SKEAT, Walter William; BLAGDEN, Charles Otto.

Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula.

Stock Code 115378

London, Macmillan, 1906

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Skeat (1856-1953), a Cambridge anthropologist, joined the civil service in the Straits Settlements (modern day Malaysia). He made various expeditions inland to study native tribes in areas where Europeans had not previously ventured. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula is his major work on the subject. Scarce.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo, xl, 724; xii, 855pp., errata leaf end vol. II, ads end vol. I; 7 maps, numerous photographic illustrations, original brown buckram gilt, a fine copy.

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