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The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo by ROTH, Henry Ling; LANG, Andrew
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Book description: London: Truslove and Hanson , 1896. First edition. Large octavo. 464 pages plus large fold-out map in rear; 302, ccxl pages Appendix, Index, and Subscriber's List. Original pebble-grain green cloth, beveled edges, gilt-lettered on spines and upper left corner front covers. Black endpapers. Illustrated with over 550 black and white inter-textual drawings, photographs, plus two fold-outs and one color plate. Volume One very good to near fine copy with minimal wear and foxing. Volume Two with a bit more wear and rubbing, gilt lettering on spine rubbed, wear to head and tail of spine, foxing and wrinkling to preliminary pages, cracking to gutters, some foxing to fold-out black and white photograph. Still, a tight very good volume. ROTH, HENRY LING (1855-1925), anthropologist, author and museum-curator, was born on 3 February 1855 in London, son of Mathias Roth (d.1891), physician, and his English wife Anna Maria, nŽe Collins. Mathias was born in the Austrian Empire and was educated at the universities of Vienna and Pavia, where he graduated in medicine in 1839. After involvement with leading Hungarian nationalists during the insurrection of 1848, Mathias moved to England and practised in London (till 1872) and Brighton; he was naturalized in 1855. He reputedly introduced to England physical culture for educational purposes, especially for the prevention and alleviation of physical deformities on which he published widely. Henry Ling was educated at University College School, London, then studied natural science and philosophy in Germany. At 20 he visited British Guiana, then attended 'the great book fair at Leipzig' on his way to Russia where in 1876-77 he bought timber and tried to learn Russian; in 1878 he published his observations on the country and its people. Henry Ling Roth preceded his brothers Reuter Emerich and Walter Edmund to Australia, commissioned by English businessmen to investigate the Queensland sugar industry. He arrived at Mackay in 1878 and in 1880 he published his encouraging findings in "A Report on the Sugar Industry of Queensland" with a sanguine aside about conflicts in the Melanesian labour trade being caused by selfish white workers. Roth had been elected a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1882. His most notable publications include works based on information provided by others and remain standard texts: The Tasmanian Aborigines (1890), which was republished in 1899 in what Roth rejoiced as near 'absolute completeness' on the subject; The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo (1896); and Great Benin: Its Customs, Art and Horrors (1903), which was based on records of his brother F. Norman who was medical officer to the Benin punitive expedition. He published numerous papers for the Royal Anthropological Institute, The Bankfield Museum Notes, and in 1916 privately printed Sketches and Reminiscences from Queensland, Russia and Elsewhere. More correctly an ethnographer than anthropologist, Henry Ling Roth was an affectionate, tolerant man whose opinion on things social was much valued. He retired in poor health in 1924 and died at Leeds on 12 May 1925. (GRIFFIN, National Library of Australia).
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