Oxford, Blackwell, 1994 (first thus)/ 1992 (first English translation)/ 1987. 'Indispensable, and an endlessly fascinating book. The view is staggering. Not a book to digest at one or several sittings. Savor it instead, one small slice at a time, accompanied by a very fine wine' (rear cover). Translated from the..... More
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1913 [first, revised, English language edition]/ 1911. Provenance: Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, with his nameplate mounted on the front pastedown. Not least, the frontispiece and pages 66-69, an early account of Charles Dawson's Piltdown Man in 1912 (which..... More
London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1925 (first UK edition)/ 1924. The author, an engineer sent to the Malay Jungle 'in 1913 to survey a route for a railway' was kept there for six years by the fortunes of war. More
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1970. With the Pacific bookplate of British anthropologist, ethnographer and author Dr Henry Evans Maude (1906 - 2006). ASAO Monograph Number 1. More
Sydney, The Anglican Truth Society, 1957. More
Nedlands, Board of the University of Western Australia Press, 1964. More
Rochester, Inner Traditions, 1998. More
London, Spring Books, 1965/ 1927 (revised)/ 1902. Revised and enlarged by Theodore Besterman. 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
Darwin, Northern Territory University Press in association with the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 2001. Six papers, with much of interest relating to Southeast Asian contact with north Australia. More
[Douglas], Material Culture Unit, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1985. One of the Occasional Papers in Material Anthropology series. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1909. Loosely inserted is an autograph note regarding the book initialled by Robert Henry Pulleine (1869-1935), physician and naturalist (2 pages, on his letterhead, lightly tanned along the top edge). The addressee of the note is almost certainly Edward Charles Stirling, whose pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward']..... More
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Sydney, Australasian Medical Publishing Co., 1962. More
Melbourne, Hyland House, 1981. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1959. Signed by Harold A. Lindsay on the front free endpaper. 'Two Australian anthropologists, Norman Tindale and Harold Lindsay, making full use of their long study of the subject, have constructed a vivid, fascinating story of these early Maori people of whose later days Melville wrote in..... More
Malden, Blackwell Publishers, 1997. With the ownership signature of Peter Sutton, dated November 1998. 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, Ernest Benn Limited, 1924. Forward by Sir Wyndham Dunstan; 'Prepared for the Press' by T.J. Pemberton. More
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968. More
Pennsylvania, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1982. Exhibition catalogue. With the newspaper-style exhibition notes (complete with errata slip) loosely inserted. More
Rotterdam, Museum of Ethnology, 1996. Presentation copy dated (April 1999), inscribed to Douglas Newton 'The collection Man' from Cees van den Meiracker, Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam. Photography by Erik Hesmerg. Exhibition catalogue. More
London, Hamlyn, 1973. With photographs by Werner Forman. More
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, [circa 1986]. With 149 illustrations from photographs (many in colour). 'This special catalog has been prepared to serve as a permanent record of the collection of Pre-Columbian Art made by Arnold Maremont. The collection was given to the Israel Museum shortly before his death in November..... More
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, [circa 1986]. With 149 illustrations from photographs (many in colour). 'This special catalog has been prepared to serve as a permanent record of the collection of Pre-Columbian Art made by Arnold Maremont. The collection was given to the Israel Museum shortly before his death in November..... More
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