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American
Museum of Natural History : Anthropological
Papers (AP)
Anthropological Papers
of the American Museum of Natural History.
Softcover, 9.5x6.5" through Volume 22 in my list, 10.5x8”
after that, illustrated. Multiple copies available of some parts.
AMNH AP Vol. 4 : Part 2 : 1910 : Notes concerning new collections. Pages 271-337, 5 plates, 42 figures. The illustrations refer to the following new collection sources (others are represented only in text) : Winnebago (many), Rio Caiary Uaupes, Kavirondo, Turkana, Figi, Iroquois, Penobscot, Cherokee, Chilkat, Lyons Inlet, Repulse bay, Brazil, Yarumal, Tibet, Bali, Togo, Truk, Sierra Leone, Micronesia.
Choose your copy of "Notes concerning new collections" :
VG (Uncut. Spine ends slighty rough.) - $12
Good (Uncut. Spine ends slightly rough. Back cover loose) - $8
AMNH AP Vol. 6 : Part 1 : 1910 : The Archaeology of the Yakima valley. By Harlan I. Smith. Pages 1-152, 16 plates, 129 figures. SCARCE, rarely found.
Choose your copy of "The Archaeology of the Yakima valley" :
Good (Uncut, basically VG, but lacks covers) - $148
Fair (Uncut, bascially VG, but lacks outer title page and covers. Last page (a plate) present but loose and chipped) - $122
AMNH AP Vol. 15 : Part 2 : 1924 : The horse and the dog in Hidatsa culture. By Gilbert L. Wilson. Pages 125-311, 127 figures.
Choose your copy of "The horse and the dog in Hidatsa culture" :
Good (Uncut. Generally VG, but covers have some larger edge chips) - $45
Fair (Uncut. Generally VG, but lacks front cover and outer title page) - $20
AMNH AP Vol. 15 : Part 3 : 1924 : The musical instruments of the Inca. By Charles W. Mead. Pages 313-347, 5 plates, 8 figures.
Choose your copy of "The musical instruments of the Inca" :
Very Good (Uncut) - $25
Good (Uncut, some edge chips) - $15
Fair (Uncut, covers loose with chips, back cover may be missing) - $5
INDEX to AMNH AP Volume 16 : 1921 : INDEX to "Sun Dance of the Plains Indians". General introduction (unpaged) plus Index which is numbered as pages 529-548. (VG. Uncut, lacks wraps) $15
AMNH AP Vol. 16 : Part 1 : 1915 : The Sun Dance of the Crow Indians. By Robert H. Lowe. Pages 1-50, 11 figures. [Volume 16 has the title “Sun Dance of the Plains Indians.”] SCARCE. (Fair. This is a good reading copy. Lacks front cover, title page torn. Has a number of edge or corner chips) - $20
AMNH AP Vol. 16 : Part 2 : 1917 : The Sun Dance and other ceremonies of the Oglala division of the Teton Dakota. By J. R. Walker. Pages 51-221, [Volume 16 has the title “Sun Dance of the Plains Indians.”]
Choose your copy of "The Sun Dance and other ceremonies of the Oglala division of the Teton Dakota" :
Good (Uncut. Generally VG, but lacks covers. Some edge chips) - $45
Fair (Uncut. Generally VG. Front cover loose and chipped, Outer title page half gone, next 2p. torn. Back cover missing) - $32
AMNH AP Vol. 16 : Part 3 : 1918 : The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians. By Clark Wissler. Pages 223-270, 1 figure. [Volume 16 has the title “Sun Dance of the Plains Indians.”] SCARCE.
Choose your copy of "Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians." :
Good # 1 (Uncut. Generally VG. Lacks back cover, front cover has minor edge chips) - $42
Good # 2 : (Uncut. Generally VG. Lacks covers, title page tanned with minor edge chps) - $34
AMNH AP Vol. 16 : Part 4 : 1919 : Pages 271-385, 3 figures [Volume 16 has the title “Sun Dance of the Plains Indians.”]
Contents of AMNH AP Vol. 16, Part 4 :
Notes on the Sun Dance of the Sarsi. By Pliny Earle Goddard.
The Sun Dance of the Plains – Cree. By Alanson Skinner.
Notes on the Sun Dance of the Cree in Alberta. By Pliny Earle Goddard.
The Sun Dance of the Plains - Ojibway. By Alanson Skinner.
The Sun Dance of the Canadian Dakota. By W. D. Wallis.
Notes on the Sun Dance of the Sisseton Dakota. By Alanson Skinner.Choose your copy of AMNH AP Vol. 16, part 4 :
Very Good (Uncut. Minimalist edge chips, if any) - $85
Good (Uncut. Generally VG. Cover has edge chips or tears, doesn't not affect content. Binding VG) - $65
Fair (Uncut. Front cover half gone, but title pae behind it has same info. Generally VG) - $45
AMNH AP Vol. 16 : Part 6 : 1921 : Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance. By Leslie Spier. Pages 433-450, 1 figure. [Volume 16 has the title “Sun Dance of the Plains Indians.”] (Good. Uncut. Cover has some edge chips and is partly split at spine) $20
AMNH AP Vol. 16 : Part 7 : 1921 : The Sun Dance of the Plains Indians – its development and diffusion. By Leslie Spier. Pages 451-537, 1 figure. [Volume 16 has the title “Sun Dance of the Plains Indians.”] SCARCE, rarely found. (Good. Uncut, Generally VG. Front cover loose with chipped edges, back cover gone.) $74
AMNH AP Vol. 22 : Part 2 : 1918 : Chronology in Florida. By N. C. Nelson. Pages 75-103, 7 figures. This chiefly concerns a large shellmound situated, until “recently” on the mainland bank of the Indian River at Oak Hill, Florida. (Poor. Uncut and generally VG, but has water marked corner - nothing stuck. Lacks wraps) $15
AMNH AP Vol. 39 : Part 3 : 1945 : Costa Rican stonework – the Minor C. Keith collection. By J. Alden Mason. Pages 195-317, 61 plates (additional pages at end of text), 44 figures. Bowls, figurines, altars, more - great plates! Good (VG, but black corner tip just touched with water mark) - $38
AMNH AP Vol. 43 : Part 1 : 1949 : Surface survey of the Virú Valley, Peru. By James Alfred Ford and Gordon R. Willey. Contains two papers ; Virú valley – background and problems. AND Cultural dating of prehistoric sites in Virú Valley, Peru. 89p., 9 figures, plus 7 pages of plates. Most of the figures are fold-outs. G/VG - $35
AMNH AP Vol. 44 : Part 1 : 1951 : Greenhouse : a Troyville – Coles Creek period site in Avoyelles parish, Louisiana. By James A. Ford. Pages 1-132, 49 text figures, plus 23 pages of plates. VG - $52
AMNH AP Vol. 45 : Part 2 : 1956 : Excavations in the Quetta valley, West Pakistan. By Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. Pages 169-402, 71 text figures, 572 different designs, plus 27 pages of plates. This is an impressive book and very well illustrated. G/VG - $20
AMNH AP Vol. 47 : Part 2 : 1959 : Archeological surveys in the Zhob and Loralai districts, West Pakistan. By Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. Pages 277-448, 80 text figures (some are fold-outs), 500 designs, plus 25 pages of plates. Another impressive tome from Fairservis.
Choose your copy of "Archeological surveys in the Zhob and Loralai" :
Very Good/Good - $17
Good/Fair (cover a bit faded and lightly splashed) - $7
American
Museum of Natural History : Bulletins
(B)
Bulletin of the American
Museum of Natural History
Softcover, 10.5x8” unless otherwise noted, illustrated.
AMNH B Volume 26 : 1909 : 9.5x6.5”, 446p., 29 papers, 65 plates and about 150 figures. Includes errata sheet. SCARCE, rarely found. (Fair. Uncut and in generally VG condition. However, front cover and first few pages have water marking. Front cover loose and chipped, back cover gone, paper over upper spine end rough, edges lightly bumped). $110
Contents of AMNH B Volume 26 :
Observations upon the Genus Ancodon.
Fossil Diptera from Florissant, Colorado. By T. D. A. Cockerel.
Faunal Horizons of the Washakie formation of southern Wyoming.
The Washakie, a volcanic ash formation.
The species of Holcaspis and their galls.
The species of Amphibolips and their galls.
Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado.
A catalogue of the generic names based on American Insects and Arachnids from the Tertiary rocks, with indication of the type species.
Notes on Alaskan Mammoth Expeditions of 1907 and 1908, by L. S. Quackenbush.
A note on the dolphins (Coryphaena equisetis and Coryphaena hippurus).
The North American Species of Diastrophus and their galls.
Mammals from British East Africa, collected by the Tjader expedition of 1906.
A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Sumatra.
Observations on the habits of the Finback and Humpback whales of the Eastern North Pacific.
Descriptions of apparently a new species and subspecies of Cebus … …
The White bear of southwestern British Columbia.
Further notes on mammals from the Island of Hainan, China.
The species of Biorhiza, Philonix and allied genera, and their galls.
A new Goblin shark, Scapanorhynchus jordani, from Japan.
The systematic relationships of certain American Arthrodires.
Further notes on Eubalaena glacialis. (a whale)
Some North American Cynipidae and their galls.
Modern laboratory methods in vertebrate palaeontology. By A. Hermann.
Ants of Formosa and the Philippines.
New or little known forms of Carboniferous Amphibia in the AMNH.
Haplosyllis cephalata as an Ectoparasite.
A Pliocene fauna from western Nebraska. By W.D. Matthew and Harold J. Cook.
New carnivorous mammals from the Fayum Oligocene, Egypt. By Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Mammals from Shen-si province, China. By J. A. Allen.
AMNH Volume 30 : 1911 : 9.5x6.5”, 377p., 15 papers, 17 plates and about 50 figures. SCARCE, rarely found. (Fair. Uncut and basically VG in condition. However, Front cover loose and creased, back cover gone, paper over spine rough, edges lightly bumped). $95
Contents of AMNH B Volume 30 :
Polychaetous annelids from the Dry Tortugas, Florida.
Notes on lantern fishes from southern seas, collected by J. T. Nichols in 1906.
Additions to the Ant fauna of Jamaica.
A new porpoise from Japan.
Fossil Coleoptera from Florissant, with descriptions of several new species. by H. F. Wickham.
Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado. By T. D. A. Cockerell.
Eocene and Oligocene of the Wind River and Bighorn basins. By Sinclair and Granger.
Revealing and concealing coloration in birds and mammals. By Theodore Roosevelt.
Description of an apparently new Porpoise of the Genus Tursiops, with remarks upon a skull of Tursiops gillii Dall.
Mammals from Venezuela collected by M. A. Carriker, Jr., 1909-1911.
Notes on Teleostean fishes from the Eastern United States.
The species of Brachyacantha of North and South America.
Mammals collected in the Dutch East Indies by Mr. Roy C. Andrews on the cruise of the Albatross in 1909.
The generic name Cercopithecus.
The North American species of Dryophanta and their galls.
AMNH B Volume 97 : Article 2 : 1951 : The Arachnid order Solpugida in the United States. By Martin H. Muma. Pages 31-142, 316 figures. (VG. Cover edges lightly sunned) $20
AMNH B Volume 97 : Article 4 : 1951 : Results of the Archbold expeditions No. 65 – The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. By G. H. H. Tate. Pages 183-430, 4 figures, 5 tables. (VG. Cover edges lightly sunned, one corner bumped) $22
AMNH B Volume 97 : Article 5 : 1951 : A study of Asiatic Larks. By Charles Vaurie. Pages 431-526, 5 figures, 1 plate, 23 tables. (VG. Bumped corner) $10
AMNH B Volume 104 : Article 2 : 1954 : A revision of the genus Tornos Morrison (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). By Frederick H. Rindge. Pages 177-236, 35 figures. (VG) $10
AMNH B Volume 104 : Article 4 : 1954 : Endocrine imbalance and tissue hyperplasia in teleosts maintained in darkness. By Priscilla Rasquin and Libby Rosenbloom. Pages 359-426, Plates 4-23, 6 tables, 7 figures. (VG) $10
AMNH B Volume 104 : Article 5 : 1954 : Reproductive behavior in the Gobiid fish Bathygobius soporator. By William N. Tavolga. Pages 427-460, Plates 24-31, 2 tables. (Good) $10
AMNH B Volume 108 : Article 3 : 1956 : A bibliography of Pagurid crabs, exclusive of Alcock, 1905. Compiled by Joan Gordan. Pages 253-352. (VG) $10
AMNH B Volume 112 : Article 1 : 1957 : The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in American north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae). By Herbert W. Levi. Pages 1-124, 421 figures, 41 maps. Plus an appendix that lists records for species with six or more localities. (Good) $20
AMNH B Volume 112 : Article 3 : 1957 : A review of the subgenus Donacia in the western hemisphere (Coleoptera, Danaciidae). By Edward J. F. Marx. Pages 195-278, 54 figures, plus an Appendix with distributional data. (VG) $20
AMNH B Volume 112 : Article 4 : 1957 : A bibliography of the order Mysidacea. Compiled by Joan Gordan. Pages 279-394. (VG) $10
American
Museum of Natural History : Novitates
(N)
American Museum Novitates
Softcover,
no formal wraps, 9x6", illustrated.
AMNH Novitates : Number 1896 : July 22, 1958. Results of the Archbold Expeditions No. 78 – Frogs of the Papuan Hylid Genus Nyctimystes. By Richard G. Zweifel. 51p., nicely illustrated. G/VG - $5
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