[ABORIGINES] Aventures d’un voyageur en Australie : neuf mois de séjour chez les Nagarnooks

Paris : L. Hachette et Cie., 1870. Second edition. Small octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges rubbed), spine with gilt lettering (slight wear at head and tail), [iv]; 351 pp, 24 engraved plates, scattered foxing. Description of life amongst Australian Aboriginal peoples, the illustrations including depictions of corroboree, burial platform, hunting scene, and men in possum skin cloaks with shields. Also includes natural history content, with engravings of a lyre bird, cockatoo and a whale.

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