Australia in Oxford

A$60 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, 1988. Series: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Monograph 4. Small quarto (245 x 190 mm, pictorial stiff wrappers, endpaper map, 96 pp, with colour and b/w plates throughout illustrating Australian Indigenous material culture from all parts of the continent, 19th-century photographs of Indigenous Australians, natural history specimens field-collected in Australia, and early depictions of New Holland by colonial artists, chiefly drawn from the collections of the Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean Museums; foreword by Sir Zelman Cowen, and essays by Morphy, Edwards, Catherine Hart, Serena Marner, Steve Simpson, Richard Symonds and John Legge; a fine copy. Superbly illustrated catalogue to accompany the Australia in Oxford Exhibition staged at the Pitt Rvers Museum in 1988.

• Binding: Hardcover

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