R. Austin Freeman. The Anthropologist at Large
Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Signed by the author. More
Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Signed by the author. More
Adelaide, Investigator Press, 1980. A 'pioneering practical epidemiologist, an original eugenic thinker' as well as the creator of the amateur detective, Dr Thorndyke. Inscribed archly 'A rare unsigned copy, the property of Michael Abbot. 6 xi '83'. In our experience unsigned copies are indeed extremely uncommon. More
Sydney, The Anglican Truth Society, 1957. More
London, Routledge, 1931 [first edition]. The author's second book. More
Munster, Aschendorff, 1909. Myths and legends of the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, with parallel text in both the original Tolai and German (and an early example on both counts). 'Anthropos-Bibliothek. Internationale Sammlung Ethnologischer Monographien. Band 1, Heft 1'. More
Leipzig, Paul Frohberg, 1875 and 1876 (both first editions). More
Adelaide, Department for Church Cooperation in World Mission of the Lutheran Church of Australia, 2001. More
Bathurst, Robert Brown and Associates, 1983. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (third impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (second impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (third impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Victoria Park, Hesperian Press, 2015. Edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritchie. More
Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982 (first edition). Not stated as such, but from the collection of Reverend Bill Edwards, and with his occasional emphases. More
Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 2005. More
Rotterdam, Mercatorfonds/ Wereldmuseum, 2011. Exhibition catalogue. Text in Dutch. More
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974 (fully revised and expanded edition)/ 1937. '... the question of primitive nescience of paternity - the most exciting and controversial issue in the comaprative science of Man'. More
Tokyo, Kinseido, 1988. Inscribed and signed by the author to C.P. Mountford's son and wife. More
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2015. 'Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party..... More
London, British Museum Publications, 1984. The only material 'acquired from the Torres Strait Islanders during the nineteenth century ... [that was] systematically collected and adequately documented is that obtained by Professor A.C. Haddon in 1888-9 and 1898' (page 38). In fact, Haddon's collections of Torres Strait artefacts taken back to..... More
Malden, Blackwell, 2006. 'a dazzling collection [with] impeccable taste in theory ...'. More
London, Seeley Service & Co., [1954]. This expedition, 'which was developed in conjunction with the [American Museum of Natural History's] Department of Anthropology, concerned itself primarily with the little-known natives of the Turkana District of northwestern Kenya Colony, and was the first major scientific expedition ever to return from that..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1972. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Sir Grenfell and | Lady Price | with much thanks | and many regards | from | Monty | Charles P. Mountford' (the anthropologist Charles Pearcy Mountford, 1890-1976). The recipient, Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist, has..... More
Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. Edited, with an introduction, by Peter Biskup. Number seven in the Pacific History series. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1989. More
New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. With the colour pictorial bookplate of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. One of the 'Ancient Peoples and Places' series. More