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Renewed dark green linen binding and end sheets. xx, 295 pp. + 4 colour plates and 2 folding maps - 23 x 15 cm.

With frontispiece portrait, 122 engravings (partly in between the text), 4 colour plates of native animals, 1 foldable map of Australia and 1 foldable map of the route through Queensland.

Condition: Coming from a library. The endpapers are glued to the plates with bookbinder's stitching. Other features almost all removed. This makes the book look dignified and beautiful. The interior is virtually immaculate and odourless. 

'Carl Sofus Lumholtz (23 April 1851 – 5 May 1922) was a Norwegian explorer and ethnographer, best known for his meticulous field research and ethnographic publications on indigenous cultures of Australia and Mexico.'

Content;
29 chapters, each subdivided into subchapters, Appendix: an outline of Australian history, the condition before the European discovery, history of the discovery, history of the colonies, Geology, Flora, Fauna.

A great book.

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Carl Lumholtz - Among Cannibals 4 years Travels in Australia and of camp life with the Aborigines of Queensland - 1889

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