Northern Territory
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# 40088
WEST, Margie (curator)
ReCoil: change & exchange in coiled fibre art : Artback Northern Territory Arts touring exhibition 2007.
Darwin, NT : Artback Northern Territory Arts Touring, 2007. Large quarto (275 x 225 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. ii, 107, colour illustrations throughout, map; foreword by Louise Partos; introduction by Louise Hamby; essays by Margie West, Thisbe Purich, plus a series of studies on individual fibre artists; a fine copy of a scholarly and …
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# 39647
DAVID, Lindsay
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2.
Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder G.C.M.G. for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia … Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 1999. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue buckram, pp. 207. Facsimile of the 1893 original edition. Accompanied by the two large folding maps in separate buckram folder. Together with : …
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# 39330
POIGNANT, Roslyn and POIGNANT, Axel
Encounter at Nagalarramba.
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1996. Oblong quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers, endpaper map, pp 170, profusely illustrated with Axel Poignant’s superb black-and-white photographs; fine copy. An important anthropological study of an Arnhem Land indigenous group, being the account of Axel Poignant’s expedition to the Liverpool River in 1952.
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# 39169
TWEEDIE, Penny
Aboriginal Australians : spirit of Arnhem Land. (Inscribed by Pat Corrigan for Colin Laverty)
Melbourne : New Holland Publishers, 2001. Large quarto (300 x 270 mm), pictorial card covers, 168 pp, colour photographic plates throughout, map; an excellent copy, the title page inscribed by Pat Corrigan for Dr. Colin Laverty – associating this copy with two of the most important collectors of Australian Indigenous art.
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# 38916
HAMBY, Louise (editor)
Fibre art from Elcho Island. Catalogue of an Exhibition St. George campus, The University of New South Wales.
Sydney : School of Applied and Performing Arts, The University of New South Wales, 1994. Narrow quarto (295 x 170 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, pp. [4], iii, 56; 19 b/w photographs, 18 coloured plates, 2 maps, catalogue of works; an excellent copy.
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# 38884
OPPENHEIM, Ilona
[HERMANNSBURG] Dear Mr Heinrich : Ntaria letters 1933-35.
Hermannsburg, N.T. : Ntaria School, 2002. Large quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, stapled; pp 60, b/w photographic illustrations; text in English and Western Arrarnta; a fine presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page for bibliophile and former Hermannsburg resident Charles Fletcher. Hermann Adolph Heinrich (1895-1959) arrived at the Hermannsburg …
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# 38721
ANNANDALE GALLERIES
Samuel Namunjdja : gungura : bark paintings, ceremonial poles
Sydney : Annandale Galleries, in association with Maningrida Arts & Culture, [2008]. Quarto (255 x 200 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, 46, [1] pp., illustrated in colour; introduction by Bill Gregory; essentially two catalogues in one, as it includes an extensive section titled Spiral Wind, showcasing works by thirteen other Maningrida artists which were exhibited alongside Samuel …
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# 38334
BARDON, Geoffrey; EDWARDS, Robert; KIMBER, Richard
Nangara : the Australian Aboriginal art exhibition from the Ebes collection.
Melbourne : Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, 1996. Two volumes, large quarto (300 x 240 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers; Volume 1. The Text, 100 pp; Volume 2. The Paintings, pp. 315, colour and b/w illustrations, maps; in the publisher’s pictorial card chemise; light spotting to fore-edge of the text volume, but a fine set. Published to …
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# 37699
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Kangaroo hunting. Aboriginals of Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia, August 22nd 1889.
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,175 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 250 x 300 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, Copyright’ and printed caption in black; the print is in excellent condition; some light marks to margins of …
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# 36953
Anon.
Alice Springs … Centre of the living heart
Issued under the authority of the Administrator of the Northern Territory. [Canberra? : A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Printer, circa 1965]. Oblong quarto, colour wrappers, pp. 32, illustrations, map. Includes a reproduction of an Albert Namatjira painting, discussion of the Aranda School of watercolour painting, and a description of Rex Battarbee’s Tmama-Rama Galleries. Scarce
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# 29580
STOW, J[efferson]. P[ickman]. (1830 - 1908)
The voyage of the Forlorn Hope 1865.
Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., 1894. Octavo, lettered wrappers (chipped and torn with loss to spine, repaired by an expert paper conservator), title page with silverfishing and loss, conserved with Japanese tissue, presentation inscription from the author’s daughter to Alfred Rowan dated at Adelaide, 1907 (some loss to the inscription), pp. [vi], 42, (2 …
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# 29076
BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)
Histoire des navigations aux terres australes
: contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …
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# 35272
Hermannsburg celebrations, 6-8 September 2002.
The people of Hermannsburg extend a warm welcome to you to join us in celebrating 125 years since the Lutheran Missionaries first arrived in Hermannsburg; 20 years since our land was handed back to us as the traditional owners; 100 years since the birth of Albert Namatjira. [Hermannsburg, NT : Ntaria Council, 2002]. Octavo (210 …
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# 35233
BOWERS, Stephen et al.
From the earth : contemporary indigenous ceramics from Alice Springs Pottery, Ernabella, Hermannsburg Potters and Tiwi Islands.
Adelaide : JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, 13 December 2008 – 25 January 2009. Exhibition concept: Stephen Bowers; exhibition and catalogue development: Margaret Hancock. From the Earth is an investigation exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian ceramics …
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# 35241
MARTIN, Edmond
Battarbee and Namatjira
Sydney : Giramondo, 2014. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 341. Autobiography of Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) and his mentor Rex Battarbee (1893-1973).
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# 34527
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; scattered foxing.