Item #109383 Unter Menschenfressern. Eine vierjahrige Reise in Australien ['Among Cannibals. A Four-Year Journey in Australia']. Karl LUMHOLTZ.
Unter Menschenfressern. Eine vierjahrige Reise in Australien ['Among Cannibals. A Four-Year Journey in Australia']
Unter Menschenfressern. Eine vierjahrige Reise in Australien ['Among Cannibals. A Four-Year Journey in Australia']
Unter Menschenfressern. Eine vierjahrige Reise in Australien ['Among Cannibals. A Four-Year Journey in Australia']
Unter Menschenfressern. Eine vierjahrige Reise in Australien ['Among Cannibals. A Four-Year Journey in Australia']

Unter Menschenfressern. Eine vierjahrige Reise in Australien ['Among Cannibals. A Four-Year Journey in Australia']

Hamburg, Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei Actien-Gesellschaft, 1892 [first German edition].

Large octavo, 456, [8] (publisher's advertisements) pages with 96 illustrations plus 9 plates and 2 folding colour maps.

Pictorial brown cloth, with the title in gilt in a large decorative font; all edges marbled; cloth a little marked, and rubbed and bumped at the extremities; an excellent copy.

Although Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922) was Norwegian, the first edition of this work appears to have been a Danish one, published in Copenhagen in 1888. The first edition in English was published in both London and New York in 1889 ('Among Cannibals. An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland'). A Swedish edition was also published the same year; a French one came out in 1890. Tipped in on the verso of the front flyleaf of this copy is a newspaper cutting (curiously, from 'The Japan Advertiser' of 10 May 1922), announcing the recent death of 'the famous Norwegian explorer ... who died at New York from the effects of tropical fever which he contracted in Borneo. He had just completed preparations for an expedition to New Guinea'. Ferguson 11774 (whose note to 11771 is informative: 'The author spent four years from November, 1880, travelling in Queensland with the object of making collections for the zoological and zootomical museums at the University of Christiania, and of instituting researches into the customs and anthropology of the then little-known native tribes inhabiting that part of the continent').

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