Northern Territory

  • Hermannsburg potters : lyate nwerne urrkngele mpareme = (now we are working with clay)

    # 48600

    WEST, Margaret K. et al.

    Hermannsburg potters : lyate nwerne urrkngele mpareme = (now we are working with clay)

    Darwin, N.T. : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. Catalogue for exhibition; essays cover history of pottery at Hermannsburg; development of the Hermannsburg potters; works in exhibition include pots and ceramic tiles; biographies of artists.

    $40.00 AUD Read more
  • Malcolm Jagamarra : reclaiming the Dreaming

    # 48432

    HOLLOW, Maryanne and Nina BOVE

    Malcolm Jagamarra : reclaiming the Dreaming

    Melbourne : Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, 1997. Oblong quarto (210 x 295 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 10, with colour illustrations; introduction by Maryanne Hollow, biography of the artist; a very good copy. Catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition of works by Malcolm Jagamarra held in Feb-March 1998. Jagamarra is the son of Minnie Napanangka, …

    $20.00 AUD Read more
  • Groote Eylandt song words (Anindilyakwa & English)

    # 48458

    SOKES, Judith and Alice MOYLE

    Groote Eylandt song words (Anindilyakwa & English)

    / translated by Judith Stokes & Aboriginal advisors from recordings by Alice Moyle. Groote Eylandt, N.T. : Angurugu Press, 1981. Octavo (213 x 163 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers; pp. 38, maps; parallel text in Anindilyakwa and English; a very good copy.

    $35.00 AUD Read more
  • Kiripapurajuwi = skills of our hands. Good craftsmen and Tiwi art.

    # 49090

    BARNES, Kathy

    Kiripapurajuwi = skills of our hands. Good craftsmen and Tiwi art.

    Darwin : Kathy Barnes, 1999. Large quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. 152; illustrated throughout in b/w and colour; an excellent copy of a superb reference work.

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  • Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    # 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 …

    $7,500.00 AUD Read more
  • Images in ochre : the art and craft of the Kunwinjku

    # 48210

    PARKER, Adrian

    Images in ochre : the art and craft of the Kunwinjku

    Sydney : Kangaroo Press, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Includes works by Joshua Bangar; Abraham Dakgalawuy; Mark Nadjongorle; John Lemibanda; Chris Ngaboy; David Cameron; Alex Nganjmirra; Thompson Nganjmirra; Danny Djorlom;  Trevor Nganjmirra, Kunwinjku people of Kakady and west Arnhem Land.

    $30.00 AUD Read more
  • Yilpinji : love art and ceremony

    # 48209

    NICHOLLS, Christine

    Yilpinji : love art and ceremony

    Melbourne : Craftsman House, 2006. Square octavo, white boards with lettering in blind, dustjacket, pp 86. Illustrated exhibition monograph exploration the notion of Yilpinji, the ceremonies and arts of love as practiced by the Warlpiri and Kukatja people of the Central and Western Deserts of Australia.

    $60.00 AUD Read more
  • Papunya Tula : contemporary paintings from Australia's Western Desert

    # 48176

    WEBER, John

    Papunya Tula : contemporary paintings from Australia’s Western Desert

    New York : John Weber Gallery, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated, a fine copy. With essays by Anthony Forge and John Weber. Includes works by Gladys Napanangka, William Sandy, Anatjari Tjakamarra, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra, Simon Tjakamarra, Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, Maxie Tjampitjinpa, Shorty Jackson Tjampitjinpa, Uta Uta Tjangala, Clifford Possum Tjapaltarri, Henry Reid Tjapaltarri, Joseph …

    $140.00 AUD Read more
  • Twenty-five years and beyond : Papunya Tula painting

    # 48169

    MELLOR, Doreen et al.

    Twenty-five years and beyond : Papunya Tula painting

    Adelaide : Flinders Art Museum, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 98, illustrated. Price list enclosed.

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  • In the track of the native.

    # 48211

    TENNANT, D.

    In the track of the native.

    [Sydney] : T. Tennant, c. 1938. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), pictorial wrappers (handling creases and small edge chips), staple bound, 49 pp; an extended photographic essay focusing on the indigenous cultures of northern Australia (Arnhem Land and Far North Queensland) and New Guinea; b/w illustrations throughout reproducing photographs from the author’s own collection …

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  • Ikuntji : paintings from Haasts Bluff 1992 - 1994

    # 48093

    STROCCHI, Marina

    Ikuntji : paintings from Haasts Bluff 1992 – 1994

    Alice Springs : IAD Press, 1995. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 110, illustrated. Paintings from an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory.

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  • Memory as landscape : contemporary paintings by Indigenous women. 28 May - 21 June 2003.

    # 48091

    LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART

    Memory as landscape : contemporary paintings by Indigenous women. 28 May – 21 June 2003.

    North Caulfield, Vic. : Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 2008. Exhibition catalogue. Quarto folding card (297 x 210 mm), colour illustrations; text by Simon Turner; an excellent copy, with price list loosely inserted The exhibition included works by Emily, Rosie, Josie and Lily Kngwarreye, Kathleen and Gloria Petyarre, Queenie McKenzie, Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Eva Oldfield Nungarrayi, …

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  • Impulse to paint : the artists of Iylenty, Utopia. 15 August - 16 September 2008.

    # 48081

    LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART

    Impulse to paint : the artists of Iylenty, Utopia. 15 August – 16 September 2008.

    North Caulfield, Vic. : Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 2008. Exhibition catalogue. Quarto (297 x 210 mm), pictorial self-wrappers, 20 pp., colour illustrations, map; text by Eugene Barilo von Reisberg; an excellent copy. Includes illustrations of works by Nancy Kunoth Petyarr, Cowboy Loy Pwerl, Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray, and Genevieve Kemarr Loy.

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  • Banyan trees and bush near Palmerston (Port Darwin), Northern Territory, c.1870

    # 47205

    SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)

    Banyan trees and bush near Palmerston (Port Darwin), Northern Territory, c.1870

    Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 220 mm format, mounted recto and verso of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, recto inscribed in pencil below the image by the album’s compiler ‘Banyan trees’, verso without caption; both are strong prints with excellent clarity, in fine condition; a few spots of foxing to …

    $900.00 AUD Read more
  • J. M'Douall Stuart's explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 - 62.

    # 29256

    STUART, J. McDouall (1815-1866)

    J. M’Douall Stuart’s explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 – 62.

    Melbourne : F. F. Bailliere, 1863. First edition. Octavo, lettered pink papered cards (lightly discoloured), cloth spine, pp. [vi, advertisements], folding map (short tear at gutter), title page, 97; [3]; occasional foxing. Account of Stuart’s fifth and sixth expeditions from Adelaide to the north of Australia in search of new grazing land and a passage …

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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 45848

    GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan

    Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …

    $85.00 AUD Read more