Western Australia
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# 46838
NICOLAS, Alain (ed.)
Paysages rêvés : artistes aborigènes contemporains de Balgo Hills (Australie Occidentale)
Marseille : Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens, Galeries Gaston Defferre, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2004. Large quarto (300 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, pp. 128, colour illustrations, maps; a very fine copy. Scarce catalogue produced for an exhibition of works by artists from the remote Balgo Hills community in Western …
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# 42856
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Mission to Western Australia, commonly called the Swan River settlement.
[London : s.n., 1835]. Quarto (250 x 200 mm), [3] pp; printed on letterpress; fourth side docketed ‘Mission to Western Australia’, and with Webster Collection stamp with number 2621 in ms.; original vertical and horizontal folds, some toning, else very well preserved. The foundation document for the Western Australian Missionary Society, recording the resolution for …
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# 32327
ROUGEMONT, Louis de (Henri Louis GRIN) (1847-1921)
Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.
Manuscript in ink on ruled paper, 160 x 200 mm; headed ‘Flitwick, Ampthill, 1.7.03’, the letter is addressed to The Author Syndicate, Lincoln Inn Field, London, and is signed at the foot ‘Yours, Louis de Rougemont’; wet stamped ‘Received 2 Jul 03’, and with a correspondence number in red crayon; original vertical fold, clean and …
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# 45873
FREYCINET, Rose Marie Pinon de (1794-1832)
Campagne de l’Uranie (1817-1820) : journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, d’après le manuscrit original
/ accompagné de notes par Charles Duplomb. Paris : Societé d’Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1927. First edition. Large quarto (285 x 230 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps (sunned, spine with water staining and small paper loss at ends), pp. [2 blank], xiii, [1 blank], 190, [2], with 25 plates (13 in colour, …
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# 46108
BASEDOW, Herbert (1881-1933)
The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)
Adelaide : F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s purple cloth, upper board with gilt-stamped device depicting Wandjina spirit, spine lettered in gilt (a little sunned), colour frontispiece plate, pp xx, 422, illustrated with 55 photographic plates and line drawings in the text; edges slightly foxed, a very good copy. Loosely enclosed …
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# 46073
O'FERRALL Michael
Art from the Great Sandy Desert
Perth, W.A. : The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1987. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, pp. [8], illustrated. Exhibition curated by Michael A. O’Ferrall ; contributions by R.M. Berndt and J.E. Stanton ; Art Gallery of Western Australia. Catalogue entries with interpretative notes on imagery and associated mythology; introductory essay on development of contemporary art at Balgo …
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# 46079
MORGAN, Sally (introduction)
Generations : the stolen years of fighters and singers
Perth, W.A. : The Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 40, illustrated. Artists include : Norma MacDonald, Ron Gidgup, Betty Egan, Sandra Hill, David Downs (Jarinjanu), Revel Cooper, Colin Calyun, Julie Dowling, Sheryl Osborne, Michelle Broun, Joyce Winsley, Les Eades, Glenis Ugle, Mary McClean, Tjemma (Freda) Napanangka, Patsy Mundjidell, …
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# 46045
NORTON, Frank
Aboriginal art
[Perth, W.A.] : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985. Second edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 66, illustrated. Documents works collected by Mountford from the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1948; works from Western Australia; Port Keats; Bathurst & Melville Islands; Croker and Goulburn Islands, Oenpelli; Maningrida; Milingimbi & Elcho Islands, Yirrakala; and …
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# 46039
STANTON, John E.
Images of Aboriginal Australia
Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1988. Series: University of Western Australia Anthropology Research Museum Occasional Paper no. 2. Large octavo (250 x 175 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled (a little foxed along lower panel), pp 68, with b/w photographic illustrations throughout, maps; a fine copy. An important catalogue of the collection assembled by …
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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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# 45099
BARTLETT, N. S. (compiler)
Department of Lands and Surveys, Western Australia. Handbook for surveyors and draftsmen
Perth : Fred W. Simpson, Government Printer, 1911. Octavo, gilt-lettered roan, light edge wear, hinges cracked, pp. [vi]; 110, diagrams, folding ‘Map of Western Australia shewing T.S. Plan System’, another folding plate, and contained within and endpocket, ‘Chart shewing nautical almanac stars’ and a diagram of the South Pole and collatitude circle printed on linen. …
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# 43593
CHOPIN, Alfred (1846-1902)
Two studio portraits of Nyoongar people. Perth (or Fremantle?), Western Australia, 1871-72.
Two albumen print photographs, in uniform carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mounts); versos with the lithographic imprint in violet of the photographer: ‘By Appointment to His Excellency / Alfred Chopin Artist Photographer / Perth & Fremantle / West Australia’, decorated with an Advance Australia coat of arms; one of the prints has …
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# 44590
WITHNELL, John G.
The customs and traditions of the Aboriginal natives of North Western Australia. (Facsimile edition)
Roebourne, W.A. : John G. Withnell, 1901. Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965. Series: Australian Facsimile Editions no. 91. Duodecimo (140 x 110 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth-covered boards; pp. [6], 37; a very fine copy.
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# 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 …
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# 44455
CASSIDY, C. T. (Clarence Thomas)
Random thoughts at Wyndham, W.A.
Wyndham, W.A. : C.T. Cassidy, [1977]. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), staple-bound illustrated wrappers (scattered stains and small amount of insect damage), 34 leaves roneo-printed on rectos only; internally very clean. Scarce self-published collection of poetry by Wyndham resident Clarence Cassidy, with themes including Aboriginal-settler relations, town characters, cattle droving, and the landscape of the …
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# 38367
CALLANDER, John (1722–1789)
Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.
Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some …