Indigenous Australians
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# 43721
ECCLESTON, Gregory C.
Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : second in command to Major Mitchell
Melbourne : Evandale Publishing, 2018. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xix; 250; 46 pages of plates, a fine, new copy. “Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous ‘Australia Felix’ expedition …
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# 43642
MAWURNDJUL, John; MUSEUM TINGUELY (BASEL); KAUFMANN, Christian (editor)
Rarrk – John Mawurndjul : a journey through time in northern Australia
Belair, South Australia : Crawford House Publishing, 2005, Large quarto (280 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, 238 pp, colour illustrations; a fine copy. ‘Published on the occasion of the exhibition. Museum Tingely, Basel: 21 September 2005 to 29 January 2006 ; Sprengel Museum Hannover: 19 February to 5 June 2006’. ‘Comprehensive …
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# 43540
JONES, Rhys
The Tasmanian Aboriginal in Art
Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Text by Rhys Jones. Catalogue of 115 works, including works by Arago, Bock, Becker, Dowling, Duterrau, Glover, Gould, Lesueur, Simkinson de Wesselow, Webber and photographs by Nixon, Winter, Woolley, and others. Note : this copy has heavy creases to the covers …
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![[BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2018/01/11181605/2018_DSFB_0051-293x300.jpg)
# 17332
VAN AMBURGH & CO.
[BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children
are Evidently of a Cannibal Race! / Judging From Their Natural Proclivities, Their Long Sharp Teeth, etc. / Perhaps the Only Specimen From That Country Now Living … These Wonders of All Wonders were captured about 7 years ago by a party of gold hunters in the mountainous regions of Australia … Can Be Seen In a …
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# 43318
MUNDINE, Djon et al.
They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated, fine condition. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 14 February – 3 August 2008. ‘They are Meditating: Bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection showcased over 200 rare and significant Aboriginal bark paintings from the …
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# 43297
JONES, Rhys
The Tasmanian Aboriginal in Art
Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Text by Rhys Jones. Catalogue of 115 works, including works by Arago, Bock, Becker, Dowling, Duterrau, Glover, Gould, Lesueur, Simkinson de Wesselow, Webber and photographs by Nixon, Winter, Woolley, and others.
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# 43148
PARTOS, Louise (editor)
Warka irititja munu kuwari kutu = Work from the past and the present : a celebration of fifty years of Ernabella Arts
[Ernabella, S. Aust.] : Ernabella Arts Incorporated, [1998]. Small quarto (250 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, 64 pp., colour illustrations, map; a very good copy. ‘In-depth examination of the history, influences and activities of Ernabella arts ; includes interviews with artists Nura Rupert, Nyukana Baker, and Tjulkiwa; batik ; wood carving.’ (NLA)
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# 43115
ELITE STUDIO (JONES & LOTZ) (SAN FRANCISCO); WENDT, Frank (NEW YORK)
Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).
I. San Francisco : Elite Studio, Jones & Lotz, 838 Market Street, [1892]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (108 x 163 mm, mount), recto with embossed studio imprint at left margin; verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Nov. 3 92 Stockton Cal. saw them throw them. Photo of Cannibals from Australia who use the …
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# 43090
WEST, Margie (editor)
Yalangbara : art of the Djang’kawu
Produced in partnership with Banduk Marika and other members of the Rirratjingu clan, north-east Arnhem Land ; edited by Margie West. Darwin, N.T. : Charles Darwin University Press, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 208, illustrated. “Yalangbara is the first indigenous art publication to focus upon one significant ancestral site. It has been produced on behalf …
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# 42697
KELL, Julius
Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales
[=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain …
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# 42812
YOUNG'S AUCTIONS, MELBOURNE.
The Berry Collection. Part II. Auction of Australian Aboriginal & Pacific Island artefacts,
ceramics & glassware, Oriental items, silver, Australian pottery, art & items of interest. East Hawthorn, Vic. : Young’s Auctions, 2009. Quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers, pp 81, with descriptions of 913 lots, most illustrated in colour; a fine copy. Catalogue for one of a series of auctions held in 2007, 2008 and 2009 which featured items …
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# 41533
VANCOUVER, George, 1757-1798; SPARRMAN, Anders, 1748-1820
En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.
Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver’s voyage account, being Anders Sparrman’s abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (spine and edges worn and rubbed); contemporary …
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# 41951
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, Jenny and her son Toby: the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 117 mm format (approximately cabinet card size); laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the mount with a calligraphic caption in ink: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte; both prints with some loss of contrast, scattered pale …
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# 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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![[ABORIGINES] Aventures d’un voyageur en Australie : neuf mois de séjour chez les Nagarnooks](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/12/2023_DSFB_7298-300x300.jpg)
# 42031
PERRON D'ARC, Henri
[ABORIGINES] Aventures d’un voyageur en Australie : neuf mois de séjour chez les Nagarnooks
Paris : L. Hachette et Cie., 1870. Second edition. Small octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (edges rubbed), spine with gilt lettering (slight wear at head and tail), [iv]; 351 pp, 24 engraved plates, scattered foxing. Description of life amongst Australian Aboriginal peoples, the illustrations including depictions of corroboree, burial platform, hunting scene, and men in possum skin …
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# 42568
KOHEN, Apolline (curator)
John Mawurndjul : new paintings
Annandale, NSW : Annandale Galleries, 2004. Square octavo (210 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. 20, colour illustrations; a fine copy.