Indigenous Australians

# 23336

[WASHBOURNE, Thomas Jetson, 1832-1905]

Maggie Stone, granddaughter of Queen Mary of the Wolgalu (Monaro district, southern New South Wales). Photographed in the Tangambalanga district near the Murray River, northeast Victoria, circa 1869.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); a strong print with good tonal range and clarity. One of a seres of indigenous portraits taken in northeast Victoria around 1869 by travelling photographer Thomas J. Washbourne. These portraits were probably taken on the Aboriginal reserve at Tangambalanga …

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# 23258

[MANNING & KNIGHT, attributed]

Noongar men, southwest Western Australia, circa 1868.

Albumen print photograph, 59 x 82 mm, laid down on a piece cut from a 19th century album page, contemporary caption in pencil beneath image: ‘Australian Natives armed with boomerangs’; the print is slightly faded but otherwise is in very good condition. The attribution to the Perth-based photographic partnership of Manning & Knight is based …

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# 20857

[GOODRICH, Samuel]. PARLEY, Peter

Tales about America and Australia

London : Darton and Clark, circa 1840. Duodecimo, gilt-decorated cloth, two hand-coloured maps, pp. iv; 192; 36. A book for children by Goodrich under his moniker ‘Peter Parley’ with a particularly horrendous description of the Aboriginal population of New South Wales.

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# 18228

Photographers unknown.

West Australian Aborigines 1883

[Title from caption on mount]. Four albumen print photographs, each in carte de visite format (three are 90 x 60 mm; one 85 x 55 mm), mounted recto of a leaf of thick card removed from a nineteenth century album; inscribed in ink at centre of mount ‘West Australian Aborigines 1883’; the album owner decorated …

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# 16746

"YITTADAIRN" [RUSDEN, George William]

Moyarra : an Australian legend in two cantos.

London : E. A. Petherick & Co., 1891. Second edition. Octavo, original blind blocked blue cloth lettered in gilt (upper board soiled at bottom edge), edges uncut, patterned endpapers, front pastedown with later ex libris, frontispiece with illustration of a reclining Aboriginal female by Sir Thomas L. Mitchell, title page with early owner’s annotation beneath …

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# 16917

TAPLIN, George, Rev. (1831-1879)

The Narrinyeri : An account of the tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong, and the Lower Part of the River Murray: their Manners and Customs, also an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay.

Adelaide : J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. Octavo, original flushcut limp cloth (somewhat sunned) with printed title label to front (loss to top left corner of label), front pastedown with bookplate of John Calaby, frontispiece tipped-in albumen print photograph with montage of head-and-shoulder portraits of identified Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri) men and women by Townsend Duryea, pp. iv, [ii], …

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# 16323

BLEEKER, Sylvester

Gen. Tom Thumb’s three years’ tour around the world, accompanied by his wife,

Lavinia Warren Stratton, Commodore Nutt, Miss Minnie Warren, and party. New York : S. Booth, printer [1872]. Octavo, original pictorial yellow wrappers with later paper backing (some chipping and loss), 144 pp, illustrated, small loss to margin of pp 93-94 (not affecting the text), otherwise the contents sound and clean. Scarce. American stage performer General Tom …

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# 15296

"ARIEL" [PAYNE, Buckner H.]

The negro : what is his ethnological status? Is he the progeny of Ham? Is he a descendant of Adam and Eve? Has he a soul? Or is he a beast in God’s nomenclature? What is his status as fixed by God in creation? What is his relation to the white race?

Cincinnati : Published for the Proprietor, 1867. Second edition. Octavo, original printed green wrappers, 48 pp; a near fine copy. Colonel Buckner H. Payne (1799-1889) was an American clergyman, publisher and racist pamphleteer. Under the pseudonym of Ariel, Payne authored a racist pamphlet, offering a counter-argument to the Curse of Ham, suggesting instead that blacks did …

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# 14772

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[POLYNESIA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens, Eastern Arms &c.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. November 1904. No. 20. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 2 (brief descriptions of 69 items), followed by 2 photographic plates (tissue guards intact) illustrating all items; a fine copy. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes artefacts from New Zealand …

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# 14629

HELLWIG, Albert

[ASYLUM IN AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC] Beiträge zum Asylrecht von Ozeanien

[=Studies on the right of asylum in Oceania]. Stuttgart : F. Enke, 1906. Series: Sonderabdruck aus Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, XIX Band. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 64; mostly uncut; a fine copy. Studies on the right of asylum in traditional societies of Oceania, including Australia; New Zealand; New Ireland; New Britain; New Guinea; the Sandwich Islands; …

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# 12581

[FREDRICKS, Charles D.]

[CIRCUS HISTORY] Wild Australian Children

Buffalo ; New York : Warren Johnson & Co., circa 1864. Promotional card with colour lithograph design, after a photograph by Charles D. Fredricks, carte de visite format (102 x 67 mm), printed caption and publisher’s imprint in lower margin, verso blank; in good condition, a little darkened and with a small amount of pale …

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# 12198

BRITISH MUSEUM. TRUSTEES.

British Museum : handbook to the ethnographical collections

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1925. Second edition. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial papered boards (lightly marked; cloth frayed at tail of spine), colour frontispiece plate, xvi, 319 pp, 20 plates, 293 illustrations and 3 maps, contents clean and sound, a good copy.

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# 4167

MARQUIS, Daniel

Two studio photographs of Aborigines, Brisbane, late 1860s

Albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each 101 x 64 mm, versos with imprint of D. Marquis, Photographer, George Street, Brisbane, one of the prints slightly pale otherwise both in very good condition, the mounts with some mild toning to the edges and lightly marked verso (one with contemporary pencil annotations). Marquis opened his …

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# 5513

TAPLIN, Reverend George

Grammar of the Narrinyeri tribe of Australian Aborigines

Adelaide : E. Spiller, Govt. Printer, 1880. Octavo, original printed wrappers (tiny top corner piece missing throughout), staple bound, old library stamp to inner front cover, inner hinge of the outer leaves neatly reinforced, 24 pp, internally very clean, a good copy. This grammar of the language of the Ngarrindjeri people of the region around …

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# 5105

PERRY, H. R. (1846-1936)

Aboriginal woman in European dress. Far North of South Australia, circa 1875.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘H. R. Perry, Photographer‘; a good print, the upper right edge a little roughened, the mount free of foxing. In 1875-76 the travelling photographer Harry Perry made a circular trip through the interior of South Australia from Port Pirie, …

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