The Savage Solomons as They Were and Are. A record of a head-hunting people gradually emerging from a life of savage cruelty as bloody customs, with a description of their manners & ways of the beautires & potentialities of the islands
by KNIBBS, S.G.C
- Used
- Condition
- The back board is mildly damp affected.
- Seller
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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Service and Company, 1929. The back board is mildly damp affected.. Octavo, frontispiece, fifteen ethnographic photo-plates, folding map, publisher's gilt cloth; bold bookseller's stamp on front endpaper, a handsome and attractive copy nonetheless.
A somewhat racy account of native life in the Solomons, more anecdotal than anthropological, with much interesting observation.
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- Bookseller
- Hordern House Rare Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3602301
- Title
- The Savage Solomons as They Were and Are. A record of a head-hunting people gradually emerging from a life of savage cruelty as bloody customs, with a description of their manners & ways of the beautires & potentialities of the islands
- Author
- KNIBBS, S.G.C
- Book Condition
- Used - The back board is mildly damp affected.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
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Hordern House Rare Books
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Surry Hills, New South Wales
About Hordern House Rare Books
Hordern House, founded by Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell in 1985 and named for our original building in Sydney's Potts Point, is an internationally renowned dealership, specialising in rare books, manuscripts and paintings.Nowadays we conduct our business in the heart of Surry Hills, five minutes from the centre of Sydney. We occupy an entire floor of a converted warehouse where we have created a customised environment for our work and the display of rare books, manuscripts & paintings.Always reflected in our extensive stock of rare and select material is our specialization in voyages and travels (with a special interest in the Pacific & Australia), natural history and colour-plate material, paintings and voyage art, historical maps and manuscripts.
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