Item #20405 The Natives of Mailu. Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New Guinea. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 39, 1915. New Guinea, Bronislaw MALINOWSKI.

The Natives of Mailu. Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New Guinea. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 39, 1915

Adelaide, RSSA, 1915.

Octavo, pages 494-706 with numerous line illustrations plus a map and 17 pages of plates.

Original flush-cut quarter cloth and stiffened wrappers; a fine copy.

This issue also contains a major paper by Captain Samuel Albert WHITE (and others): Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia (135 pages plus 2 maps and 25 pages of plates). White supplied the lengthy introductory narrative and section on birds, and a smaller section on the Aborigines of the Everard Range; J.M. Black supplied a short account of their language, as well as the section on botany.

Item #20405

Price (AUD): $450.00