Indigenous Australians

  • Aboriginal art galleries of western New South Wales.

    # 51212

    BLACK, Lindsay

    Aboriginal art galleries of western New South Wales.

    Part 3. Being a continuation of a series on the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales. Burial Trees being Part 1. Cylcons. The Mystery Stones of the Darling River Valley being Part 2. Foreword by C. P. Mountford. [S.l. : s.n.], 1943. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly toned), pp. 76, …

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  • Brook Andrew : Eye to eye

    # 51166

    ANDREW, Brook (b. 1970)

    Brook Andrew : Eye to eye

    Clayton, Vic. : Monash University Museum of Art, 2007. Square octavo, pictorial stiff card covers, pp 86, illustrated; a fine copy. Superb catalogue for Wiradjuri artist Brook Andrew’s exhibition Eye to Eye, held at Monash University Museum of Art 4 April -23 June 2007 ; Penrith Regional Gallery &​ the Lewers Bequest 18 August – 14 …

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  • Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny "Lollypop" with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    # 50951

    [Photographer unknown].

    Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny “Lollypop” with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    Three gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 110 x 66 mm format; two have annotations by the photographer on the verso, reading: ‘Lollypop, Baby & Mary / Norley 1917’, and ‘Maggie cleaning knives; Lollypop & children under kitchen verandah / Norley 1917’; the third is not captioned but shows a large group of Aborigines assembled …

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  • History of Australia

    # 51028

    RUSDEN, G. W.

    History of Australia

    Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1897. Second edition. Three volumes, octavo, in fine presentation binding of gull polished calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled, lettered nd tooled in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, armorial stamp for Scotch College, Melbourne to upper panels, edges slightly scuffed, marbled edges and endpapers, …

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  • Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    # 29462

    LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)

    Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    London : T. &​ W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …

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  • Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,

    # 48533

    LABILLARDIERE, [Jacques Julien Houten de].

    Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,

    fait  par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2me année de la République Francoise. Paris : Chez H. J. Jansen, an VIII de la République Francoise [1800]. Two volumes quarto plus atlas folio, the two text volumes in early quarter papered boards with gilt-lettered calf spines …

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  • Fashion, 1924

    # 50880

    BATTARBEE, Rex (1893 - 1973)

    Fashion, 1924

    Pen and ink on artist’s board, 200 x 65 mm (image), 255 x 115 mm (card), tissue guard, unsigned, verso with the artist’s design label ‘R. E. Battarbee, Fashion Artist, Illustrator & Designer, 2nd Floor, 372 Flinders Lane’, authenticated by the artist’s daughter Gayle Quarmby. An exquisite small pen and ink by Australian artist Rex …

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  • Colony of Victoria at the Amsterdam International and Colonial Exhibition, 1883 (Dutch)

    # 50756

    LEVEY, George Collins

    Colony of Victoria at the Amsterdam International and Colonial Exhibition, 1883 (Dutch)

    Amsterdamsche Internationale en Koloniale Tentoonstelling, 1883 / Korte beschrijving der Kolonie Victoria (Australie). Geschiedenis, aardrijkskunde, klimaat, regeering, landbouw, mijnwezen, nijverheid, staathuishoudkunde en maatschappelijke toestand. Melbourne : John Ferres, 1883. Octavo, printed wrappers, stitch bound, 20 pp, foldout map printed in colour. Important glimpse of how the colony was represented to European visitors to the exhibition. …

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  • The native tribes of Central Australia

    # 50555

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The native tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, plain paper label to pastedown, pp. xx, 672 (last blank), [2 publisher’s advertisements]; illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; scattered foxing throughout, a good copy.

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  • Yochi shiryaku [Outlines of World Geography or a Short Description of the World]. Volume 12. [Australia and the Pacific].

    # 50720

    UCHIDA, Masao (1838-1876)

    Yochi shiryaku [Outlines of World Geography or a Short Description of the World]. Volume 12. [Australia and the Pacific].

    Tokyo : Uchida Masayoshi zoban, 1880. Volume 12 only (of thirteen volumes published between 1870 and 1880), Large octavo (253 x 178 mm), original wrappers with title labels, string-bound in the Japanese manner, printed woodblock text on folded rice paper, with numerous lithograph illustrations and a folding map; occasional pale water staining to bottom corners, map …

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  • [CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres

    # 50537

    Anon.

    [CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres

    Lille : L. Lefort, 1849. First edition. Small octavo, publisher’s papered cartonnage binding with gilt decoration, frontispiece (Prise de possession des Iles marquises), previous owner’s name to front pastedown, pp. 201,a fine copy. Accounts of European exploration and discovery of and early settlements in the Pacific, with chapters on the Malay archipelago, Melanesia (includes New …

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  • Tableau of a white settler attacking an Aboriginal man. Grafton, New South Wales, 1890s.

    # 48666

    EHLERS, Carl

    Tableau of a white settler attacking an Aboriginal man. Grafton, New South Wales, 1890s.

    Gelatin silver print, in uncommonly large 30 x 26.4 cm format, on original mount blind-stamped ‘Ehlers & Dalby, Grafton’; fine condition; in a later glazed frame. Like his better-known compatriot J. W. Lindt before him, German-born Carl Ehlers was a professional photographer who worked in the New South Wales Northern Rivers township of Grafton. He …

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  • Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-1848

    # 51131

    BROWN, Tony and KOLENBERG, Hendrik

    Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-1848

    Hobart : The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated, a fine copy. Prout’s works in Australia, including studies of indigenous Australians.

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  • Brook Andrew : Hope & peace

    # 51053

    ANDREW, Brook

    Brook Andrew : Hope & peace

    Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 2005. Small square quarto (210 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, 35 pp., illustrated in colour, catalogue essay by Marcia Langton; an excellent copy. Catalogue for an exhibition of work by Brook Andrew at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 5 July – 7 August 2005. ‘Includes artist’s statement and works from the exhibition; …

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  • Aboriginal bark paintings from the Cahill and Chaseling Collections, National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

    # 51045

    McCULLOCH, Alan

    Aboriginal bark paintings from the Cahill and Chaseling Collections, National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

    Houston, TX : Museum of Fine Arts, 1965. Quarto (280 x 215 mm), stapled, pictorial stiff wrappers, [36] pp., chiefly b/w photographic illustrations; introductory essay by Alan McCulloch, bibliography; a fine copy. Catalogue for an exhibition staged at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 17 December 1965 – 30 January 1966.

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  • Nyungar landscapes : Aboriginal artists of the South-West: the heritage of Carrolup, Western Australia.

    # 51043

    STANTON, John E.

    Nyungar landscapes : Aboriginal artists of the South-West: the heritage of Carrolup, Western Australia.

    [Nedlands, WA] : University of Western Australia, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, 1992. Series: Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Occasional Paper no. 3. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 38, with numerous colour illustrations, map.

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