Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Annual Bibliography 1995
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1995. Roy 8vo, wraps, pp iii. 147. Fine condition.
Anthropology
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Annual Bibliography 1983-84
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1984. Roy 8vo, wraps, pp 77. Near-fine condn.
The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites. (Two Volumes)
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. Two volumes 8vo, wraps. "Second Progress Report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment" (published 1974), pp 134, and "Report from the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Concluding a reference to the former Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment" (published.....
Journal of Material Culture - Sage Journals
SAGE, 1996-2010. 45 issues, vol no. 1 to vol. 15 no. 4, lacking only vol. 13 no. 2. Published between 1996 and 2010. Very good condn. Please inquire regarding postage: very good rates available. Academic journal publishing papers in the fields of Cultural Studies and Anthropology and concerned mainly with.....
Journal of the Institute of Australian Aboriginal Studies. 1983, number 2.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1984. 4to, wraps, b&w illus, pp 94. Near-fine condn.
Population and Australia. A demographic analysis and projection. First Report of the National Population Inquiry. Volume Two. 1975 - Parliamentary Paper No. 7
Canberra: Government Printer, 1975. 8vo, wraps, pp xlv, 455-761 (complete). Previous owner's stamp inside front wrap, binding weakening, good condn. Includes chapters on the Aboriginal population.
Darwinism and Human Affairs
London: Pitman Publishing Corp. 1980. 1st UK edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 317, Index, faint mark front endpaper, original cloth boards, very good, in rubbed d.j. edges frayed and creased. Human behaviour and modern evolutionary theory.
Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
London: Routledge, 2004. 8vo, cloth boards, pp xxiii, 613. Near-fine condn.
Herbert Spencer: Structure, Function and Evolution
London: Michael Joseph, 1971. 8vo., pp vii 257, Index, or. cl. bds., v.g in clipped d.j., marks to rear.
Race Relations
London: Tavistock, 1967. 8vo, rebound in red leatherette boards with gilt decorations, pp xiv, 434.
Creation Still Goes On, A Scientist on the Track of Genesis
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. L. Parks (Trans.). 8vo., pp. 256, Index, b/w & col. plates, or cl bds., v.g in price-clipped, sl. torn d.j. Discusses the origins of life on earth, with reference to meteorites.
Echoes from Distant Footfalls; or, The Origin and Unity of the Human Race
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. Cr. 8vo., pp. 197, prev. owner's inscr., very foxed at e.ps, title pg. & latter end pages, uncut top edge, or. cl. bds., marked, split cnrs, some holes, very worn. N.d. (1873). Scarce.
Civilisation in the West
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, 1964. John B Christopher, Robert Lee Wolff. 8vo., pp xvi (xvi col. Plates) 717, Index, b/w plates & maps, or. cl. Bds., in d.j. With sunned spine and sm tear (no loss) to top corner, protected. Based upon the two volume work.
Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections. With 15 Plates, 275 Illustrations and 3 Maps. [First edition]
London: British Museum, 1910. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards with gilt lettering, colour frontis plate, numerous illustrations, pp xvi, 304. Mild foxing to endpapers, very good condition. Includes chapter on Australia with illustrations showing spearheads from Western Australia, churingas, message sticks. Profusely illustrated.
The Ascent of Man
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1979. Repr., octavo, pp.448. col and b&w illus, spine lightly creased otherwise very good condn. The book of the BBC documentary series. A detailed, lavishly illustrated history of science and evolution.
The Discovery of Man, The Story of the Inquiry into Human Origins
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. 8vo., pp 339, Index, b/w fronts., b/w plates, bookplate, scattered foxing, or. cl. bds., sunned edges, v.g in price-clipped, frayed, sunned d.j., protected.
The Voyage of Charles Darwin
London: BBC, 1979. Reprint with corrections, 8vo., pp 183, Index, b/w & col. Plates, prev. owner's inscr., or. cl. bds., v.g in d.j.
Grant Allen, A Memoir
London: Grant Richards, 1900. pp. (viii) 222, Index, b/w frontis portrait, t.e.g., gilt to spine, uncut edges, or. cl. bds., sl flecked, no d.j. Includes bibliography. Good condition.
A Brief History of the Human Race
London: Granta Books, 2004. 8vo, cl bds, d.j., 28 b&w figures, 11 maps, pp (xviii) 385. D.j. has small diagonal cut near base of spine with no loss of paper, o/w v.g. Near-fine in good dustjacket. The author explores the great forces that have shaped our past, and along the.....
The Story of Man, From the First Human to Primitive Culture and beyond
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1962. Richard Albany (Ills.) and Reuben Goldberg (Photographs). 8vo., pp xxii 438 incl. Glossary, xiv Index, b/w plates, text ills & maps, uncut side edges, v.g in frayed, worn d.j.
Studies of Savages and Sex
London: Methuen, 1929. Ed. Theodore Besterman. Octavo, cloth boards, pp ix, 300. Previous owner's bookplate, very good condition.
The Evolution of Man and Society
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1969. 2nd impression, 8vo, pp. 753, Index, b/w maps, endpaper maps, previous owner's stamp, few marks edges, original cloth bds., edges slightly rubbed, small dent bottom rear edge, in d.j. spine and edges sunned, covered with plastic. Evolutionary history of human societies. Covers Ancient Egypt.....
The Voyage of the Beagle
New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1969. Reprint, 8vo, pp. 524, Index, b/w frontis, b/w ills., original leatherette boards, gilt decorated, light crease centre spine otherwise very good. Reproduction of Darwin's classic work. Harvard Classics Series, Deluxe Volume.
Social Analysis. (Journal)
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, 1979-1998. 43 issues, wraps, published 1979 to 1998. Lacking only the following: nos. 27, 30, 41(1). Previous owner's personal ex-libris stamp, very good condn.
From Matter to Man, A New Theory of the Universe
London: Chapman & Hall, 1898. pp. Viii 289, ink stamp to title pg., or. cl. bds., bumped cnrs., flecked, some bubbling of cloth cover, sunned spine.