Anthropology

Early Observations of Marquesan Culture 1595-1813 – Edwin Ferdon

First published University of Arizona, 1993. Octavo, 184 pages in very good if not fine condition.

A scholarly work by Edwin Ferdon who as a young man was archaeologist on the Thor Heyerdahl 1955 expedition to Easter Island. The notes and bibliography make it extra useful for those that want to more broadly study the history of the Marquesas.

Ferdon was thorough

$40.00

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The Great Frozen North – Jackson – First Edition 1895

The Great Frozen North (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra); Narrative of a Winter Journey Across the Tundras and a Sojourn Among the Samoyads.

Edited by Arthur Montefiore from the journals of Frederick George Jackson (1860 – 1938).

Published by Macmillan, London a first edition 1895 in very good condition. Large octavo, 297 pages after preliminaries numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings with three foldout coloured maps showing the route taken. Original blue cloth binding with the lovely gilt deer to front.

In the autumn 1893 Jackson explored Vatgack Island spending a year among the Samoyeds gaining sledging experience with reindeer. He then sledged 3,000 miles along the Arctic coast from Vaygach to the Pachora River and on to Ust Tsilma then west to the Menzen working his way up the coast of the White Sea north to Varanger Fiord. All of which was in preparation for his planned expedition through Franz Josef land the following year sponsored by the RGS. This book has become a fundamental reference to the way of life of the native Samoyed people.

Incidentally, during his later Franz Josef expedition Jackson came across Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen who had been lost for three years and had been trying to get to Spitsbergen and assisted them in a safe journey home aboard the Windward. Jackson received a knighthood of the first class of the Norwegian Royal Order of St Olaf for saving their exploration hero.

Jackson went on to have a distinguished military career rising to the rank of Major. As a youth he spent time in Queensland on a cattle station. In his last year he lived on a houseboat on the Thames. Quite a character.

$260.00

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Evolution in the Light of Modern Knowledge – Various Notable Scientific Contributors

A special book published by Blackie, London and Glasgow in 1932, a new edition. Some minor ageing to page edges very good complete dust jacket, overall a very good copy.

Bringing forward the views of notable scientists of the day to explain the position of the “Theory of Evolution” by reference to their special disciplines. Includes the Astronomer Jeans, Zoologist MacBride, Chemist Soddy, Geologist Watts and Australian born Elliot Smith Anatomist and pursuer of Ancient Man. A fine provoking work despite and later revelations.

Evolution and Elliot Smith among the best.

$120.00

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In Search for Man’s Ancestors – Prof Grafton Elliot Smith – 1931

Published by Watts & Co, London, 1951 first edition, 56 pages part of the Forum Series. Very good condition in a complete dust jacket. Inscription to paste down.

Grafton NSW born Elliot Smith has risen to Professor of Anatomy at University College, London by the time this book was published.He was involved in the Piltdown hoax, which features (pre-exposure) here along with Pithecanthropus, Heidelberg Man and Peking Man. His view on the “Cradle of Mankind” in which the Australian “Talgai” skull from near Warwick gets a reference.

Grafton born Professor Searches for the beginning of Man

$60.00

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Somewhere in New Guinea – Frank Clune – First edition 1951

Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney in 1951, a first edition in pretty good condition

A companion book to Frank Clune’s “Prowling in Papua”. This time the north side and a good deal of mooching around “as he put it”. Wewak, Hagen, Madang, Markham Valley and Rabaul included.

First Edition Clune in New Guinea

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WG Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea – Joseph King – 1909 First Edition

Published by The Religious Tract Society London in 1909, a First Edition. Original binding with snag top of spine glued otherwise a pretty good complete copy. Gilt titles and image all bright.

388 pages with folding coloured map of PNG and 21 most interesting black and white photographs. Lawes (1839-1907) went to Niue in 1861 for 11 years before then serving in Papua New Guinea in and around Port Moresby for 32 years from 1874. A tough man who worked with Chalmers met Bully Hayes and built the first church and school in Port Moresby.

Pioneering Missionary in PNG – Cornerstone PNG

$120.00

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Early Observations of Marquesan Culture 1595-1813 – Edwin Ferdon

The Great Frozen North – Jackson – First Edition 1895

Evolution in the Light of Modern Knowledge – Various Notable Scientific Contributors

In Search for Man’s Ancestors – Prof Grafton Elliot Smith – 1931

Somewhere in New Guinea – Frank Clune – First edition 1951

WG Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea – Joseph King – 1909 First Edition

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