Indigenous Australians
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# 46233
REILLY, Dianne & Jennifer CAREW
Sun Pictures of Victoria : The Fauchery-Daintree Collection 1858
Melbourne : Library Council of Victoria, 1983. First edition. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed), pp 143, with 53 full-page photographic plates, introductory essay, notes and references; a couple of small spots of foxing, a very good copy. The French photographer and writer Antoine …
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# 46192
FORNASIERO, Jean et al.
The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin’s voyagers 1800-1804
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2016 (2017 reprint). Quarto, 265 x 218 mm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew …
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# 46036
TATE, Henry; O'DOWD, Bernard (intro.)
Australian musical possibilities. (Signed by the author)
/ by Henry Tate ; with an introduction by Bernard O’Dowd. Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, [1924]. First (and only) edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), publisher’s illustrated papered boards; signed and numbered by the author on the front free-endpaper ‘Henry Tate / 77’; pp. 72, including several pages of musical notation at rear (compositions …
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# 46114
GUNSON, Niel (ed.)
Australian reminiscences and papers of L. E. Threlkeld, missionary to the Aborigines, 1824-1859.
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974. Series: Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 40. Ethnohistory series no. 2. Two volumes, large quarto (260 x 205 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers; endpaper maps; pp. xii, 1-176; vi, 177-382; illustrated; an excellent set. Although published over fifty years ago, Gunson’s scholarly presentation of the papers and miscellaneous writings …
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# 46113
ALBRECHT, Rev. F. W.
The natural food supply of the Australian Aborigines
/ by Rev. F. W. Albrecht, Hermannsburg. Adelaide, SA : Aborigines’ Friends’ Association, [1943]. First edition. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), stapled wrappers (original owner’s name to front), [10] pp, b/w photographic illustrations; a good copy. ‘Looks at the traditional food supplies of the Aboriginal people of the Western MacDonnell Ranges and adjoining districts including …
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# 46139
[COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. URANIUM ADVISORY COUNCIL] McINTYRE L. R. (Chairman)
Report of the Uranium Advisory Council for the period ended 30 June 1979.
Also titled: Uranium Advisory Council. First Report. 30 June 1979. Canberra : C. J. Thompson, Commonwealth Government Printer, 1979. Octavo (245 x 175 mm), stapled printed wrappers (lightly foxed); pp. 9; internally very good.
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# 46098
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ABORIGINAL & HISTORIC RELICS UNIT]
Yura Aboriginal : Adnjamathanha trainees newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 November 1978 + Vol. 2 no. 4 January 1979.
Kent Town, SA : Aboriginal Historic Relics Unit, 1979-80. Two individual issues. Foolscap folio, stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. 10 (no. 3) and 6 (no. 4); both in good condition. The Adnyamathanha are from the greater Flinders Ranges area of South Australia.
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# 46100
ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION
Aboriginal people of Victoria
Canberra : Published for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission by the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1990. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers with Tommy McRae drawing to front and colour language map to rear, pp. 15, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; a very good copy. An excellent introduction to …
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# 46101
DEPARTMENT OF ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS
Aboriginal News : vol. 1 nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, October 1973 – April 1975
Canberra : Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1973-75. Five individual issues. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers; all issues are 23 pp, with b/w photographic illustrations; two issues have the original owner’s name in pen, but otherwise condition is excellent. With many stimulating articles by a wide range of contributors – Indigenous and …
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# 46097
SANSOM, Basil
The camp at Wallaby Cross : Aboriginal fringe dwellers un Darwin
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1980. Octavo, publisher’s wrappers; pp. vii, 280; map, diagrams; previous owner’s notes to inside lower wrapper, otherwise very clean; a good copy.
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# 46096
TROY, Jakelin
The Sydney language
Canberra : Australian Dictionaries Project and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994. First edition. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. 116, illustrated with b/w plates and line-drawn text illustrations, maps; a very good copy.
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# 46102
MARCON, Marco and Suzanne DAVIES (eds.)
Praxis M, no. 17 : Aboriginal art and institutions
Fremantle, WA : Praxis M., 1987. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 47 pp., illustrated in b/w; a very good copy. This special issue of the art journal Praxis M makes for some very interesting reading, when we consider the ways in which Aboriginal art has been presented and consumed have evolved …
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# 46138
YULE, Ian R.
[ELCHO ISLAND] My mother, the land
/ edited by Ian R. Yule. Galiwin’ku, N.T. : Christian Action Group, Galiwin’ku Parish, Uniting Church in Australia, in association with Action for World Development, 1980. Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper lightly marked, lower wrapper with previous owner’s annotations); pp. 43, b/w photographic and line-drawn illustrations; internally very good. ‘A …
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# 46137
RUHE, Edward Lehman
Aborigine bark paintings : an exhibition of primitive art from Arnhem Land, Australia organised by Edward L. Ruhe. The Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. November 30 – December 21 1973.
Octavo (225 x 150 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 21, illustrated in b/w.; a good copy. Catalogue for an exhibition of 88 Arnhem Land barks from Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Western Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, Melville Island etc., organised by American collector and academic Dr Edward Lehman Ruhe. Trove locates a single copy in Australian institutional collections …
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# 46140
LOWIE MUSEUM
Australian aboriginal art : September 4th-20th at the Lowie Museum, U.C. Berkeley.
Berkeley : Lowie Museum, University of California, 1987. Quarto sheet (280 x 215 mm), printed recto only on textured paper, illustrated with a detail of a painting by Papunya Pintupi artist Riley Major Tjangala; faint horizontal fold, some edge wear, otherwise very good. Flyer for a commercial sale of Australian Aboriginal art at the Lowie Museum …
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# 46136
BOULTER, Michael and Christopher HODGES
[PAPUNYA TULA; UTOPIA] Australia’s first international art movement
Sydney : Utopia Art, June 1990. Octavo (210 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled, pp. 19, with b/w illustrations; centre pages foxed, otherwise very good. This extremely hard-to-find commercial gallery publication provides a brief overview of the Papunya Tula and Utopia art movements, in the context of the origins of contemporary Aboriginal art. It was written and …