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1962 · ref. 147124 — Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1841. Octavo iii 13 1 pages printed one side only on leaves uncut along the leading edges. The pagination is slightly reorganised in this early xerographic facsimile. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked; tiny tape stain on the front pastedown a trifling production flaw; an excellent copy. South Australian Facsimile Editions No. 2. Peade SA2 not recording this date but noting the 1965 edition; stating a total print run of 355 copies including 213 for a '1967 reprint'; and recording copies in blue vinyl laminate and blue cloth but not red cloth as here. Ferguson 3306 'A very early and rare pamphlet' citing only the Mitchell Library copy. This facsimile states it is 'Microfilmed . from a copy held in the Public Library of South Australia' later the State Library of South Australia but we cannot locate either of these recorded copies in Trove. Ferguson transcribes the name of the author on the title page as 'B.T. Thachelmann Sic - pen-altered to C.G. Teichelmann'. The original book from which this facsimile edition was prepared shows the author as 'R.T. Tiechelmann' with the initials corrected in pen to read 'C.G.'. More significantly that original copy contained some interesting annotations on the title page and a rear blank reproduced in the facsimile edition. The latter runs to some 90 words: 'After being more acquainted with the language & more intimate with some of the leading Aborigines I asked one of them to tell my sic candidly what their belief was with regard to the future world!'. And this he did do. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover