Outlines of a Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phraseology, of the Aboriginal Language of South Australia, spoken by the Natives in and for some distance around Adelaide

TEICHELMANN, C.G. and C.W. SCHURMANN

Verlag: 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], Adelaide, 1840

Beschreibung

Adelaide, 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], 1840. Octavo, [vi] (fourth and fifth pages blank, sixth page errata), [iv]-viii, [ii] (sectional half-title, verso blank), 24, [ii] (sectional half-title, verso blank), 76 pages. Early half calf and marbled papered boards (bound without the original wrappers), the spine gilt in compartments with contrasting leather titling-pieces; brown patterned cloth mounted on the leather near the spine on both sides (a later embellishment that serves no obvious purpose); edges lightly speckled red; paper lightly tanned, with minimal light scattered foxing; a photocopy of an 1840s map of Eastern Australia is mounted on the front pastedown, and portraits of an Indigenous Australian man and woman (clipped from a unidentified nineteenth-century publication) are mounted on the rear endpaper. A rare and important early Adelaide publication, and among the earliest and most extensive works of its kind; the vocabulary and phraseology run to 76 pages. Ferguson 3102 (with slight variations to the preliminary pagination, but definitely in error in omitting the 26 pages of grammar). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 138105

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Outlines of a Grammar, Vocabulary, and ...

Verlag: 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], Adelaide

Erscheinungsdatum: 1840

Einband: Paperback

Auflage: First Edition.