Pitt rivers lt general (3 Ergebnisse)

Size 8.25 x 5.5 inches. In blue & yellow Card covers with black lettering to front. In very good condition. Inside a clean and tight copy. 19pp.Text. Frontis and 47 photo plates.(3 are double-pg.), 4 maps/plans. Guide book produced for the Larmer Grounds at Rushmore in 1900. Gen Pitt-Rivers had recently established a museum and pleasure grounds with theatre and race course at The Larmer Grounds. The pages of text give a detailed description and the photographs show the different aspects and uses of the grounds in the 1890s.…

Size 5.75 x 8.75 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to front. In very good condition. Some faint marks to boards. Lacks title page. Small owners label on front endpaper. A few related newspaper articles tipped in front and back, which have some offsetting. Else a clean and tight copy. 19pp.Text. Frontis and 47 photo plates.(3 are double-pg.), 4 maps/plans. Guide book produced for the Larmer Grounds at Rushmore in 1900. Gen Pitt-Rivers had recently established a museum and pleasure grounds with theatre and race course at The Larmer Grounds. The pages of text give a detailed description and the photographs show the different aspects and uses of the grounds in the 1890s. …

Zustand: Very Good. 4 volumes, Privately Printed, 1887- 1898, Presentation inscription to head of Volume I title, 284 plates (some after photographs), 38 maps and plans. Quarter blue Morocco, 4to.  An excellent set of the most important work by the founder of the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford. The Museum was founded in 1884 when Pitt-Rivers gave his collection to the University of Oxford. Presentation copy from the Author to Northampton Free Library with an occasional stamp. [WITH] PITT- RIVERS, AUGUSTUS Antique Works of Art from Benin Limited First Edition, Privately Printed, 1900. Pp iv, 100. With 50 plates from photographs of 389 objects. 310 x 240mm, blue cloth decorated in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. The design on the binding of the volume is a facsimile of that on a tablet of Kimmeridge shale found by Pitt Rivers in the Romano-British village at Rotherley near Rushmore in 1887. The antiques pictured in this volume are from the 1897 expedition of Benin and are currently on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum for the moment. Lieutenant-General Pitt-Rivers inherited the Rushmore Estate on Cranborne Chase in 1880. This estate, on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset, contained many archaeological sites that were exceptionally well preserved. The area included a vast number of monuments and settlements dating from prehistoric times to the medieval period. Pitt-Rivers already had a deep interest in archaeology which he pursued after inheriting the Rushmore Estate. What was remarkable was that his archaeological methods turned away from the treasure hunting of his antiquarian predecessors. Employing a team of archaeological assistants, he was able to excavate a wider range of sites aiming to recover as much information as possible to reconstruct their history. His work was fully documented and he retained many of the objects found including everyday items. Artefacts were measured and drawn with detailed plans and models showing where all the finds were made. Pitt-Rivers believed in educating the wider public about his discoveries. He founded a museum at Farnham, Dorset where he displayed his discoveries and models. For academics his work was privately published in the four-volume Excavations in Cranborne Chase (1887-98). Many of the places he excavated became type sites for the period: Wor Barrow for the Neolithic, South Lodge for the Bronze Age and Woodcuts for the Roman period. Today Pitt-Rivers is regarded as one of the founders of modern archaeology, who moved the subject away from an amateur hobby to a scientific discipline. The key aspects of his legacy are the archaeological finds and models relating to his work on Cranborne Chase which were given to Salisbury Museum in 1975. Frederick Beaumont By the time he retired he had amassed ethnographic collections numbering tens of thousands of items from all over the world. Influenced by the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, he arranged them typologically and (within types) chronologically. He viewed archaeology as an extension of anthropology and, as consequence, built up matching collections of archaeological and ethnographic objects to show longer developmental sequences to support his views on cultural evolution. Pitt Rivers' ethnological collections form the basis of the Pitt Rivers Museum which is still one of Oxford's main attractions. His research and collections cover periods from the Lower Paleolithic to Roman and medieval times, and extend all over the world.  The museum has been described as one of the "six great ethnological museums of the world".The Pitt Rivers Museum did curate more than half a million ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, photographic and manuscript collections from all parts of the world.…