ABORIGINAL LIFE IN OLD AUSTRALIA.
Being an enhanced facsimile of Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; With ten plates. First published in 1814 and now faithfully reprinted. Pp. [36], 20 coloured plates in the facsimile (10 coloured, each accompanied by a tinted version of the same image), plus 2 tinted plates (reproducing the original wrappers) in the bibliographical notes, black & white title page vignette and decorative border; cr. folio; hand bound in qr. burgundy emu (spine), with olive green kangaroo fore-edges, cream cloth boards, the upper board lettered and decorated in black; all edges red; ribbon marker; housed within a gilt lettered dark green cloth solander box and brown cloth slipcase, the box also containing an additional loose suite of the 20 plates, enlarged by 25%, suitable for framing; Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2003. Special edition, being one of 15 copies thus. *Originally published by Edward Orme, London, in 1813[1814], this was the first known work solely devoted to the Aboriginal people of Australia. This new edition includes ten pages of bibliographical and publishing notes. Item #166235
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