Hunters and fishers : or, sketches of primitive races in the lands beyond the sea

A$275 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

London : Chapman and Hall, 1846. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, gilt edges, corners rubbed, pp. 146, one section cracked and slightly loose, four chromolithograph plates (including a Kangaroo Hunt in New South Wales ), lightly marked, a good copy. Includes a twenty-page chapter on Australian Aborigines with discussion of their customs and habits. Specific mention is made to Aborigines of New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Diemen s Land. Other chapters include those on Polynesians (with reference to Tahitians and Maori), North American Indians, and Eskimos. Muir 6760

• Binding: Hardcover

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