Indigenous Australians
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# 45184
BROWN, Tony and KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-1848
Hobart : The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated. One corner bumped, else a fine copy. Prout’s works in Australia, including studies of indigenous Australians.
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![[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_DSFB_5116-300x300.jpg)
# 45096
PITT, C.A.
[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway
Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (grey variant, other examples printed on yellow and red paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …
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![[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_DSFB_5114-300x300.jpg)
# 45095
PITT, C.A.
[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway
Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (red variant, other examples printed on yellow and grey paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …
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# 35730
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (publisher); FRITH, Henry Albert (active in Australia 1858-1867) (photographer, attributed)
Studio portrait of Pangernowidedic (Bessy Clarke), William Lanne, Trugernanner (Truganini), and Wapperty. Hobart Town, 1864.
[Copy print of a photograph taken in the studio of Henry Albert Frith in 1864]. Hobart : Samuel Clifford, [circa 1867]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 74 x 70 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 84 x 175 mm; verso has printed label ‘Views in Tasmania. / S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town’, with contemporary manuscript …
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# 43593
CHOPIN, Alfred (1846-1902)
Two studio portraits of Nyoongar people. Perth (or Fremantle?), Western Australia, 1871-72.
Two albumen print photographs, in uniform carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mounts); versos with the lithographic imprint in violet of the photographer: ‘By Appointment to His Excellency / Alfred Chopin Artist Photographer / Perth & Fremantle / West Australia’, decorated with an Advance Australia coat of arms; one of the prints has …
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# 44885
MAUGHAN, Janet; ZIMMER, Jenny [FLINDERS UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM]
Dot and circle : a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia. (Signed copy, uncirculated))
A loan exhibition from the Flinders University of South Australia, first shown at the RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 16th April-3rd May, 1985. Melbourne : Communication Services Unit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1986. ‘Publication edited, produced and designed co-operatively by Janet Maughan in Adelaide and Jenny Zimmer in Melbourne.’ Quarto, original pictorial stiff wrappers, 208 pp, …
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# 44478
FISON, Lorimer; HOWITT, A. W. (Alfred William)
Kamilaroi and Kurnai (Presentation copy from the authors)
: group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement : drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines : also the Kurnai tribe, their customs in peace and war. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane : George Robertson, 1880. First edition. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original blind-blocked brown cloth (bright and unrubbed), spine lettered in gilt; presentation …
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# 44472
MATHEW, John
Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian Aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages.
London : David Nutt ; Melbourne : Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1899. First edition. Octavo (240 x 160 mm), original maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine (bright and unrubbed); pp.xvi; 288; illustrated with [5] leaves of plates and a folding colour linguistic map; internally superb, a very fine example of the scarce …
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# 44590
WITHNELL, John G.
The customs and traditions of the Aboriginal natives of North Western Australia. (Facsimile edition)
Roebourne, W.A. : John G. Withnell, 1901. Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965. Series: Australian Facsimile Editions no. 91. Duodecimo (140 x 110 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth-covered boards; pp. [6], 37; a very fine copy.
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![[PINTUPI-LURITJA LANGUAGE] Yara waṉampitjarra](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_DSFB_4370-300x300.jpg)
# 44674
NAPURRULA, Charlotte Phillipus; TJAPANGATI, Thomas Stevens (illustrator)
[PINTUPI-LURITJA LANGUAGE] Yara waṉampitjarra
/ Charlotte Phillipus Napurrulala yara wakanu ; Thomas Stevenslu piitju tjuta wakanu. Alice Springs, N.T. : Papunya Literature Production Centre, 1984. First edition. Quarto (275 x 205 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, [16] pp. text in Pintupi-Luritja with English translation, with 7 full-page colour illustrations; light foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise very good. Primer …
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# 44852
JONES, Phillip
Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …
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# 44818
ALTMAN, Jon; TAYLOR, Luke; MELLOR, Doreen; QUAILL, Avril; MORPHY, Howard, et al.
Transitions : 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory travelling exhibition 2000. At head of title: Telstra presents. Darwin, N.T. : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 2000. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated in colour; a presentation copy inscribed and signed on the title page for noted …
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# 44808
ELSASSER, Albert B.; PAUL, Vivian
Australian aboriginal art : the Louis A. Allen collection : an exhibition at the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley, January 17 – August 25, 1969
Berkeley : University of California, 1969. Small square quarto, pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), stapled, 18 pp, b&w photographic plates of the artworks, map; a very good copy. Highlights from the Louis A. Allen collection, focusing heavily on important bark paintings from Arnhem Land and the Kimberley, and carvings from Melville Island, with accompanying scholarly text. A number …
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# 44673
BARDON, Geoffrey and BARDON, James.
Papunya : a place made after the story. The beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2004 (2006 reprint). Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 527, extensively illustrated. A significant monograph on the foundations of the contemporary indigenous Australian art movement.
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# 41841
[MELVILLE, Henry (1799 - 1873)]
The history of the island of Van Diemen’s Land, from the year 1824 to 1835 inclusive
To which is added, a few words on prison discipline. London : Smith and Elder, 1835 (printed by H. Melville in Hobart-Town, Van Diemen’s Land). Octavo, contemporary straight-grained green morocco, spine ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked, later endpapers; pp. [iv]; 276; occasional spotting, a very good example. The very rare separate issue of the first …
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# 42898
ARAGO, Jacques (1790-1855)
Passeggiata intorno al mondo negli anni 1817 – 18 – 19 – 20 sopra le corvette del Re di Francia l’Urania e la Fisica, comandante dal Sig. Freycinet
Opera del Sig. Arago, disegnatore della spedizione. Milano : dalla dalla tipografia e’fratelli Sonzogno, 1824. Four volumes, duodecimo, publisher’s original printed grey wrappers with decorative borders, some light edge wear, manuscript Roman numerals to spine, various pagination, all edges uncut, occasional light foxing, small stain to lower wrapper of second volume, thirteen finely coloured engraved plates, …