Three separate journal offprints or extracts by these individual authors (published in 1902, 1896 and 1889 respectively) bound in one volume

[Australian Anthropology]. VIRCHOW, Prof. Dr. Rudolph [and] Dr. v. LUSCHAU [and] A.W. HOWITT

About this Item

Large quarto; early binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine (the first two items retaining their original wrappers); top corner snipped from the front free endpaper; occasional light foxing to the last work; overall, in excellent condition, with a manuscript list of contents bound in before the first publication. Full details of each item are as follows. (1) VIRCHOW, Prof. Dr. Rudolph: Australier. 20 ethnographische und anthropologische Tafeln, ausgefuhrt nach Anweisungen und Zeichnungen. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Heft X. Hamburg, 1902. Large quarto, [vi], 13 pages plus 20 plates (10 photogravures, 9 tinted lithographs and a chromolithograph). (2) LUSCHAU, Dr. v.: Das Wurfholz [throwing-stick] in Neu-Holland und in Oceanien. Sonder-Abdruck aus der Bastian-Festschrift. Berlin, 1896. Large octavo, [27] pages with some illustrations plus 3 plates (with relevant marginal pencilling). (3) HOWITT, A.W.: On the Organisation of Australian Tribes. Quarto, pages [96]-136 plus a folding map (captioned in a margin 'Transactions of the R. S. of Victoria, 1889'). Provenance: Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), Australian anthropologist and the first professor of physiology at the University of Adelaide, with his armorial bookplate ('Gang Forward') on the front pastedown. The list of contents and the pencilling are in his hand. The later bookplate of Noel Lothian, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 1948-1980, is mounted adjacent to it.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three separate journal offprints or extracts by these individual authors (published in 1902, 1896 and 1889 respectively) bound in one volume
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian Aborigines
  • Australia