Northern Territory

  • Contemporary Territory

    # 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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  • Utopia. 5 February to 20 February, 1999.

    # 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

    # 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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  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty's Colonies.

    # 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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  • Modern Australian Aboriginal art. (Limited deluxe edition, signed by the artists)

    # 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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  • Grammar of the Pitjantjatjara dialect, Central Australia.

    # 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.

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  • Legend & Dreaming. Legends of the Dream-time of the Australian Aborigines as related to Roland Robinson by men of Djauan, Rimberunga, Mungarai-ngalarkan and Yungman tribes of Arnhem Land;

    # 48969

    ROBINSON, Roland

    Legend & Dreaming. Legends of the Dream-time of the Australian Aborigines as related to Roland Robinson by men of Djauan, Rimberunga, Mungarai-ngalarkan and Yungman tribes of Arnhem Land;

    illustrated from paintings of the legendary figures made by the narrators in earth colours and charcoal. Sydney : Edwards & Shaw, 1952. First edition. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), publisher’s gilt–lettered cloth-covered boards (foxed), in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at edges and corners, inner panels foxed); pp. 45, folding frontispiece plate, plus 2 …

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  • Tiwi Pima Art : Bathurst and Melville Islands.

    # 48981

    ANDERSON, Stephen and Raphael APUATIMI (compilers)

    Tiwi Pima Art : Bathurst and Melville Islands.

    [Cover title]. Bathurst Island, NT : Tiwi Pima Art, 1987. Octavo (210 x 150 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. [1], 20; with numerous line-drawn illustrations, map; an excellent copy.

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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 33117

    Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

    Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    [Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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  • [ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.

    # 46209

    METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

    [ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.

    [Sydney] : The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, circa 1920. Tin collection box with hinged lid, 130 x 80 x 20 mm, lettering on the lid; some oxidisation, overall in very good condition. Wesleyan Methodism is generally considered to have formally been established in Australia in 1815 with the arrival of clergyman Samuel Leigh, although …

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  • Songs of Central Australia

    # 48358

    STREHLOW, T.G.H.

    Songs of Central Australia

    Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1971. Quarto, pictorial dustjacket over cloth (price clipped), liv, 775 pp, colour illustrations, map in pocket inside back cover. A fine copy, with some mild foxing to the endpapers and light edge wear. One of only 500 copies printed. An extremely important study of the poetic and musical culture of …

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  • Women's changing ceremonies in Northern Australia.

    # 48618

    BERNDT, Catherine H.

    Women’s changing ceremonies in Northern Australia.

    Paris : Hermann, 1950. Series: L’Homme, Cahier d’Ethnologies, de Géographie et de Linguistique 1. Actualités scientifiques et industrielles ; 1108.  Large octavo (255 x 170 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers; pp. 8 (preface in French, by Claude Lévi-Strauss), 9-85, [1 blank], [1 contents]; with numerous line-drawn illustrations, map, diagrams; an excellent copy. The region in which …

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  • Impulse to paint. The artists of Iylenty, Utopia

    # 48681

    REISBURG, Eugene Barilo von

    Impulse to paint. The artists of Iylenty, Utopia

    Melbourne : Laurane Diggins Fine Art, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 18, illustrated.

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  • Quest under capricorn

    # 48630

    ATTENBOROUGH, David

    Quest under capricorn

    London : Lutterworth Press, 1963 (second impression 1964) Octavo, boards in dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 162, illustrated, a very good copy. Set in the Northern Territory.

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  • Icons of the desert : early Aboriginal paintings from Papunya

    # 48616

    BENJAMIN, Roger et al.

    Icons of the desert : early Aboriginal paintings from Papunya

    Ithaca, N.Y. : Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art : Distributed by Cornell University, [2009]. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 176, illustrated. As new copy.   Collectors’ foreword / John and / Barbara Wilkerson Acknowledgments / Andrew C. Weislogel Preface / Hetti Perkins The men’s painting room at Papunya : photographs / by Michael Jensen The …

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  • Gwion Gwion : Secret and sacred pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal people of Australia.

    # 48603

    DORING, Jeff

    Gwion Gwion : Secret and sacred pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal people of Australia.

    Koln, Germany : Konemann, 2000. Quarto, orange cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket, pp 336, profusely illustrated in colour; a new copy. Monograph exploring the cave and rock paintings of Northern Australia, thought to be some of the oldest figurative artwork in existence. Text in English, German, and French.

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