Explorer, Linguist and Ethnologist: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Published Works of Alphonse Louis Pinart, With Notes on his Life

A signed first edition of this pleasing bibliography of the published works of Alphonse Louis Pinart. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a tipped-in inscription and signature from the author. Featuring a portrait frontsipiece of Alphonse Louis Pinart. A resourceful and accessible bibliography of the published works of the French scholar and ethnologist Alphonse Pinart. Pinart was a gifted linguist and an expert on the American continent and civilisations of the New World. Compiled by ethnohistorian Ross Parmenter. With an introduction by Carl Schaefer Dentzel, who was, at the time, the Director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a tipped-in inscription and signature from the author. Externally, excellent condition with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean. Fine.