Indigenous Australians

  • Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    # 50803

    JONES, Phillip

    Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …

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  • Calling the shots : Aboriginal photographies

    # 50782

    LYDON, Jane (editor)

    Calling the shots : Aboriginal photographies

    Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 280, illustrated with images of indigenous Australians from across Australia. Edited by Jane Lydon, with contributions from Julie Gough, Sari Braithwaite, Shauna Bostock-Smith, Lawrence Bamblett, Michael Aird, Karen Hughes, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, Donna Oxenham, Laurie Baymarrwangga and Bentley James.

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  • Joseph Lycett : convict artist

    # 50723

    McPHEE, John (ed.)

    Joseph Lycett : convict artist

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket (lightly sunned), pp. 285, illustrated in colour throughout, academic text on the artist by John McPhee, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Shane Frost and Martin Terry. A richly illustrated monograph on the convict artist Joseph Lycett published on the …

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  • Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    # 50593

    [Photographer unknown].

    Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each half of the image approximately 72 x 75 mm, on original flat mount of grey card, 83 x 173 mm; the mount has a fully contemporary inscription in ink in the right margin: ‘McIntire Blacks’; verso blank; the print and mount are in very good condition. The Macintyre River, which …

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  • Water colours of Central Australia by Albert Namatjira (Arunta Tribe)

    # 50628

    [NAMATJIRA, Albert]

    Water colours of Central Australia by Albert Namatjira (Arunta Tribe)

    Melbourne : Myer Mural Hall, 1944. Octavo, folded sheet (old creases and edge wear), pp. 4 (last side blank), black & white reproduction of photograph of Namatjira painting, by C. P. Mountford, catalogue of 38 works by Namatjira with prices, very scarce.

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  • Sotheby's. The John McCaffrey Collection of Kimberley Art. Sydney, 28 July 2003

    # 50681

    KLINGENDER, Tim

    Sotheby’s. The John McCaffrey Collection of Kimberley Art. Sydney, 28 July 2003

    Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2003. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers (spine rubbed), pp 104, auction catalogue with 71 lots, most illustrated in colour; including works on paper by Indigenous artists from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, decorated coolamons, boomerangs and spearthrowers, and boab nuts carved by Jack Wherra.

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  • Ginger Riley

    # 50665

    RYAN, Judith

    Ginger Riley

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1997. Quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, pp 104, illustrated in colour throughout; inscription to half-title page, a fine copy. Superb catalogue produced to accompany the landmark exhibition of the extraordinary work of Arnhem Land artist Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, held at the NGV, July 17-22, 1997.  

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  • Bradshaw's ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia

    # 50605

    WALSH, Grahame L. (1944 - 2007)

    Bradshaw’s ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia

    Geneva : Edition Limitee for The Bradshaw Foundation, 1994. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. xviii; 284, 99 colour plates, maps. A fine copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Housed in the original publisher’s mailing carton, with the original prospectus, order form, and related clippings. Since their ‘discovery’ by pastoralist Joseph …

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  • The aborigines of Central Australia

    # 50649

    WILLSHIRE, W. H.

    The aborigines of Central Australia

    With vocabularies of the dialects spoken by the natives of Lake Amadeus and of the western territory of Central Australia. Adelaide : C. R. Bristow, Government Printer, 1891. Octavo, fine modern binding of half crushed morocco over marbles papered boards, pp. 51; [blank]. small chips to title leaf, with auction label of ‘Hackett’ sale, a …

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  • The northern tribes of Central Australia

    # 50534

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

    The northern tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (some flecking and light marks), spine lettered in gilt; bookseller’s label removed from pastedown; pp xxxv, 784, [2 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; front hinge cracked, lightly foxed, extensively annotated in pencil.

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  • Le picture su corteccia di Oenpelli [= An Exhibition of Oenpelli paintings on bark]

    # 50420

    ISAACS, Jennifer et al.

    Le picture su corteccia di Oenpelli [= An Exhibition of Oenpelli paintings on bark]

    [Sydney] : [Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council], circa 1978. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 52, illustrated. Italian language edition.

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  • Fourteen ethnographic portraits from the miniature globe 'The world with its inhabitants'

    # 50213

    BAUER, Carl Johann Sigmund, (1780-1857)

    Fourteen ethnographic portraits from the miniature globe ‘The world with its inhabitants’

    [Nuremberg : Bauer, c. 1830]. Concertina paper strip of vignettes of the races of the world, each vignette 55 x 45 mm, coloured by hand, the illustrations cut into sections and laid on an early leaf, perhaps from a scrapbook, with captions in German, including inhabitants from Greenland, Canada, Turkey, Arabia, Persia, China, Kamchatka, Van …

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  • [POSTER]. Circle path meander. Central Australian paintings from the Carnegie Collection

    # 32776

    [POSTER]. Circle path meander. Central Australian paintings from the Carnegie Collection

    Collected in the 1970s by Geoffrey Bardon. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Printed poster, 590 x 415 mm, introduction by Margaret Carnegie, essay by Geoffrey Bardon and catalogue verso. An important poster and catalogue for this landmark exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art. Fine copy. Note: this is the only catalogue for the exhibition, …

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  • Dark and white Australians

    # 50028

    STREHLOW, T. G. H.

    Dark and white Australians

    Adelaide : Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, 1964. Second impression. Octavo, publisher’s stapled plain card with cream-coloured covers lettered in brown (lightly marked); pp. 34; internally clean and fresh, a good copy.

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  • The life and times of Albert Namatjira

    # 50092

    MCGREGOR, Ken

    The life and times of Albert Namatjira

    Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2021. Quarto (310 x 253 mm), laminated pictorial boards in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 448, extensively illustrated. Text by Ken McGregor, designed and edited by Jenny Zimmer. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. New copy. Printed and produced entirely in Australia. Destined to be regarded as the most authoritative, thoroughly …

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  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 50083

    HUNT, Susa and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. ‘Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced …

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