Northern Territory
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# 15671
NICHOLLS, Christine
Yilpinji : love art and ceremony
Melbourne : Craftsman House, 2006. Square octavo, white boards with lettering in blind, pictorial wrappers, pp 86. Illustrated exhibition monograph exploration the notion of Yilpinji, the ceremonies and arts of love as practiced by the Warlpiri and Kukatja people of the Central and Western Deserts of Australia.
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# 15021
LINGWOOD SMITH, William Thomas, 1860-1933
An important archive of photographs of Aboriginal subjects by police photographer W.T. Lingwood Smith, South Australia and Central Australia, circa 1900.
William Thomas Lingwood Smith was a Detective Photographer in the South Australian Police Force from 1888 until his retirement in 1922. As early as 1894 he also pioneered fingerprinting in Australia, becoming an expert in the Criminal Investigation Branch of the South Australian Police Department. The quality of his little-known, non-commercial photographic portraits of indigenous people …
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# 15985
ARBUCKLE BROS.
Trade card with map of Australia and illustrated cartouches, 1889
New York : Arbuckle Bros., [copyright 1889]. Trade card, 68 x 138 mm, recto with chromolithographed design incorporating map of australia and images of kangaroo, black swan, gold miner and sheep; verso with information about Arbuckle Bros’ coffee; in very good condition. The map lists some places which today may seem obscure, but which around …
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# 16006
GRAD, Charles [STUART, John McDouall, 1815-1866]
[JOHN MCDOUALL STUART] Expédition de J. MacDouall Stuart dans l’intérieur de l’Australie 1860.
pp 39-76 in: Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de la Géographie, de l’Histoire et de l’Archéologie. 6e. séries, 8e. année, Juillet 1862. Paris : Arthus Bertrand, 1862. Octavo, original printed wrappers; pp 1-128, folding map of de Bono’s expedition on the White Nile at rear; a near fine copy. An abridged account of Stuart’s expedition of March-August …
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# 15627
MARSH, S[tephen] H[ale] (1805 1888)
[SHEET MUSIC] Dr. Leichhardt’s March, for the piano, composed on the successful termination of his Expedition, after having traversed a distance of nearly 3000 miles through a portion of Australia, hitherto untrodden by civilized man, by his friend, S. H. March.
London : T. Boosey & Co., [circa 1846]. Folio, lithographed title page [verso blank] with a scene of the expedition drawn by W. Boosey, slip cancel “for the piano” replacing “for the harp” (as in other copies); pp [1 blank], 2-5, [1 blank]; four leaves in total; occasional foxing, paper spine; a very good copy of this …
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# 15695
Photographer unknown.
Gold digger and Aborigine, Port Darwin, September 1875
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 67 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with a contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Costume of the diggers in P.D. All the gentlemen dress just like they do in Melbourne. Mr. Solomon’, and dated in pencil in the same hand ‘September 19th 1875’; the albumen print has lost some contrast …
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# 15479
DAILY MAIL NEWSPAPER (Staff photographer)
Aborigines watching the arrival of Amy Johnson’s aeroplane at Darwin, May 24 1930.
Press photograph, printing out paper, glossy print, 215 x 165 mm, verso with a Daily Mail (U.K.) journalist’s typed description of the photograph pasted down, accompanied by what are evidently contemporary annotations made by an unidentified American newspaper’s editorial staff, including the word ‘Negroes’, and the newspaper’s date stamp of ‘Jun 21 1930’; the print has a light …
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# 15670
Crossing country: The alchemy of western Arnhem Land art
Sydney : Art Gallery New South Wales, 2004. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 240. Fully illustrated exhibition monograph of pieces from indigenous artists of Arnhem Land, including Paddy Compass Namatbara, Yirawala, Peter Marralwanga, Jimmy Njiminjuma, John Mawurndjul and Ivan Mamirrkki.
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# 15704
Jilamara Arts and Crafts
Living Tiwi: Tiwi Awuta Yimpanguwi. Contemporary Tiwi paintings from Milikapiti, Melville Island
Melville Island, Northern Territory : Jilamara Arts and Crafts, 2004. Square octavo, pictorial wrappers (stickers on lower wrapper), pp 40. Text in English and German.
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# 15329
WINGHAM, J.
A pictorial souvenir budget of the North Australian Aboriginals
Darwin : J. Wingham, [c.1929]. Oblong octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers (front with a small stain and mild corner crease) with original wool ties, Foreword on inside front wrapper, [24] pp of photographic plates with printed captions; a near fine copy. The first eight plates in this self-published photographic essay on the indigenous culture and customs of Arnhem Land …
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# 15036
Photographer unknown.
Aboriginal men dressed for ceremony, Central Australia, 1900-1910
Gelatin silver photograph, 88 x 142 mm, manuscript caption in the negative ‘Group of natives at Alice Springs’, verso with contemporary inscription in ink ‘Wild blacks in paints ready for Corroboree, Central Aust.’; mild vertical creases at left and right edges, otherwise very good.
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# 15240
LINGWOOD SMITH, William Thomas (1860-1933)
A group of photographs of Aboriginal subjects by police photographer W.T. Lingwood Smith, South Australia and Central Australia, circa 1900.
Five photographs on early printing out paper, each approximately 100 x 145 mm, unmounted; all are outdoor shots of Aboriginal subjects (four with the photographer’s pencilled caption verso); sourced with a group of Lingwood Smith portrait photographs of South and Central Australian Aborigines in identical format, inscribed in the same hand and bearing contemporary captions in ink ‘South …
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# 15012
WHITE, Samuel Albert (1870-1954)
Photographs of the Everard and Musgrave Ranges Expedition, South Australia, June-September 1914
A highly important record of early European contact with the Yankunytjatjara people. Eight gelatin silver print photographs, each 100 x 127 mm, unmounted; versos with the photographer's pencilled captions and sequence numbers; all of the prints are in fine condition. Although principally an ornithologist, by the early 1900s Adelaide-born Samuel White 'had earned a reputation …
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# 14882
STANTON, Don E.
Oh Australia!
Bermagui Sth., N.S.W. : Maranatha Revival Crusade, [1979]. Series: Monthly Message, no. 26. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with stain), stapled, 112 pp, illustrated; a couple of annotations in biro, otherwise a very good copy. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (title page). Christian religious pamphlet written by an …
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# 14883
COCKS, C.H.
Report of the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party of South Australia, June 1978.
Adelaide : Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party of South Australia, 1978. Folio, pcloth backed printed wrappers, 130 pp, [4] leaves of maps; a very good copy.
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# 14905
MARKUS, Andrew
[ABORIGINES] From the barrel of a gun : questions to aid interpretation
[Melbourne : The author, 1974?]. Quarto, 5 pp, stapled, roneo printed; mild horizontal crease, but a good copy. Questions prepared by the author, Andrew Markus, to aid interpretation of his book From the barrel of a gun : the oppression of the Aborigines, 1860-1900 (West Melbourne, Vic. : Victorian Historical Association, 1974), which focuses on conflict between …
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# 14909
BARNARD, Charlotte; [TERRY, Michael, 1899-1981]
Manuscript letter relating to 1930s Central Australian explorer Michael Terry
Manuscript letter of Charlotte Barnard, widow of outback explorer and writer Michael Terry, addressed to Mrs. Hall, sister of Terry's fellow explorer during the early 1930s, the bushman Ben Nicker, informing her of Michael Terry's recent death; headed Mosman, NSW, December 28 1981; single sheet, small quarto, written on both sides; some silverfising at one …
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# 14910
PITTOCK, A. Barrie
Aborigines and land rights
Melbourne : Aboriginal Affairs Dept. of the Australian Union of Students, National Tribal Council, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, 1971. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked and creased), 28 pp, illustrated.
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# 14911
KENYON, Alfred Stephen
Stone implements of the Australian Aborigine. Guide to the classified collection
in the Australian Room, National Museum, Public Library Buildings, Melbourne, arranged for the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Melbourne : Arnale and Jackson Press, 1914. Octavo, printed green wrappers, staple bound, 16 pp; a good copy. The collection is comprised mainly of artefacts from southeastern Australia, but also includes stone …
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# 14912
SPENCER, Baldwin, Sir (1860-1929)
[ABORIGINES] Presidential address to the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cover: Hobart-Melbourne Meeting, January, 1921 … Reprinted from Report of the Fifteenth Meeting of the A.A.A.S., held in Melbourne, 10th January, 1921. Melbourne : Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1921. Octavo, printed grey wrappers, pp 37, [2]; maps and tables; a very good copy. Transcript of Sir Baldwin Spencer’s lecture on the cultural anthropology of …
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# 14904
PARKER, R.S. (Robert Stewart) et al.
New states for Australia : The Australian Institute of Polictical Science ;
Spring Forum ; 1955 ; Proceedings. Sydney : Australian Institute of Polictical Science, 1955. Quarto, original card covers, roneo printed, 90 pp, 1 folding table, 3 folding maps; a very good copy. Contains four papers delivered at the Armidale forum by R.S. Parker (New states for Australia : why new states?), J. MacDonald Holmes (The proposed …
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# 14870
The Alice : centre of the outback
[Cover title]. Alice Springs, N.T. : Northern Territory Administration, 1972. Large octavo, publisher's pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with street map), staple bound, 20 pp, b/w photographic illustrations; a very good copy. A guide for prospective residents, including sections on Aborigines; flora and faunahousing; employment; education; churches; community activities, etc.
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# 14876
Your guide to Darwin.
[Darwin] Palmerston Printers, [1978]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (sunned; light vertical crease); 36 pp, illustrations, maps. Two copies are recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia; Northern Territory Library)
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# 14907
AUSTRALIA. CITIES COMMISSION; AGIUS, McNALLY, HOLMWOOD
Alice Springs urban development study
Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Agius, McNally, Holmwood, 1975. Large quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers, 64 pp, colour illustrations and maps; a very good copy. A condensed version of the detailed report by Hanson & Todd.
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# 14805
Photographer unknown.
Aerial view of the Meat Works, Myilly Point and Point Emery, Darwin, circa 1925
Black and white photograph on printing out paper, 85 x 135 mm, handwritten caption in the negative 'The Meat Works, Myilly Point & Point Emery, Darwin'; fine condition.
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# 14803
Photographer unknown.
Crocodile hunt, Daly River, Northern Territory, circa 1925
Black and white photograph on printing out paper, 85 x 135 mm, handwritten caption in the negative 'A Fine Pair, Daly River'; fine condition.
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# 14802
BUSCALL, Jack
Meridian ant hills, Northern Territory, circa 1925
Black and white photograph on glossy printing out paper, 90 x 140 mm, handwritten caption in negative 'Meridian ant hills'; verso wet stamped 'Jack Buscall, Darwin, N.A. [i.e. Northern Australia]'; in fine condition. Photographs taken by Jack Buscall are held in the collections of the National Library of Australia and the Northern Territory Library.
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# 14838
ISAACS, Jennifer; PRIMROSE, Ian
Aboriginal Art Series
[North Sydney] : Aboriginal Arts & Crafts Pty. Ltd., with assistance from the Aboriginal Arts Board and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, [c.1975-79]. Complete set of 10 pamphlets, nos. 1 – 10, each a single sheet folding to 220 x 105 mm, each with 8 pp, illustrations in colour and black and white, and a …
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# 14862
MORPHY, Howard; JONES, Rhys
Eastern Arnhem Land Aboriginals today
Sydney : Aboriginal Arts & Crafts, 1978. Kit comprising the following: 2 sound cassettes, 84 colour transparency slides, map (690 x 360 mm); lacks the 48 page booklet, otherwise complete and in good condition. The only complete examples of this important educational kit recorded in Australian collections are held by AIATSIS and the National Museum of …
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# 14755
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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# 14735
Photographer unknown.
A group of Aborigines in ceremonial decoration, Central Australia, circa 1900
Gelatin silver print, 153 x 104 mm; unmounted; a little wear at top left corner and some very faint creasing, otherwise fine. Two men and a woman pose for the camera, with their dog and a traditional shelter immediately behind them. A white canvas tent belonging to an interloper – most likely the anonymous photographer …
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# 14690
CARROLL, H. S.
The new counties, hundreds, & district atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory, 1876.
Together with map of South Australia indicating roads, distances, relative position of counties &c., &c. Showing — All Boroughs, Post-towns, Villages, Hamlets, Road Boards, Roads, Railways, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, Mountains, Stations, the Area of County and Station, (the Names, Occupiers, Grazing capabilities and Area of each), the Population of each Town in the Colony, Height …
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# 14266
LEWIS, Darrell; ROSE, Deborah Bird
The shape of the dreaming : the cultural significance of Victoria River rock art
Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1988. Series: AIATSIS report series 1030-6544. Quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers (mild corner creasing), 79 pp, illustrated; includes bibliography.
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# 14267
Tiwi pottery Bathurst Island : an exhibition of Tiwi pottery from Bathurst Island
Sydney : Aboriginal Arts Board, 1980. Small oblong quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, [20] pp, profusely illustrated; a fine copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Potters' Gallery, Darlinghurst, in March 1980.
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# 14528
ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.
Great suffragette demonstration in London. The Australian section
forming up on the Thames Embankment. Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,954, printed title beneath the images; recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs Melbourne ; Sydney …
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# 14628
GOESIN, Petrus de
Geographie, ofte beginselen der Land-Beschryvinge, zoo als die in haer eygen aerd, in verdeeling
van Landen en Gewesten met Wateren en Zee-en sig bevinden, en door Bergen, Rivieren en Stroomen onderscheiden zyn; als mede den principaelsten Koophandel die in elke Landen verrigt worden. Tot Gend [Ghent] : Petrus de Goesin, [1762]. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (heavily rubbed and scuffed), spine with raised bands, compartments with stamped floral design in gilt …
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# 14463
GUNN, Æneas (pseud.) [GUNN, Jeannie, 1870-1961]
The Little Black Princess
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens., [c.1934]. Octavo, green cloth boards, 107 pp, lacking dust jacket and title page. A later edition, telling the story of a young indigenous girl at a Northern Territory homestead with photographic plates throughout. An important presentation copy, inscribed by the author: “I inscribe this book for the Hermannsburg Mission Appeal …
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# 14355
LONG, W. Arnold
Harry Foster : a trophy of grace from the Northern Territory of Australia
/ The story of a blind Australian Aboriginal who was a Missionary to his own people. Sydney : Aborigines Inland Mission of Australia, [1940]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, pp 57, photographic illustrations, map; title page with short tear at top corner, else a very good copy.
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# 14375
WALLER, Olga D. A.
Clay sculptures of Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by William Ricketts
(Based on folk-lore gathered by Sir Baldwin Spencer and Davd Unaipon). Foreword and catalogue with synopsis of legends. [Melbourne] : [s.n.], [circa 1938]. Quarto, printed wrappers, staple bound, 7 leaves, roneo printed; contains an essay titled “William Ricketts' interpretation of Australia Aboriginal folk-lore” by Olga D. A. Waller, which clearly relates to an exhibition of Rickett's …
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# 13871
SPENCER, Baldwin; GILLEN, F.J.
The Northern Tribes of Central Australia
London : Macmillan and Co., 1904. First edition. Octavo, gilt decorated cloth boards (rubbed and marked), endpaper with bookplate, inscription, and pencil notes 784 pp. An important anthropological and ethnographical publication surveying the Indigenous Australian tribes of what is now the Northern Territory, with a wealth of observations on the culture, art, and traditions of …
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# 14233
Gourié, E.
Manuscript map of Australia, dated 1835
Ink and wash on paper, 350 x 455 mm (sheet); laid down on modern backing sheet; some loss along the early vertical fold line (mainly at the extremities) and in bottom left corner of sheet. A relatively early manuscript map showing Australia and Van Diemen's Land, as well as New Guinea and parts of the …
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# 14280
THE GRAPHIC.
[TELEGRAPH; QUEENSLAND] Map of south-eastern Asia and Northern Australia
: showing the districts in Annam and Tonquin which France proposes to annex and to place under a Protectorate, the portion of New Guinea proposed to be acquired by Queensland, and the districts affected by the volcanic eruptions in Java. London : Letts Son & Co. Ltd., 1883 [issued as a supplement to The Graphic, …
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# 14268
Macknight, C.C.; GRAY, W.J.
Aboriginal stone pictures in Eastern Arnhem Land
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970. Small quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, pp xi, 44, illustrated; a near fine copy.
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# 13924
SEARCY, Alfred
By flood and field
Adventures ashore and afloat in North Australia. London : G. Bell & Sons, 1912. Octavo, lettered cloth in dustjacket issued by Cole's Book Arcade, Melbourne and Adelaide (a few chips but overall very good), pp. 327, illustrations, folding map. Scarce in the dustjacket.
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# 13688
WATSON, Judy Napangardi et al
Desert Mob 20th Anniversary Print Folio
Darwin : Basil Hall Editions, 2010. Folding clamshell box with a unique piece of Tjanpi Desert weaving set into the lid, housing 40 original woodblocks by Aboriginal artists from 38 art centres across Australia. Limited to 10 copies, accompanied by certificates of authenticity from each art centre. In 2010 a commemorative folio of original artworks …
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# 13297
AUSTRALIA. DEPARTMENT OF MARKETS AND MIGRATION.
[IMMIGRATION] Australia : its resources and production
/ issued on behalf of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia under the authority of the Minister for Markets and Migration. Melbourne : Dept. of Markets and Migration, 1926. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers, 96 pp, black and white photographic illustrations, statistical tables; a fine copy. Copies of this edition are recorded in five …
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# 13265
The Alice : centre of the outback
[Cover title]. Alice Springs, N.T. : Northern Territory Administration, 1972. Large octavo, publisher's pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with street map), staple bound, 20 pp, b/w photographic illustrations; a very good copy. A guide for prospective residents, including sections on Aborigines; flora and faunahousing; employment; education; churches; community activities, etc.
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# 12188
STRANG, Herbert
The air scout : a story of national defence
/ by Herbert Strang ; illustrated in colour by W.R.S. Stott. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. First edition. Large octavo, original pictorial cloth boards lettered in gilt, front pastedown with school prize certificate dated 1916, pp x, 431, illustrated with [10] full-page colour plates, maps, a fine copy. A work of fiction for juvenile …
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# 12389
BRITISH EMPIRE FILMS PTY. LTD.
The Overlanders : a romance in film making ; echoing the heartbeat of Australia’s greatness.
[Sydney : British Empire Films, Ltd.?, 1946?]. Small quarto, original pictorial stiff wrappers (lightly creased), [16] pp, photographic illustrations throughout, including stills from the film, shooting on location in the Roper River region and portraits of the cast, led by Chips Rafferty and Daphne Campbell; internally clean and sound.
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# 12090
EARL, George Windsor
[ABORIGINES] The natives races of the Indian archipelago. Papuans.
London : Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. Octavo, original blind-stamped brick-red cloth boards (sunned and marked), spine lettered in gilt (softened at head and tail), hinges a little weak, [vi, advertisements], xiv, [iv, first and last pages blank], [folding chart of 'Specimens of Papuan and North Australian dialects'], 239, [1, advertisement] pp, illustrated with 2 small wood engravings …
