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[003028] . FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Annual Report of Director to the Board of Trustees: Years 1906-1931., And 1966 Annual Report. ill. Plates. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1907. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Natural History. Good 26 Reports covering years: 1906-1910,1912-1924,1926-1932, and 1966. Commences with report of the death of Marshall Field, founder of the Museum. Frontis. portrait of Field (Plate). Plate II: Mourning Design in Museum Rotunda Exposed for Thirty Days Following Mr. Field's Death. Each year's report gives Accessions in Departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Zoology. Numerous Plates in each Report. Stiff cover wraps-mildly soiled. Some with chips along edges or spine. A few with small pieces of paper spine missing, but still intact. ex.mus. stamp/numbers either on front or on title page. 1919 Report's front cover is detached. Overall exteriors are Good to Good +. Interiors are clean and Very Good. $450.00

[002833] . ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK IN NORTH AMERICA DURING 1927. Paper Wraps. Good reprinted from AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST,Vol. 30, No. 3, July-September, 1928. Covers mildly soiled. Interior is tight, clean, and Very Good + . Most pages uncut. ex-mus. stamp on cover. $22.50

[002834] . ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK IN NORTH AMERICA DURING 1929. Paper Wraps. Good reprinted from AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST,Vol. 32, No. 2, April 1930. Covers mildly soiled.and faded around edges. Interior is tight, clean, and Very Good + . pages uncut. ex-mus. stamp on cover. $22.50

[002835] . ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK IN NORTH AMERICA DURING 1931. Paper Wraps. Good reprinted from AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST,Vol. 34, No. 3, July-September, 1932. Covers soiled. Interior is tight, clean, and Very Good + . pages untrimmed. ex-mus. stamp on cover and title page. $20.00

[003024] . American Journal of Physical Anthropology: Vol. IV-XVI. 33 Issues. Years 1921-1932 . ill. Plates,Tables, Figures . Washington: American Journal of Physical Anthropolog, 1921. Size: Approx. 7 " x 10 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Anthropology. Good to Good-+ Total of 33 issues. Published Quarterly. 1921: 4 issues, Complete. 1922: 2 issues, Missing July-Sept. and Oct.-Dec. 1923: none. 1924: 1 issue, Missing Jan.-March, April-June and July-Sept. 1925: 4 issues, Complete. 1926: 1 issue, Missing April-June, July-Sept. and Oct.-Dec. 1927:3 issues, Missing Jan.-March. 1928-1931: 16 issues, Complete. 1932 :2 issues, Missing July-Sept. and Oct.-Dec. Exteriors are overall Good+. Mild soiling. Some chipping to side edges, overall Good or better. Interiors are clean, tight and VG. Many uncut pages. $450.00

[003103] . THE SWISS CROSS. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION, 20 Issues 1887-1889. ill. Figures (line drawings), Woodcuts. New York: N.D.C. Hodges, 1887. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good- to Fair 1887: Vol.I: No.1-6 Jan.-June. and 1887: Vol.II: No. 2, 4-6. August, October-December. 1888: Vol.III: No. 1-4, 6. Jan.-April, June and 1888: Vol.IV: No.2, 4. August, October.1889: Vol.V. No. 1-2, 6. Jan.-Feb., June. Some articles cover:Early Man in America, Water-Crystals, Photography, Astronomy, Botany, Birds, Zoology, Ichthyology, Native Americans, Eskimo Igloos, and many more. Covers are very worn/tears, some detached, and soiled. Some issues have "Agassiz Association, Chap. 158" on cover. Several have small stickers/labels with " Agassiz Association, Dec87,Chap. 158"Good- to Fair. Interiors are clean, and Very Good. Wonderful engravings throughout each issue. Scarce. $350.00

[003215] . SCIENCE, September 11, 1885. Volume VI. No. 136. ill. Etchings. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good+ Articles by Famous Americans: W. R. NICHOLS "Chemistry in the service of public health"; EDWARD ORTON "Problems in the study of coal, with a sketch of recent progress in geology"; DR. BURT G. WILDER "Educational musuems of vertebrates"; and EDWARD ATKINSON "The application of science to the production and consumption of food". Other articles: on Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Science, Geology and Geography, Biology, Histological Investigation, Histology and Microscopy, Native Tribes of Alaska, Anthropology and Economic Science and Statistics. In Notes and News: Paragraph on a monument of the first duke of Sutherland in England being struck and injured by lightning with an illustration; Use of the telephone for military purposes with an illustration and An electric railway at Frankfort with illustration. ex. mus. stamp (faint) on front cover. Covers slightly soiled. Bottom edge lightly chipped on front cover, back cover chipped with one 1" tear and 3/4"x1/2" circular spot?goes through on bottom edge on several pages, never close to text. Otherwise exterior is VG. First page of text with several soiled spots? otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. Vertical crease through publication as if once folded. Not obtrusive. $45.00

[003230] . SCIENCE, October 30, 1885. Volume VI. No. 143. ill. Etching. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good+ With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: F.W. PUTNAM "Man and the mastodon" (found in Worchester County, Mass.). In Letters to the Editor: ALPHEUS HYATT "Cruise of the Arethusa"; and EDWARD S. HOLDEN "The care of pamphlets". In Science Supplement:" The Nordenfelt submarine boat" with illustration. Other articles: "The International Geological Congress at Berlin"; " Localization of Functions in the Brain"; plus "Geographical Notes" (Lieut. H.T. Allen's expedition to Copper or Atna River and Lieutenant Cantwell's exploration of the Kowak River); "Astronomical Notes" (Small versus large telescopes, Comet 1885. III.(Brooks), New variable in Cygnus, Common decimal unit of circular measure,and Gould's Zone Catalogue). ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Slightly soiled. Vertical crease, goes through, but very minor. some mild chipping to edges, exterior is Good to Good+. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. Supplement's border mildly soiled. Some pages uncut. Overall Supplement is VG-. $45.00

[003254] . SCIENCE, December 11, 1885. Volume VI. No. 149. ill. Tables. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good+ With Science Supplement. Some articles: "A National University"; "The Decay of the Obelisk"(in Central Park) by ARNOLD HAGUE; " The Meeting of the American Public Health Association" with diagram exhibiting the comparative mortality by absolute number of decedents from fifteen most important causes of death, in Rhode Island, during 25 years, from 1860 to 1884; "Telpherage"(in England) with 4 illustrations, under Astronomical Notes: "Two new comets" with table and "The Biela comet meteor-stream" with table. Articles by or about Famous Americans: in Letters to the Editor:E. J. JAMES "NEWCOMB's Political Economy"; and H. M. PAUL "The Biela comet meteor-stream". In Science Supplement: G. BROWN GOODE " Recent Challenger Monographs"(report of Challenger Expedition); "Heights in France"(of country's inhabitants) with map; and "Progress in Metallurgy". Tipped in one page: THREE NEW PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON". Covers only 1/5 attached, but covers "intact". Slightly soiled. ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Slight chipping at edges. label residue covering up part of "title" contents. Some creasing. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Supplement is in VG condition. $45.00

[003671] Allison, Vernon C. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE DEPOSITS IN JACOB'S CAVERN. . ill. Figures(Photographs, Map, graphs). New York: American Museum Press, 1926. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Stiff Covers. Anthropology. Very Good Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XIX, Part VI. 24 illustrations of this Missouri cave including carvings on bones. Pages 293-335 . Exterior stiff covers are Very Good to Very Good +. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $20.00

[002862] Braidwood, Robert J. PREHISTORIC MEN. ill. Illustrated by Susan T. Richert . 1951. Anthropology. Very Good- spine and cover edges faded, otherwise exterior is Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $10.00

[002860] Dorsey, George A.. WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, Vol. 2. 1925. Green Cloth. Good spine faded. some small silverfish? holes on back gutter. owner's stamp on front endpaper and title page, Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. $12.00

[004529] Field, Henry. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1926-1964 . Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers Inc, 1964. Size: Approx. 8 1/4 " x 11". Stiff Covers. Bibliography. Good "During a visit in 1925 to the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition to Kish, Iraq, I decided to concentrate my researches on the Anthropogeography of Southwestern Asia, particularly from the Suez Canal to the Caucasus Mountains. At that time Dr. L. H. Dudley Buxton, my tutor at Oxford, proposed this thirty-eight year project, which is now nearing completion. This list of 594 titles includes and supplements my "Bibliografia"... Subject matter includes: Asia-Physical Anthropology; Africa-Physical Anthropology; Europe-Prehistory, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology; North America-Grave on Martha's Vineyard; Canoe from Marathon, Florida; Central America-Mexico-The Prehistory of Morelos and the Physical Anthropology of the Tepoztecos of Tepoztlan, Morelos; Caribbean-Anthropogeography of Trinidad and Tobago; and South America-Notes on the Macushi Indians of the Rupunumi Savanna, British Guiana. Includes the complete list of materials microfilmed in the American Documentation Institute. 112 pp. Original covers, mildly soiled. Otherwise Good to Good+. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. . $42.50

[002863] Greenman, Emerson F. . THE WOLF AND FURTON SITES, MACOMB COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 1939. Stiff Wraps. Anthropology. Good covers mildly soiled. repaired tear on spine. owner's name on front cover. interior is tight, clean and in VG+ condition. $12.00

[004477] Haynes, Henry W. Prof.. DISCOVERY OF PALOEOLITHIC FLINT IMPLEMENTS IN UPPER EGYPT. ill. Plates. 1881. Size:10" x 12". Disbound?. Egypt. Good Presented January 12, 1881. Four pages of text, uncut at top edge. Plus a page with Descriptions of the 7 Plates. Each plate with 5-13 separate "figures". All the objects are represented of their natural size. Name at base of each plate: ALBERTYPE FORBES CO. 3 staples at spine. Does not appear to be disbound, but no indication of publication. On "first/front" page, states: III. DISCOVERY OF PALOEOLITHIC FLINT IMPLEMENTS IN UPPER EGYPT... at bottom of page: Vol.X. First page "unstapled/torn" for 2 of the 3 staples. Front page "darkened" and some soiling. Chips/small tears to side and bottom edges of front page. Rest of text and plates are clean and in Very Good + condition. Plates are exquisite. $85.00

[001931] Herskovits, Melville & B Ames.. International Directory of Anthropologists 3rd Edition. 1950. Paper Wraps. Good+ ex-mus. some paper on spine missing/peeling off. one chip at side edge otherwise exterior and interior Very Good. $17.50

[002861] Jacobs, Melville And Bernhard J. Stern. . OUTLINE OF ANTHROPOLOGY.. 1947. Paperback. Anthropology. Very Good- College Outline Series. ex-mus. stamp in 4 places. Doesn't interfer with text. otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $6.00

[004209] Levi-Strauss, Claude. TRISTES TROPIQUES, An Anthropological Study Opf Primitive Societies in Brazil. ill. Figures (drawings) Photographs. New York: Atheneum, 1964. Size: Approx. 4 1/4" x 7 1/4". Paper Back. Brazil. Good + to Very Good- Translated from the French by John Russell. 404 pp. including Index. 50 illustrations and photographs. Covers are VG. On front endpapers, "notes" by previous owner with his name on free endpaper. Occasionally ink lines on side margins of paragraphs, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. $10.00

[004229] Manouvrier, L Professor (Translated by George Grant MacCurdy). ON PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS. ill. Figures (drawings). American Journal of Science, 1897. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/4". Paper Wraps. Anthropology. Signed by Translator. Very Good- From the American Journal of Science, Vol.IV, September, 1897. Translated from the French by George Grant MacCurdy. SIGNED on the front cover "With the compliments of George Grant MacCurdy". "...an important scientific event...the discovery in Tertiary strata near Trinil, Java, of bones which seem to have belonged to a being intermediate between man and the anthropoids." pp.213-234. 6 illustrations of skulls and one of a femur. Some sunning around front edges. Front cover circular "spot"?, 1"x1"dampness? doesn't go through. Missing the tip of the top corner and tiny piece at spine. Back cover's lower corner, 1/2"x1" missing. Overall covers are Good+ to Very Good-. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $65.00

[002584] Mead, Margaret. Family . ill. Ken Heyman, Photographer. . 1965. Book of the Month Club Edition. Very Good / Good. A revealing portrait of fathers, mothers, son, and daughters, brothers, sisters, and friends around the world. Written by Margaret Mead the renowned anthropologist and Ken Heyman one of the best US photographers at that time. Laid in foldout brochure of the book "reprinted from The Book of the Month Club News. $12.00

[004779] Sapper, Carl. The Old Indian Settlements And Architectural Structures In Northern Central America . ill. Plates. Smithsonian Institute, 1895. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Disbound. Latin America. Very Good- Disbound from an Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution1895. pages 537 - 555. 6 full page plates: Distribution of Styles of Building in Middle America; Indian Settlements in Central America (2 Plates with several illustrations on each plate); Principal Parts of the Ruins of Tonina, near Ososingo (Chiapas); Ruins of San Clemente (Peten), 1:1600; and Plan of the Surroundings of Utatlan, 1:18000. Some pages loose, otherwise text is clean and Very Good. $12.50

[004276] Saul, Frank P. (editor). Readings on Heredity, Ecology, and the Human Life Cycle . ill. Figures. New York: Selected Academic Readings, 1969. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Soft Cover. Anthropology. Good Textbook for Pennsylvania State University's course on Human Physical Growth, Development, and Ageing (Anthropology 31). Previous owner (student)'s name/address? on title page. Some underlining, highlighting and "notes" written in margin. All neatly done. Back free end paper in red. "DONE-YEA!" Numerous illustrations. Laid in 3 separate sheets with multiple choice questions for First, Second and Final Exam for Anthropology 31, 1970. Covers overall Good. "Used" yellow sticker on spine. Watermark on back cover, leaving some discoloring on inside endpaper. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. $20.00

[001015] Smithsonian Institution. ESSAYS IN HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA, Published in Honor of John R. Swanton. ill. Plates, Figures, Foldout Map. Washington: Smithsonian, 1940. Size: Approx. 6" x 9 1/4". Blue Cloth. Anthropology. Very Good Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 100. Published in Honor of John R. Swanton in Celebration of his Fortieth Year with the Smithsonian Institution. 600 pp. 16 plates,33 figures (sketches) many of which are maps plus a foldout map. Very Good condition except for library markings and " discard markings". Bibliography of Anthropological Papers by Swanton. $20.00

[002809] Volk, Ernest. The Archaeology of the Delaware Valley.. ill. Maps, Text drawings/Figures, Plates. Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1911. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4". Paper Wraps. Archaeology. Good Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Vol. V. 258 pp. of text. Two maps, 125 plates , and 26 illustrations in text. Appendix, Bibliography, and Index. Contents include: Geology: THE GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE VICINITY OF TRENTON; Archaeology: TRACES OF MAN IN THE BLACK SOIL, TRACES OF MANIN THE YELLOW DEPOSIT OR DRIFT, TRACES OF MAN AND ANIMALS IN THE STRTIFIED GRAVEL AND SAND OLDER THAN THE YELLOW DRIFT and the Journals of Ernest Volk from 1906-1910. Brown paper wraps. ex-mus. numbers on cover and spine. Slightly soiled, two spots on cover at side edge. Side edge overlaps, missing side strip 2/16"x1 1/2". Mild chipping to edges. Overall Good to Good +. Interior is tight, clean and in Very Good + condition. Some pages uncut. $92.50

[002996] Webster, T. B. L.. SOME UNPUBLISHED GREEK VASES. ill. Plates. England: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1939. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Very Good From Volume 83 of "Memoirs & Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Session 1938-39. pp.189-207. most pages uncut. Pale blue covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Fine. 3 plates. $50.00