Indigenous Australians

  • Michael Cook

    # 42529

    COOK, Michael (1968 - )

    Michael Cook

    Brisbane : Andrew Baker Art Dealer, circa 2015. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. ‘Michael Cook is a photographer who worked commercially both in Australia and overseas for twenty-five years. In 2009, Cook was drawn into art photography by an increasingly urgent desire to learn about his Aboriginal ancestry and identity. As a child, Cook …

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  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 42476

    HUNT, Susa and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.

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  • Outside in : research engagements with Arnhem Land art : the Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, 30 August - 7 October 2001

    # 42320

    MORPHY, Francis (ed.)

    Outside in : research engagements with Arnhem Land art : the Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, 30 August – 7 October 2001

    / curators and catalogue essays, Jon Altman, Nigel Lendon, and Frances and Howard Morphy; catalogue editor, Frances Morphy. Canberra : Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, [2001]. Small square quarto (235 x 250 mm), pictorial laminated wrappers, pp. 36, with colour illustrations; a fine copy. ‘… the work of a curatorium consisting of Howard and …

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  • Australian archaeology : a guide to field and laboratory techniques.

    # 42275

    MULVANEY, D. J. (editor)

    Australian archaeology : a guide to field and laboratory techniques.

    Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1972. Second edition. Series: AIAS Manual No. 4. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. ix, 121; with b/w photographic plates and line-drawn illustrations; an excellent copy. With contributions by F. D. McCarthy, I. M. Crawford, Winifred Mumford, H. A. Polach, D. J. Mulvaney, et al. Includes …

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  • Ritual intimacy.

    # 42132

    THOMPSON, Christian (1978 - )

    Ritual intimacy.

    Caulfield East, Vic. : Monash University Museum of Art, 2017. Reprinted 2019. Small quarto (230 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers, 128 pp, 92 pages of colour plates of indigenous multidisciplinary artist Christian Thompson’s work; catalogue essays by Charlotte Day, Brian Catling and Marina Warner; Christian Thompson and Hetti Perkins in conversation; an as new …

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  • Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.

    # 41953

    BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)

    Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.

    BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924) Billy, one of 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 large 220 x 170 mm format; laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the …

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  • Group of Wardandi Noongar people. Bunbury, Western Australia, early 1900s.

    # 41961

    H. B. ALBERT & CO.

    Group of Wardandi Noongar people. Bunbury, Western Australia, early 1900s.

    Perth & Bunbury : H. B. Albert & Co., Booksellers, [ca. 1906]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 138 mm, recto with printed caption: ‘Group of Bunbury Aboriginal Natives, W. A.’, and brief inscriptions by the sender at upper left and top edge; verso with more substantial handwritten message (the whole of which must have been written …

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  • Albert Namatjira : souvenir portfolio : six watercolours painted in Central Australia by foremost Australian Aboriginal artist.

    # 41906

    NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902-1959)

    Albert Namatjira : souvenir portfolio : six watercolours painted in Central Australia by foremost Australian Aboriginal artist.

    Artarmon, N.S.W. : Legend Press, [circa 1980]. Publisher’s illustrated envelope (a few light stains and tears with tape repair), 185 x 235 mm, housing six colour reproductions of paintings by Namatjira, each 175 x 225 mm (sheet size), plus a seventh sheet with biographical information and b/w photographic portrait of the artist. Scarce. The second issue, …

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  • Larrakia children posing on the branches of a dead tree, Port Darwin, circa 1920.

    # 40125

    Photographer unknown.

    Larrakia children posing on the branches of a dead tree, Port Darwin, circa 1920.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 90 x 140 mm; verso inscribed in pencil ‘Port Darwin’; fine condition, unmounted. In spite of the fact that Port Darwin had officially became known as Darwin in 1911, we believe this photograph was taken by a visitor with a personal camera around 1920; they simply used the old nomenclature in …

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  • Woman seated beside a man standing and holding an axe. Brisbane, circa 1870.

    # 40440

    DUESBURY, Samuel

    Woman seated beside a man standing and holding an axe. Brisbane, circa 1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; a superb print with rich tonal range, in excellent condition. Staffordshire-born photographer Samuel Duesbury was active in Brisbane from 1868. Along with Thomas Bevan, Daniel Marquis, and John Watson, he was one of the four …

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  • The fallen race

    # 41389

    GRANVILLE, Austyn (1854-1922)

    The fallen race

    / With an introduction by Opie Read. New York : F. T. Neely, 1892. Octavo, gilt-titled two-tone cloth (edges worn, spine chipped at head and foot, hinges with glue repairs), patterned endpapers (contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper), pp 352 (text block cracked, a few wet stamps from Prospect Point Manor, Michigan), illustrated with five …

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  • [TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.

    # 39538

    COZENS, Charles

    [TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.

    London : Richard Bentley, 1848. First edition. Duodecimo (170 x 110 mm), contemporary half red calf over cloth, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, original marbled endpapers, pp. viii, 272; occasional light foxing, several leaves with browning, else internally excellent; ex St. John’s College Library, …

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  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 41798

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 150, gift inscription to title page, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.

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  • Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Vocabulary of dialects spoken by Aboriginal natives of Australia.

    # 34589

    [BARRY, Sir Redmond]

    Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Vocabulary of dialects spoken by Aboriginal natives of Australia.

    Melbourne : Masterman, Printer, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1867. Only edition in English. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (some chipping to the edges, pale water stain and foxing to fore edge), sewn, pp xiv, [2], 6 large format tables of vocabulary (each folding to 460 x 580 mm, in fine condition), an excellent copy. Ferguson notes …

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  • Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    # 33446

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]

    Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    [Melbourne : compiled and published by H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, c.1880]. Duodecimo, blue papered boards with gilt stamped lettering and ornament, cloth spine, containing folding concertina of [12] panels with lithographic illustrations after Kruger’s photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken at various times between around 1866 …

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  • Real Australian jungle stories : legends of the Aborigines

    # 17724

    TURNER, Robert

    Real Australian jungle stories : legends of the Aborigines

    Sydney : Northwood Press, 1936. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp 64. Cover depicts Oolamunga, the rainmaker of Lake Nash.

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