Australasia / edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, ... ; With ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, ...

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Uniform Title:Stanford's compendium of geography and travel.
Marilee E. Thomas and Robert C. Thomas Science and Related Subjects Collection.
Main Author: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Other Authors: Hellwald, Friedrich von, 1842-1892
Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Language:English
Published: London : Edward Stanford, 1879.
Series:Stanford's compendium of geography and travel.
Marilee E. Thomas and Robert C. Thomas Science and Related Subjects Collection.
Subjects:
Ethnology.
Language and languages.
Ethnology > Australasia.
Natural history > Australasia.
Australasia > Description and travel.
Oceania > Description and travel.
Malay Archipelago > Description and travel.
Local Note:
MSU: Signed by J.L. Lurman (1818) and H.N. Moseley.
MSU: Gift of Marilee E. Thomas and Robert C. Thomas.
Physical Description:xviii, 2 unnumbered pages, 672 pages, 36 unnumbered leaves of plates (14 folded) : 16 illustrations, 20 color maps ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Description
Note:"Based on Hellwald's 'Die Erde und ihre Völker' translated by A. H. Keane, ..." Half title. The preface indicates that the work was "practically rewritten" by Wallace.
"Appendix. Philology and ethnology of the interoceanic races. By A.H. Keane": pages [593]-659; includes "Alphabetical list of the interoceanic races and languages".
Gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth.
Includes index.
Call Number:DU21 .W2 1879
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Bibliography Note:"List of works used in preparing this volume": pages [vii]-viii.