ROTH, W.E.

The Queensland Aborigines [in three volumes]

Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1984 (facsimile edition)/ 1897 to 1910.

Octavo (Volumes I and III) and folio (Volume II), [vi] (preliminaries new to this edition), [iii]-xvi, 199 pages plus 438 illustrations (on 24 plates) and a folding table; [282, 2] pages; and [357, 3] pages with numerous illustrations and plates.

Papered boards; all volumes slightly rubbed along the bottom adges of the boards; a near-fine set with the near-fine dustwrappers.

Volume I is a reprint of 'Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines' (1897); Volume II is a reprint of the separately-issued North Queensland Ethnography Bulletins 1-8 (1901 to 1908); Volume III is a reprint of Bulletins 9-18, first published in the 'Records of the Australian Museum', Sydney (1907 to 1910).

Provenance: Dick Kimber (Richard Glyn Kimber AM, 1939-2024), Centralian author and historian; the first volume has a presxentation inscription to him from the publisher, Peter Bridge (8 November 1984). [3 items].

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Price (AUD): $350.00
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