Oldman W O (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. (1p) 41p text (47p plates) Browning extremities With illustrations. a tidy copy of the second edition of the Maori artifacts in the Oldman Collection, scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. 41 text pages, 98 b/w plates. Old name on front cover, slight foxing on some pages, otherwise very good. Description of the biggest ever private collection of Maori artefacts.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 86 pages, 136 b/w plates. Spine a little darkened. Covers slightly soiled. Rare first edition of this unique documentation of the greatest private collection of Polynesian artefacts ever.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 761 of 1000 copies. A modern limited edition reprint of W.O. Oldman's Sale Catalogues of Ethnographical Specimens, which were originally printed in London in the early 1900s. William Ockleford Oldman (1879 - 1949) was a British collector and dealer of ethnographic art and European arms and armour. He purchased items from auctions, other collectors and dealers, and from small British musuems and historic homes. He regularly held auctions and issued sale catalogues (Smithsonian Musuem of the American Indian statement). This reprint includes 130 lists from Volume I through Volume XI. Most of the catalogues include black and white photographic illustrations of the items described, brief descriptions, and prices in pounds. Included items are from around thr world. They were purchased by well known musuems including the Smithonsian. This copy, originally issued in paperback form, has been professionally hardbound in green leatherette boards with gilt title to spine. Clean and bright. Unpaginated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1p) 86p (136 plates) Green card covers (slight rubbing, marks) With illustrations, the Tahiti, Austral and Cook Groups artifacts from the Oldman collection, Memoir 15 of the Polynesian Society.

Issued monthly by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London SW. No. 123, Vol. X. London: 1913 Wrpps, 8vo. 2pp. and 2 mounted photographs. Ecuador and Asiatic musical instruments, 12 pieces. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ].

Being the Oldman Collection of Maori Artifacts Illustrated and Described. Second Edition. Wellington: Polynesian Society Memoirs Volume 14, 1946 Wrpps, Roy.8vo. ii,41pp. 98 plates, index. Some light scattered foxing, a very nice copy of the second edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[L].

Super octavo, illus light card covers with brown lettering to spine & front cover, 41pp, illus, VG+ (soiling to covers).

New Edition of Polynesian Society Memoir 15, 2004. 23 x 15 cm, 76 pp. et 138 planches. broché, bel exemplaire. Livres.

First edition, scarce, imperial octavo, green light card covers with black lettering to front cover, handwritten title to spine, 41pp + 97pp of b&w plates. Scruffy tatty copy but contents sound.VG- (heavy foxing to covers, handwritten title to spine, archival tape repairs to spine extrems, owner's name in black ink to front cover, staining & creasing to covers, some foxing & tanning to page edges, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, three owners' names/stamps in ink to fep,owner's name in ink to rear ep, some creasing to page corners, light foxing).

Octavo, 98 plates with descriptive text, bound in recent blue cloth retaining original printed wrappers, fine copy. Second edition. 'Mr. W.O. Oldman of London was for many years a dealer in curios and artefacts fabricated by primitive peoples, and ended by becoming a connoisseur of such matters, with an extremely fine private collection selected from all that passed through his hands. It probably surpasses almost any other collection in quality, if not extent, and the Council of the Polynesian Society, recognizing this, set out to record a large group from the two series' (Preface). .

Soft covers 21 x 14.5cms. 1976 reprint of the compilation of Oldman catalogues. From an edition limited to 1000 copies, of which this is number 604.