The Native Tribes of South Australia comprising The Narrinyeri [Taplin]; The Adelaide Tribe [Wyatt]; The Encounter Bay Tribe [Meyer]; The Port Lincoln Tribe [Schurmann]; The Dieyerie Tribe [Gason]; and Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect [Bennett]

AUTHOR: Woods, J.D. [Editor]

PUBLISHING DETAIL: E.S. Wigg & Son. Adelaide.

EDITION & DATE: 1st Edition. 1879.

BINDING & PAGES: Hardback . xliv, 316pages.

SIZE & CONDITION: Large octavo size [16x24cm approx.]. Very Good condition. Half Leather over blue sand-grain cloth boards. Title patch to spine. A variant on the original publishers [Ferguson 13095]. Eight [8] coloured lithographs with tissue guards [including frontispiece]. Marbled endpapers and page edges.  Paper very lightly cracked at front hinge but binding solid.  Spine ends very lightly rubbed.  Includes tipped-in errata slip.

CONTENT: Comprises six papers; The Narrinyeri - by The Rev. George Taplin; The Adelaide Tribe - by Dr. Wyatt, J.P.; The Encounter Bay Tribe - by The Rev. A Meyer; The Port Lincoln Tribe - by The Rev. C.W. Schurmann; The Dieyerie Tribe - by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect [Northern Territory] - by John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett.  ncludes a lengthy introduction by J. D. Woods and also Taplin’s Introductions to both the first and second editions of his publication ‘The Narrinyeri’which was originally published in 1873 and 1878.  Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

WEIGHT: 930 grams

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