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Memorie storiche dell'Australia : particolarmente della missione Benedettina di Nuova Norcia e degli usi costumi degli Australiani

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Title
Memorie storiche dell'Australia : particolarmente della missione Benedettina di Nuova Norcia e degli usi costumi degli Australiani
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Western Australia
Missionaries
Missionary settlements
Western Australia--History
Category
1. Settlement
Author
Salvado, Rosendo
Publisher
S. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide
Place of Publication
Roma
Current holder
National Library of Australia
Date
1851
Link
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-237999133
Series number
N 919.4 SAL
Item number
899301
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
Out of Copyright
Country of origin
Italy
Place
New Norcia
Language
Italian
Description from source
1 map (folded) ; 24 cm.

The establishment and early years of the Benedictine Mission at New Norcia, Western Australia, and the story of its founder, preceded by a general survey of Australia and followed by accounts of the Aboriginals. Copy of the first Italian edition (1851) bound with engraved plated from the third Spanish edition; includes Europeanised depictions of body decoration (cicatrization, nasal piercing) butchery with taap knife, family group, death spears and spearthrower, fire making and burial not reproduced in other editions. There are notes on the natural history, including accounts of whales and whaling.
Physical format
Books
Related resources
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/2247/
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/2763/
Bibliographic citation
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