Memorie storiche dell'Australia : particolarmente della missione Benedettina di Nuova Norcia e degli usi costumi degli Australiani / per Rudesindo Salvado
Title
Memorie storiche dell'Australia : particolarmente della missione Benedettina di Nuova Norcia e degli usi costumi degli Australiani / per Rudesindo Salvado
Creator
Salvado, Rosendo, 1814-1900
Publisher
Roma [Rome] : S. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide
Date
1851
Extent
xii, 388 pages : 1 map (folded)
Spatial Coverage
24 cm.
Type
text
Language
Italian
Description
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.
Bound in non-contemporary half levant morocco with gold tooling on spine.
Subject
Benedictines -- Missions -- Western Australia -- New Norcia -- History.
New Norcia Benedictine Mission -- History.
New Norcia Benedictine Aborignal Mission of Western Australia.
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.
Identifier
279.41 S1821 MSDA 1851
Coverage
Italy
Relation
Abstract
Copy of the first Italian edition (1851) bound with engraved plates 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.
Is Referenced By
Goold Library Inventory, p. 1
Bibliographic Citation
Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 15420
Rights Holder
Mannix Library
Inventory Title
Australia mem. stor. dell.
Goold Inventory Holdings
1 8vo [no tick]
Inventory Place/Publisher
Roma
Inventory date
1854
Binding materials & treatment
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Printing and publishing evidence
Imprimaturs (Printing)
Paper types
Wove papers (Paper)
Machine-made papers (Paper)
Provenance evidence
Association copies (Provenance)
Other library holdings
Collection
Citation
Salvado, Rosendo, 1814-1900, “Memorie storiche dell'Australia : particolarmente della missione Benedettina di Nuova Norcia e degli usi costumi degli Australiani / per Rudesindo Salvado,” Archbishop Goold Special Collection, accessed September 20, 2020, https://gooldlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/14.