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Rare treatise on Oceania and Australian Aborigines
FOLEY, Antoine Édouard.Quatre années en Océanie.      Paris, J. Hetzel, J.B. Baillière, 1866-76. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. 19th-century half roan. Volume 2 with 1 map and 5 woodcut illustrations in text. [4], 300; [4], 370, [10] pp. First edition of this interesting treatise on Oceania, complete with the scarce second volume. "Issued ten years apart and by two different publishers, these volumes are seldom found together as a set" (Hill). The first volume comprises 24 letters, concluded by some translations from Grey's Polynesian Mythology. The second volume is an anthropological treatise on the Aborigines of Australia, with detailed remarks on their anatomy, customs and manners. The essay includes a chapter on the elusive platypus, and is concluded by 5 plates, among which a portrait of an Aborigine and 2 illustrations of a platypus. Antoine Éduard Foley (1820-1901) visited Polynesia in the 1840's in the Rhin. His writings are influenced by the positivist philosophy of d'Auguste Comte. Tear in title-page of volume 2 repaired; spine slightly faded. Fine work on Oceania.
Ferguson 9662a; Hill 617 (first vol. only); O'Reilly & Reitman 4416; not in Kroepelien.
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