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Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd., (1956).. (1956).. Good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with some light spotting to the rear cover. The dust jacket is chipped. The spine of the dust jacket is darkened with pieces out of the head & tail and the rear panel is unevenly darkened. xiii & 161 pages. Color frontispiece & 260 black-and-white illustrations. There is offsetting to the endpapers from the dust wrapper with a bookseller's stamp on the rear endpaper. The edges of the illustration pages are darkened. Good. <p>Third Indian edition.

Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., (1951)., (1951).. Very good. - Octavo, gray cloth. The top edge of the front cover is discolored. ix, [1] leaf & 322 pages. Illustrated with a double-page map & pictorial pastedowns & endpapers. A previous owner's name is penned on the half-title. There is minor foxing to the lower end of the fore-edge. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>Father Buliard was a Catholic missionary who chose to spend his priesthood ministering to the Eskimos in the Arctic.<p>The introduction is by Fulton J.Sheen.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1967).. (1967).. Good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed with the bottom corners lightly creased. x & 115 pages. Illustrated in black & white. The bottom page corners are lightly creased. Good. <p>Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1963).. (1963).. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. The rear wrap is rubbed & the corners of the front wrap are very lightly creased. vii, [ii] & 102 pages. The inside wraps & the last page are lightly foxed. Illustrated in black & white. Very good. <p>Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology.

[Helsinki, Finland]: Museovirasto, [2006]., [2006].. Fine. - Tall octavo [11-3/4 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wraps. 96 pages. Profuse color illustrations. Fine. The history and collections of a Finnish ethnological museum.Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title which opened at the museum in November 2004.

[Tampere: Tampereen Kaupunki, 2002].. 2002].. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed with a small crease near the head of the spine. 158 pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in color. Very good. <p>In the spring of 2001, representatives from the City of Tampere, three Finnish universities and the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Kunstkamera, set out on an expedition to visit the district of Yamal Netnetsia east of the Gulf of Ob in Siberia. In this book, members of the expedition recount their experiences, impressions and observations. Also included are essays by researchers involved in Northern ethnography.<p>A title in the series "Tampereen museoiden juikaisuja 61" [Tampere Museums' Publication No. 61]. The text is in Finnish with an eight-page summary in English.

(Copenhagen): Hernovs Forlag, (1977).. (1977).. Fine. - Small oblong quarto [8-1/4 inches high by 9 inches wide], boards in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is very lightly rubbed with the head of the jacket spine lightly chipped. There is a tear to the top edge of the rear panel. 94 pages. Illustrated in black, gray & white with photographic illustrations & reproductions of drawings by Karale Andreasen. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p> Wonderfully illustrated with surrealistic drawings of Eskimo life by Greenlander Karale Andreasen. The text is in Danish.

Delft, Netherlands: Bulletin Ethnografisch Museum, (1966).. (1966).. Fine. - Small quarto [9-3/8 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial maroon & olive green wraps. The bottom corner of the front wrap is slightly creased & the head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. 91 pages. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. Near fine. <p>The text is in Dutch with a summary in English.

Silvana Editoriale, (1983).. (1983).. Very good. - Quarto [12-3/8 high by 10-5/8 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The dust wrapper is rubbed with a price- sticker on its spine. 199 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>The history and twentieth-century life of the people of the province of Sassari, including local tradiions, the arts, architecture, journalism, crafts and food. The text is in Italian.

Paris/The Haugue: Mouton, 1973., 1973.. Very good. - Quarto, softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The spine is darkened & lightly creased with the head slightly chipped. xiv & 696 pages. Illustrated with tables. Very good. <p>Bibliotheque Arctique et Antarctique IV. Publications du Centre d'Etudes Arctiques. The Center is directed by Jean Malaurie who edited this volume and wrote the introduction.<p>The text includes contributions in French and in English, depending on the native tongue of the individual author.

Canada: National Museum of Canada, 1938., 1938.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in cream-colored printed wraps. The top 2-1/2 inches of he wraps are detached & their top corners are lightly creased. There is a tiny chip to the front edge of the front wrap. 6 pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including a map showing the territory of the tribes. Very good. National Museum of Canada's guide to the Anthropological Exhibits. Leaflet 3, 1938.Eight tribes shared the basin of Mackenzie River: Chipewyan, Beaver, Sekani, Slave, Yellowknife, Dogrib, Hare and Nathani. Some scholars believe the Mackenzie River natives to be the last people to migrate from Asia into America, arriving not many centuries before the Christian era. At the time of this publication the territory's population was only about 4,000.

NY: William Morrow & Company, (1949).. (1949).. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in black on spine & front cover. The spine & extremities are slightly faded. vi & 477 pp. Very good.

Bangkok, Thailand: Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1986.. 1986.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped with a small, light stain to the rear wrap. vii & 363 pages. An owner's stamp is on the title & on the top & bottom edges. A few front & rear leaves are lightly bumped. Illustrated in black & white with maps & tables. Very good. <p>First edition.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1973).. (1973).. Very good. - Octavo, soft cover bound in pictorial white wraps. The spine & extremities are slightly darkened & the corners of the wraps are very lightly creased. x, [iii], 378 & [1] pages. Full-page & textual brown & white illustrations. Very good.

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1945.. 1945.. Good. - Small quarto [9-5/8 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial golden yellow wraps. The wraps are slightly darkened around the edges & very lightly foxed & soiled. 31 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece & black-and-white full-page & textual illustrations. The verso of the frontispiece & the rear endpaper are foxed with light foxing to the edges of the pages. Good. <p>Reprint of the 1928 edition.

(Paris): Olivier Perrin, (1965).. (1965).. Fair. - Small quarto [approximately 8-1/2 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards. The binding is rubbed & bumped. There is a large piece out of the head of the spine & a tear to the tail. The joints are worn & chipped. 98 & [4] pages plus colophon. Profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations by Georges Pierre. The book is cracked at page 6 and there is a small area of rubbing to the front endpaper. Fair. <p>"Masques exposes dans l'Annexe du musee Guimet en decembre 1959, avec la collaboration de la section des Sciences religieuses de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes et son Centre documentaire d'Histoire des Religions. Les commentaires accompagnant les photographies ont ete empruntes au catalogue de l'exposition qui a ete realisee avec le concours de la Reunion des Musees Nationnaux par Henriette Demoulin-Bernard".<p>The masks discussed here were exhibited at the musee… Leer más

New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.. 1940.. Good. - Octavo, red cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed, creased, chipped & lightly soiled with a long tear to the front panel. x & 298 pages. The endpapers are darkened with an owner's inscription on the front endpaper. There are ink notations to 1 page of the text. Illustrated in black & white with frontispiece, 15 plates & full-page illustrations. Good in a fair dust wrapper. <p>Later printing.

Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, June 1973.. June 1973.. Fine. - Small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed red wraps. The spine is somewhat faded. [v] & 54 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white map. Near fine. <p>A study of the Hare Athabaskan Indians of Colville Lake, a small isolated village in the Mackenzie District of the Northwest Territories. The main text is in English. The introductory material is printed in English and French.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1972).. (1972).. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. The rear wrap is lightly rubbed with the corners very lightly creased. x & 134 pages. The fore-edge & the last page are very lightly foxed & the top corners of some rear leaves are very lightly creased. Illustrated in black & white. Very good. <p>Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology.

(Nuuk: Groenlands Museumsrad, 1980).. 1980).. Good. - Quarto [11-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed pink wrappers backed with black tape with an Eskimo symbol in black on each wrap. The binding is bumped with light creasing to the front wrap. The head of the spine is torn with the black tape partially detached. 64 mechanically reproduced leaves printed on one side only. Illustrated with a map and a few diagrams in black & white. The page corners are bumped. Good. <p>Edition of 300 copies.<p>A record of a conference of Greenland museums. The text is in Danish.