Wanderings in Wild Australia [2 volumes complete]
by Spencer, Baldwin Sir
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Macmillan. 1928. Large octavo size [16x23cm approx]. Overall Very Good condition. Some minor flaws - volume one has minor crack to front hinge; some faint ink underlings to text [both volumes]. Green cloth boards with gilt top edge and titles to spine. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and Drawings. Colour plates. Fold-out maps. McLaren 15109. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 930 pages [over two volumes]. Sir Baldwin Spencer KCMG FRS was a British-Australian evolutionary biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his fieldwork with Aboriginal peoples in Central Australia, contributions to the study of ethnography, and academic collaborations with Frank Gillen. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB323950
- Title
- Wanderings in Wild Australia [2 volumes complete]
- Author
- Spencer, Baldwin Sir
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- aust-history;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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