Northern Territory

  • 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 …

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  • Nature's investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

    # 50563

    VALLANCE, T. G. et al.

    Nature’s investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

    Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora), [2001]. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 666, illustrations, a fine copy. Scarce. The diary of Robert Brown, naturalist on the ‘Investigator’ voyage of Matthew Flinders, with much …

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  • The native tribes of South-East Australia

    # 50536

    HOWITT, A. W.

    The native tribes of South-East Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1904. Octavo, gilt-decorated cloth (rubbed, bottom corners bumped, spine ends softened with short split at head of spine); ex-library with stamp removed from spine, wetstamp and bookplate from the Royal Colonial Institute to front pastedown (no other markings), pp. xx, 819, maps and folding plates; light foxing to outermost leaves, a good …

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  • 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 with a lengthy tear and chipped corner, both Parts slightly sunned at edges and with the original printed price …

    $1,250.00 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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  • Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.

    # 49856

    BISHOP, Mervyn (b. 1945)

    Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.

    1975/2021. Edition number of 25. Digital c-type photograph, signed, dated and titled, 60 x 60 cm. Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA. Mervyn Bishop was born in Brewarrina in 1945. He commenced a four-year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he would work for seventeen …

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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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  • Stone implement making among the Nakako, Ngadadjara and Pitjandjara of the Great Western Desert.

    # 49838

    TINDALE, Norman B.

    Stone implement making among the Nakako, Ngadadjara and Pitjandjara of the Great Western Desert.

    Adelaide : W. L. Hawes, Government Printer, 1965. Reprint ‘From the Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. XV, No. 1, October 6th, 1965’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 131-164; illustrated with 23 figures; a fine copy. This paper describes observations at a native mining place in the Mount Davies …

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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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  • Contemporary Territory

    # 49831

    MENDHAM, Dawn; WEST, Margie

    Contemporary Territory

    Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1994. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. 80; illustrated in colour, with b/w portraits of the artists; a very good copy.; loosely inserted is the ‘Catalogue Supplement’ , containing the exhibition’s opening address by Justice David Angel. This catalogue for an exhibition showcasing …

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  • Utopia. 5 February to 20 February, 1999.

    # 49836

    ANDERSON, Christopher [BMG ART]

    Utopia. 5 February to 20 February, 1999.

    North Adelaide : BMG Art, 1999. Quarto (260 x 210 mm), folding card with [6] panels, illustrated in colour; list of works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Greeny Purvis Petyerre, Barbara Weir, Gloria Petyarre, Lindsay Bird Mpetyane, and Ada Bird Petyarre ; excellent condition.  

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  • Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    # 49394

    BECHER, A. B.

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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