First edition. Macmillan and Co. London. 1906. Royal 8vo. xviii, 737pp. Folding map frontispiece, 20 folding genealogical tables, numerous photo illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt, slightly spotted and rubbed. Light foxing to endpapers, pages untrimmed. A firm crisp copy. Small Parker & Son Booksellers plate to fep. William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922) FRCP, FRS. Anthropologist, ethnologist, neurologist, psychologist. A detailed study of the people "of the Nilgiri Hills in Southern India". His innovative methodology in this work was later adopted as standard anthropological practice.