Queensland
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# 46201
HARRIS, Walter Kilroy
[PROSPECTUS] Outback in Australia; or three Australian overlanders
Being an account of the longest overlanding journey ever attempted in Australia with a single horse, and including chapters on various phases of outback life. Letchworth, U.K. : Garden City Press, 1913. Single sheet, folded into 4 pp octavo, three illustrations. Fine. Scarce prospectus for this account of an eccentric English traveller’s experiences droving in …
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# 46109
ROTH, Walter Edmund, 1861-1933
Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland Aborigines
Brisbane : Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, 1897. First edition. Royal octavo, original blind-blocked purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board (a few marks), patterned endpapers, pp 199 (text) with 1 folding chart, followed by xxiv plates (4 colour), unexpurgated and including the controversial ‘ethno-pornographical’ plate xxiv which many copies lack, internally clean and …
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# 46106
MOORE, David R.
The Torres Strait collections of A. C. Haddon : a descriptive catalogue
London : British Museum Press, 1984. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 110 pp. + 80 pp. with 450 b/w photographic illustrations; a couple of pale spots of foxing to preliminaries, else a fine copy. An important catalogue – scholarly and very well illustrated – of the material culture field-collected …
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# 46072
O'CONNELL, Rae et al.
Sting in the tail
Cairns, Qld. : KickArts Contemporary Arts, 2009. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, illustrated. Catalogue of indigenous printmakers and their etchings in Cairns.
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# 46075
WATSON, Judy (1959 - )
Sacred ground beating heart : works by Judy Watson 1989 – 2003 (signed presentation copy)
curator, Ted Snell ; catalogue edited by Kate Hamersley. Bentley, W.A. : John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology ; [Vic.] : Asialink Centre, University of Melbourne, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [iii]; 80, illustrated, small crease and tear to title page. Related catalogue loosely enclosed. Signed and inscribed by Judy Watson to Bettina Macauley …
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# 46055
ALLEN, Lindy et al.
Story place : indigenous art of Cape York and the rainforest
South Brisbane, Qld. : Queensland Art Gallery, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 239 pp, illustrated. This publication accompanies the first major survey exhibition of historical and contemporary art work from Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. For the first time in one book, the art and culture of Cape York is observed through a series of essays, interviews, …
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# 45886
RYDER, Mona
Women
Joseph Addison’s translation of a poem by Semonides of Amorgos with thirteen etchings by Mona Ryder. Brisbane : Locks’ Press, 1983. Quarto, black cloth with lithographed illustration titled Women on upper board, unpaginated, pp. [18] plus thirteen original etchings, three on folded sheets, one of which is double page, tissue guards, a fine copy. Printed …
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# 45910
Anon.
Views of Brisbane, Queensland
S.l. : s.n., circa 1890. Leporello view album, 190 x 145 mm (closed), gilt-lettered blue cloth, edges rubbed, cloth spine, 12 panels of photographic illustration of Brisbane, including public buildings, schools, law courts, railway station, government printing office, Queen Street, Eagle Street, Parliament, Government House, and a six panel panorama of the Brisbane River.
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# 45769
SANDS, R. S., Lieut.-Col. (Commandant, Concentration Camps, Australia)
[INTERNMENT CAMPS IN AUSTRALIA, WW1] Directive to German-speaking internees re. rules for incoming correspondence.
[Sydney? : Govt. printer?, c.1915]. 62 x 102 mm, printed recto only in red on buff card; text in German; verso blank; small mark at top edge, else fine. An obscure though significant piece of Word War One Australian internment camp ephemera, which presumably would have been distributed to all German-speaking internees in camps in …
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# 45647
GRIBBLE, E.R.B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer), Reverend, 1868-1957
The problem of the Australian Aboriginal
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# 45466
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Paradise Garden. Paintings, drawings and poems (deluxe edition, with original drawing)
With an introduction by Robert Melville. London: R Alistair McAlpine, 1971. Quarto, 110pp. comprised of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. The rarest deluxe edition, in a batik cloth binding, signed by the artist, with an original signed drawing bound in. A total of 3000 copies were …
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# 45586
NONA, Dennis
Dennis Nona : Malu sara
Brisbane : Andrew Baker Art Dealer Pty Ltd, 2011. Exhibition catalogue. Square quarto (210 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, 50 pp., colour illustrations; an excellent copy.
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# 45423
BRADLEY & ALLEN
[QUEENSLAND] Oscar de Satgé, pastoralist and politician : signed portrait photograph. Sydney, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph with hand tinting, in carte de visite format, 96 x 62 mm (mount); verso with the pictorial back mark of ‘Bradley & Allen, Artist Photographers from Dalton’s, 360 George Street, Sydney’, and inscribed in ink by the sitter: ‘With Oscar de Satgé’s affectionate regards’; the print with an oval halo caused by …
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# 45576
"WULLA MERRII" (pseud.)
[QUEENSLAND] The Fire Stick : incidents in the shearer’s strike : a tale of Australian bush life.
[s.l.] : [s.n.], [1893]. Octavo, illustrated boards (minor rubbing), recent bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 223; a very good copy. A novel set against the 1891 Queensland Shearer’s Strike. This dispute between unionised and non-unionised shearers is regarded as a direct precursor to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. The novel is written from …
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# 45481
RAAF
[QUEENSLAND] Australian aeronautical map: Cloncurry (Sheet F7)
[Canberra?] : RAAF Headquarters, 1945. “Reprinted July 1945, with minor adjustments”. “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, a few minor stains in lower section, otherwise very good.
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# 44855
GOOS, Pieter
Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones
Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …