Indigenous Australians
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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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# 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.
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …