Boas, Franz

The Central Eskimo

Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Very Good. Item #008333

Full burgundy cloth. 401-675 pp. Two folding B&W maps inserted to tipped in envelope at rear pastedown (Sixth Annual Report Plates II and III). Dust jacket is sunned to spine, rubbed to extremities, a few short tears to top edges, spot of wear to spine from sticker removal. One of the world's most famous anthropologists established a first for himself, for anthropology, and for the Eskimo culture when The Central Eskimo was published in 1888. It is the account of an exploratory expedition to Baffin Island in 1883-1884.

Price: $35.00