Indigenous Australians

  • Kamilaroi and Kurnai (Presentation copy from the authors)

    # 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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  • Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian Aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages.

    # 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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  • The customs and traditions of the Aboriginal natives of North Western Australia. (Facsimile edition)

    # 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

    # 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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  • Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    # 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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  • Transitions : 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

    # 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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  • 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

    # 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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  • Papunya : a place made after the story. The beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement

    # 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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  • The history of the island of Van Diemen's Land, from the year 1824 to 1835 inclusive

    # 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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  • 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

    # 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, …

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  • 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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  • 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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