Northern Territory
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# 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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# 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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# 47066
HINKSON, Melinda
Remembering the future : Walpiri 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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# 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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# 46883
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988
Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …
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# 29462
LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)
Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.
London : T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …
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# 46326
GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI
Printed invitation to an exhibition of paintings from Ngukurr, Roper River, Northern Territory at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 14 February 1989.
Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 1989. Folding card, 200 x 100 mm, work by Ginger Riley illustrated; gallery information printed inside and verso; good condition, aside from the fact that the card was once pinned to a noticeboard by the original invitee.
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# 46108
BASEDOW, Herbert (1881-1933)
The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)
Adelaide : F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s purple cloth, upper board with gilt-stamped device depicting Wandjina spirit, spine lettered in gilt (a little sunned), colour frontispiece plate, pp xx, 422, illustrated with 55 photographic plates and line drawings in the text; edges slightly foxed, a very good copy. Loosely enclosed …
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# 46113
ALBRECHT, Rev. F. W.
The natural food supply of the Australian Aborigines
/ by Rev. F. W. Albrecht, Hermannsburg. Adelaide, SA : Aborigines’ Friends’ Association, [1943]. First edition. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), stapled wrappers (original owner’s name to front), [10] pp, b/w photographic illustrations; a good copy. ‘Looks at the traditional food supplies of the Aboriginal people of the Western MacDonnell Ranges and adjoining districts including …
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# 46107
SPENCER, Baldwin
Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia
London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (lightly flecked), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, in the rare original dustjacket (a few tape repairs to corners, light general wear), pp. xx, 516, [2], illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, contents clean and bright, a very …
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# 46274
JENKINS, John Greeley (1851-1923)
The Northern Territory of South Australia : its development.
Proposals of the government, as announced by the Premier and Minister controlling the Northern Territory. Adelaide : J. L. Bonython & Co., 1904. Tall octavo pamphlet, original printed orange wrappers, staple bound, 11 pp, a fine copy.
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# 46097
SANSOM, Basil
The camp at Wallaby Cross : Aboriginal fringe dwellers un Darwin
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1980. Octavo, publisher’s wrappers; pp. vii, 280; map, diagrams; previous owner’s notes to inside lower wrapper, otherwise very clean; a good copy.
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# 46091
BERESFORD, Amanda
Arnhem Land dreaming : bark paintings from Tasmanian collections
Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, self-wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [8], illustrated. Includes barks from Groote Eylandt, Yirrkala, Central Arnhem Land, Western Arnhem Land and the West Kimberleys.
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# 46092
McCARTHY, F. D.
Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings 1912 – 1964
Exhibition organized by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Commonwealth Arts Festival Exhibition. Liverpool, U.K. : Walker Art Gallery, 1965. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 23, illustrated. ‘Introduction and catalogue of exhibition written by F.D. McCarthy; bark paintings from Northern Territory – Bathurst and Melville Islands – Tiwi people; Goulburn Island, western N. Arnhem Land Maung; …
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# 46094
MUNDINE, John
The art of Ramingining
Surfers Paradise, Qld : The Centre Gallery, 1987. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, pp. [6], illustrated. Related ephemera enclosed. Includes works by George Milpurrurru, David Malangi et al.
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# 46104
SKERRITT, Henry F. et al.
Irrit̲itja kuwarri tjungu = Past & present together : fifty years of Papunya Tula artists
Edited by Fred Myers and Henry Skerritt ; with contributions by John Kean. Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards (corner bumped), pp. xiii, 278, illustrated. ‘In 1971 a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia’s remote Central and Western Deserts changed the face of global art history. The township of …