New York: 1982. 380 pages, 400 b/w and 50 color photographs. Cloth cover. A dazzling private collection of Indian art was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in three exhibitions--each devoted to a segment of this collection--beginning in 1982. This catalogue of this hitherto unpublished collection (only 39 of...
New York: Pace Editions, 1980. 99 pages, 30 full-page color plates, 15 field photographs, 1 map. Very good condition.
Munich: Galerie Fred Jahn, l991. 207 pages (text in Englihsh and German), 97 photographs--most of which are full-page, 17 pages of drawings, 2 text maps, l fold-out map in rear pocket. Hard board and cloth cover. This fine study of Central African throwing-blades (knives) accompanied an exhibition at the Galerie...
Smithsonian National Museum, Washington, D.C, 1988. 360 pages (thirty-six papers) 476 color and b/w photographs and drawings of several thousand artifacts, 17 maps. Soft cover. An historic collaboration between American and Soviet scholars resulted in a superb 1988 exhibition for which this volume served as the catalogue. Focusing on artifacts...
Smithsonian National Museum, Washington, D.C, 1988. 360 pages (thirty-six papers) 476 color and b/w photographs and drawings of several thousand artifacts, 17 maps. Cloth cover. Slight rippling at bottom of some pages, otherwise very good-fine condition. An historic collaboration between American and Soviet scholars resulted in a superb 1988 exhibition...
London, 1965: Ann Arbor, 1981 (reprint). 120 pages, 5359 entries. Cloth cover. Easily the best and most comprehensive bibliography of works on all the main forms of African art, this volume went out of print shortly after its 1965 publication. Because of the demand for it, we commissioned a special...
Leipzig: 1870, 1872. (a) xxiv, 230 pages. (b) xxii, 829 pages. Later cloth cover, gilt titles. This is part of the six volume series, Antropologie der Naturvolker, of which this work is Volume 5, Part 2, and Volume 6. Taylor, p. 61; Catalog of the South Pacific Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz, p. 417.
Milano, 2000: Paris, Sotheby's, September 10, 2007. 297 pages, approximately 375 large color photographs, 7 b/w photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. (B) (auction catalogue) . 162 pages, 178 lots auctioned, all lots illustrated. Total sales: 1,032,120 Euros. Price list included. (A) A stunning visual presentation of seldom presented African material...
MEDALLION PAPERS, Nos. XXV, XXVI, XXX, XXXVIII: 1937, 1937, 1942, 1948. Vols. I and II only. Vol I: Material Culture. xviii, 305 pages of text containing 115 figures, plus 215 pages of photographs. Vol. II: Comparisons and Theories. xiv, 167 pages of text, plus 25 pages of photographs, 8 pages...
New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. 64 pages, 77 photographs. Cloth cover.
Taos: 1925. 127 pages, 27 illustrations.
New York: 1978. xvii, 350 pages, 22 papers presented in 1975 at the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects, 122 photographs, 49 figures. Cloth cover.
New York: 1968. 131 pages (5 1/2" x 13 1/4"), 105 full-page photographs. This elegant and rare publication includes 105 full-page photographs of the treasured demon figures that were stored in caves. Fine, dramatic photographs bring out the texture as well as the forms of these marvelous objects. Full description...
Veroffentlichungen des Museums fur Volkerkunde zu Leipzig, Heft 20, 1970. 274 pages ("Summary of Main Findings" in English), 17 photographs, 5 Figures, 3 maps in text and a fold-out map in rear pocket.
Seattle: 1967. xxx, 410 pages of text containing 537 b/w photograhs and 3 maps, plus 32 page of color photographs. Cloth cover.
Chicago: 1970. xv, 334 pages, 59 photographs, 19 diagrams, 6 maps. Cloth cover.
New York: 1941. xxi, 205 pages plus 82 pages of photographs. Cloth cover. Inscribed by author on front endpaper.
London: 1986. 1st edition, first printing. x, 189 pages, 135 b/w and 10 color photographs, 7 drawings, 3 maps. Cloth cover. The precise function and symbolism of masks and figures is documented and carefully examined in this study of Songye sculpture. Stylistic characteristics of Songye art are examined and related...
Stuttgart, 1938: Kassel, 1953 (enlarged ed.); Zurich, 1987. 83 pages, 86 photographs, 17 drawings, 1 map. Hard board cover. In 1936 ethnographer Hans Himmelbeber went to Alaska to do fieldwork among the Eskimos of the Kuskowim river and among the Nunivak, in each case studying a culture that was shortly...
Field Columbian Museum, Anthropological Series, Publication 16, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1897. Part II, "Monuments of Chiapas, Oaxaca and the Valley of Mexico". 196 pages, 31 full-page and double-page photographs, 80 figures,8 fold-out drawings.
Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Papers, Vol. 6. Andover: 1964. 488 pages, 94 figures, 1 fold-out map.
Cambrige University Press, 1984 (1st ed.). x, 230 pages, 120 photographs and drawings of artifacts, dasncers, and rituals; 1 map. Cloth cover, with dust jacket. Fine condition.
New York: 1943. (two volumes). Vol. I (text): 413 pages. Vol. II (illustrations): 378 pages, 306 plates containing approximately 1300 photographs of pre-Columbian architecture, sculpture, pottery, weaving, metal-work, jade and other semiprecious stones, murals and manuscripts, and miscellaneous applied arts. Cloth cover.
Peabody Foundation for Archaeology No. 6, New Haven; New York 1932; 1979 (reprint). xvi, 314 pages, 248 figures. Cloth cover. Papers of the Southwestern Expedition. This close, detailed study of the materials found in the important pueblo of Pecos in New Mexico, during excavations between 1915 and 1925, is one...
ROBERT S. PEABODY FOUNDATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol. 5. Andover: 1958. xx, 360 pages, 72 pages of illustrations.
