentions Lewis and Clark and locates parts of their route. It measures (9½x7¾"). Wheat notes that "Tardieu had no Lewis and Clark map to assist him, but he apparently had at hand Meriwether Lewis's brief letter-report to Jefferson, and he did his best to locate on his map at least a few of the Expedition's points of geographic interest. His available topography, based as it… Read More
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The Intrusion of Jimmy
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The Intrusion of Jimmy

by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975) Inscribed

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314 pages with color lithographic frontispiece and 4 black and white illustrations by Will Grefé. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial black cloth stamped in grey and yellow, lettered in gilt, with applied chromolithographic illustration housed in custom cloth clamshell box. Inscribed in bold hand by author. (McIlvaine A13a) First edition.A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P G Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy by Tit-Bits between 11 June and 10 September before being published as A Gentleman of Leisure by Alston Rivers Ltd, London, on 15 November 1910. There are minor textual differences between the American and British editions of the book. A Gentleman of Leisure was adapted for the stage in 1911 and has twice been filmed, in 1915 and 1923.Condition: Inscribed in bold… Read More
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Colección de providencias diocesanas del Obispado de la Puebla de los Angeles, hechas y...
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Colección de providencias diocesanas del Obispado de la Puebla de los Angeles, hechas y ordenadas por su Señoria ilustrisima el Sr. Dr. D. Francisco Fabian y Fuero, Obispo de dicha ciudad y obispado del consejo de su Mag

by Francisco Fabián y Fuero (1719-1801)

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2 volumes in one. [4]+656 pages with armorial engraving on title page. [2]+185+[13] pages. Folio (11" x 7 1/2) bound in later 1/2 calf with gilt lettering to spine. (Sabin 23592, 66551. Medina, Puebla 860; Palau 56648) First edition.
It contains a collection of rules and ordinances for civil and religious conduct in Puebla, based on the third Mexican Council of 1585. It includes questions related to the way of treating the Indians, the use of indigenous languages, the prohibition of gambling, the rules for the use of tobacco, as well as other ordinances related to daily customs. Starting the second volume Collection of Providences given for the five convents of Religious Calzadas in the city of Puebla de los Angeles.
Francisco Fabián y Fuero was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop. He studied in Calatayud and Alcalá, and was at different times rector of the colleges of San Antonio de Siguenza and Santa Cruz, in Valladolid. He was appointed bishop of Puebla, Mexico, in 1764, and was present at the fourth… Read More
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Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Egyptiens, ou recherches sur les éléments...
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Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Egyptiens, ou recherches sur les éléments premiers de cette écriture sacrée, sur leurs diverses combinaisons, et sur les rapports de ce système avec les autres méthodes graphiques égyptiennes.

by Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832)

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Two parts in one volume. xvi+408+[2 table] pages with 16 full-page lithograph plates (four folding); [2]+45 pages with 21 numbered full-page plates and 11 full-page plates lettered A-K. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in half leather with five raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Head edge in gilt. First edition.
Jean-François Champollion, French historian and linguist who founded scientific Egyptology and played a major role in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
At age 16 Champollion had already mastered six ancient Oriental languages, in addition to Latin and Greek, and delivered a paper before the academy of Grenoble, France, in which he asserted, incorrectly, that Coptic was the ancient language of Egypt. At 19, following studies in Paris, he became professor of history at the lycée of Grenoble (1809–16).
Deciphering hieroglyphs became his constant preoccupation. Following the modest success of the English physicist Thomas Young in attempting to decipher… Read More
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

by Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

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Six volumes. lxiii+[blank]+214 pages; [2 blank]+title=blank=324+[2 blank] pages; [2 blank]+title+[blank]+370+[2 blank] pages; [2 blank]+title+[blank]+312+[2 blank] pages; [2 blank]+title+[blank]+294+[2 blank] pages; [4 blank]+title+[blank]+304+[4 blank] pages. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4")bound in full uniform contemporary calf with five raised spine bands with gilt numbering to spine and gilt edges to covers. (ESTC T1947; Grolier English 48; Rothschild 850) First edition, first issue.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel.
The novel is highly organized despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside Oedipus Tyrannus and The Alchemist. It became a best seller with… Read More
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