Queensland

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 44324

    THOMSON, J. P. (James Park) (1854-1941)

    British New Guinea. (Association copy, inscribed for conchologist Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum)

    London : George Philip & Son ; Brisbane : Alexr. Muir & Morcom, 1892. First edition. Large octavo (230 x 165 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated maroon cloth over boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt (sunned); a significant association copy, with a presentation inscription on the verso of the front free-endpaper by the author for conchologist Charles …

  • # 44499

    BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)

    Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

    A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …

  • # 41287

    BURNE, Hewetson

    [SHEET MUSIC; QUEENSLAND] The Pioneer Schottische, or, The Alligator Hop

    [Cover title: The Pioneer or The Alligator Hop. Dedicated to the pioneers of Australia. Performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards at the Colonial & Indian Exhibition]. London : Keith, Prowse & Co., [1886]. Quarto, original wrappers with charming and vibrant front cover design, 4 pp. music notation; split along spine, moderate foxing, edge …