Author: SPENCER, BALDWIN; GILLEN, F. J.
Title: The Northern Tribes of Central Australia.
Description: First Edition; Thick Demy 8vo; pp. xxxvi, 784; 2 folding coloured lithographic plates, one folding map, 315 b/w. illustrations including 28 full page, several folding tables, index, bound in publishers green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt blind stamped decoration to front board, inscription from the author on front endpaper, cloth worn and damaged, but contents complete and clean, fair copy. London; MacMillan and Co. Limited; 1904. Nice association copy with the authors inscription to W. E. Roth (1861-1933) who was the first appointed Northern Protector of Aboriginals in Queensland, part of his duties was to record Aboriginal Australian cultures. He was the author "Ethnological Studies Among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (1897), and "The Structure of the Koko-Yimidir Language" (1901).
Keywords: Australian aboriginal history language northern territory south australia
Title: The Northern Tribes of Central Australia.
Description: First Edition; Thick Demy 8vo; pp. xxxvi, 784; 2 folding coloured lithographic plates, one folding map, 315 b/w. illustrations including 28 full page, several folding tables, index, bound in publishers green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt blind stamped decoration to front board, inscription from the author on front endpaper, cloth worn and damaged, but contents complete and clean, fair copy. London; MacMillan and Co. Limited; 1904. Nice association copy with the authors inscription to W. E. Roth (1861-1933) who was the first appointed Northern Protector of Aboriginals in Queensland, part of his duties was to record Aboriginal Australian cultures. He was the author "Ethnological Studies Among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (1897), and "The Structure of the Koko-Yimidir Language" (1901).
Keywords: Australian aboriginal history language northern territory south australia
Price: AUD 500.00 = appr. US$ 345.94 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 120752
- Book number: 120752