Book Description

Other works: [1] Report on the present state and condition of prehistoric remains in the Channel Islands. From the Journal of the Ethnological Society for April 1870. [2] Megalithic structures of the Channel Islands: their history and analogues. Reprinted from the ‘Quarterly Journal of Science’, No. XXVI, April, 1870. [3] On the prehistoric remains in Brittany. [4] The Dolmen-Mounds and amorpholithic monuments of Brittany. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Science, January, 1872 [5] Nuragghi Sardi, and other non-historic structures of the Mediterranean Basin. [6] The Hovas, and other characteristic tribes of Madagascar.` London: Printed by Taylor and Francis; [London: Printed by W. Clowes]; n.p.; London; Dublin: Carson Brothers; [London: T. Richards], 1869, 1870, 1870, n. d., 1872, 1875, [1870]. First or first separate editions. 7 works in 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 32; [45]-73, 2 fldg. tables and 8 plates (some foxing); 17, [1], 2 plates, title foxed; drop-head title, 22, folding table; 23, [1], 1 fldg. plate (torn across with old brown paper repair); 32; 63, [1], 11 plates; 20, 2 plates; good in contemporary red binders cloth, bookplate of the Library of the Royal Artillery Institution.
Dealer Notes
These offprints and pamphlets were bound together for the Royal Artillery Institution, and all were likely presented to it by the authors, both of whom served in the Royal Artillery; they were not related. John Ryder Oliver (1834-1909) served in the army during the Indian Mutiny, and subsequently in the Bhutan War. In the late 1860s he spent two years on St. Helena as acting engineer, writing the present work. His namesake Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838-1907) served in China, Mauritius, and Madagascar, on the latter of which he became an authority. In 1868 he was appointed adjutant in Guernsey, from where he visited Brittany to examine the prehistoric remains at Carnac; in 1872 he toured the Mediterranean making archaeological observations in Asia Minor, Greece, Sardinia and Malta. Some of his findings appeared in the various articles that feature in the present volume.
Author Oliver, John Ryder; Samuel Pasfield Oliver.
Date 1869
Binding Contemporary cloth
Publisher St. Helena: Benjamin Grant
Condition See description
Pages 32

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