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Publicado por William Briggs, Toronto, etc., 1888
Librería: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada
viii-336 Pp. B&w frontis, diagrams & illustrations Worn, outter hinge crack, some foxing Red cloth covers with gilt to front and spine.
Publicado por William Briggs, Toronto, 1888
Librería: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
black and white Ilustrador. Decorative cover, some foxing on title page, very good.
Publicado por William Briggs 1888, 1888
Librería: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nueva Zelanda
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt ship illus to front board, blind-stamped decorative edging to boards & spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, 336pp, illus, VG- (moderate staining to baoards & spine, some browning to page edges, Sunday school prize label to front pastedown, moderate tanning to eps, moderately heavy foxing to frontispiece & tissue guard, 4cm closed tear to upper gutter edge of title page, some loosening to gutter).
Publicado por Toronto, William Briggs, 1888., 1888
Librería: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
First Edition; 8vo; pp. 338, last 2 blank; frontispiece with tissue guard; numerous b/w plates; front endpaper has separation with weakened hinge; bottom 6 cm of title page separate; Mr. Curr's is quoted often in the section on Australian Aborigines and included is a comparison of various words from different areas. Several illustrations on the different means of gaining fire and superstitions attached, also the use and manufacture of canoes, weapons, message sticks, Black trackers; sorcery, witchcraft, extinction of the race. The world of the Coffee Palace reached its peak in Melbourne with the Victoria, the Grand, Melbourne, Coffeee houses, the Grand Hotel in Spring Street, Burke and Wills with much more. Chapter on the perils of pioneering. Illustrations include interesting dingo which seems to be drawn from a skin, a cassowary described as an Emu, beautiful Leadbeaters Cockatoo, scene of Windsor Castle with deer in foreground.