The Native Tribes of South Australia.
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. This work includes the following separate works by George Taplin, The Narrinyeri; Dr. Wyatt, The Adelaide Tribe; A Meyer, The Encounter Bay Tribe; C.W. Schurmann, The Port Lincoln Tribe; S. Gason, The Dieyerie Tribe; Ogilvie Bennett, Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect (Northern Territory). The text has a number of annotations and marginalia (pencil underlining) by Prof. Dr. Absolon, the great Czechoslovakian ethnologist and naturalist. An early & important examination of the Aus. aborigines by a variety of authors. (xlii) 316pp, 8 sepia-toned lithographs. Period brown half calf & buckram boards, raised bands, gilt title piece on spine, all edges marbled and marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed, buckram a little marked, a very pleasant copy overall. F13095. Greenway 10162. Item #1998
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