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Adelaide, Government Printer, 1979.. Folio; pp. [vi], 20; endpaper maps, coloured frontispiece, 5 other coloured plates, plan and folding map, original cloth with leather label, title in gilt on front board, edition limited to 500 copies. Fine copy in box of issue.. Facsimile of F, 4968, published in London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1849.

Sydney, Wellington & Auckland: A.H. And A.W. Reed, 1967. Facsimile Edition of 1,000 copies. This volume has been inspected and certified as a perfect copy on Sept. 30th, 1967 signed by Yoshiharu Iisaka, Kyoto, Printing Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Imperial folio with sixty colour plates accompanied by descriptive text, facsimiles of the rare illustrated wrappers of each ten parts in which the book was originally published from the original 1847 edition published by Thomas M'Lean of London. On his arrival in 1844, Angas began his extensive travels throughout South Australia, travelling through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River and down to Lake Coorong, sketching the countryside, native animals and the customs and dwellings of the Narrinyeri people. Notes on the production: In the preparation of this facsimile volume minor typographical inconsistencies in the original have not been corrected, enclosed is a page of following notes to allow the purchaser to know what may seem to be… Read More

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. London, Thomas M'Lean, 1847. Imperial folio, [12] pages, comprising a superb hand-coloured pictorial lithographed title page dated 1846 (verso blank); letterpress title page dated 1847 (verso blank); lithographed dedication (verso blank); Preface; 'General Remarks on the Aboriginal Inhabitants of South Australia' (3 pages); 'Subscribers to South Australia Illustrated' (2 pages, with 243 copies accounted for), plus 60 hand-coloured lithographs, each with accompanying descriptive letterpress (usually one leaf, occasionally more). Contemporary (if not original) half dark green morocco and matching cloth, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the front cover lettered in gilt; leather lightly worn at the corner tips, with the corner pieces slightly marked with minor surface loss; surface cracks to both joints, a little more pronounced on the front joint; slight damage to a small section of the front joint near the title; cloth slightly scuffed and… Read More