Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974 [first US edition]/ 1974.
Quarto, two parts, xii, 404 pages with 39 charts and illustrations, plus 92 [read 102] black and white and 46 colour plates, together with 4 large folding tribal boundaries maps in a separate plain slipcase. An errata slip is mounted on the verso of the title page (noting that all but one of the colour plates is 'printed in reverse as mirror images').
Synthetic cloth; the text volume is lightly rubbed at the extremities, with the head of the spine slightly pulled; small ownership stamp on the front endpaper (three surfaces) and half-title; top edges of the folding maps lightly creased; a very good set in the slightly rubbed and marked slipcase.
The 'bibliography and the information on a wide range of ecological, geographic and linguistic facts are particularly valuable and worthwhile ... an essential reference work' (Hill and Barlow). It was first published earlier the same year by the Australian National University Press in Canberra. [2 items].
Item #133602
Sold