Item #81946 An Australian Language as spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales). Being an Account of their Language, Traditions, and Customs by L.E. Threlkeld. Re-arranged, condensed, and edited, with an appendix, by John Fraser. L. E. THRELKELD.

THRELKELD, L.E.

An Australian Language as spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales). Being an Account of their Language, Traditions, and Customs by L.E. Threlkeld. Re-arranged, condensed, and edited, with an appendix, by John Fraser

Sydney, Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1892 (first thus).

Octavo, lxiv, [ii], x, 228, 148 pages plus 3 plates and a folding colour map as the frontispiece.

Original gilt-decorated half morocco and cloth, all edges speckled; leather a little rubbed at the extremities, with slight wear to the corners; cloth a little flecked; tiny corner crease to the last two leaves (one blank); an excellent copy.

The original work appeared in 1834. The appendix new to this edition contains eight pages on the grammar of the language of Western Australia abridged from an article in the 'Western Australian Almanac' for 1842 and here 'adapted ... to present uses'. Ferguson 17144 (not noting the binding).