Northern Territory
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# 50422
JOHNSON, Vivien
Lives of the Papunya Tula artists
Alice Springs : IAD Press, 2008.Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. xvi; 402, extensively illustrated. New copy. ”Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’ chronicles the beginning of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades. Through comprehensive and widely researched biographies of more than …
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# 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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# 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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# 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 …
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# 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.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_1652-300x298.jpg)
# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/01/2026_DSFB_0606-300x300.jpg)
# 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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# 49242
TRENDELL, A. J. R.
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.
A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …
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# 48894
BATTARBEE, Rex (1893-1973); NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902 - 1959) et al.
Modern Australian Aboriginal art. (Limited deluxe edition, signed by the artists)
With a foreword by T.G.H. Strehlow. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1952. Folio, quarter crushed morocco with gilt rule over green cloth (sunned at fore-edges), spine with gilt lettering and rule; top edge stained blue; front free-endpaper with original owner’s names ‘C.C.T. & M.L.M. Hazelwood, Weonga’; the deluxe edition, containing two additional coloured plates and strictly …
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# 48972
TRUDINGER, Ronald M.
Grammar of the Pitjantjatjara dialect, Central Australia.
Sydney : Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited, 1943. “Reprinted from Oceania, March 1943, Vol. XIII, no. 3″. Small quarto (245 x 187 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned); pp. 205-223; a good copy.