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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1962 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 28 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Condition: Very Good. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965 (facsimile edition)/ 1841. Octavo, [iii], 13, [1] pages (printed one side only on leaves uncut along the leading edges). The pagination is slightly reorganized in this early xerographic facsimile. Light blue rexine lettered in gilt on the front cover; covers slightly marked; endpapers a little tanned; an excellent copy. South Australian Facsimile Editions No. 2. Peade SA2 (one of only 142 copies in a total print run of 355 copies, including 213 for a '1967 reprint?'. He records copies in 'blue vinyl laminate' and blue cloth; we have previously handled a copy in green cloth dated 1962). Ferguson 3306 ('A very early and rare pamphlet', citing only the Mitchell Library copy). This facsimile states it is 'Microfilmed . from a copy held in the Public Library of South Australia' (later the State Library of South Australia), but we cannot locate either of these recorded copies in Trove. Ferguson transcribes the name of the author on the title page as 'B.T. Thachelmann, [Sic - pen-altered to C.G. Teichelmann]'. The original book from which this facsimile edition was prepared shows the author as 'R.T. Tiechelmann', with the initials corrected in pen to read 'C.G.'. More significantly, that original copy contained some interesting annotations on the title page and a rear blank, reproduced in the facsimile edition. The latter run to some 90 words: 'After being more acquainted with the language & more intimate with some of the leading Aborigines, I asked one of them to tell my [sic] candidly what their belief was with regard to the future world!'. And this he proceeded to do.

(Adelaide, 1965). 8vo. Orig. cloth. (ii, 14pp.). Facsimile of the original 1841 edition by this early German Missionary to the Aborigines of South Australia. (South Aust. Facs. Edits. No. 2).