Indigenous Australians
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 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.