Rare! 1906 First Edition The Evolution of Culture Pitt-RiversFold-Out Charts

  
Published at Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1906. This is the very scarce and highly collectible First Edition! The book has many fold-out charts of early weapons, etc.

Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 - 4 May 1900) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. His international collection of about 22,000 objects was the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford while his collection of English archaeology from the area around Stonehenge forms the basis of the collection at The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire. Throughout most of his life he used the surname Lane Fox, under which his early archaeological reports are published.

In 1880 he adopted the Pitt Rivers name on inheriting from Lord Rivers an estate of more than 32,000 acres in Cranborne Chase. Book is bound in burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Covers are firmly attached with no cracking or splitting of hinges.

All pages are very clean and tightly bound (232 pages) with no foxing. Previous owner bookplate on inside of front cover. Book remains in very good condition. A clean, solid copy of a very rare book! Would make a super addition to a collection.