Northern Territory

  • Modern Aboriginal paintings

    # 51249

    BATTARBEE, Rex and Bernice

    Modern Aboriginal paintings

    Adelaide : Rigby, 1971. 1976 reprint. Quarto, illustrated boards, unpaginated, illustrated in colour; a very good copy. Includes work by Albert Namatjira; Enos, Oscar, Gabriel, Ewald, Keith, and Maurice Namatjira; Edwin, Otto and Reuben Pareroulta; Henoch and Herbert Raberaba; Benjamin Landara; and the Ebatarinja family.

    $30.00 AUD Read more
  • Battarbee and Namatjira

    # 51243

    MARTIN, Edmond

    Battarbee and Namatjira

    Sydney : Giramondo, 2014. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 341. Biography of Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) and his mentor Rex Battarbee (1893-1973).

    $45.00 AUD Read more
  • 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: …

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  • The native tribes of Central Australia

    # 50555

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

    The native tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, plain paper label to pastedown, pp. xx, 672 (last blank), [2 publisher’s advertisements]; illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; scattered foxing throughout, a good copy.

    $800.00 AUD Read more
  • Nomenclature of archaeological cultures and associated implements in Australia.

    # 50824

    TINDALE, Norman B.

    Nomenclature of archaeological cultures and associated implements in Australia.

    Adelaide : A. B. James, Government Printer, 1968. Reprint ‘From the Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. XV, No. 4, November 5th, 1965’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 615-640; with 21 line-drawn figures; a fine copy.  

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  • Across the desert : Aboriginal batik from Central Australia

    # 50767

    RYAN, Judith et al

    Across the desert : Aboriginal batik from Central Australia

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. A fine copy.

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  • Bradshaw's ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia

    # 50605

    WALSH, Grahame L. (1944 - 2007)

    Bradshaw’s ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia

    Geneva : Edition Limitee for The Bradshaw Foundation, 1994. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. xviii; 284, 99 colour plates, maps. A fine copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Housed in the original publisher’s mailing carton, with the original prospectus, order form, and related clippings. Since their ‘discovery’ by pastoralist Joseph …

    $1,100.00 AUD Read more
  • The aborigines of Central Australia

    # 50649

    WILLSHIRE, W. H.

    The aborigines of Central Australia

    With vocabularies of the dialects spoken by the natives of Lake Amadeus and of the western territory of Central Australia. Adelaide : C. R. Bristow, Government Printer, 1891. Octavo, fine modern binding of half crushed morocco over marbles papered boards, pp. 51; [blank]. small chips to title leaf, with auction label of ‘Hackett’ sale, a …

    $1,400.00 AUD Read more
  • The northern tribes of Central Australia

    # 50534

    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 (some flecking and light marks), spine lettered in gilt; bookseller’s label removed from pastedown; pp xxxv, 784, [2 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; front hinge cracked, lightly foxed, extensively annotated in pencil.

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  • Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

    # 50100

    STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)

    Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.

    London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …

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  • Dark and white Australians

    # 50028

    STREHLOW, T. G. H.

    Dark and white Australians

    Adelaide : Aborigines Advancement League Inc. of South Australia, 1964. Second impression. Octavo, publisher’s stapled plain card with cream-coloured covers lettered in brown (lightly marked); pp. 34; internally clean and fresh, a good copy.

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  • Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    # 48976

    [HADDON, Alfred Cort]; RIVERS, W. H. R.; SELIGMAN, C. G.; MYERS, Charles; McDOUGALL, W.

    Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    Cambridge, UK : at the University Press, 1901-03. Two volumes, large quarto (280 x 210 mm), in uniform cloth-backed printed green wrappers as originally issued (Part I in superb condition, the upper wrapper of Part II detached, both Parts slightly sunned at edges and with the original printed price labels); Part I. pp. vi, [2], …

    $600.00 AUD Read more
  • They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA's Arnott's Collection

    # 50023

    MUNDINE, Djon et al.

    They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection

    Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated.. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 14 February – 3 August 2008. ‘They are Meditating: Bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection showcased over 200 rare and significant Aboriginal bark paintings from the late 1960s …

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  • The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.

    # 49979

    WEBB, T. T.

    The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.

    / Ninth Methodist Laymen’s Memorial Lecture delivered by T.T. Webb, Wesley Church, Monday 26th March 1934. [Melbourne] : Methodist Laymen’s Missionary Movement, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers, stapled; pp 39, map; light occasional foxing, a very good copy.

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  • Red light for yellow-cake : the case against uranium mining.

    # 49782

    HAYES, Denis, FALK, Jim and BARRETT, Neil.

    Red light for yellow-cake : the case against uranium mining.

    Melbourne : Friends of the Earth Australia, 1977. Octavo, stapled yellow wrappers printed in red; pp. 96; map; foreword by Manning Clark; a very good copy.

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  • An unrecorded method of manufacturing wooden implements by simple stone tools. (Inscribed by Mountford)

    # 49827

    MOUNTFORD, Charles P.

    An unrecorded method of manufacturing wooden implements by simple stone tools. (Inscribed by Mountford)

    Adelaide : Royal Society of South Australia, 1941. ‘From “Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,” vol. 65, (2), 1941’. Large octavo (240 x 185 mm), original printed wrappers (foxed, old vertical fold), the front inscribed by the author in fountain pen ‘With compliments from C. P. Mountford’; pp. 312-[317], with a full-page photographic …

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