Western Australia
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# 44638
[PROVENANCE: Pieter NUYTS, 1598-1655]
Homer opera omnia,
cum interpretat lat. ad verbum etc. ut latius in Epist.ad Lectorem: Ajecti sunt Homerici centones, proverbial. versuum Homeri libellus, et breves note marginales. Amsterdam : Joannes Ravesteinius, 1650. Thick small octavo, contemporary vellum with manuscript title in ink to spine; page facing the engraved pictorial title with the ownership signature of Pieter Nuyts (1598-1655), dated in …
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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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# 43883
DEANS, F. R.
“A Little Colonial” named Lena, on roller skates. Boulder (Kalgoorlie), Western Australian goldfields, circa 1910.
Gelatin silver photograph, 134 x 84 mm, printed on Kodak Austral card stock; verso with the wet stamp of the photographer, ‘F. R. Deans, Boulder, W. A.’, and a handwritten Xmas/New Year message from Boulder resident “Edith” to her friend “Chrissie”, on behalf of “Lena” – presumably the young sitter in this extraordinary studio portrait, …
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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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# 44774
BARNES, John, et al (editor)
Westerly. West Australian writing : a quarterly review. No. 4, 1967
Perth : University of Western Australia Press, 1967. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, with contributions by Elizabeth Jolley, T. A. G. Hungerford, Lyndall Hadow, H. C. Miller, Dorothy Hewitt et al.
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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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# 44416
MILLER, Nikki (curator)
Feminisms : an exhibition by twenty-seven women artists
Perth : Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 1992. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Includes works by Lesley Duxbury, Jo Darbyshire, Virginia Ward, Barbara Bolt, Alison Rowley, Helen Ross and others.
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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 …
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# 43955
ROBINSON, Donny & PORTER, Gerald (text); PORTER, Gerald (illustrator)
[NGAANYATJARRA LANGUAGE] Kutjulpirtuya palyalpayi yungarralu
[=What they did in the old days]. Darwin, NT : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch [for United Aborigines Mission], 1974. Oblong octavo (160 x 200 mm), original cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; 8 pp, line-drawn illustrations; text in Ngaanyatjarra, with a preface in English; very good copy. The Ngaanyatjarra people are part of the Western Desert cultural …
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# 30098
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Australasia. Correspondence relating to Chinese immigration into the Australian colonies, with a Return of Acts passed by the Legislatures of those Colonies and of Canada and British Columbia on the subject.
London : Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. Folio (330 mm), printed blue wrappers (a little chipped at edges, paper loss along spine), pp x, 87; a few pencilled annotations, but a very clean copy in the original wrappers.
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# 39542
DRYSDALE, Russell (1912 - 1981)
Western Desert
Watercolour, pen and ink on paper, watermarked Canson France, 145 x 225 mm (image), 162 x 248 mm (paper), titled and signed lower right, framed (framed size 465 x 525 mm). In this small gem of a painting, Drysdale effectively captures the expansive inland landscape, sparsely populated with the occasional rocky outcrop or patch of …
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# 39208
BARRY, Zachary (1827-1898)
Zachary Barry, minister of St. John’s, Fremantle, Western Australia: autograph letter signed, dated 27 August 1855, re. receipt of a shipment of Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society.
[2] pp, quarto (250 x 200 mm), manuscript in ink on unwatermarked writing paper; headed ‘Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 Aug. 1855’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’ and is signed at the foot ‘Yrs. very faithfully, Zachary Barry, Incumbent of St. John’s Church, Fremantle, West Australia’; Barry advises of the safe arrival from London, …
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# 42618
ZIMMER, Jenny
Art of the Absolons : John Absolon of London & John de Mansfield Absolon in Western Australia 1869-1879 (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay, pp 192, illustrated, in matching slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. ‘John Absolon was a well-known nineteenth-century London water-colour artist. John de Mansfield Absolon, one of his artist sons, married a daughter of Robert Mace …
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# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …