Aborigines of South Australia. Illustrative and Explanatory Notes of the Manners, Customs, Habits, and Superstitions of the Natives ...
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965 (facsimile edition)/ 1841.
Octavo, [iii], 13, [1] pages (printed one side only on leaves uncut along the leading edges). The pagination is slightly reorganized in this early xerographic facsimile.
Light blue rexine lettered in gilt on the front cover; covers slightly marked; endpapers a little tanned; an excellent copy.
South Australian Facsimile Editions No. 2. Peade SA2 (one of only 142 copies in a total print run of 355 copies, including 213 for a '1967 reprint?'. He records copies in 'blue vinyl laminate' and blue cloth; we have previously handled a copy in green cloth dated 1962). Ferguson 3306 ('A very early and rare pamphlet', citing only the Mitchell Library copy). This facsimile states it is 'Microfilmed ... from a copy held in the Public Library of South Australia' (later the State Library of South Australia), but we cannot locate either of these recorded copies in Trove. Ferguson transcribes the name of the author on the title page as 'B.T. Thachelmann, [Sic - pen-altered to C.G. Teichelmann]'. The original book from which this facsimile edition was prepared shows the author as 'R.T. Tiechelmann', with the initials corrected in pen to read 'C.G.'. More significantly, that original copy contained some interesting annotations on the title page and a rear blank, reproduced in the facsimile edition. The latter run to some 90 words: 'After being more acquainted with the language & more intimate with some of the leading Aborigines, I asked one of them to tell my [sic] candidly what their belief was with regard to the future world!'. And this he proceeded to do.
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