Category: Anthropology

Volume Jubilaire Victor van Straelen, Directeur de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 1925-1954

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Brussels, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique : 1954

Seller ID: 893

1954 TWO HUGE VOLUMES (15 LBS TOTAL) CONTAINING PAPERS ON PALEONTOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY BY 31 CONTRIBUTORS IN CELEBRATION OF RETIREMENT OF BELGIAN CONSERVATIONIST VICTOR VAN STRAELEN. Two folio volumes, 10 x 13 x 2 inches, card covers, printed title to covers and spines, Vol. I, frontis photograph of van Straelen at his desk, Preface, photographic plate,pp [1] - 640 pp; Vol. II, pp 641 - 1213, pages unopened, many plates with tissue guards, maps, large folding tables, no library or ownership marks, very good. No. 372 of edition limited to 450 copies. TEXT IN FRENCH. CONTENTS: Vol. I: Minerology, Pa...
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Evolution of Life

By: Chapman, Henry C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co. : 1873

Seller ID: 438

1873 REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATED OVERVIEW OF EVOLUTION PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN PHYSICIAN DURING DARWIN'S LIFETIME. 8 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, spine gilt, Fold-out map frontis showing diffusion of man across the globe, starting from paradise in the Indian Ocean, then to Africa, Asia, Australia, across Bering Straits to Americas. i-vii, 193 pp, 205 figures throughout text drawn from references listed on pp 183-186, double-page plate containing 24 profiles of primates and races of man. PREFACE. Since 1858, the year in which appeared Mr. Darwin's famous book, the literary as well as th...
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Problems of the Sexes

By: Finot J;

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press : 1913

Seller ID: 165

1913 SCARCE TRANSLATION OF FRENCH SOCIOLOGIST'S PLEA FOR EQUALITY OF THE SEXES. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 408 pages, original green cloth binding, gilt design to cover, gilt title to spine, Page edges soiled, text unmarked. Very good. CONTENTS: Between Man and Woman; Woman Humiliated and Slandered; Creative Genius and Intelligence Have No Sex; Woman and Science; The Birth of the New Woman--Psychology of the Movement In France; In Other Countries: The English Movement, In the United States, the Scandinavian Countries, and Elsewhere, The German Woman; Feminist International Freemasonry; ...
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Correspondence on the Discovery and Original Investigations on Kuru. Smadel-Gajdusek Correspondence, 1955-1958

By: Gajdusek, D.Carleton

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Bethesda, Maryland, National Institutes of Health : 1976

Seller ID: 656

1950s SCARCE COLLECTION OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SMADEL AND GAJDUSEK, WHO RECEIVED NOBEL FOR DISCOVERY OF KURU, PRION DISEASE TRANSMITTED BY CANNIBALISM. 11 1/2 inches tall red buckram binding, gilt title to cover and spine, institutional library handstamp (crossed out) to front paste-down, 413 pp, 4 p index. Corners bumped, residual from library sticker bottom spine, very good. DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK (1923 - 2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be...
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Postures & Practices During Labor Among Primitive Peoples. Adaptations to Modern Obstetrics; With Chapters on Taboos & Superstitions & Postpartum Gymnastics

By: Jarcho, Julius

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. : 1934

Seller ID: 1078

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON LABOR PRACTICES AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. 11 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth publisher's binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis drawing of mother in rocking chair preparing for delivery; xvi, 175 pp, 129 illustrations. covers and corners worn, spine ends frayed, 1/2 inch abrasion to lower spine, hinges cracked exposing webbing, light foxing to first and last pages, text clean and unmarked. In custom archival mylar cover. JULIUS JARCHO (1882-1963) was a New York obstetrician and gynecologist. His efforts were fundamental in the establis...
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The Governing of Men. General Principles and Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp

By: Leighton AH;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1945

Seller ID: 132

1945 ILLUSTRATED PROSPECTIVE SOCIOLOGIC STUDY OF AN INTERNMENT CAMP FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WW II. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, xvi, 404 pages, tan cloth binding, previous owner signature front free endpaper, photographic illustrations, maps and graphs. LIght soiling to covers and edges, text unmarked, very good. PREFACE: 'In the spring of 1942 the United States Government had its first experience with large-scale evacuation when it removed from the Pacific coastal regions all of the approximately 110,000 Japanese who had formerly lived there. These people were sent to ten Relocation Centers ...
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New Guinea Headhunt

By: Mytinger C;

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1946

Seller ID: 125

1946 1st PRINTING ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF HEADHUNTERS BY ARTIST-ANTHROPOLOGIST, COPY SIGNED BY NOBEL LAUREATE D. CARLTON GAJDUSEK. 8 3/4 inches black hardcover, viii, 441 pages, cloth binding, map of New Guinea printed on front paste-down and endpaper, ownership signature of D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D. Washington, D.C. V 58 top of map, numerous illustrations and plates of author's drawings and paintings throughout, very good. CAROLINE MYTINGER (1897-1980 ) was a noted portrait artist who together with her childhood friend Margaret Warner sought adventure in the study of indigenous peoples of Melane...
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Neanderthal Man. In Search of Lost Genomes

By: Paabo, Svante

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books : 2014

Seller ID: 514

GENOMICS OF OUR CLOSE RELATIVES, THE NEANDERTHALS, BY LEADING EVOLUTIONIST RECIPIENT OF NOBEL PRIZE 2022. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan paper-covered boards, blue paper-covered spine, gilt title, 275 pp, illustrated, fine in fine dust jacket. REVIEWED BY HENRY GEE in Nature 6 Feb 2014: The study of human origins and evolution currently stands on a cusp. For decades we have had to make do with bones and stones, thin gruel from which to craft a narrative. Now we can extract DNA from fossils. Not just in bits and pieces, each as enigmatic as a broken tooth or a chipped stone flake, but entire ...
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A History of Science, Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

By: Sarton, George

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press : 1952

Seller ID: 964

1952 FIRST EDITION HISTORY OF SCIENCE BY THE FOUNDER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE--SIGNED ANNOTATED COPY OF CARLTON COON, CONTROVERSIAL RACIALIST HARVARD ANTHROPOLOGIST. 10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature of C S Coon and handstamp REJECTED TOZZER LIBRARY to front flylear, xvii, 646 pp, illustrations, pencil underlinings and marginal annotations; corners bumped, abrasions bottom of spine, very good. GEORGE SARTON (1884 - 1956) was a Belgian-born American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history...
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Darwin and Modern Science. Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species

By: Seward, A.C., Hooker, J.D., Thomson, J.A., Weismann, A., de Vries, H., Bateson, W., Strasburger, E., Schwalbe, G., Haeckel, E., Frazer, J.G., Sedgwick, A., Scott, W.B., Klebs, G., Loeb, J., Poulton, E.B., Thiselton-Dyer, W., Gadow, H., Judd, J.W., Darwin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1909

Seller ID: 446

1909 COLLECTION OF 29 ESSAYS BY LUMINARIES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO CELEBRATE DARWIN CENTENNIAL, EDITED BY A. C. SEWARD. 9 inches tall hardcover, red buckram binding, frontis portrait of Darwin with tissue guard, 4 photographic plates with tissue guards. Institutional bookplate to front paste-down, library handstamps to rear paste-down and edges, ight wear to cover and spine edges, binding tight, pages clean. i-xvii, 595 pages. xiii-xvii: Epitome of Charles Darwin's Life (DATES OF THE PUBLICATION OF CHARLES DARWIN'S BOOKS AND OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN HIS LIFE). ALBERT CHARLES SEWARD (1863 ...
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Category: Anthropology