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- Vampires, Dwarves and Witches among the Ontario Kashubs (Mercury Series, Canadian for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 1)
- ISBN: NA Price: $179.38
- Publisher: Ottawa: National Museum of Man, Date Published: 1972
- Description: large quarto, [2], 85 leaves, printed on one side only, plates and maps; library markings, extraction roughness at spine but both paper sides present and still a sound copy; the Kashubs of the title are descendants of the Pomeranian Slavs who settled in Ontario during the mid 19th century. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Kashubs, Canada, folklore, folk lore, daemons, CRN Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 758501
- Folklore Americano. (Whole Numbers 27-31, 35, 37/38-39, 41/42-45)
- ISBN: NA Price: $131.89
- Publisher: Mexico, D.F.: Date Published: 1979
- Description: these numbers only; quarto with the last few numbers octavo; library hand stamps and markings but good+ or better in original paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 3
- Subject: folk lore, folklore, Latin America, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 740330
- Contes populaires de la Russie.
- ISBN: NA Price: $219.62
- Publisher: Paris: A. Chaix et Cie, Date Published: 1874
- Description: first edition in French, limited to 150 numbered copies, of which this is copy #20; xxxvii, [1], 335 pp.; later half leather rubbed, library book plate, text age toned but not fragile and a sound copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Russia, tales, Russian folklore, folk lore, SAM6 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 523204
- Ekloge hellenikes glossologikes kai laographikes bibliographias ton ston 1950-1965, Choix de bibliographie linguistique et folklorique Grecque des annees 1950-1965.
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.53
- Publisher: Thessalonike: Date Published: 1966
- Description: 139 pp.; paper wrappers lightened but overall very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Greece, Greek, folklore, folk lore Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 439509
- Ekloge hellenikes glossologikes kai laographikes bibliographias ton ston 1950-1965, Choix de bibliographie linguistique et folklorique Grecque des annees 1950-1965.
- ISBN: NA Price: $30.41
- Publisher: Thessalonike: Date Published: 1966
- Description: 139 pp.; paper wrappers lightened but overall very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Greece, Greek, folklore, folk lore Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 439510
- Primitive Gemeinschaftskultur. Beitrage zur Volkskunde und Mythologie.
- ISBN: NA Price: $93.73
- Publisher: Jena: Eugen Diedrichs, Date Published: 1921
- Description: first edition; [title leaf], [196], [4] (ads) pp.; paper wrappers darkened and frayed at extremities of spine, text browned but not fragile, good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: folklore, folk lore, mythology, FBB Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 581551
- Folk-Lore and Legends. Oriental
- ISBN: NA Price: $7.43
- Publisher: London: W. W. Gibbings Date Published: 1889
- Description: viii, 192 pp., original patterned boards with gilt stamped maroon cloth backstrip (Hardcover), remnants of a bookplate to front paste down, small hand stamp to title page and one page of text, else very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Oriental folk-lore sam12 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 887190
- Thierorakel und Orakelthiere in alter und neuer Zeit. Eine ethnologisch-zoologische Studie.
- ISBN: NA Price: $71.69
- Publisher: Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, Date Published: 1888
- Description: first edition; xi, [1], 271 pp.; book plate and hand stamps of a Masonic library; later quarter leather but needs rebacking, text age toned but noit fragile; special attention is given to birds. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: animals, animal oracles, folklore, folk lore Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 549422
- Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme. By John Aubrey, R.S.S., 1686-87. Edited and Annotated by James Britten. (Publications of the Folklore Society, 4)
- ISBN: NA Price: $5.00
- Publisher: London: W. Satchell, Peyton, and Co. Date Published: 1881
- Description: first edition of the first complete transcription of Lansdowne MSS. 231 with notes and an index; vii, [1], 273 pp.; original cloth (hardcover), ex library, else text clean and binding tight. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: folk lore, folklore, Great Britain sam12 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 650706
- The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche). With an Appendix on the Superstition of the Highlanders, by The Rev. Alexander McGregor, M. A.
- ISBN: NA Price: $26.61
- Publisher: Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie, Date Published: 1878
- Description: Second Edition, Much Enlarged, the first edition, issued only eight months earlier, was a direct reprint from Celtic Magazine; [viii], 160 pp.; library book plate and hand stamps; original cloth darkened with fraying along joints and hinges cracked, text age toned and title leaf has a split near gutter, good only; The Seer, if he actually existed, would have lived in the mid-seventeenth century, his prophecies are usually confined to Scotland and usually vague enough to allow positive interpretations although the author does include a section of prophecies that he feels are still unfulfilled, probably to his relief ravens have not been seen on the Clach Mhor drinking their fill of Mackenzie blood for three days. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Scotland, prophecy, folk lore, folklore, SAM1 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 822858
- Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore. Line Drawings by James R. Snyder.
- ISBN: 0884260100 Price: $5.00
- Publisher: Austin: Encino Press, Date Published: 1972
- Description: First Edition; viii, [2], 151, [2] pp., the illustrations are in text; unrealted gift inscription and jacker darkening but overall a very good copy in original cloth; atricles by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatright, Ronnie C. Tyler, et al.. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American folklore, folk lore, Texas, JZX Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 860268
- Journal of American-Folk-Lore. Volumes 35-40 (1922-1927)
- ISBN: NA Price: $289.57
- Publisher: NY/Boston/Lancaster, etc.: American Folk-Lore Society Date Published: 1922
- Description: vols. 35-40, an uninterrupted run of complete volumes, partly bound, mostly in original editions, ex library, good-very good. Volumes Included: 6
- Subject: Folk-Lore Folk-Stories Folk-Songs Literature Entertainment PER Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 445924
- Journal of American-Folk-Lore. Volumes 9-30 (1906-1917)
- ISBN: NA Price: $795.04
- Publisher: NY/Boston/Lancaster, etc.: American Folk-Lore Society Date Published: 1906
- Description: vols. 9-30, an uninterrupted run of complete volumes, partly bound, mostly in original editions, ex library, good-very good. Volumes Included: 22
- Subject: Folk-Lore Folk-Stories Folk-Songs Literature Entertainment PER Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 445923
- Journal of American-Folk-Lore. Volumes 63-70 (1950-1957)
- ISBN: NA Price: $819.47
- Publisher: NY/Boston/Lancaster, etc.: American Folk-Lore Society Date Published: 1963
- Description: vols. 63-70, an uninterrupted run of complete volumes, partly bound, mostly in original editions, ex library, good-very good. Volumes Included: 8
- Subject: Folk-Lore Folk-Stories Folk-Songs Literature Entertainment PER Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 445926
- Journal of American-Folk-Lore. Volumes 73-117 (1960-2004)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,010.18
- Publisher: NY/Boston/Lancaster, etc.: American Folk-Lore Society Date Published: 1960
- Description: vols. 73-117 all complete volumes, lacking only vol. 75#297 and vol. 88#1-4, partly bound, mostly in original editions, ex library, good-very good. Volumes Included: 45
- Subject: Folk-Lore Folk-Stories Folk-Songs Literature Entertainment PER Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 445927
- Atlas der deutschen Volkskunde. 2. Leiferung. 1937. Herausgegeben mit unterstutzung der Deutschen forschungsgemeinschaft von Heinrich Harmjanz und Erich Rohr.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,057.21
- Publisher: Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag, Verlagsbuchhandlung S. Hirzel, Date Published: 1937
- Description: Part 2 only; first edition; narrow atlas folio, title leaf with map list, 20 maps on single fold sheets (approximately 67 cm. tall x 69 cm. long when open), the maps have at least one other color on gray, all loose in a stiff paper portfolio with flaps; library markings including a hand stamp on the blank verso of every map, the portfolio cloth taped at corners with large but light damp stains, good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Germany, ethnology, ethnic folk culture, folklore, customs, BWK Oversize Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 735481
- Atlas der deutschen Volkskunde. 4. Leiferung. 1938. Herausgegeben mit unterstutzung der Deutschen forschungsgemeinschaft von Heinrich Harmjanz und Erich Rohr.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,067.14
- Publisher: Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag, Verlagsbuchhandlung S. Hirzel, Date Published: 1938
- Description: Part 4 only; first edition; narrow atlas folio, title leaf with map list, 21 maps and a color table of map symbols (plate 80) on single fold sheets (approximately 67 cm. tall x 69 cm. long when open), the maps have at least one other color on gray, all loose in a stiff paper portfolio with flaps; library markings including hand stamp on the blank verso of every map, the portfolio cloth taped at corners and some folds, one of the map sheets has a short tear at fore edge, some have soft bend marks at corners, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Germany, ethnology, ethnic folk culture, folklore, customs, BWK Oversize Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 735483
- Atlas der deutschen Volkskunde. 5. Leiferung. 1939. Herausgegeben mit unterstutzung der Deutschen forschungsgemeinschaft von Heinrich Harmjanz und Erich Rohr.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,056.99
- Publisher: Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag, Verlagsbuchhandlung S. Hirzel, Date Published: 1939
- Description: Part 5 only; first edition; narrow atlas folio, title leaf with map list, 19 maps on single fold sheets (approximately 67 cm. tall x 69 cm. long when open), the maps have at least one other color on gray, all loose in a stiff paper portfolio with flaps; library markings including hand stamp on the blank verso of every map, the portfolio cloth taped at corners and some folds, the title leaf has a hard tip crease, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Germany, ethnology, ethnic folk culture, folklore, customs, BWK Oversize Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 735484
- History of Canada; from its First Discovery, to the Peace of 1763. (Vol. II subtitle: from its First Discovery, to the year 1791)
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,990.96
- Publisher: Quebec: Printed for the Author, by John Neilson, Date Published: 1815
- Description: first edition, 2 volumes, a third volume was apparently to be added but never published, the "5" in the imprint date of the first volume was added later and its impression can be detected on the following leaves, it is believed the original date was 1812 (see Sabin 84701 for a long discussion of this and other points); narrow quarto (leaves 25 cm. tall x 15 cm.), [6] (title, errata, and dedication leaves), iii, [1], 383, [1], 72 (appendix) pp. + [2] (title leaf) 235 pp., small folding table after p. 168; untrimmed copy in original paper covered boards with paper spine labels and the volume numbers stamped below; minor library markings but including a faint blind stamp on each title, bindings darkened and rubbed with both font covers detached, the spine covering of the first volume has a chip at head and another near front center front joint, the second has two spots of staining on front board, an ink eradicator has been used in attempt to remove the signature of a previous owner (R. Bellemare) from each title, still near very good; Church 3337 "Its appearance produced much adverse criticism from many French-Canadians ..."; Gagnon 3337; Streeter Sale 3664 "Smith drew upon colonial records, the Jesuit Relations, and Charlevoix's History and his work contains a number of documents not found elsewhere". Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: Canada, Canadiana, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 696451
- Religion und Mythologie der Uitoto. Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen bei einem Indianerstamm in Kolumbien, Sudamerika. (Quellen der Religionsgeschichte, Gruppe 11, Amerikanische Religionen)
- ISBN: NA Price: $19.40
- Publisher: Gottingen/ Leipzig: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/J. C. Hinrichs, Date Published: 1921
- Description: first edition; 2 volumes, Volume 1 rebound in buckram; Einfuhrung und Texte + Texte und Worterbuch, total of vi, 760 pp., 3 plates; library book plate and markings, paper wrappers badly chipped, text age toned and needs careful handling, reading set only. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: Witoto Indians, folklore, religion, language, crn pph Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 733658
