The prehistoric arts, manufactures, works, weapons, etc., of the aborigines of Australia

A$375 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

/ Compiled and collated by Thomas Worsnop, Town Clerk, Adelaide . Adelaide : C. E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1897. First edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), recased in blue cloth, preserving original spine lettered in gilt; pp. xv, 172, with 88 leaves of plates (5 folding, 8 in colour); internally clean and bright, a very good first edition copy of this important and superbly illustrated survey of Australian Aboriginal material culture. Ferguson 18888.

• Binding: Hardcover

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