Thompson, J. Eric S.

A Commentary on the Dresden Codex; a Maya Hieroglyphic Book

Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1972. Hardcover. pp. 156. Oblong 4to. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Colour photographic illustrations. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket sunned to spine and extremities, price clipped, and with nicking and short tears to edges; very good+ in good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 086357

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology

Keywords: History; Pre-Columbian; Yucatan; Indigenous; Prophecy

Tovell, W.M.

Preliminary Report 47-7 on the Geology of the Pembina Valley Deadhorse Creek Area

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Department of Mines and Natural Resources, 1951. Stapled Wraps. pp. 7. 8vo. Contains two separate maps within attached pouch. Light shelfwear, small ink inscription to front cover; very good. Science & Technology. .

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Book number: 082908

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology

Vanstone, James W.; Joan B. Townsend

Kijik; an Historic Tanaina Indian Settlement; Volume 59

Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1970. Paperback. pp. 202. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light general shelfwear, sunning to spine, creasing to rear cover, author's signature to fep; very good. .

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Book number: 075795

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology

Keywords: Excavation; Indigenous Settlements; Alaska;

Fitzhugh, William W. and Jacqueline S. Olin (eds.)

Archaeology of the Frobisher Voyages

Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1993. Hardcover. pp. 271. 4to. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to front pastedown. Dustjacket protected with plastic brodart sleeve; very good+. .

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Book number: 083574

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology

Keywords: Polar; Arctic; Colonialism; Exploration

Weltfish, Gene

Preliminary Classification of Prehistoric Southwestern Basketry

Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1932. Paperback. pp. 45. 8vo. Genral shelfwear, light soiling and some evidence of prior moisture damage, some pages uncut; good. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 87, Number 7. Publication 3169. .

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Book number: 091401

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology

Keywords: Basket weaving; Pueblo; cliff dwellers

Lithman, Y. Georg, Rick R. Riewe, Raymond E. Wiest and Robert E. Wrigley

People & Land in Northern Manitoba; 1990 Conference at the University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB, University of Manitoba, 1992. Paperback. pp. xi, 270. 8vo. Covers rubbed; very good. SIGNED by the author on title page. University of Manitoba Anthropology Papers No. 32. ISSN 02270072 ; 32. Ill.: maps & b&w photographs.

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Book number: 9900029607

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology

Keywords: Rural development;Manitoba;Sociology;Congresses;Land Use;Population;Economic conditions;Native studies;Aboriginal maps & b&w photographs

Woolley, C. Leonard; Lawrence, T. E.

Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, 1914-1915. Double Volume. The Wilderness of Zin (Archaeological Report); with a Chapter on the Greek Inscriptions by M.N. Tod

London, Palestine Exploration Fund. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 158. 4to. Bound in original printed paper over boards with cloth spine. The folding plan, all plates, and the maps have been collated and are present. The boards are quite rubbed at the bottom right edge, with loss of paper covering. There are a few nicks to the board edges, and some light general soiling. The binding (which, as produced, is of poor quality) is slightly sprung, but nothing is loose. Internally clean and bright. Overall, a good plus copy of a very scarce and important title. Not in Clements. Duval [1]. The Introduction (p. 14) to the first American trade edition of this title gives an interesting, if misleading, explanation of the history and importance of this work: 'THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN was first published as 'the Annual of the Palestine Exploration Fund for 1914-1915'. In view, however, of the subsequent careers of its two authors, and of the literary merit which adds charm to the description of a country of no little biblical and historical interest, it seems to deserve a wider publicity than the proceedings of a learned society.' This is a bit of a canard, as it is now known that the entire venture of Wooley and Lawrence was a front for a British Army survey of the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula (then under Turkish suzerainty), as the British needed updated maps in anticipation of the war. Lawrence himself described the original publication of the Report as 'whitewash'. This is the first of Lawrence's works to appear in book form (O'Brien A004) and was published in 1915. Our copy is in the second issue binding without the full stop after the spine date. The first trade edition was in 1936 (O'Brien AOO6 and AOO7). .

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Book number: 9900034435

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology

Keywords: Sinai Peninsula; Negev desert; Arabia; Lawrence of Arabia; Arabs; T. E. Lawrence;

Wright, J. V.; R. S. Kidd; Roscoe Wilmeth; Ruth Gruhn; Robert McGhee

Contributions to Anthropology VII: Archaeology and Physical Anthropology; Bulletin 232

Ottawa, National Museum of Man of the National Museums of Canada, 1971. Paperback. pp. viii, 191. 4to. Black and white illustrations, maps and photographs. Front cover starting to detach, ink name and previous bookseller's price sticker to front cover; good. .

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Book number: 059499

Catalogue: Anthropology & Archaeology