Item #20368 Catalogue of the Australasian Collection of Books and Pictures formed by the late James Edge Partington with a memoir by Harry G. Beasley.

Catalogue of the Australasian Collection of Books and Pictures formed by the late James Edge Partington with a memoir by Harry G. Beasley.

London: Francis Edwards Ltd, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Edge-Partington [1854–1930] was a British anthropologist, acknowledged as an authority on Pacific ethnology. Two page memoir by Harry G. Beasley (British anthropologist, curator). 2,682 items described, priced and indexed by subject/place. 'With compliments Francis Edwards' dated 1934. 8vo, 178 pp, portrait frontispiece and five plates. 11pp index, blue cloth boards, green text on front and spine, cloth at spine hinge 2" split but firm. Internally clean, binding tight. OCLC: 3738464; Libraries Australia ID 46029258. With title "Australasia & Polynesia 1934" on spine. Good + overall. Item #20368

Price: $175.00