Northern Territory
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# 44856
OTTENS, Reinier (1698 - 1750); de WIT, Frederik (1629 - 1706)
Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en ‘t Eylandt California
Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens’ chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit’s chart …
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# 44701
SPENCER, Walter Baldwin (1860-1929)
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, anthropologist: autograph note, signed, re. the loan of his photographs of the Arunta (Arrernte) people of Central Australia to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Melbourne, 1899.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, octavo (175 x 105 mm); headed ‘Museum / Public Library, Oct 9/99 (Baldwin Spencer had recently been appointed honorary director of this institution), the letter is addressed ‘Dear Mr Macdonald’ [i.e. Alexander Cameron Macdonald,1828-1917, surveyor, geographer, and founding member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia), and is signed ‘Yours sincerely, …
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# 44674
NAPURRULA, Charlotte Phillipus; TJAPANGATI, Thomas Stevens (illustrator)
[PINTUPI-LURITJA LANGUAGE] Yara waṉampitjarra
/ Charlotte Phillipus Napurrulala yara wakanu ; Thomas Stevenslu piitju tjuta wakanu. Alice Springs, N.T. : Papunya Literature Production Centre, 1984. First edition. Quarto (275 x 205 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, [16] pp. text in Pintupi-Luritja with English translation, with 7 full-page colour illustrations; light foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise very good. Primer …
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# 44818
ALTMAN, Jon; TAYLOR, Luke; MELLOR, Doreen; QUAILL, Avril; MORPHY, Howard, et al.
Transitions : 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory travelling exhibition 2000. At head of title: Telstra presents. Darwin, N.T. : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 2000. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated in colour; a presentation copy inscribed and signed on the title page for noted …
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# 44468
THOMSON, Donald F. ; PETERSON, Nicolas (editor)
Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land. (Presentation copy)
/ by Donald Thomson ; compiled and introduced by Nicolas Peterson. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2003. Revised edition. Octavo (255 x 180 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket, pp. xvi, 245, illustrated; a fine presentation copy, inscribed for Frank [Purcell] on the colophon by Professor Nicolas Peterson and on the verso of the front …
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# 44462
GUNN, Grazia
Groote Eylandt art : Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection, part one.
Parkville, Vic. : University of Melbourne, [1973]. Small quarto (240 x 210 mm), spiral bound pictorial wrappers, 45 pp, illustrated in colour and b/w; a very good copy; with a loosely enclosed typed letter from the Vice-Principal of the University of Melbourne, Ray Marginson, dated 18 June 1986, presenting this copy to Werribee Councillor Frank …
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# 43952
AUSTRALIA. COMMONWEALTH OFFICE OF EDUCATION. MORRIS, Katherine (illustrator)
[ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIMER FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN] Nari and Minala go to school.
Sydney : A. H. Pettifer, Government Printer, [c.1950]. Series: The Bush Books, Book 4. Octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers (a little sunned at edges); 24 pp, illustrations throughout (some colour), inside wrappers with word lists; a very good example. ‘This book is the fourth of a series of six primers prepared …
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# 43955
ROBINSON, Donny & PORTER, Gerald (text); PORTER, Gerald (illustrator)
[NGAANYATJARRA LANGUAGE] Kutjulpirtuya palyalpayi yungarralu
[=What they did in the old days]. Darwin, NT : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch [for United Aborigines Mission], 1974. Oblong octavo (160 x 200 mm), original cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; 8 pp, line-drawn illustrations; text in Ngaanyatjarra, with a preface in English; very good copy. The Ngaanyatjarra people are part of the Western Desert cultural …
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# 39542
DRYSDALE, Russell (1912 - 1981)
Western Desert
Watercolour, pen and ink on paper, watermarked Canson France, 145 x 225 mm (image), 162 x 248 mm (paper), titled and signed lower right, framed (framed size 465 x 525 mm). In this small gem of a painting, Drysdale effectively captures the expansive inland landscape, sparsely populated with the occasional rocky outcrop or patch of …
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# 42483
MINUTJUKUR, Alec; KIRKE, Brian (translator)
[PITJANTJATJARA LANGUAGE] Tjukurpa wati kutjutja : A story about a man
Alice Springs, NT : Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1975. Series: A Pitjantjatjara Book, Book Seven. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers (upper wrapper with previous owner’s name, and name of co-translator struck out, presumably by the publisher; spot of insect damage at head of spine); 42 pp. parallel text in Pitjantjatjara and …
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# 18614
山田申太郎 (Yamada Shintarō) & 高原徹也 (Takahara Tetsuya), edited by 日原昌造 (Hihara Shōzō).
[MAPS] 万国地誌略諳射訳図 (萬國地誌略諳射譯圖)(萬國地誌畧諳射譯圖) [Bankoku Chishiryaku Ansha Yakuzu]
Complete set of 6 copperplate engraved maps with hand colouring. Maps 1-4 published by 岡安慶介 (Okayasu Keisuke) [1878] (Meiji 11); Maps 5 & 6 published by 桑原伊之助 (Kuwabara Inosuke) [1880] (Meiji 13). 1. Asia, the Middle East, and Russia east of the Urals (340 x 400 mm); 2. Africa (310 x 260 mm); 3. Europe, with Russia …
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# 41677
MALBUNKA [MALBANGKA], Maxina [and] ELATJIA, Milton
A drawing and two letters written in Western Arrernte by children from the Finke River Mission at Hermannsburg, 1942-44.
I. Maxina Malbunka (Malbangka). Letter in Western Arrernte. Manuscript in ink on recto of quarto sheet of ruled paper (240 x 195 mm); dated at Hermannsburg via Alice Springs, 11 July 1942; addressed to ‘My friend Gordon’ and signed at the foot ‘Maxina’; written double-spaced, with a typed English translation on the intervening lines; original …
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# 40125
Photographer unknown.
Larrakia children posing on the branches of a dead tree, Port Darwin, circa 1920.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 90 x 140 mm; verso inscribed in pencil ‘Port Darwin’; fine condition, unmounted. In spite of the fact that Port Darwin had officially became known as Darwin in 1911, we believe this photograph was taken by a visitor with a personal camera around 1920; they simply used the old nomenclature in …
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# 41554
LISTNER, Carl & GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich
En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.
Öfversättning. [=An emigrant’s adventure and After the shipwreck. Two stories from Australia. Translation]. Stockholm : S. Flodins boktryckeri, 1873. Small octavo (183 x 120 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards, black leather spine repaired with black tape; pp. [4], 95; text in Swedish (translated from the German); inner hinges a little weak, front pastedown with mark caused …
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# 41586
SCHERER, P. A. (Philipp A.)
[HERMANNSBURG] Venture of faith : an epic in Australian missionary history
Adelaide : Lutheran Publishing House, 1975. Reprint of the second edition. Octavo(208 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp vi, 89; with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, folding map at rear; a fine copy. The story of the founding of the Lutheran mission to the Arrernte people at Hermannsburg on the Finke River. ‘Summary: Account of first journey from Bethany …
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# 40629
ALBRECHT, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1894-1984.
Albert Namatjira : native artist / by F.W. Albrecht. Superintendent of the Finke River Mission, Hermannsburg, Central Australia
[Hermannsburg, N.T. : Finke River Mission, 1950]. Octavo, wrappers illustrated front and back (very lightly creased), stapled, [7] pp. Scarce. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (Australian Lutheran College; Flinders University Theological Library; National Library of Australia; National Museum of Australia Library; Macquarie University Library; Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. Peter Spillett Library).