The Lost Tasmanian Race – James Bonwick - First Edition 1884

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The Lost Tasmanian Race – James Bonwick – First Edition 1884

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Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, a first edition 1884.

Bonwick was, among other things, a Fellow of the London Anthropological Institute.

Octavo, advertisements, 216 pages + note re French anthropologist de Quatrefages’ support of Bonwick work on the Tasmanian aboriginal people. Illustrated with frontispiece and 11 full page plates, some from Peron. Original special pictorial cloth binding expertly re-cased by Perry, showing a little age, bright internally; a very worthy copy

Bonwick’s emotion shines through … his exasperation as to how this situation could have been allowed to happen. The chapter headings flow as follows Earliest Notices of the Natives; The Race Under British rule; Sorrows of the Race; The war; The Line; captures Parties; Robinson the Conciliator; Flinders Island Refuge; Oyster Cove Station; Sealers and Native Women; Half-Castes; Native Rights; Civilisation and Missions; Decline and Extinction.

Scarce, relevant and a very nice copy.

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