Indigenous Australians

  • Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)

    # 49855

    DOBBYN, Tim

    Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)

    Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This biography of one of Australia’s treasured artists offers an intimate portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Mervyn Bishop, Australia’s ground-breaking Indigenous photographer. Born in Brewarrina …

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  • Black, White and Colour. (Deluxe edition, Format 2)

    # 49854

    DOBBYN, Tim

    Black, White and Colour. (Deluxe edition, Format 2)

    Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. Editions 71-100. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This is copy number 73. Each specially bound limited edition in box contains two original signed photographs: Is there an Aboriginal photography? Self-portrait, 1989, AND Prime …

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  • The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.

    # 49979

    WEBB, T. T.

    The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.

    / Ninth Methodist Laymen’s Memorial Lecture delivered by T.T. Webb, Wesley Church, Monday 26th March 1934. [Melbourne] : Methodist Laymen’s Missionary Movement, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers, stapled; pp 39, map; light occasional foxing, a very good copy.

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  • The aborigines of Australia : their ethnic position and relations.

    # 49869

    FRASER, John

    The aborigines of Australia : their ethnic position and relations.

    London : The Victoria (Philosophical) Institute … Australia and New Zealand : G. Robertson & Co., [1888]. Octavo, printed buff wrappers (sunned, and detached as is often the case with this publication); pp. ii, 36, 4 (publisher’s ads.); a good copy. A paper read at a meeting of the Institute, and transcript of the ensuing …

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  • An unusual series of stone arrangements near the Serpentine River, Ebor district, New South Wales.

    # 49839

    McBRYDE, Isabel

    An unusual series of stone arrangements near the Serpentine River, Ebor district, New South Wales.

    Sydney : Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited, 1964. “Reprinted from Oceania, December 1963. Vol. XXXIV, no. 2”. Small quarto (240 x 190 mm),stapled printed wrappers; pp. 137-146, including map, diagrams, plus [3] full-page b/w photographic plates; a very good copy.

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  • Stone implement making among the Nakako, Ngadadjara and Pitjandjara of the Great Western Desert.

    # 49838

    TINDALE, Norman B.

    Stone implement making among the Nakako, Ngadadjara and Pitjandjara of the Great Western Desert.

    Adelaide : W. L. Hawes, Government Printer, 1965. Reprint ‘From the Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. XV, No. 1, October 6th, 1965’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 131-164; illustrated with 23 figures; a fine copy. This paper describes observations at a native mining place in the Mount Davies …

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  • Australian Aboriginal stone implements : a suggested classification.

    # 49840

    KENYON, A. S and D. L. STIRLING

    Australian Aboriginal stone implements : a suggested classification.

    / By A. S. Kenyon and D. L. Stirling. (Read 4th October, 1900). Melbourne : Ford & Son, 1901. “Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, issued March, 1901, Vol. XIII (New Series), Pt. II”. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), original stapled printed wrappers (a few chips); pp. 191- 200, plus a folding …

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  • Woman's role in Aboriginal society.

    # 49848

    GALE, Fay (editor)

    Woman’s role in Aboriginal society.

    Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970. “Australian Aboriginal Studies, no. 36. Social Anthropology series, no. 6”. First edition. Quarto (260 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers (spine sunned); pp. 48; b/w photographic illustrations, diagrams; previous owner’s name to front free-endpaper; a very good copy.

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  • The parrying shields of south-east Australia.

    # 49835

    MASSOLA, Aldo

    The parrying shields of south-east Australia.

    Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria, 1963. ‘Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 76, Part 2. Issued separately, 28 June, 1963’. Small quarto (250 x 180 mm), stapled printed grey wrappers; pp. 227-232; illustrated with line-drawn figures, distribution map; bibliography; a very good copy.

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  • An unrecorded method of manufacturing wooden implements by simple stone tools. (Inscribed by Mountford)

    # 49827

    MOUNTFORD, Charles P.

    An unrecorded method of manufacturing wooden implements by simple stone tools. (Inscribed by Mountford)

    Adelaide : Royal Society of South Australia, 1941. ‘From “Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,” vol. 65, (2), 1941’. Large octavo (240 x 185 mm), original printed wrappers (foxed, old vertical fold), the front inscribed by the author in fountain pen ‘With compliments from C. P. Mountford’; pp. 312-[317], with a full-page photographic …

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  • Aboriginal art of the Western Desert

    # 49815

    BARDON, Geoff

    Aboriginal art of the Western Desert

    Melbourne : Rigby, 1979. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. 71, illustrated, inscription to half-title, preliminaries lightly foxed. A very good copy The first edition of the first book on the Papunya Tula art movement. Includes 24 illustrated works by Old Walter Tjampatjimpa, Johnny Warrangula Tjaparula, Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamara, …

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  • Contemporary Territory

    # 49831

    MENDHAM, Dawn; WEST, Margie

    Contemporary Territory

    Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1994. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. 80; illustrated in colour, with b/w portraits of the artists; a very good copy.; loosely inserted is the ‘Catalogue Supplement’ , containing the exhibition’s opening address by Justice David Angel. This catalogue for an exhibition showcasing …

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  • Contemporary Aboriginal art 1990 - from Australia.

    # 49828

    SMITH, Terry

    Contemporary Aboriginal art 1990 – from Australia.

    Glasgow, UK : Third Eye Centre & Aboriginal Arts Committee, Australia Council, 1990. ‘This exhibition is part of Tagari Lia: My Family – Contemporary Aboriginal Arts from Australia, Glasgow 1990’. Small quarto. 250 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers; pp. 20; colour and b/w illustrations; foreword by Lin Onus, catalogue essay by Terry Smith; a …

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  • Arone Raymond Meeks : Common ground. The Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, 3-27 July 1997.

    # 49833

    ISAACS, Jennifer

    Arone Raymond Meeks : Common ground. The Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, 3-27 July 1997.

    Canberra : ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, 1997. Small quarto (270 x 170 mm), pictorial wrappers; illustrated endpapers, pp. 35, colour illustrations; an excellent copy. Meeks was a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists’ Co-operative in Redfern.

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  • Utopia. 5 February to 20 February, 1999.

    # 49836

    ANDERSON, Christopher [BMG ART]

    Utopia. 5 February to 20 February, 1999.

    North Adelaide : BMG Art, 1999. Quarto (260 x 210 mm), folding card with [6] panels, illustrated in colour; list of works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Greeny Purvis Petyerre, Barbara Weir, Gloria Petyarre, Lindsay Bird Mpetyane, and Ada Bird Petyarre ; excellent condition.  

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  • The Devil's Hands, Nowra (New South Wales).

    # 41909

    Photographer unknown.

    The Devil’s Hands, Nowra (New South Wales).

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 86 mm; manuscript caption in image lower left ‘The Devil’s Hands, Nowra’; mailed from Nowra to Parramatta on 10 April 1909 by a Shoalhaven tourist who writes: ‘Good walk across scenery worth seeing’; in excellent condition. Rare early photograph of a painted rock shelter at …

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