Queensland

  • Gordon Hookey : Con ject charr - jarr - yarh - "Arrgh!"

    # 46528

    HOOKEY, Gordon (1961- )

    Gordon Hookey : Con ject charr – jarr – yarh – “Arrgh!”

    February 17th – March 17th. Melbourne : Nellie Castan Gallery, 2007. A4 sheet printed on both sides, illustrated in colour; verso with details of 22 works with prices; original folds, light creasing. Scarce piece of ephemera from a 2007 exhibition by Indigenous Queensland artist Gordon Hookey. No copies traced on Trove.

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  • Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland Aborigines

    # 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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  • The Torres Strait collections of A. C. Haddon : a descriptive catalogue

    # 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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  • Sting in the tail

    # 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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  • Story place : indigenous art of Cape York and the rainforest

    # 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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  • Views of Brisbane, Queensland

    # 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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  • Dennis Nona : Malu sara

    # 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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  • [QUEENSLAND] The Fire Stick : incidents in the shearer's strike : a tale of Australian bush life.

    # 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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  • [QUEENSLAND] Australian aeronautical map: Cloncurry (Sheet F7)

    # 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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  • Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

    # 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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  • Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en 't Eylandt California

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

    # 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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  • Kamilaroi and Kurnai (Presentation copy from the authors)

    # 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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  • River mangroves mud

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

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

    # 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 …

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