Description of Toas or Australian Aboriginal Direction Signs. [Contained in] Records of the South Australian Museum. Vol. I.

STIRLING, Sir Edward and Edgar R. WAITE

Published by Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 1918

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Adelaide, Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum, 1918 to 1921. Quarto, pages 105-156 plus 10 colour plates featuring 322 objects (in vi, 419 pages with 11 charts and 67 figures plus 42 plates). The colour plates reproduce 'drawings by H.J. Hillier and Rosa C. Fiveash'. Contemporary half roan and cloth (containing all four numbers of the first volume bound together without the original wrappers); leather rubbed at the extremities and slightly worn at the foot of the spine; endpapers a little discoloured; front inner hinge lightly cracked; a very good copy (internally excellent). Other major articles in this volume include CILENTO, R.W.: Observations on a Series of Artificially Distorted Skulls (pages 325-346 plus 9 plates); RAINBOW, W.J.: Arachnidae from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands (pages 229-272 plus 4 plates); and nine on snakes, lizards, fishes, and coleoptera. Provenance: James Howard Johnson (1875-1947, a great-grandson of George Fife Angas), with his armorial bookplate.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Description of Toas or Australian Aboriginal Direction Signs. [Contained in] Records of the South Australian Museum. Vol. I.
• Publisher: Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum, Adelaide
• Publication Date: 1918
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bookplates
  • Australian Aborigines
  • Anthropology
  • Australia
  • South Australia