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 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, fore-edge of lower board slightly rubbed; all edges red; ribbon marker; Edition Renard, Melbourne, 2003. Deluxe edition, being one of 60 numbered copies on large paper, including an extra 10 tinted plates. *Originally published by Edward Orme, London, in 1813[814], 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 #166236
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