MEEK,C K (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 337p green cloth with gilt lettering, from a Cambridge college library with three small paper shelfmarks to spine, library stamp, pages all clean, binding tight, excellent copy Language: English.

Hardcover first edition - First edition. Volume One only - but each tribal section is complete in itself. As noted in the preface, they are the result of five years of collecting reports on fifty non-Muslim tribes in northern Nigeria. Includes significant information on traveling in the area, on the different languages, and the customs of the various tribes. This volume includes studies of The Bachama and Mbula, Bura and Pabir Tribes, the Bata speaking peoples, the Kilba and Margi of Adamawa, the Chamba, the Verre, the Mambila and others. Vocabulary at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with 60 photographic plates, folding map tipped in at rear. x, 582 pp. Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a a rather poor example of the uncommon dust jacket (dj is missing almost half of the spine).

An ethnographic account of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria together with a report on the 1921 decennial census. In two volumes. London: Oxford University Press, 1925 8vo. (1.) xviii,312pp. 90 illustrations on plates & in-text, 2 folding maps, (1 coloured). (2.) viii,277pp. 32 illustrations on plates, 58 tables, coloured folding language map, index. Charles Kingsley Meek (1885-1965), was a colonial administrator and ethnologist. He became commissioner of the decennial census of 1921 and used his position to gather information outside his original remit. He painstakingly recorded all the available information on the disappearing customs, etc. of the tribes of Northern Nigeria. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's red cloth. 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 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. [B].

An ethnographic account of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria together with a report on the 1921 decennial census. In two volumes. London: Oxford University Press, 1925 8vo. (1.) xviii,312pp. 90 illustrations on plates and in text, 2 folding maps. (2.) viii,277pp. 32 illustrations on plates, 58 tables, folding map, index. Charles Kingsley Meek (1885-1965) was a colonial administrator and ethnologist. He became commissioner of the decennial census of 1921 and used his position to gather information outside his original remit, including painstakingly recording all the available information on the disappearing customs of the tribes of northern Nigeria. An excellent set of the first edition in the publisher's red cloth. 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 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. [ ].