Indigenous Australians

  • Wanderings in wild Australia

    # 47028

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Wanderings in wild Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, original green cloth boards (lightly rubbed and marked), spines lettered in gilt, gilt lettered spines, top edges gilt, light water stain to upper margin of second volume, volume I pp xxviii, 456; volume II pp xiv, 457-930, ii advertisements, illustrated with black and white …

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  • The Arunta : a study of a stone age people

    # 46972

    SPENCER, Baldwin Sir (1860-1929); GILLEN, F.J. (1855-1912)

    The Arunta : a study of a stone age people

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1927. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, green cloth covered boards (lightly flecked), spines with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, pp xxviii, 390; xvi, 391-646, illustrated with photographic plates (3 colour and 1 with colour overlay), folding map; a fine set of this landmark ethnological work.

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  • "Native wurley". South Australia, c.1890.

    # 46901

    STUMP & CO. [STUMP, Alfred, 1860-1925]

    “Native wurley”. South Australia, c.1890.

    Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; handwritten caption in negative ‘Native wurley’, along with ‘Stump & Co., Adelaide’; unmounted; a good print with excellent clarity, in fine condition.  

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  • The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by "Garryowen"

    # 46874

    "Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)

    The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

    Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (refurbished and recoloured, expertly rebacked with new spines lettered in gilt, a pencilled note on the endpaper of the second volume reads ‘Repaired H. Green £6.6.0’), all edges gilt, endpapers replaced, bookplates of Bernard Gore Brett …

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  • Le monde en estampes (deluxe coloured edition)

    # 12393

    MULLER, Elisabeth

    Le monde en estampes (deluxe coloured edition)

    Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers. Paris : Bedelet, [c.1858]. Oblong quarto, polychrome cloth gilt (expertly rebacked), all edges gilt, 52 pp, with 24 hand coloured tinted lithographed plates; light foxing, but a very good copy. A finely illustrated study of the races of the world, with sections on the New Zealand Maori, Marquesas …

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  • Le monde en estampes. Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers.

    # 9262

    MÜLLER, Elisabeth

    Le monde en estampes. Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers.

    Paris : Bédelet, n.d. [circa 1858]. Oblong quarto, original quarter black morocco over blind blocked black cloth boards (rubbed) with gilt lettering and design to upper board, spine with gilt lettering and ornament (softened at head and tail), all edges gilt, 52 pp, illustrated with lithographed vignettes + 24 tinted lithographed plates by J. Bocquin after …

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  • Le magasin des petits explorateurs

    # 47125

    BONDAZ, Julien (editor)

    Le magasin des petits explorateurs

    sous la direction de Julien Bondaz. [Arles] : Actes sud ; [Paris] : Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, [2018]. Quarto, illustrated papered boards, pp. 365, illustrated. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, France, May 23-October 7, 2018. A fascinating examination of how foreign cultures were …

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  • The White Australia Policy

    # 47156

    WINDSCHUTTLE, Keith (1942-2025)

    The White Australia Policy

    Sydney, NSW, Macleay Press, 2004. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), trade paperback, pp. 370; a fine copy.

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  • The fabrication of Aboriginal history. Volume One : Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847

    # 47155

    WINDSCHUTTLE, Keith (1942-2025)

    The fabrication of Aboriginal history. Volume One : Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847

    Sydney, NSW, Macleay Press, 2002 (revised edition, 2003). Octavo, boards in dust jacket, pp. 472, illustrations; a fine copy. A controversial book, self-described as ‘the most exhaustive analysis yet undertaken of relations between settlers and Aborigines from the time the British founded the colony in 1803’, which argues that the previous historians have vastly overstated …

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  • Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander history

    # 46897

    BARWICK, Diane; MACE, Michael; STANNAGE, Tom (eds.)

    Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander history

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  • The native born : objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land (softcover)

    # 46986

    MUNDINE, Djon

    The native born : objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land (softcover)

    Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Bula’bula Arts, Ramingining, [2000]. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 242, extensively illustrated, a little edge wear, a good copy. Focuses upon the character and background of the Ramingining Collection, formed by Djon Mundine — who also provides the major essay for this book. ‘This exhibition of …

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  • Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route

    # 46977

    PICKERING, Michael et al.

    Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route

    Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2010. Quarto, cards in dustjacket, pp. [xx]; 230, illustrated. The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …

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  • My people's life : an Aboriginal's own story

    # 46973

    MIRRITJI, Jack

    My people’s life : an Aboriginal’s own story

    Milingimbi, NT : Milingimbi Literature Centre, 1976. Small quarto (230 x 2100 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; pp. [4], 76, with a photographic portrait of the author; text in English; a fine copy. ‘Compilation of Mirritji’s writings including description of shelters; food; initiation and mortuary ceremonies; witchdoctors; contact with Macassans; myth of Wagilak sisters.  

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  • Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century

    # 46966

    SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)

    Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century

    With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Reprint, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 162, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected …

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  • Cook's Pacific encounters. The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Gottingen.

    # 46890

    HETHERINGTON, Michelle et al.

    Cook’s Pacific encounters. The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Gottingen.

    Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv; 110, illustrated. Ephemera enclosed. “Cook’s Pacific Encounters brings together objects from the Cook-Forster collection of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany, and materials related to Cook’s voyages held in Australian collections. The Cook-Forster collection comprises artefacts collected during the three Pacific voyages …

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  • "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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