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Robson, William . JAMES CHALMERS MISSIONARY AND EXPLORER OF RAROTONGA AND NEW GUINEA
Kilmarnock (probably early 1900s) John Ritchie. 12mo., 176pp., portrait frontis, text illustrations, hardcover, Owner signed. Good plus. (a10545)
$22.00 Mead, Margaret . NEW LIVES FOR OLD CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION - MANUS 1928-1953
NY 1956 Morrow. The Manus--whose primitive culture Mead reported in Growing Up in New Guinea, as they had developed from 1928 to 1953. 8vo., 548pp., photo illustrations, index, cloth. VG in VG DJ. (a14165)
$20.00 Mead, Margaret . THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE; IV. DIARY OF EVENTS IN ALITOA
NY 1947. Anthropological Papers of American Museum of Natural History, Volume 40 Part 3. 4to., 419pp., photo illustrations, wraps. VG plus. , no ownership marks. (a17266)
$20.00(expedition). CAMBRIDGE ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO THE TORRES STRAITS VOLUME 1: GENERAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Cambridge 1935.Volume 1 General Ethnography. Hardcover. 4to., 421pp., 11 full page photo plates on glossy stock, brown buckram cloth. Very Near Fine (just very slight bumping of top cover extreme tips; clean, bright; no owner marks) no DJ. no ownership marks. Volume 1 only. (a26142)
$175.00 Brasser, J. C. . SOLDATENLEVEN IN DE INDISCHE WILDERNIS
Zutphen 1930 Thieme. In Dutch. Borneo, New Guinea, Ceram. 8vo., 217pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. VG, lightly foxed, no DJ.. (a38912)
$26.00 Berndt, Catherine H. . TRANSLATION PROBLEMS IN THREE NEW GUINEA HIGHLAND LANGUAGES
Melbourne 1954. Article in Oceania, A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. 4to., 29pp., wraps. Included as part of a single issue of this journal. VG, light wear. (a46743c)
$35.00 Berndt, Ronald M. . REACTION TO CONTACT IN THE ESATERN HIGHLAND OF NEW GUINEA
Melbourne 1954. Article in Oceania, A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. 4to.,39pp., wraps. Included as part of a single issue of this journal. VG, light wear. (a46744b)
$35.00 Brown, Paul and Georgeda Buchbinder (editors) . MAN AND WOMAN IN THE NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS
1976. Special publication of American Anthropological Assoc No. 8. Octavo, 108pp., wraps. VG. (a47331)
$38.00 (telephone directory) . TELEPHONE DIRECTORY PAPUA NEW GUINEA
1948 (?). In English. Sm. 4to., 22pp., original decorated wraps. Small hole at top left for string. VG. (a58733)
$125.00 Dark, Philip J. C. . KILENGE LIFE AND ART A LOOK AT A NEW GUINEA PEOPLE
London 1974 Academy Editions. 4to., 132pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Good, a bit of tearing along outer spine, corners bumped in Good DJ, some chips. (a65837)
$24.00 Gardi, Rene . TAMBARAN AN ENCOUNTER WITH CULTURES IN DECLINE IN NEW GUINEA
London 1960 1st English Edition, Constable. Translated by Eric Northcott. Octavo, 201pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Fine in Good DJ. (a67412)
$29.00 Monckton, Captain C. A. . TAMING NEW GUINEA
NY 1925 (1921) Dodd Mead. Cheap edition printed without folding map. Octavo, 337pp., 37 monochrome photo illustrations, large folding map, index, hardcover. Institution numbers on spine, bookplate and pocket removed, residue of signout slip on rear free blank. VG, no DJ. (a77239)
$20.00 Foley, Antoine-Edouard . QUATRE ANNEES EN OCEANIE - HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE L'HOMME ET DES SOCIETES QU'IL ORGANISE
Paris 1866 1st Bailliere. In French. Octavo, 300pp., original printed wraps with later paper spine. Good , cover faded , cover a bit and edges lightly frayed. Owner signed across titlepage . Old French library stamp and numbers on titlepage. Binding secure and text clean. (a81348)
$200.00 Griffin, Andrew . LONDON, BENGAL, THE CHINA TRADE AND THE UNFREQUENTED EXTREMITIES OF ASIA: THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SETTLEMENT IN NEW GUINEA 1793-95
1990. Article at pp. 151-173 in one complete issue of British Library Journal. Other articles by different authors included in same issue. Sm.4to., original printed wraps.VG. (a83361b)
$35.00 Williams, F. E. . PAPUAN PETROGRAPHS
London 1931. 4to., pp. 121-157, 10 photo plates, removed from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and rebound in later wraps. VG. (a85230)
$50.00 Belshaw, Cyril . IN SEARCH OF WEALTH
1955. A study of the Emergence of Commercial Operations in the Melanesian Society of Southeastern Papua. American Anthropological Association, Volume 57 No. 1, Part 2 Memoir 80. 8vo., 84pp., wraps. near Fine. (lat32)
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