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Angas, George French.

Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand.

Being an artist's impression of countries & people at the Antipodes. Smith Elder, London 1847, 2nd ed. 2 vols. (x) 339pp, frontis & 3 litho. plts (&) (viii) 280pp, frontis. & 7 litho.plts In all 12 plts, complete; wood engraved plate in text. Evidence of damp on plates in Vol. II. Damp on front cover of Vol. II has caused slight rippling of cloth. Rebacked using orig. red cloth, spine darkened o/w g+ cond. Angas was the noted artist who produced the magnificent work "South Australia Illustrated", a folio work of lithographs. F4456. Includes much aboriginal content, including 2 lithographs of aboriginal carvings in appendix, Vol. II. The last three pages (337 - 339) of first volume are repeated in Vol. II Good +

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