For your holiday gifting to friends, family, or to indiulge the needs of your own library, we have specially selected 100 scarce and/or rare publictions for your holiday season gifting.
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New York. Parts 1 & 2: 250 pages, 262 lots auctioned (248 African, 14 Oceanic), 201 lots illustrated. Price list included. The Rubinstein auction, the benchmark primitive art sale of all time, overnight changed the art world's perception of primitive (tribal) art, most notably African art. Prices never before imagined..... More
New York. Parts 1 & 2: 250 pages, 262 lots auctioned (248 African, 14 Oceanic), 201 lots illustrated. Price list included. The Rubinstein auction, the benchmark primitive art sale of all time, overnight changed the art world's perception of primitive (tribal) art, most notably African art. Prices never before imagined..... More
New York. 112 pages, 57 lots auctioned, all lots illustrated. Price list included. This collection, of what is generally considered to be the finest and most important colleciton of Northwest Coast art ever to have been auctioned, brought in a remarkable $7,030,6000. More
1964. 357 pages (26 papers dealing with the ethnology, material culture, customs and rituals of the Lap peoples; 24 papers are in English and 2 are in German). There are approximately 75 photographs, drawings and maps. Small folio size (13"x10 1/2:). Very good-fine condition. From the library of ethnographer Ferdinand..... More
xxiii, 784 pages plus 248 plate pages of color and b/w illustrations of many hundreds of baskets. Bound in original green speckled leather, inner front hinge reinforced by professional clear binder's tape. Otherwise in very good condition. The cornerstone of any library on American Indian basketry, this massive study remains..... More
Uppsala: 1974. xxi, 212 pages (some uncut) of text containing 45 b/w photographs (principally of Kota reliquary figures and masks), plus 6 leaves of color photographs. Ediiton limited to 500 copies. More
Leipzig: 1957. 127 pages of text containing, 29 figures and 5 photographs, followed by 163 pages of color and b/w photographs of ceramic, textile, stone, wood, and gold artifacts. Decorated lined cover, folio-size (9 1/2" X 12 1/2"). More
Paris: 1982. 293 pages, 350 large b/w and 21 full-page color photographs, 9 drawings. 1 map. Coth cover. Mint condition. The almost overpowering art of the Tshokwe is subjected to an intense analysis of its styles, influences, and iconography in this volume, written by the authority on the art of..... More
Kyobunkwan, Tokyo: 1927. 14 (unnumbered), 449 pages of text containing 65 b/w photographs and drawings of artifacts and people, plus 10 unnumbered leaves of color plates. Gilt decorated, blue cloth cover. Fine condition. More
Paris: 1966. 632 pages (some uncut), 63 plates containing about 400 drawings of masks. Mint condition. More
Stockholm: 1943. Del I: 303 pages, 157 b/w photographs, 5 full-page color plates. Del. II: pp. 311-652, 154 b/w photographs, 1 full-page color plate. Cloth cover. Both volumes contain photographs of artifacts in collections of Swedish and Danish Museums from the Pacific, Australia, Africa, Arctic Regions the Americas, Southeast Asia..... More
Lincoln: 1967. 530 pages, 384 b/w and 31 full page color plates. Cloth cover, slip case. The publication of this book was considered by many Plains Indian specialists to be "...the most important single publishing venture, by volume, of the Great Plains". The pictographic record, a series of more than..... More
November, 1898. Pages 25-128 of text plus 7 pages of drawings of 93 masks and 7 pages of text descriptions of the masks. folio size, 11" x 14" Published well over a century ago, this wonderful study has more than passed the test of time.This classic study of Bella Coola..... More
Meudon: 1984. 271 pages, text in English and French. 16 color and 283 b/w photographs, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
Albuquerque: 1938, 1953, 1977. 208 pages, 79 page of color motifs and designs, 33 figures containing photographs and drawings of hundreds of pots and designs. Cloth cover. The definitive study of the elegant, simple pottery of Santo Domingo Pueblo, this volume was first published in 1938, and was then revised..... More
University of New Mexico: School of American Research, 1970. xvi, 260 pages, 174 color pages of designs, 5 figures. Cloth cover, shrink wrapped. A beautiful volume, the defintive work on the lovely pottery of this pueblo. The excellent text details all aspects of San Ildefonso pottery, including its origins, forms..... More
Bruxelles: 1902-1906. pp. 145--316 pages containing 55 photographs, mainly of fetishes, followed by 40 leaves of photographs of 696 fetishes. Biebuyck, 590, "Inventories and describes 696 anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines and a few masks, staffs, and boards available by 1906 in the Musee royal de l'Afrique centrale. "Classifies the sculptures..... More
Field Museum Anthropological Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1922. Pp. 227-403 (containing 26 figures), plus 83 pages of photographs,1 map. Later cloth cover. Mint condition. This long out of print Field Museum study deals with the Tinguian, a tribe that numbered about 20,000 at the time this was published, and..... More
Paris: 1934. 171 pages of text containing 85 figures, plus 107 leaves of photographs and a 3 page addendum containing 1 page of photographs. Very light foxing. Small folio size. More
Louvain: 1980. ix, 293 pages (text in English and French), 143 b/w and 6 color photographs, 4 pages of drawings. Front cover scuffed. The collection of ancient West African terracottas assembled by Bernard de Grunnne is the subject of this absolutely splendid publication from Louvain. These seldom seen terracottas are..... More
London: 1969. (First UK edition of Polynesian Art, the Ring of Fire. Vol. I, New York, 1967). 368 pages, 452 large photographs of over 1,000 objects--many never before or since published. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Fine condition. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1941. 1st edition. 219 pages, 16 color and 182 b/w photographs, 17 maps. Cloth cover. Mint condition. The blockbuster 1941 Museum of Modern Art Indian art exhibition is widely credited with having opened the eyes of much of the "art" public to the incredible..... More
Albuquerque: 1968. xxvii, 429 pages, 32 full and half-page color photographs, 124 full and half-page b/w pho-tographs. Cloth cover. More
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..... More
Anchorage Museum of History and Art: 1996. 320 pages, 200 color photographs and 100 b/w photographs, 2 maps. Cloth cover, small folio size (9"x12"). The dance masks of the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska are among the most dramatic and most prized of any maksing tradition. Yup'ik masks from collections..... More