Item #17233 South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition. J. P. STOW.
South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition ...
South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition ...
South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition ...
South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition ...
South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition ...
South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition ...

South Australia. Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources. Written for the Calcutta Exhibition ...

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1884 [second edition]/ 1883.

Octavo, xvi, 307 pages with 56 illustrations (mainly full-page wood-engravings, versos blank) plus 2 large folding maps (one a chromolithographic geological map).

Brown cloth slightly rubbed; extremities a little rubbed; light wear to the head of the joints and the corners (with the bottom two bumped); short repaired tear and a crease to the foot of the title leaf (as a result of a production flaw); tears to the large folding map expertly repaired; a very good copy (internally barely touched).

In this second edition 'a few small inaccuracies are corrected, and one or two passages relating to the Jubilee Exhibition it was proposed to hold in Adelaide are omitted ... A few illustrations are added in connection with the chapters on the Aborigines and the Fauna'. In fact, three plates are deleted from the first edition (numbers 18, 25 and 46 in that list) and ten new plates appear in this edition (numbers 2, 4, 16, 27 and 42-47). Plates 42-47 are wood-engraved versions (by J. Bruer) of plates that first appeared in Taplin's 'The Folklore, Manners, Customs, and Languages of the South Australian Aborigines' (1879).

There are portraits of Wewat-thaleri and Waldaninyeri (in Taplin these were original albumen paper photographs), and four illustrations based on original artwork by Aboriginal artists - 'War Dance' (by an unknown artist), and 'Hunting Scene', 'Hunting Party', and 'Group of Animals' (all by Yertabrida [Yertebrida] Solomon). In Taplin these four plates are lithographs, and we suggest that Bruer has based his wood-engravings on the Taplin versions, not on the original artwork.

The erratum at the foot of the list of illustrations notes that the attribution of 'Hunting Party' to Solomon has been omitted. [For more information on this early Aboriginal woman artist, refer to our Catalogue 106A]. Ferguson 16310 ('Two maps in cover pockets').

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Price (AUD): $450.00

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