Indigenous Australians
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# 38334
BARDON, Geoffrey; EDWARDS, Robert; KIMBER, Richard
Nangara : the Australian Aboriginal art exhibition from the Ebes collection.
Melbourne : Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, 1996. Two volumes, large quarto (300 x 240 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers; Volume 1. The Text, 100 pp; Volume 2. The Paintings, pp. 315, colour and b/w illustrations, maps; in the publisher’s pictorial card chemise; light spotting to fore-edge of the text volume, but a fine set. Published to …
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# 38533
SPENCER, Baldwin
Handbook of Melbourne : for the use of members of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
Melbourne meeting, 1890. Edited by Professor Baldwin Spencer M.A. Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Company, 1890. Octavo, gilt-lettered flushcut cloth, pp. 137, folding map. Includes chapters on the Aborigines of Victoria, bird life, molluscs, botany, climate, commerce, geology, etc. Includes a map of Aboriginal language groups. Ferguson 6200.
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# 38434
WATSON, Just and MARTIN-CHEW, Louise
Judy Watson : Blood Language
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2009. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slight edge wear), pp. 240, illustrated. Scarce. In this lavishly illustrated book, Watson takes us with her on a journey into the plight of the dispossessed Indigenous Australian with whom she shares a family history and heritage.
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# 37733
BEDFORD, Randolph
Inland Australia : a series of photographs
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, wrappers with title label (a little sunned and worn), pp. [16], with tipped-in photographs of Indigenous Australians by H. Basedow and topographic views by Donald Mackay. The cover design is not signed, however it is reminiscent of the woodblock or linocut designs of Margaret Preston.
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# 37699
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Kangaroo hunting. Aboriginals of Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia, August 22nd 1889.
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,175 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 250 x 300 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, Copyright’ and printed caption in black; the print is in excellent condition; some light marks to margins of …
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# 37694
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Benny Roy’s camp, Worturpa. (Aboriginal miner).
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900; the original photograph may have been taken as early as ca. 1890]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,145 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 270 x 370 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, S. A.’ and printed caption in …
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# 37516
BRABAZON, Dennis
[CUMMERAGUNJA RESERVE] “One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement”.
[Title from manuscript caption verso]. [Taken in 1924]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement’; beneath it the wet-stamped name and pencilled address of a relative of the photographer, P. Brabazon, Hardware …
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# 37854
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 very good copy. The French photographer and writer Antoine Fauchery (1823-1861) arrived in Australia in 1852 and …
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# 37084
KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)
Photographic portraits of Gellibrand and Jammawing, both Gulidjan speakers, Western District, Victoria, circa 1877.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm (mounts), versos of mounts with contemporary inscriptions in ink ‘Gellebrand [sic] / Colac’ and ‘Jammawing / Colac’, respectively; the albumen prints are in good condition (the horizontal scratch on the Gellibrand print is in the original glass negative; the Jammawing print has some …
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# 36812
CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)
Cobb & Co. coach delivering Royal Mail for Aborigines at Coranderrk, circa 1904.
[Melbourne : s.n., between 1905 and 1910]. Sepia tone lithographic postcard from an original photograph by N. J. Caire; 91 x 137 mm, recto with generic printed caption ‘Australian Aboriginals’, verso without publisher’s imprint; not postally used; the front has a few tiny spots of foxing at top edge, and the back has a few …
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# 36643
PARKER, K. Langloh (Katie Parker), [Catherine Eliza Somerville Stow], 1856-1940
More Australian legendary tales, collected from various tribes by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker.
London : David Nutt, and Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1898. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and spine with gilt device and lettering (mild flecking), all edges gilt, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. xxiii, [1]; 104, [16 advertisements]; vignette line illustrations ‘by a native artist’ [the Victorian Indigenous artist Tommy …
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# 35908
[NORMAN, James, 1790-1868] SCOTT, Thomas Hobbes, Archdeacon; HILL, Richard, Rev.; ARTHUR, George, Lieutenant-Governor
Official duplicate correspondence re. reimbursement to the Church Missionary Society in Sydney for Rev. James Norman’s passage to Tasmania from England. February-October, 1829.
[Sydney, NSW, 1829]. Manuscript in ink, [3] pp, foolscap folio bifolium; in the hand of a CMS clerk; being duplicate copies of three letters, comprising: 1. Sydney, 17 February 1829. Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott, to the Rev. Richard Hill of the CMS, Sydney; 2. Sydney, 26 August 1829. Rev. Richard Hill, to Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes …
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# 33404
HALE, Mathew Blagden (1811-1895)
The Aborigines of Australia, being an account of the institution for their education at Poonindie, South Australia.
Founded in 1850 by the Ven. Archdeacon Hale, a Missionary of S.P.G. / by the Right Rev. Bishop Hale. Published under the direction of the Tract Committee. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1889]. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), original pictorial green cloth over boards (rubbed, corners bumped), upper board lettered in gilt …
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# 32149
BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)
Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816. Presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Bolter, 1867.
[Circa 1890]. [Title from image]. Albumen print photograph of a lithograph held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum; 260 x 180 mm, blind stamped J. W. Beattie, Photographer, Hobart at lower left; laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century album; some short edge tears and light foxing at top edge, otherwise in …
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# 30735
After George Frankland (British, 1800–1838)
Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816.
[Circa 1890]. Watercolour and ink on paper, 400 x 235 mm (image), 460 x 290 mm (sheet), with calligraphic caption in black ink at head of image (erroneously attributing the Proclamation to Governor Davey) surmounting four illustrations separated by ink-ruled lines; these pictorial sequences are intended to be read from bottom to top, and they …
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# 35806
UNAIPON, David (1872-1967)
Native legends
Adelaide : Hunkin, Ellis & King Ltd., [1929]. Octavo, publisher’s illustrated wrappers with portrait of the author, the lower wrapper with printed advertisement for ‘The Narrinyeri’ by Unaipon, very slight foxing to the wrappers, 15 pp, three photographic reproductions, a very good copy. First edition, first impression of this collection of stories of the Ngarrindjeri …