Northern Territory

# 46138

YULE, Ian R.

[ELCHO ISLAND] My mother, the land

/ edited by Ian R. Yule. Galiwin’ku, N.T. : Christian Action Group, Galiwin’ku Parish, Uniting Church in Australia, in association with Action for World Development, 1980. Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper lightly marked, lower wrapper with previous owner’s annotations); pp. 43, b/w photographic and line-drawn illustrations; internally very good. ‘A …

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# 46137

RUHE, Edward Lehman

Aborigine bark paintings : an exhibition of primitive art from Arnhem Land, Australia organised by Edward L. Ruhe. The Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. November 30 – December 21 1973.

Octavo (225 x 150 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 21, illustrated in b/w.; a good copy. Catalogue for an exhibition of 88 Arnhem Land barks from Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Western Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, Melville Island etc., organised by American collector and academic Dr Edward Lehman Ruhe. Trove locates a single copy in Australian institutional collections …

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# 46074

HOFF, Jennifer

Tiwi graveposts

[Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Tiwi artist Janet Mungatopi is photographed painting motifs on graveposts based on designs that she saw her grandfather paint for funeral ceremonies when she was a small girl.

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# 46007

SIMS, Paddy Japaljarri (c. 1917 - 2010); STEWART, Paddy Japaljarri (1935 - 2013)

Yuendumu Doors suite

Darwin : Northern Editions Print Workshop for Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, 2000. Thirty sugar lift etchings, printed in colour from single plates, each titled lower centre and editioned lower left 56 / 75 by the publisher, each personally signed by the artist either ‘P S’ (Paddy Stewart) or ‘X’ (Paddy Sims, who could not write), each …

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# 45483

RAAF

[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Barrow Creek (Sheet F6)

[Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1944. “Reprinted August 1944, with minor amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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# 45482

RAAF

[NORTHERN TERRITORY] Australian aeronautical map: Darwin (Sheet D6)

[Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted June 1945, with major amendments”. “For use in daylight or under red light”. Colour map, 48 x 70 cm. Equatorial scale 1:1,000,000; one flight path marked in red pencil; original folds, very slightly trimmed at right edge, otherwise very good.

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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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