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  • The justice game. (Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Robertson for Felix Dennis, editor of Oz magazine)

    # 47092

    ROBERTSON, Geoffrey (1946- )

    The justice game. (Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Robertson for Felix Dennis, editor of Oz magazine)

    London : Chatto & Windus, 1998. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black cloth with silver-lettered spine in pictorial dust jacket; front pastedown with ex libris of Felix Dennis (1947-2014), editor of London Oz, publisher and later media tycoon; a presentation copy with a highly significant association, inscribed on the title page by Geoffrey Robertson for Dennis: ‘To …

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  • Correspondence concerning the great Melbourne telescope. In three parts: 1852 -1870.

    # 46905

    Royal Society (Great Britain). Southern Telescope Committee.

    Correspondence concerning the great Melbourne telescope. In three parts: 1852 -1870.

    London : Taylor and Francis, 1871. Octavo, lettered flush cut papered boards, cloth spine (a few minor marks), presentation label to upper pastedown ‘Presented to W. H. Miller by the Royal Society’, pp. viii]; 45; [blank]; 3; [blank]; 40; [ii]; 59; [blank]; five lithographed plates (two folding), occasional light foxing, pale water stain to contents …

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  • Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.

    # 47054

    MICHNIEWICZ, Onufry et al.

    Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.

    [Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: ‘Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et …

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  • The dendroglyphs, or "carved trees" of New South Wales.

    # 47013

    ETHERIDGE, R. (Robert), junior (1846-1920)

    The dendroglyphs, or “carved trees” of New South Wales.

    Sydney : Dept. of Mines, 1918. Series: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Ethnological series, no. 3. Large quarto (305 x 240 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed papered boards (sunned at edges and lightly marked); hinges cracked; front free-endpaper with gift inscription in Welsh for Australian archaeologist and anthropologist Betty Meehan, dated May 1969, and …

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  • [BOTANY; KANGAROO; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume VIII. [1807]

    # 46772

    RUDGE, Edward; BOURKE LAMBERT, Aylmer et al.]

    [BOTANY; KANGAROO; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume VIII. [1807]

    London : Richard Taylor & Co., 1807. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), later green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, front pastedown with bookplate of distinguished German-born Australian botanist Sophie Ducker (1909-2004); pp. viii, 364, [3]; illustrated with 20 engraved plates (some folding, and including a number of hand-coloured conchological plates); a few of the plates with offsetting, …

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  • [BOTANY; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume X. [1811]

    # 46773

    RUDGE, Edward; SMITH, James Edward et al.]

    [BOTANY; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume X. [1811]

    London : Richard Taylor & Co., 1811. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), later green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, front pastedown with bookplate of distinguished German-born Australian botanist Sophie Ducker (1909-2004); pp. vi, 414, [2]; illustrated with 32 engraved plates (some folding); a few of the plates with foxing and/or offsetting, otherwise internally excellent. Includes two …

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  • Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    # 24450

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rubbed along lower edge upper board), dust jacket with colour illustrations (very slight rubbing to extremities), pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to half-title, title page (small wet stamp of previous owner), pp. 79; (1), coloured panelled illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Rare: …

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  • Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.

    # 46922

    DUESBURY, Samuel

    Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount. 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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  • "Aboriginal and camp on Wimmera River".

    # 46906

    [Photographer and publisher unknown]

    “Aboriginal and camp on Wimmera River”.

    [Title from printed caption in image]. [Melbourne, Vic.? : s.n., c.1910]. Chromolithographic postcard, 87 x 137 mm; mailed from Flemington, Melbourne to the USA in December 1912; very light corner wear, otherwise fine condition. A very scarce postcard documenting an Aboriginal fringe dweller’s camp in northwest Victoria in the early years of the twentieth century. …

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  • Bundjalung family at Lawrence, near Maclean on the Clarence River, New South Wales, c.1905.

    # 46900

    KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)

    Bundjalung family at Lawrence, near Maclean on the Clarence River, New South Wales, c.1905.

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock, 85 x 136 mm; hand-written caption and imprint in the negative: ‘Aboriginal Camp, Lawrence / Kerry 3411’; verso with Kodak Austral box, uninscribed and not mailed; the image has excellent clarity; fine condition. One of Charles Kerry’s lesser-known photographs of Aboriginal people, but a particularly valuable …

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  • Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.

    # 46903

    BOOMERANG ENTERTAINMENT

    Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.

    Granville, NSW : Boomerang Entertainment Centre, [c.1960]. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper, 165 x 215 mm, verso with wet stamp of the Boomerang Entertainment Centre, and identifying caption in pen ‘Fred Little’; light creasing and corner wear.    

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  • The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986

    # 47012

    MICHAELS, Eric

    The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986

    Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial stiff wrappers (rubbed); pp. xxii, 159; a very good copy. “Report of the Fellowship to Assess the Impact of Television in Remote Aboriginal Communities”.

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  • Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

    # 47066

    HINKSON, Melinda

    Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

    Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press [AIATSIS], 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xi, 178, illustrated. ‘What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri people of Central Australia have seen their place in the world and have been …

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  • A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages

    # 46885

    PLOMLEY, N. J. B. (Norman James Brian)

    A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages

    Launceston, Tas. : N.J.B. Plomley in association with the Government of Tasmania, 1976. Large octavo (255 x 180 mm), cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (front panel a trifle worn at top edge); endpaper maps; xv, 486 pp, map; internally unmarked, an excellent copy. Plomley’s scholarly work on Tasmanian Aboriginal languages was compiled over twenty-five years …

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  • We live at Mimili

    # 46994

    Institute for Aboriginal Development (Alice Springs, N.T.)

    We live at Mimili

    Alice Springs, N.T. : Institute for Aboriginal Development, [1982?]. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), stapled wrappers, [16] pp; photographically illustrated; text in English; a fine copy. Mimili is an Aboriginal community in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia. It is located in the Everard Ranges. This little publication is an English language reader designed for Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara speakers at Mimili.

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  • We live at Finke

    # 46998

    Institute for Aboriginal Development (Alice Springs, N.T.)

    We live at Finke

    Alice Springs, N.T. : Institute for Aboriginal Development, [1982?]. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), stapled wrappers, 32 pp; photographically illustrated; text in English; a fine copy. This little publication is an English language reader designed for Arrernte and Luritja speakers in the remote Aputula community, situated in the Northern Territory 317 km south of Alice Springs near …

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