Travel and social anthropology
9 works
£303
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Malinowski, Bronislaw. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. London, 1929. First edition, 8vo, 96 plates, original white linen-backed blue cloth, lettered in gilt;
Knox, Robert. An Historical Relation of Ceylon. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1911. 8vo, one of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper, plates, folding map, original vellum-backed red cloth gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut;
Ashley-Montagu, M.F. Coming into Being among the Australian Aborigines. London: G. Routledge, 1937, First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth;
Elwin, Verrier. The Muria and their Ghotul. Bombay, Geoffrey Cumberlege, O.U.P. [Indian Branch], 1947, 8vo, plates, maps, original red cloth uncut;
Elwin, Verrier. The Baiga. London: J. Murray, 1939. First edition, 8vo, plates, original maroon cloth, dustwrapper repaired;
Elgood, Cyril. A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge: University Press, 1951, 8vo, plates, original green cloth;
Madariaga, Salvador de. Christopher Columbus. London, 1939. 8vo, plates, maps, original green pictorial cloth gilt;
Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro. History of the Incas... and the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1907-08. 2 parts: 1 volume in original cloth, and Supplement in original blue wrappers (in original envelope, repaired);
Hunter, John D. Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen. With anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs. To which is added, some account of the soil, climate and vegetable productions of the territory Westward of the Mississippi. A New edition, with portrait. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees [&c.], 1823. 8vo, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at beginning, engraved bookplate of Sir William Middleton Bart., of Shrubland Park, original boards, uncut, paper label to spine
Footnote
Note: The third edition of John D. Hunter's Memoirs of a Captivity was published in 1824, so this 'new edition' would appear to be the second edition. This copy contains the rare lithographed frontispiece by C.R. Leslie printed by Hullmandel, which was not present in the copy examined for the Wagner-Camp entry, or in the Library of Congress copy. Wagner-Camp notes that "Hunter's autobiography includes his story of a journey across the mountains to the Pacific Ocean, `on the south side of the Chok-a-li-lum (Columbia River)'." Wagner doubted the veracity of this account, although he accepted Hunter's description of life among the Kansas and Osage Indians as authentic. He claimed to have been abducted at an early age by Kickapoo Indians, but escaped to white settlements to get an education. He visited London where he was lionised in 1823-34 and then returned to America where he was murdered by Cherokees.