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  • Reading Tiwi

    # 46970

    Summer Institute of Linguistics. Australian Aborigines Branch.

    Reading Tiwi

    Darwin, NT : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch, 1976. Small quarto (250 x 200 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; pp. [4], 10, with 12 printed language cards inside envelope at rear (as issued); a fine copy.

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  • Australia : William Blandowski's illustrated encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia

    # 47020

    ALLEN, Harry

    Australia : William Blandowski’s illustrated encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia

    / Edited by Harry Allen. Contributions by Mark Dugay-Grist, Brook Andrew, Luise Hercus and Thomas A. Darragh. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011. Large quarto (295 x 240 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed leather boards with pictorial onlay to front; pp. viii, 188, profusely illustrated; a fine copy in the publisher’s pictorial slipcase.

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  • The currency of Aboriginal words in Australian English

    # 46898

    RAMSON, W. S.

    The currency of Aboriginal words in Australian English

    Sydney, NSW : Australian Language Research Centre, University of Sydney, 1964. Occasional Paper no. 3. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), printed blue wrappers sunned at edges), pp. 15, [1]; internally very good.

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  • [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    # 47025

    WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

    [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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  • Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    # 46812

    METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

    Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    [Melbourne : Methodist Home Mission Society, between 1920 and 1930]. Stiff envelope, 112 x 150 mm, recto with map of Australia showing areas where the Home Missions are active (in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and western and northern Queensland), and slogans including ‘This Society seeks the Salvation of men, women and children irrespective of …

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  • Adnyamathanha group, Nepabunna Mission, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, c.1931.

    # 46902

    [Photographer unknown].

    Adnyamathanha group, Nepabunna Mission, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, c.1931.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 71 x 116 mm; verso with later pencilled annotation ‘Nepabunna Mission area’ (this information was most likely copied from an album mount); fine condition. ‘The Adnyamathanha people were displaced from their traditional lands in the 1850s by pastoralists, no longer able to travel around their lands as before owing to the …

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  • "Group of Black Trackers".

    # 46904

    KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)

    “Group of Black Trackers”.

    [Title from printed caption in image]. Sydney, NSW : Kerry & Co., [c.1904]. Lithographic postcard, 87 x 137 mm; verso with undivided back (which means the card was published before 1905); uninscribed and not mailed; in fine condition.

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  • Ngurrju-maninjakurlangu : yapa nyurnukurlangu : Bush medicine

    # 46992

    HENSHALL, Tom et al.

    Ngurrju-maninjakurlangu : yapa nyurnukurlangu : Bush medicine

    / contributors: Tom Henshall, Darby Jampijinpa, Jilly Nakamarra Spencer, Francis Jupurrula Kelly, Peter Bartlett, Leonard Japanangka Granites, Jennie Price, Edith Coulshed, George Jampijinpa Robertson. Yuendumu] : Warlpiri Literature Production Centre, 1982. Third edition. Quarto (285 x 210 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (lacking the cloth backstrip); pp. [3], 22, with numerous b/w photographic and line-drawn illustrations; …

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  • Nginingawila mirrijini [= Our medicine]

    # 46971

    MUNKARA, Hilary; PURUNTATAMERI, Charlie; KANTILA, Donald; APUATIMI, Raphael; STEVENSON, Paul (design and photography)

    Nginingawila mirrijini [= Our medicine]

    Cover title: Nginingawila mirrijini / Tiwi. Darwin, NT : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch, 1975. Small quarto (250 x 200 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial wrappers (original owner’s name to front); pp. [1], 13, [3], with numerous b/w photographic illustrations on unnumbered leaves; text in Tiwi with English translation at rear; a fine copy. …

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  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 47023

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (very well preserved), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, xx, 516 [2] pp, illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, bookseller’s label to pastedown, a very good copy.

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  • The native tribes of central Australia

    # 47027

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F.J. (Francis James)

    The native tribes of central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Second edition, with a preface by J.G. Frazer. Octavo, publisher’s maroon cloth boards, spine with gilt lettering, pp xxiv, 672, illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams (3 folding). [3] folding colour and black and white maps, [4] folding colour plates, contents clean and sound, a very …

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  • The northern tribes of Central Australia

    # 47024

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The northern tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (edges lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, bookseller’s label to pastedown, pp xx, 672, illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; lightly foxed.

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  • Wanderings in wild Australia

    # 47028

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Wanderings in wild Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, original green cloth boards (lightly rubbed and marked), spines lettered in gilt, gilt lettered spines, top edges gilt, light water stain to upper margin of second volume, volume I pp xxviii, 456; volume II pp xiv, 457-930, ii advertisements, illustrated with black and white …

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  • The Arunta : a study of a stone age people

    # 46972

    SPENCER, Baldwin Sir (1860-1929); GILLEN, F.J. (1855-1912)

    The Arunta : a study of a stone age people

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1927. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, green cloth covered boards (lightly flecked), spines with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, pp xxviii, 390; xvi, 391-646, illustrated with photographic plates (3 colour and 1 with colour overlay), folding map; a fine set of this landmark ethnological work.

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  • "Native wurley". South Australia, c.1890.

    # 46901

    STUMP & CO. [STUMP, Alfred, 1860-1925]

    “Native wurley”. South Australia, c.1890.

    Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; handwritten caption in negative ‘Native wurley’, along with ‘Stump & Co., Adelaide’; unmounted; a good print with excellent clarity, in fine condition.  

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  • A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (Atlas volume only, with full complement of 87 maps, plates and charts)

    # 46639

    COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James

    A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (Atlas volume only, with full complement of 87 maps, plates and charts)

    A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere … Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in his majesty’s ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. London : Printed by W. and A. …

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