Thor Heyerdal (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. 1st edition thus hardback, 1950. Translated from the Norwegian. Pictorial dustjacket chipped at the top edge, and with a 1 inch section missing from the base of the spine. Embossed red cloth VG. Pages foxed at the edges, internally clean & tight. Neat owner's name & date(1950) on the blank flyleaf. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 235 pages.

Condition: Used - Very Good. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st. Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. This work by the author of the Kon-Tiki Expedition, is a result of an Invitation by the government of the Maldive Islands to investigate recent archaeological finds there following a implied change In official attitude towards pre-Muslim relics that were usually destroyed. ; Color & B&W Photos, Maps; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 323 pages.

Condition: Bueno. 368. Ediciones B, España, 2000, Castellano, 368pp. Castellano.

Hardcover. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. Rb133 3570001075 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

As photographed; large 8vo; xv + folding map + 821 + 90 pls (8 in colour) containing numerous photographs + 11 of which 3 folding, 4 in-text, 4 full-page. All pagination, plates & maps have been checked and verified. Private ownership, internally unmarked throughout; brown cloth boards, somewhat marked; head of spine tattered and torn with some loss; stitched binding remains firm; text-block edges shelf-marked. This is a monumental and scholarly work, based on Heyerdahl's doctoral thesis but going far beyond, with material from several field trips to the Pacific island groups. (For those unfamiliar with the work, this is very much not a narrative of the expeditions as in Heyerdahl's popular books describing his field work, but a serious, impersonal and detailed analysis of his hypothesis that American Indians colonised the Pacific island groups.) The book weighs over 3 kg and extra postage will be requested if shipping outside the UK.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. On title page signed by author. Clean marooon cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: very faint and few only foxings. Smalll bumpings to bottom boards fore corners. Eps: small ex-cellotaper residue to margins. Clean contents. Colour glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 334p DJ: Dj: clean jacket. Head of spine with thin wear and tiny chips. Tiny spot to head of front flap. Signed by Author.

Quer-kl.-8vo. 1 p.

orig.cloth. 335 pp photoplates (illustrator). 29x22cm, 349,(335) pp, Includes 15pp color photoplates + 320pp black & white photoplates. Contents: The Discovery of an Ethnographic Enigma; Steal-Trading, Portable Sculptures, and Storage Caves in Easter Island: A Historical Perspective; Cave Disclosures to the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition in 1955-56; Art Objects from Easter Island; Plates; Appendix; Catalogue. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.