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Wild Animals of the Tropics
Author:
HARTWIG, DR. G
Title:
Wild Animals of the Tropics
Publisher:
Longmans, Green, and Co 1887
Description:
Octavo, light blue illus heavy card boards, orange lettering to boards, gilt lettering and decorative rule to spine, deckled gilt page edges, frontispiece of tiger, illus title page, 256pp, illus - plates of animals, VG (crackled front and rear gutter, moderate soiling and rubbing to covers and spine, unsteady binding), This book is from 1887 and has strong racist overtones towards indigenous Australians.
Keywords:
G Hartwig animals tropics zoology anthropology superstitions antiquity Aboriginal Australia race