Indigenous Australians

  • Languages of the Kamilaroi and other Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales.

    # 44463

    MATHEWS, R. H. (Robert Hamilton) (1841-1918)

    Languages of the Kamilaroi and other Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales.

    London : Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1903. “Reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXXIII, July-December 1903”. Quarto (270 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed green wrappers (edges sunned, original owner’s name to front and first page of text), pp. 259-283; an excellent copy, bound in later limp morocco with silver …

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  • Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land. (Presentation copy)

    # 44468

    THOMSON, Donald F. ; PETERSON, Nicolas (editor)

    Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land. (Presentation copy)

    / by Donald Thomson ; compiled and introduced by Nicolas Peterson. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2003. Revised edition. Octavo (255 x 180 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket, pp. xvi, 245, illustrated; a fine presentation copy, inscribed for Frank [Purcell] on the colophon by Professor Nicolas Peterson and on the verso of the front …

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  • The photographs of Baldwin Spencer (hardcover edition)

    # 44461

    SPENCER, Walter Baldwin, Sir (1860-1929)

    The photographs of Baldwin Spencer (hardcover edition)

    Edited by Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. xv; 223, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from …

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  • Random thoughts at Wyndham, W.A.

    # 44455

    CASSIDY, C. T. (Clarence Thomas)

    Random thoughts at Wyndham, W.A.

    Wyndham, W.A. : C.T. Cassidy, [1977]. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), staple-bound illustrated wrappers (scattered stains and small amount of insect damage), 34 leaves roneo-printed on rectos only; internally very clean. Scarce self-published collection of poetry by Wyndham resident Clarence Cassidy, with themes including Aboriginal-settler relations, town characters, cattle droving, and the landscape of the …

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  • Aboriginal art galleries of western New South Wales. Part 3

    # 44440

    BLACK, Lindsay

    Aboriginal art galleries of western New South Wales. Part 3

    Being a continuation of a series on the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales. Burial Trees being Part 1. Cylcons. The Mystery Stones of the Darling River Valley being Part 2. Foreword by C. P. Mountford. [S.l. : s.n.], 1943. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 76, illustrated with …

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  • Groote Eylandt art : Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection, part one.

    # 44462

    GUNN, Grazia

    Groote Eylandt art : Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection, part one.

    Parkville, Vic. : University of Melbourne, [1973]. Small quarto (240 x 210 mm), spiral bound pictorial wrappers, 45 pp, illustrated in colour and b/w; a very good copy; with a loosely enclosed typed letter from the Vice-Principal of the University of Melbourne, Ray Marginson, dated 18 June 1986, presenting this copy to Werribee Councillor Frank …

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  • Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (deluxe coloured edition)

    # 26694

    WHITE, John (1756-1832)

    Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (deluxe coloured edition)

    / with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esqre., Surgeon General to the settlement. London : J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, in an Italian binding of full white vellum, contrasting morocco title labels, decorated in gilt, engraved map from 1802 of the …

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  • Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet)

    # 44349

    ANEMAAT, Louise

    Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet)

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, light handling marks, pp. 256, illustrated. A fine copy. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden …

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  • Mason Judy (deluxe edition)

    # 44123

    TODD, Trevor; JUNIPER, Robert

    Mason Judy (deluxe edition)

    Illustrated by Robert Juniper. Sydney : Methuen, 1977. Quarto, quarter leather over cloth, illustrated slipcase (sunned), pp. [74], faint light foxing, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by artist and author, this copy signed by both but out of series. “Mason Judy is lonely and unhappy when his family move to a …

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  • Wadgayawa nhay dhadjan wari : They made them a long time ago

    # 44170

    INGREY, Ray; TIMBERY, Noeleen, et al.

    Wadgayawa nhay dhadjan wari : They made them a long time ago

    Sydney : SLNSW, 2023. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 39, colour illustrations, maps; pristine copy. Catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition of objects on loan from overseas institutions held at the State Library of New South Wales, 7 October 2023 – 28 January 2024. The objects were selected by members of the La Perouse Aboriginal Community …

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  • European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale's copy, signed by artist and author)

    # 44121

    SMITH, Bernard

    European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale’s copy, signed by artist and author)

    A study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s navy cloth over boards, in dust jacket (chipped, sunned and worn), 287 pp, with 171 b/w plates; internally very clean and sound, a good copy of the scarce first edition. Signed on the title page by …

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  • Aboriginal art of the Western Desert

    # 44102

    BARDON, Geoff

    Aboriginal art of the Western Desert

    Melbourne : Rigby, 1979. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (sunned on spine and upper corner of jacket, a few marks and edge wear), pp. 71, illustrated. A 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, …

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  • Contact sheet with fifteen portraits of Aboriginal men from New South Wales and Queensland, 1888-1895.

    # 43601

    KERRY, Charles (1858-1928)

    Contact sheet with fifteen portraits of Aboriginal men from New South Wales and Queensland, 1888-1895.

    Albumen print, 145 x 190 mm; each of the fifteen portraits is numbered and captioned in the negative, with vertical imprint of ‘Kerry’s Studios, 310 George St., near Hunter St., Sydney.’; in very good condition. A composite of fifteen portraits produced by Kerry from his own standard format albumen prints. Kerry used this form of …

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  • [ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIMER FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN] Nari and Minala go to school.

    # 43952

    AUSTRALIA. COMMONWEALTH OFFICE OF EDUCATION. MORRIS, Katherine (illustrator)

    [ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIMER FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN] Nari and Minala go to school.

    Sydney : A. H. Pettifer, Government Printer, [c.1950]. Series: The Bush Books, Book 4. Octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers (a little sunned at edges); 24 pp, illustrations throughout (some colour), inside wrappers with word lists; a very good example. ‘This book is the fourth of a series of six primers prepared …

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  • Exposition Intercoloniale, 1866. Vocabulaire des dialectes des aborigenes de l'Australie.

    # 43816

    [BARRY, Sir Redmond]

    Exposition Intercoloniale, 1866. Vocabulaire des dialectes des aborigenes de l’Australie.

    Melbourne : Masterman, Printer, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1867. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers (some chipping and foxing to the edges, lacking the lower wrapper), sewn, pp xiv, [2], 6 large format tables of vocabulary (each folding to 460 x 580 mm),the tables detached from the text block, which is perforated along the gutter. French language …

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  • Endeavour voyage : the untold stories of Cook and the first Australians

    # 42547

    COATES, Ian (editor)

    Endeavour voyage : the untold stories of Cook and the first Australians

    Canberra, ACT : National Museum Of Australia, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 200, illustrated. ‘The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation’s origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by …

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