Indigenous Australians

  • "Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina" (1862).

    # 46579

    BURNELL, George (1830-1894)

    “Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina” (1862).

    [Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 70 x 75 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of pale green/azure card, 85 x 180 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso: ‘Group of Aborigines, Lake Alexandrina’, with the original owner’s initials ‘M.A.H.’ and their collection number ’79’; the …

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  • Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    # 29462

    LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)

    Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    London : T. &​ W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …

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  • Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

    # 46707

    SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)

    Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

    With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, slight sunning to spine, pp. 162, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists …

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  • Napoleon : revolution to empire

    # 46720

    GOTT, Ted et al.

    Napoleon : revolution to empire

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …

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  • Mission to Western Australia, commonly called the Swan River settlement.

    # 42856

    WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    Mission to Western Australia, commonly called the Swan River settlement.

    [London : s.n., 1835]. Quarto (250 x 200 mm), [3] pp; printed on letterpress; fourth side docketed ‘Mission to Western Australia’, and with Webster Collection stamp with number 2621 in ms.; original vertical and horizontal folds, some toning, else very well preserved. The foundation document for the Western Australian Missionary Society, recording the resolution for …

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  • The Black Forest, Macedon Ranges, after bushfire. Central Victoria, circa 1862.

    # 46058

    JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)

    The Black Forest, Macedon Ranges, after bushfire. Central Victoria, circa 1862.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount imprinted Jones’s photographs of Australian Sceneries and inscribed in ink: ‘[Vi]ew at Black Forest after Bush fire’; verso inscribed in ink ‘No. 105’; the left-hand print is somewhat faded, and the mount is rubbed …

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  • The art of the First Fleet

    # 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.

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  • The art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings

    # 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.  

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  • The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)

    # 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 …

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  • Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland Aborigines

    # 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 …

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  • The natural food supply of the Australian Aborigines

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

    # 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 …

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  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 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 …

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  • Aboriginal people of Victoria

    # 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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  • The camp at Wallaby Cross : Aboriginal fringe dwellers un Darwin

    # 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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  • [ELCHO ISLAND] My mother, the land

    # 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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