Rev Taplin (7 results)

HARDCOVER. Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Facsimile reprint. A very good copy in unmarked boards. An ex-library copy only marked by old tape marks to the ednpapers and old library marks on the title page and rear free endpaper. Otherwise the contents are fine and unmarked.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Facsimile Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Fine Condition. Excellent copy. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board and red/gilt title patch to spine. Just a hint of rubbing to gilt on front cover. Illustrated with sepia photographs [tipped in] and drawings. Pale sepia-toned paper. First Series. Uncommon. 237 pages [in various paginations].

Hardcover. First edition. This work includes the following separate works by George Taplin, The Narrinyeri; Dr. Wyatt, The Adelaide Tribe; A Meyer, The Encounter Bay Tribe; C.W. Schurmann, The Port Lincoln Tribe; S. Gason, The Dieyerie Tribe; Ogilvie Bennett, Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect (Northern Territory). The text has a number of annotations and marginalia (pencil underlining) by Prof. Dr. Absolon, the great Czechoslovakian ethnologist and naturalist. An early & important examination of the Aus. aborigines by a variety of authors. (xlii) 316pp, 8 sepia-toned lithographs. Period brown half calf & buckram boards, raised bands, gilt title piece on spine, all edges marbled and marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed, buckram a little marked, a very pleasant copy overall. F13095. Greenway 10162.

First edition thus. 24pp. Printed wraps, with the upper wrap constituting the title page. Very good. Adelaide, E. Spiller, The Webster copy. This was originally published in 1878 and here has been reset with a new title page. The Narrinyeri were a loose confederacy of eighteen tribes based around the Murray lakes. Taplin's mission to them began in 1859 as the Aboriginal Friends Association's first missionary-teacher. He quickly learned the language, preached in it and translated bible tracts into it. "He published invaluable anthropological studies which were much superior to contemporary work on South Australian Aboriginals. His papers on philology and ethnology were acclaimed in Australia and abroad" (ADNB). Taplin later led the first official ethnographical survey of South Australia.   Ferguson, 16710.

An account of the tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the country around the Lake Alexandrina, Albert and Coorong, and the lower part of the River Murray. 8.75" x 5", dark green cloth hardcover, no external titles, pp [i - iii] iv [v - vi] 1 - 107. This is the 1874 first (softcover) edition, which has been neatly rebound in hardcover, complete except for the frontispiece. Bottom edge of the last page (107) torn, without loss of text.

Adelaide :J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. Octavo, original flushcut limp cloth (somewhat sunned) with printed title label to front (loss to top left corner of label), front pastedown with bookplate of John Calaby, frontispiece tipped-in albumen print photograph with montage of head-and-shoulder portraits of identified Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri) men and women by Townsend Duryea, pp. iv, [ii], 107; a very good copy. The frontispiece portraits of Aboriginal residents of Point Macleay Mission include one of James Unaipon, deacon at the Church of Point Macleay and father of David Unaipon.

An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the country around Lake Alexandrina, Albert and Coorong.First edition. Albumen print frontispiece showing five Aboriginal portraits. 8vo. Original limp red cloth, spine rubbed, some minor spotting throughout. iv, 107pp. Adelaide, Scarce. The Narrinyeri were a loose confederacy of eighteen tribes based around the Murray lakes. Taplin's mission to them began in 1859 as the Aboriginal Friends Association's first missionary-teacher. He quickly learned the language, preached in it and translated bible tracts into it. "He published invaluable anthropological studies which were much superior to contemporary work on South Australian Aboriginals. His papers on philology and ethnology were acclaimed in Australia and abroad" (ADNB).   Taplin later led the first official ethnographical survey of South Australia. This work includes a chapter on language and vocabulary. The frontispiece composite photograph is by Townsend Duryea.   Ferguson 16706; Holden, 106.