Northern Territory
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# 19143
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY (CRAWFORD, F.S.; DAVIS, H.); DURYEA, Townsend, et al.
Studio portraits of South Australian surveyor George Woodroffe Goyder and members of his first and second wives’ family, the Smiths. Adelaide, mid to late 1860s.
Ten albumen print photographs, carte de visite format (average dimensions 102 x 65 mm), five with the imprinted back mark of The Adelaide Photographic Company (two with H. Davis named as manager, three with F.S. Crawford), one with the back mark of Townsend Duryea, 66 King William Street, Adelaide, and four from English studios in …
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# 19196
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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# 18925
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. December 31, 1926.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1926. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had grown out of the New …
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# 18917
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. September 30, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18924
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. May 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; a little roughened at top edges, a couple of annotations made by the original owner, else a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation …
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# 18923
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. June 30, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; short marginal tears at fore-edges (no loss of text), else a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia …
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# 18922
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. July 30, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18921
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. March 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18920
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. December 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18919
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. August 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, fore-edge a little roughened, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 …
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# 18918
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. October 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18912
[CHAUVEL, Charles, 1897-1959]
[ABORIGINES; CINEMA] Eve in Ebony : the story of Jedda.
[Sydney : Columbia Pictures Proprietary Ltd., circa 1954]. Quarto, publisher’s illustrated wrappers, [12] pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white with stills from the film, behind-the-scenes shooting, and portraits of the actors; line-drawn map; a fine copy. Extravagantly produced publication which explains the background to the making of Charles Chauvel’s landmark film. It starred indigenous actors …
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# 18542
BATES, Daisy May (1863-1951)
The passing of the Aborigines : a lifetime spent among the natives of Australia. (With an ALS by Daisy Bates)
With a foreword by the Hon. Sir George Murray, and an introduction by Arthur Mee. London : John Murray, 1938. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; top edges red; front pastedown with small later ownership sticker; front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of A.J. Norman dated 1939, and newspaper cutting reporting on …
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# 17069
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. Two volumes, thick octavo, original blind blocked green cloth boards, spines (a little faded) with gilt lettering and gilt kangaroo and emu vignettes; hinges expertly strengthened; pp xv, 521 ; x, 543; with 8 folding engraved maps (6 in endpockets) and 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting …
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# 18661
VICKERY, John (1906-1983)
Outposts of Empire : Central Australia
[London] : General Post Office, 1937. Colour lithograph poster, 470 x 610 mm, signed and dated in image, laid on linen; fine condition. The poster depicts the underground post office in Coober Pedy, northern South Australia, often referred to as “the opal capital of the world”. One of a series of four lithographic posters featuring …
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# 18139
BARDON, Geoffrey
Papunya Tula : art of the Western Desert
Marlston, S.A. : J.B. Books, 1999. First soft cover edition. Quarto, pictorial card covers, half-title with gift inscription, pp 140, illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with diagrams by Judith Ryan; a very good copy.