Northern Territory
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# 45095
PITT, C.A.
[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway
Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (red variant, other examples printed on yellow and grey paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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).
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 29462
LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)
Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.
London : T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …
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# 40120
MOSSGREEN
Mossgreen Auctions. The Tony Norton & Jann Williams Collection of Australia Indigenous Fine Art. Melbourne, Monday 4 April 2016.
Melbourne : Mossgreen, 2016. Auction catalogue. Small square quarto (240 x 240 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. 112, with 100 lots, all illustrated in colour, and index of artists; includes paintings by Paddy Bedford, Spinifex Artists, and major Central and Western Desert artists; an excellent copy.
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# 40152
OLIVA, Achille Bonito; GREEN, Charles; PIZZI, Gabrielle
Aborigena : arte australiana contemporanea
Milano : Electa, 2001. Exhibition catalogue. Quarto (280 x 250 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers; pp. 110, all works illustrated in colour; essays by Achille Bonito Oliva, Charles Green, and Gabrielle Pizzi; text in Italian and English; an excellent copy. Catalogue produced for the exhibition Aborigena : arte australiana contemporanea, featuring works by major Central and …