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Smithsonian Institution

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the year 1872.

Smithsonian Institution, 1873

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Year of publication
1873
Place of printing
Washington,D.C.
Author
Smithsonian Institution
Publishers
Smithsonian Institution
Keyword
American Indian Art
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

This is a very good hardcover copy in the original green cloth binding, title in gilt on the spine. Very clean inside and out. Two tiny handstamps indicate previous owner was Kaspar M. Hodgson, an anthropologist and explorer of South America. Articles on Troglodytes or Cave dwellers of the Valley of the Veziere by Paul Broca, Ancient Aboriginal Trade by Charles Rau, and North American Stone Implements also by Rau, Indian Engravings on the Face of the Rocks along the Green River Valley in the Sierra Nevada, among others. Illustrated in black & white with line engravings, diagrams, etc. 9" high X 6" wide, 456 pages.