Northern Territory

  • [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. …

  • 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.

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

    # 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 …

  • 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.

  • Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    # 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 …

  • 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.

    # 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: …

  • Printed invitation to an exhibition of paintings from Ngukurr, Roper River, Northern Territory at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 14 February 1989.

    # 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.

  • The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)

    # 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 …

  • The natural food supply of the Australian Aborigines

    # 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 …

  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 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 …

  • The Northern Territory of South Australia : its development.

    # 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.

  • The camp at Wallaby Cross : Aboriginal fringe dwellers un Darwin

    # 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.

  • Arnhem Land dreaming : bark paintings from Tasmanian collections

    # 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.

  • Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings 1912 - 1964

    # 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; …

  • The art of Ramingining

    # 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.

  • Irrit̲itja kuwarri tjungu = Past & present together : fifty years of Papunya Tula artists

    # 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 …