South Australia Illustrated: ...

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Sydney 1967). Elephant folio. Orig. half red morocco. Spine gilt with raised bands. Top edge gilt. With col. illust. title-page 60 full-page col. plates and 10 facs. of the orig. printed wrappers bound in at end. Ed. lim. to 1000 numbered copies. Fine. NOTE: An exact facsimile of the original book published in 1847 containing paintings of early colonial days in South Australia. Angas remarks in his Preface "I have endeavoured by pictorial representation to describe the most interesting and peculiar features of South Australia and its Aboriginal inhabitants. I have devoted my time and powers entirely to the accomplishment of this task visiting all portions of the Colony and making myself conversant with the manners and habits of native tribes whose existence is unknown to the world."