Northern Territory
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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 …
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# 46138
YULE, Ian R.
[ELCHO ISLAND] My mother, the land
/ edited by Ian R. Yule. Galiwin’ku, N.T. : Christian Action Group, Galiwin’ku Parish, Uniting Church in Australia, in association with Action for World Development, 1980. Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper lightly marked, lower wrapper with previous owner’s annotations); pp. 43, b/w photographic and line-drawn illustrations; internally very good. ‘A …
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# 46137
RUHE, Edward Lehman
Aborigine bark paintings : an exhibition of primitive art from Arnhem Land, Australia organised by Edward L. Ruhe. The Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. November 30 – December 21 1973.
Octavo (225 x 150 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 21, illustrated in b/w.; a good copy. Catalogue for an exhibition of 88 Arnhem Land barks from Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Western Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, Melville Island etc., organised by American collector and academic Dr Edward Lehman Ruhe. Trove locates a single copy in Australian institutional collections …
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# 46074
HOFF, Jennifer
Tiwi graveposts
[Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Tiwi artist Janet Mungatopi is photographed painting motifs on graveposts based on designs that she saw her grandfather paint for funeral ceremonies when she was a small girl.
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# 46007
SIMS, Paddy Japaljarri (c. 1917 - 2010); STEWART, Paddy Japaljarri (1935 - 2013)
Yuendumu Doors suite
Darwin : Northern Editions Print Workshop for Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, 2000. Thirty sugar lift etchings, printed in colour from single plates, each titled lower centre and editioned lower left 56 / 75 by the publisher, each personally signed by the artist either ‘P S’ (Paddy Stewart) or ‘X’ (Paddy Sims, who could not write), each …