OBSERVATIONS ON CUP-SHAPED AND OTHER LAPIDARIAN SCULPTURES IN THE OLD WORLD AND IN AMERICA de Rau, Charles - 1881

Government Printing Office, 1882. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Volume V in Contribution to North American Ethnology. In brown cloth with leather labels on spine. Light wear to cloth. .

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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], 112; 35 plates and a few illustrations in the text; bound with, as issued: Fletcher, Robert. On Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets, Washington: G.P.O., 1882, pp. 32; 9 plates; bound with, as issued: Thomas, Cyrus. A Study of the Manuscript Troano ... Introduction by D. G. Brinton, Washington, G.P.O., 1882, pp. xxxvii, [1], 237, [1]; 9 plates (4 being chromolithographs), illustrations and tables in the text; together, 3 volumes in 1, original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Some wear at spine ends, a few small spots on the front cover; all else very good and sound. Issued as volume V in the Contributions to American Ethnology series under the charge of John W. Powell. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a Newberry release stamp on the verso of the first flyleaf.

[Offprint from "Contributions to North American Ethnology", Vol. V.] Department of the Interior. U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881 Contemporary cloth backed marbled boards with the original front wrapper bound-in, Med.4to. 102pp. 61 text illustrations, index. Signed with a presentation inscription from the author to Dr. H. Voss on the front wrapper, a very nice signed copy of the first edition. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT… Leer más