Indigenous Australians

  • # 46417

    DI TOMMASO, Lisa

    The art of the First Fleet

    Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 112, extensively illustrated. Ethnographical and topographical art, zoology and botanical painting from the Natural History Museum, London.

  • # 46350

    SMITH, Bernard and WHEELER, Alwyne (eds.)

    The art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1988. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 256, illustrated. A significant survey of Australia’s earliest colonial art, including ethnographical studies, natural history drawings, early views of Sydney and New South Wales as well as early maps.  

  • # 46108

    BASEDOW, Herbert (1881-1933)

    The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)

    Adelaide : F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s purple cloth, upper board with gilt-stamped device depicting Wandjina spirit, spine lettered in gilt (a little sunned), colour frontispiece plate, pp xx, 422, illustrated with 55 photographic plates and line drawings in the text; edges slightly foxed, a very good copy. Loosely enclosed …

  • # 46109

    ROTH, Walter Edmund, 1861-1933

    Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland Aborigines

    Brisbane : Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, 1897. First edition. Royal octavo, original blind-blocked purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board (a few marks), patterned endpapers, pp 199 (text) with 1 folding chart, followed by xxiv plates (4 colour), unexpurgated and including the controversial ‘ethno-pornographical’ plate xxiv which many copies lack, internally clean and …

  • # 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 …

  • # 46106

    MOORE, David R.

    The Torres Strait collections of A. C. Haddon : a descriptive catalogue

    London : British Museum Press, 1984. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 110 pp. + 80 pp. with 450 b/w photographic illustrations; a couple of pale spots of foxing to preliminaries, else a fine copy. An important catalogue – scholarly and very well illustrated – of the material culture field-collected …

  • # 46222

    MULVANEY, D. J. and CALABY, J. H.

    ‘So much that is new’. Baldwin Spencer 1860 – 1929. A biography

    Melbourne : University of Melbourne at the University Press 1985. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. xii, 492 p., [36] p. of plates, edges lightly foxed, a very good copy. ‘Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929), biologist and anthropologist, was elected to the chair of biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887. Until …

  • # 46107

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (lightly flecked), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, in the rare original dustjacket (a few tape repairs to corners, light general wear), pp. xx, 516, [2], illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, contents clean and bright, a very …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 46131

    RUHE, Edward L.

    Australian bark paintings from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe

    Rochester, MI : Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly rubbed), pp. 32, illustrated. ‘Edward Ruhe (1923-1989) was a Professor of English at the University of Kansas who began collecting Aboriginal art in 1965 while in Australia as a Fulbright Visiting Professor. He built a collection of the highest quality by …

  • # 46103

    DEPARTMENT OF ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS

    Aboriginals in Australia today

    Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 30 pp., colour illustrations, map; a very good copy.

  • # 46074

    HOFF, Jennifer

    Tiwi graveposts

    [Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Tiwi artist Janet Mungatopi is photographed painting motifs on graveposts based on designs that she saw her grandfather paint for funeral ceremonies when she was a small girl.