Western Australia

  • A small archive of programmes for amateur theatrical performances and music concerts in Perth, Western Australia, 1873-1883.

    # 47142

    [Various]

    A small archive of programmes for amateur theatrical performances and music concerts in Perth, Western Australia, 1873-1883.

    This important group of thirteen programmes can be regarded as a time capsule of amateur theatrical and musical performance in Perth, Western Australia in the 1870s and early 1880s. A number of the programmes in this archive appear to be completely unrecorded, and are quite possibly unique survivors. These highly ephemeral printings date from a …

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  • Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

    # 47154

    OTTO, J. H. (Johann Henri)

    Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once mounted in an album). A …

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  • [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    # 47025

    WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

    [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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  • Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    # 46812

    METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

    Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    [Melbourne : Methodist Home Mission Society, between 1920 and 1930]. Stiff envelope, 112 x 150 mm, recto with map of Australia showing areas where the Home Missions are active (in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and western and northern Queensland), and slogans including ‘This Society seeks the Salvation of men, women and children irrespective of …

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  • Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

    # 30697

    FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

    Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

    Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …

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  • [SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register :

    # 46768

    LINDLEY, John (1799-1865)

    [SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards’s Botanical Register :

    consisting of a complete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, and matter, adjusted to the present state of systematical botany; together with A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With nine coloured plates, containing eighteen coloured figures of plants, and with four wood-cuts. London : James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1839. First edition, …

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  • Mission to Western Australia, commonly called the Swan River settlement.

    # 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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  • Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.

    # 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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  • Campagne de l'Uranie (1817-1820) : journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, d'après le manuscrit original

    # 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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  • The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)

    # 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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  • Art from the Great Sandy Desert

    # 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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  • Generations : the stolen years of fighters and singers

    # 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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  • Aboriginal art

    # 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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  • Images of Aboriginal Australia

    # 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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  • The problem of the Australian Aboriginal

    # 45647

    GRIBBLE, E.R.B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer), Reverend, 1868-1957

    The problem of the Australian Aboriginal

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  • Department of Lands and Surveys, Western Australia. Handbook for surveyors and draftsmen

    # 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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