Wanderings in wild Australia

A$600 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

London : Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, original green cloth boards (lightly rubbed and marked), spines lettered in gilt, gilt lettered spines, top edges gilt, light water stain to upper margin of second volume, volume I pp xxviii, 456; volume II pp xiv, 457-930, ii advertisements, illustrated with black and white and colour plates, maps (some folding), contents very clean and sound, a good set. Spencer s landmark work on the ethnology and material culture of the Aborigines of Central Australia and Arnhem Land. From the collection of Geoffrey Ingleton, his bookplates to front pastedowns.

• Binding: Hardcover

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