Ethnographic Notes (2 results)

Published by Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1886
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Add to basketBooklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. A nine-page account of the Indigenous Atnatana people, describing their subsistence practices, material culture, social organisation, and the environmental conditions of the Copper River region. 9 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint…or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
UN ART FONDAMENTAL: LE TAPIS. - précédé de Notes ethnographiques. / A FUNDAMENTAL ART: THE RUG. - Introduced with Ethnographical Notes. --- INSCRIBED COPY, ''No. 1'' to Pierre Mendès France. . .
Albert Achdjian (Secrétaire général Fondateur du Musée Arménien en France; Author) / Dr. Arnold van Gennep (Membre du Bureau de la Commission Internationale des Arts et Traditions Populaires, C.I.A.T.P.; 'Notes ethnogaphiques - Ethnographic Notes') / Pierre Mendès France - PMF (1907-1982; Member of the French Radical and Socialist Party 'PRS', French Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Fourth Republic from 1954 to 1955 during the term of President René Coty, appointed Francois Mitterand as Minister of Interior Affairs and contributed to the End of the Indochina War, the Decolonization of Morocco and Tunisia, and the Paris Treaties, which granted Sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany and admitted it to NATO; provenance):
Published by Paris, Editions Self, 1949. 1949
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Add to basketDoublepage geographic Map, Foretitlepage*, 287 (8) pages, with many large black-and-white illustrations and tipped-in colour-plates. - Publisher's cardboard-cover with tipped-on titled dustjacket with colour-plate; 4to.(ca. 31,5 x 24 x 3 cm; ca. 1,75 kg.). *** FIRST EDITION (second imprint?**), MEDIUM-SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL WITH DUS…TJACKET; *) FORETITLEPAGE WITH 8-LINE AUTOGRAPH-INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR ''A Monsieur Le Prédident du Conseil / Mendès-France avec l'assurance / de son entier devouement et au formant des vaux très sincères / pour le réussite totale de l'effort / prodigeux que vous accomplesser. . .'' SIGNED AND DATED BY ACHDIJAN ''Paris de 11. Nov. 54'', during Mendès-France's Prime-Ministership of France. **) The opposite rearside of the second map-sheet carries the printed copyright mark, dated 1949 AND THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT NOTE UNDERNEATH: ''Deux Mille exemplaires nouveau tirage / No. 1 signé par Auteur'', MONOGRAMMED BY HIM. --- The fragile dustjacket slightly used, A VERY GOOD COPY.