Fison Lorimer and a W Howitt (7 results)

1967, South Pacific, Anthropological Publications, The Netherlands, 372 p., goos paperback, paper cover is no longer glued to spine, has penciled underlining and marginal notes, war the property of George Stocking.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Previous owner's stamp inside cnr front cover. Light fading to edges. Facsimile edition. Includes fold-out map. Originally published by George Robertson in 1880. Group marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines. Also The Kurnai Tribe, their customs in Peace and War. 22 cm x 14 cm. 372 pp.…

Pictorial Card Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Light fading to edges. Facsimile edition. Includes fold-out map. Originally published by George Robertson in 1880. Group marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines. Also The Kurnai Tribe, their customs in Peace and War. 22 cm x 14 cm. 372 pp.…

Condition: Good. 1880. First ed. Original cloth.three small stickers to spine. Some pages uncut. Cloth is dust soiled, especially on back board. Contents clean, map intact. For further description or pictures please message us. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, George Robertson, 1880. Octavo, [viii], 372 pages with numerous genealogical tables plus a two-colour folding map frontispiece. Brown sand-grain cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, sides panelled in blind; covers a little bumped and very slightly worn at the extremities; spine a little sunned; binding canted and a little shaken; a few later leaves marked and opened a little roughly at the top edge; a few other minor signs of age and handling; a very good copy. A foundational work of Australian anthropology, concentrating on the Gunai / Kurnai people of Gippsland and the Gamilaraay of New South Wales and southern Queensland. Provenance: Fred C. Smith, with his large pictorial bookplate on the front free endpaper (the design by Douglas Norman features Aboriginal artefacts and weapons).…

HARDCOVER. 1880, First edition. A near fine copy bound in burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The boards are unmarked apart from light edge rubbing. Apart from a previous owners name on the half title page and another owners bookplate on the opposing page the contents are fine and unmarked. A superb copy. Scans available if required.…

8vo, pp. 372, folding map frontispiece. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Just a little bumping to spine ends, bookplate to front pastedown. An all but fine and unopened copy. First edition. A landmark title in the development of anthropology, in which Lorimer and Howitt combined their own innovative methods with those of their mentor, the American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, to whom the book is dedicated. One of the book's first British readers was Charles Darwin, who thought it so important that he promptly sent copies to the British anthropologists John Lubbock and John McLennan -- whose attitudes towards 'primitive' peoples made them two of the book's chief targets. A near fine, bright and unopened copy.…