Item #64080 Social Origins by Andrew Lang... [Incorporating] Primal Law by J.J. Atkinson. Andrew LANG.
Social Origins by Andrew Lang... [Incorporating] Primal Law by J.J. Atkinson

Social Origins by Andrew Lang... [Incorporating] Primal Law by J.J. Atkinson

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903.

Octavo, xviii, 311, 4 (select booklist), 40 (Classified Catalogue) pages.

Cloth lightly rubbed and slightly bumped; foot of the spine slightly snagged; WH. Smith Subscription Library plate on the front pastedown; a few leading margins slightly ragged due to inexpert opening of uncut edges; an excellent copy (internally fine, the library plate notwithstanding).

'This book deals only with the institutions of races certainly totemistic, and mainly with the Australian and North American tribes' (introduction). James Jasper Atkinson died in 1899; his 86-page contribution to the book has been edited and annotated by Lang. Provenance: Tom Austen Brown (1925-2009), solicitor, collector and philanthropist, with his pencilled ownership initials. 'In 2011 the University of Sydney used his substantial bequest to establish both the Tom Austen Brown Chair in Australian Anthropology, the first such chair at an Australian university, and the publication series Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology' ('Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation', online).

Item #64080

Price (AUD): $350.00

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