Black leather spine with gilt banding, decoration and title. Navy cloth boards. Volumes I to VII. Dimensions are for one volume.

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Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past. By Our Foremost Writers of Travel Anthropology & History. Illustrated with upwards of 5000 Photographs, numerous Colour Plates, and 150 Maps. In seven volumes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ca. 1925]. Scarce set in VG condition. 8 p.p. list of photos in volume at front of each volume. Volume I: Pages 1-784, Abyssinia to British Empire. xxiv, 784. Volume II: Pages 785-1568, British Empire to Dahomey. Volume III: Pages 1569-2352, Danzig to France. Volume IV: Pages 2353-3120, Georgia to Italy. Volume V: Pages 3121-3888, Japan to Oman. Volume VI: Pages 3889-4672. Volume VII: Pages 4673-5436, South Africa to Wales.

A striking anthropological history in seven volumes edited by John Alexander Hammerton, successful creator of many large works of reference. Dated from a set held at the British Library, first and only edition of this work. Contributions include studies by foremost writers of travel anthropology and history such as Herbert Vivian, Edward Wright, Hamilton Fyfe, Sidney Low, and others. Complete in seven volumes: ‘Abyssinia to British Empire,’ ‘British Empire to Dahomey,’ ‘Danzig to France’, ‘Georgia to Italy,’ ‘Japan to Oman’, ‘Palestine to Sin Kiang,’ ‘South Africa to Wales.’

Illustrated with numerous textual photographs in black and white as well as one-hundred and four coloured plates and one hundred and fifty maps. Collated, complete with a coloured frontispiece to each volume.