The Mochica. A Culture of Peru
New York, Praeger Publishers, 1972. One of the Art and Civilization of Indian America series. More
New York, Praeger Publishers, 1972. One of the Art and Civilization of Indian America series. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1972. More
Paris, Société des Amis du Musée de l'Homme, 1972. Published to accompany an exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of the voyages of Bougainville (1766-69) and Cook (1768-80). With the ownership label of Papua New Guinea photographer Malcolm S. Kirk. Text in French. More
London, Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972 (facsimile edition)/ 1927. 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
Westmead, Gregg International Publishers, 1973. With the ownership signature of W.D. Borrie, sometime Commonwealth Government Statistician. 'With one exception, this volume contains reprints of all the main contributions to the 18th century controversy on the trend of population in England and Wales'. More
Bethesda, National Institutes of Health, 1973 [reprinted with index]/ 1965. The author's primary interests were the 'Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures'; he shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for Medicine. More
London, Hamlyn, 1973. With photographs by Werner Forman. More
London, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research/ Oxford University Press, 1973. Not least, 'The Spatial Presentation of Cosmic Order in Walbiri Iconography' by Nancy D. Munn. More
London, Academy Editions, 1973 (first English edition). The author was Director of the Ethnographical Museum of Budapest; translated by Eva Rácz. More
Sydney, John Wiley and Sons Australasia Pty Ltd, 1973. 'The studies included are those that have made significant contributions to the understanding of Aboriginal Australians, not as objects of sympathy or fascination, but as human beings who have developed in a different cultural framework' (from the introduction). More
London, Tavistock Publications, 1974. With the ownership signature of Peter Sutton, inscribed 'Cambridge, 1982'. 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
Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. Edited, with an introduction, by Peter Biskup. Number seven in the Pacific History series. More
London, Collins, 1974 (revised edition)/ 1971. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975 [first thus - Volume 1 was first published separately in 1971 as 'Studies in Physical Anthropology']. Australian Aboriginal Studies, Research and Regional Studies Number 5. More
Basel, Museum fur Völkerkunde/ Schweizerische Museum für Volkskunde, 1975. Text in German. More
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976. More
Bethesda, National Institutes of Health, 1976 [reprinted with index]/ 1968. The author's primary interests were the 'Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures'; he shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for Medicine. More
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976. More
New York, Vantage Press, 1976 (first edition). Presentation copy to Reverend Bill Edwards, inscribed and signed by the author. More
Perth, Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material, 1976. Of considerable Aboriginal interest. More
London, Hutchinson, 1976. When the book was published, the collection, formed over a period of sixty years, was 'the least known and least published of the great collections made this century (Oldman, Beasley, Fuller and Hooper) and the last to remain in private hands... (Hooper's) particular love was for the..... More
Camperdown, Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, [circa 1976]. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Macleay Museum, 29 March 2001 to 30 January 2003. More
[Canberra], Australian National University, 1977, 1980 [and] 1982. With related sheets loosely inserted. More
Ottawa, National Museums of Canada, 1977. Warmly inscribed, dated (9th July 1978) and signed by David Turner to Mr and Mrs TGH Strehlow. Canadian Ethnology Service Paper Number 36. More
Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1977. With the tropical bookplate of British anthropologist Dr Henry Evans Maude (1906 - 2006), who specialised in Pacific studies. ASAO Monograph Number 5. More
Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1977. More
[Melbourne, The Author, 1977]. A curious self-published work; some of the author's photographs ('War, Mans' [sic] favourite pastime'; 'The end of the Fight'; 'Cannibalism'; 'Headman's remains') are confronting. More
Barcelona, Ediciones Poligrafa, 1977 (first edition). 216 illustrations (62 in colour). More
London, British Museum Publications Limited, 1977 (second edition)/ 1970. More
Wellington, E.C. Keating, Government Printer, 1977 (third edition)/ 1950. Provenance: With the Canberra ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. With a a foreword by H.D. Skinner; new to this edition is the three-page introduction by the author and a 30-page review of research since 1956..... More
London, Duckworth, 1978. More
Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Number 65; an impressive catalogue prepared for the bicentennial of the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook (18 January 1778). More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
London, Stacey International, 1978. 'The wider world has known about the charm and skill of Bedouin jewellery for only a handful of years. ... Yet the jewellery of the Bedouin, in their desert heartland of Saudi Arabia, has been an artistic fact for thousands of years' (from the blurb). More
Wellington, Oxford University Press, 1979. 'Conversations by James MacNeish, with commentary by David Simmons'. More
London, Collins, 1979. More
The Hague, Mouton Publishers, 1979. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979 and 1975. Australian Institute Aboriginal Studies New Series Number 12 and AIAS Research and Regional Studies Number 4. More
Canberra, Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1979. Terra Australis series, Number 4. More
London, Studio Vista/ Christie's, 1979. With an introduction by William Fagg. More
New York, AMS Press, 1980 [facsimile edition]/ 1935. An account of a typical Bantu tribe. 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
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980 (first edition). International Library of Anthropology. 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
London, Thames and Hudson, 1980. 'Over two hundred treasures of art, drawn from private collections and never before made available to the public, have been superbly photographed by the collector, Arnold Bamert' (dustwrapper blurb). More
[Chicago], Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1981 (first English edition)/ 1971 (first edition in French). More