Savage Life And Scenes In Australia And New Zealand: Being An Artist's Impressions Of Countries And People At The Antipodes Angas, George French Australiana,Facsimile Editions

In two volumes. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [iv]+xii+340+[iv]+viii+280, 12 tinted plates (including frontispiece to each volume), black & white title page vignettes and text illustrations, appendix; post 8vo; red art. leather, spines lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards bruised Volume I; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedowns (both faintly offset onto upper free endpaper); Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1969. Australiana Facsimile editions No. 184. *Facsimile of the edition published by Smith, Elder and Co., London, in 1847. George French Angas (1822-86) travelled to Australia in the early 1840s. The first volume describes his journey and travels in South Australia. The second details his time in New Zealand and ends with his impressions of New South Wales, an account of the customs of the Aboriginal tribes there, and his return to England via Cape Horn and Brazil.