Memorie storiche dell'Australia : particolarmente della missione Benedettina di Nuova Norcia e degli usi costumi degli Australiani / per Rudesindo Salvado
- Bib ID:
- 899301
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Salvado, Rosendo, 1814-1900
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. N 919.4 SAL copy
- Description:
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- Roma : S. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1851
- xii, 388 p. : 1 map (folded) ; 24 cm.
- Summary:
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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; see later edition annotations for further content details.
- Notes:
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- 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. There are notes on the natural history, including accounts of whales and whaling.
- N 919.4 SAL copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-237999133
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 15420
- Subject:
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- Salvado, Rosendo, 1814-1900
- Benedictines -- Missions -- Western Australia -- New Norcia -- History
- New Norcia Benedictine Mission -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia
- Missionaries -- Spain -- Biography
- Missionaries -- Western Australia -- Biography
- Missions, Spanish -- Western Australia -- New Norcia -- History
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
- New Norcia (W.A.)
- Western Australia -- History -- 1829-1900
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1900
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1851
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