Indigenous Australians

  • Lives of the Papunya Tula artists

    # 50422

    JOHNSON, Vivien

    Lives of the Papunya Tula artists

    Alice Springs : IAD Press, 2008.Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. xvi; 402, extensively illustrated. New copy. ”Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’ chronicles the beginning of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades. Through comprehensive and widely researched biographies of more than …

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  • The fabrication of Aboriginal history. Volume One : Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847

    # 50421

    WINDSCHUTTLE, Keith (1942-2025)

    The fabrication of Aboriginal history. Volume One : Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847

    Sydney, NSW, Macleay Press, 2002. First edition. Octavo, boards in dust jacket, handling creases, pp. 472, illustrations; a very good copy. A controversial book, self-described as ‘the most exhaustive analysis yet undertaken of relations between settlers and Aborigines from the time the British founded the colony in 1803’, which argues that the previous historians have …

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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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  • Illustrated guide book for travellers round the world

    # 49977

    AWOKI, T. and SUSUKA, J.

    Illustrated guide book for travellers round the world

    Osaka : Awoki Szandow, circa 1885. Three volumes, small octavo, gilt-decorated impressed cloth over boards, titled in Japanese and English on the spine, the name AWOKI impressed into each over, edges worn, a few stains, hinges cracked and broken, title leaf (short tear at gutter), each volume approximately 200 pages, folded in the Japanese manner, …

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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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  • Aborigines and the 'Sport of Kings' : Aboriginal jockeys in Australian racing history

    # 50280

    MAYNARD, John

    Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’ : Aboriginal jockeys in Australian racing history

    Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013. Third edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 152, illustrated.

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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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  • John Mawurndjul

    # 50037

    GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI; KOHEN, Apolline; TAYLOR, Luke; ALTMAN, Jon

    John Mawurndjul

    Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, in association with Maningrida Arts & Culture, [2007]. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, 39 pp., illustrated in colour; essay by Apolline Kohen, Arts Director at Maningrida Arts & Culture, and another by Jon Altman and Luke Taylor; an excellent copy. Scarce catalogue of an exhibition held at …

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  • They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA's Arnott's Collection

    # 50023

    MUNDINE, Djon et al.

    They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection

    Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated.. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 14 February – 3 August 2008. ‘They are Meditating: Bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection showcased over 200 rare and significant Aboriginal bark paintings from the late 1960s …

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  • Gunyah Goondie + Wurley. The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia

    # 49983

    MEMMOTT, Paul

    Gunyah Goondie + Wurley. The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia

    Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, 2022. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. xxxiii, 404, illustrated. New copy. The updated edition of the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, richly illustrated with rare photographs. Here is the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, comprehensively updated to showcase the flourishing Indigenous design practices reshaping Australia’s architectural …

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  • Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa

    # 49982

    DAALDER, Truus

    Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa

    Adelaide : Ethnic Art Press ; South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 420, illustrated in colour. As new copy, still sealed in shrinkwrap and in publisher’s carton. “A sumptuously produced book with an elaborate, informative text and 704 beautiful photographs of adornment from many parts of the world, ranging …

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  • The narrative of a voyage of discovery performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales.

    # 49786

    GRANT, James (1772-1833)

    The narrative of a voyage of discovery performed in His Majesty’s vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales.

    Including Remarks on the Cape de Verd Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together with Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of …

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  • Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.

    # 49856

    BISHOP, Mervyn (b. 1945)

    Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.

    1975/2021. Edition number of 25. Digital c-type photograph, signed, dated and titled, 60 x 60 cm. Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA. Mervyn Bishop was born in Brewarrina in 1945. He commenced a four-year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he would work for seventeen …

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