Queensland

# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …

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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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# 44911

ATKINSON, Alfred (active FNQ 1895-1920) (attributed)

Kuku Yalanji warrior posing with a shield and spear. North Queensland rainforest region, late 1890s.

Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm; laid down on its original album leaf of thin card; a very strong print with good tonal range; mount with scattered foxing. This type of ‘rainforest shield’ is called balan bigin by the Kuku Yalanji people. It is made from the soft wood of a fig tree known as magurra …

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# 44870

MILLAR, Will. H.

Men of Queensland : representative of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of Queensland as existant in the year 1928 A.D. Private edition.

Brisbane : Read Press Ltd., 1929. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (chips to spine expertly repaired); colour frontispiece, [211] leaves of plates with accompanying text; a very good example of this scarce private printing, which provides a snapshot of Queensland’s rich and powerful on the eve …

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# 44478

FISON, Lorimer; HOWITT, A. W. (Alfred William)

Kamilaroi and Kurnai (Presentation copy from the authors)

: group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement : drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines : also the Kurnai tribe, their customs in peace and war. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane : George Robertson, 1880. First edition. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original blind-blocked brown cloth (bright and unrubbed), spine lettered in gilt; presentation …

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# 42710

STUERZL, Jennifer (1956 - )

River mangroves mud

[Brisbane : the artist, 2020]. Artist’s book, handbound by David Bedford in salvaged mangrove wood (with salvage permit reference numbers included), stitch binding by the artist, pp. [16], handprinted sheets with collage, concrete poem in manuscript by Jennifer Stuerzl inside upper board, manuscript map of the Brisbane River to lower board, a stunning book housed …

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# 44287

SAVAGE, Albert William

[GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).

Group of 13 (thirteen) gelatin silver print photographs in uniform 110 x 150 mm format, versos all with a blue wet stamp ‘Photographed by A. W. Savage, No. 3 Australian General Hospital (Not to be used for Publication)’, and with a fully contemporary handwritten caption (often with a date) in violet ink; the group comprises …

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