First edition. 2 folding plates, 3 coloured plates of native costume & 2 other plates (one folding). 8vo. Original cloth, back faded. xvii, 239pp. London, 1853.
The work is divided into twelve chapters. Apart from the first which serves as a general introduction, each chapter is devoted to a racial or island group. There is also a discussion on Melville Island and the Aborigines of North Australia. This book was intended as the first in a series of anthropological studies and is advertised as such, the second volume was to be The brown tribes of the Indian Archipelago. Ferguson, 9339.
