The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago: Papuans by George Windsor Earl

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Good.

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Hardback. New.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0.

London, Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853, First edition, first issue, issued as volume I of the Ethnographical Library, with the extra title page, each complete. . original red blind-stamped cloth, with gilt spine title lettering, spine ends chipped with tear, corners a little worn, lightly foxed on few leaves but clean copy, very good. . 12mo [21 x 14 cm]; 6 [ads], [i], xiv, 239, [ii] pp, 5 tinted lithographed plates including plates with orig hand-coloring & color frontis, one foldout plate, 2 folding maps, table including foldout table of 11 dialects, other engraved illus. . Ferguson 9339. The author describes the peoples of New Guinea, the Arru Islands, Ceram, the Moluccas, the Philippines, Mindanao, Sulu, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, the Adamans, the Sunda Chain as well as Melville Island and North Australia, Port Essington, Carpentaria (Australian aboriginees). A picture of this book is available on request by email.

London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853 The first monograph to be published in the Ethnographical Library series conducted by Edwin Norris. xiv, 239pp. five lithographic plates in colour with tissues guards, two folding maps and two folding charts. Spine ends lightly rubbed otherwise very good throughout.

London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. A very good copy.. Octavo, with five plates (four coloured) and two folding maps; half morocco. Important anthropological observations on the natives of New Guinea, but also on the North Australian Aborigines: chapter XII is devoted to Melville Island, Port Essington and North Australia in general, and one of the folding plates gives anthropometric comparisons between North Australian Aborigines and New Guinea natives. There are numerous discussions of Australian Aborigines elsewhere in the text, particularly those of Melville Island and Port Essington. The fine full-page handcoloured lithographs, produced in London, were based on drawings done on the spot by the Dutch artists Van Oort and Van Raalten. This is the first edition, separate issue (another version had the series-title "Ethnographical Library" which here only appears as an imprint on the plates). This copy is from the library of Archibald Liversidge, Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Sydney,… Read More