By J Soderstrom (2 results)

Wraps. 1st edition. 1st ed., 4to, wraps, pp 70 with additional 24 full page b&w plates, missing 4cm lower spine, upper spine starting, light creasing to cnrs, some water marking to front, from the library of Western Australian Anthropologist, D'Arcy Ryan, with his blind-stamp to upper front and pencil annotations, tanning to wraps and some pencil annotations throughout, good condn. Scarce. Presentation inscription signed by the Author. Andreas Sparrman (1748-1820) was a Swedish naturalist. He was a pupil of Linneaus and travelled on Captain James Cook's second voyage as assistant naturalist to Johann and Georg Forster. Text in Swedish. Rare. This well illustrated publication is a description of Sparrman's ethnographical collection assembled during Cook's voyage and now in the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden. The detailed descriptions of the objects are preceded by a biographical sketch and a resume of Sparrman's narrative of the expedition. The illustrations show objects from New Zealand, Tonga Islands, Tahiti, Tanna, New Caledonia and the Marquesas Islands. Translated from the Swedish manuscript into English by M. Leijer (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1939 , 70 pp XXIV Plates By J. Soderstrom Photos with Artifacts in it The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm Statens Etnografiska Museum New Series. Publication N 6 Stcokholm Sweden 1939 Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule Soft Cover Worned Cover.