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First edition and first report.Professionally rebound in dark brown cloth with gold titles to spine and original gold stamp on front cover.In mint condition.New paste downs and prelims.Block is sound and tight,clean and tidy,no loose or missing pages.Neat stamp at bottom of title page,no other names or stamps.2 large folding maps present,clean and as new,one has 3 clean tears,both fully intact.Numerous high quality illustrations,charts and diagrams throughout text.Extra postage is required because of large size and weight at 2.8Kg. Table of contents: Report of the Director; Accompanying papers. On the Evolution of Language, Wyandot Government, On Limitations to the use of some Anthropologic Data, A fruther Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians, Studies in Central American Picture Writing, Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States, Sign Language Among North American Indians, Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology, Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages. Illustrated w/ 4 chromolithographs w/ tissue guards, 12 tint lithographs w/ tissue guards, 36 black and white illustrations w/ tissue guards plus numerous b&w textual illus.Lovely sound clean copy. Seller Inventory # 000618
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