Western Australia
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# 23202
GRAY, Anne
Out of the West. Western Australian art 1830s to 1930s.
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated.
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# 23186
[WILLIAMS]. MCCAUGHEY, Patrick
Fred Williams the Pilbara series, 1979-1981
Melbourne : CRA Limited, 1983. Oblong octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, illustrated end papers, inscription to preliminary, preface by Sir Roderick Carnegie, essay on William’s Pilbara series by Patirck McCaughey, numerous colour illustrations of the series of paintings, catalogue of 31 works, fine.
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# 22556
[SCHUTZ, Friedrich G.]
Darstellung der fünf Welttheile durch Zufammensetzung in eine Kugelaehnliche Gestalt, zur leichteren Vorstellung und Gebrauch beim geographischen Unterricht in Schulen über die Beschaffenheit & Eintheilung der Erde
Stuttgart : Friedrich G. Schutz, circa 1820. Collapsible globe in 6 gores, engraved with hand colouring, laid down on thin card, each gore 175 x 66 mm (irregular), in fine condition with vivid original colour; Australia with P. Nuyts Land, De Witsland, Eintrachts Land, Arnheims Land, Van Diemensland, Carpenteria and Basses Strasse all marked; the gores …
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# 22617
OXENHAM, John (pseud.) [DUNKERLEY, William Arthur, 1852-1941]
[WESTERN AUSTRALIA] His cheque book.
Being twenty-five pages from the life of one Plantagenet Pym, which register, with the incorruptible accuracy of an animated photograph, his essays among numerous grades of society; recording his enterprises – financial, social and heroic; and delighting the reader by the chastened spirit of his last appearance. Both in the counterfoils of the cheques, and …
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# 16533
PELSAERT, Francois (c.1595-1630)
Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.
Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards, pp. [ii – title leaf], 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile), some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves, a clean and well preserved copy housed …
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# 22259
GRUNDEMANN, Reinhold (1836-1924)
[MAP] Missions-Weltkarte zur Übersicht sämmtlicher evangelischen Missions-Gebiete,
entworfen und gezeichnet von Dr R. Grundemann, Hilfsprediger (Herbst 1862). Zu haben in den Missionshäusern zu Barmen, Basel, Berlin, Hermannsburg und Leipzig. Im Buchhandel bei H. Petersen in Halle. Der Reinertrag ist zum Besten der Mission bestimmt. Die Ausgabe in andern Sprachen ist vorbehalten. Leipzig : Geographisch-Lithographisches Institut H. Kunsch, [1862 or 1863]. First edition. Lithographed …
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# 21188
"EASTERLEY, Robert and WILBRAHAM, John" (pseud.); [POTTER, Robert, 1831-1908]
The germ growers
Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1892. Octavo, gilt-lettered pebbled cloth over bevelled boards (light edge wear, faint library markings to spine), patterned endpapers, pp vi, 274; contents clean. One of the first Australian works of science fiction, and one of the earliest works to postulate an alien invasion of Earth, published six years prior …
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# 22625
WESTERN AUTRALIA. GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.
Visit Western Australia’s world famed Golden Mile.
[Perth, W.A. : Government Tourist Bureau, 1928]. Small quarto, original stiff printed wrappers printed in black on gold paper, 23, [1] pp (designed to be folded into the covers), half tone photographic illustrations, Govt. printer’s date of 1928 on the final page, some pale foxing to the outer leaves, otherwise a fine copy. An attractively …
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# 22189
Photographer unknown.
Photograph of HMAS Sydney, destroyer of the German cruiser Emden, taken in 1912-13.
Silver gelatin photograph printed on card stock, 87 x 137 mm, manuscript caption in negative ‘H.M.A.S. “Sydney”‘; verso with handwritten message signed ‘J.Kennedy’, headed ‘Beerhaven, County Cork, Ireland, July 21-13’, addressed to a ‘Mrs. Richardson’; the contents of the message clearly indicate that the writer was associated with the design and outfitting of the Sydney: …
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# 22477
Western Australia. Government Tourist Bureau.
Visitor’s guide to Perth and suburbs.
At head of title: 1933 issue. Perth, W.A. : Govt. Tourist Bureau, 1933. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (some very light foxing), staple bound, 57 pp, with half tone sepia photographic illustrations throughout, including folding plate with panoramic view of the Swan River; a good copy. Scarce. Copies of this edition are recorded in only two Australian …
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# 22493
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ART GALLERY.
Aboriginal art : The Western Australian Art Gallery Collection.
Perth : The Western Australian Art Gallery Board, 1969. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (designed by Frank Norton), pp. 15, 109 works described and illustrated, chiefly from Western Australia and Arnhem Land; a very good copy. Scarce catalogue.
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# 22465
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 22385
Photographer unknown.
[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.
Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …
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# 21255
Columbia Pictures [U.S.A.]
[CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES] The Blonde Captive
[Los Angeles, California] : Columbia Pictures, [1932]. Monochrome daybill for the film The Blonde Captive (1932), 280 x 350 mm, printed in sepia ink on light card; light foxing to lower edge, pin holes in each corner, otherwise in excellent condition. Exhibited: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. ‘Taboo’, curated by Brook Andrew, December 2012 – …
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# 21654
MILLETT, Janet, as "Mrs. Edward Millett" (fl. 1863-1873)
An Australian Parsonage; or, the Settler and the Savage in Western Australia.
London: Edward Standford, 1872. Second edition (the first was published in the same year, but without the author’s name on the title page). Octavo, original blind blocked purple cloth with gilt device to upper board (rubbed, marked and sunned, corners bumped), spine lettered in gilt (dulled, cloth with a couple of splits), endpapers replaced, pastedown …
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# 22229
CHAMBERLAYNE, I. (Israel) (1795-1875)
The Australian Captive; or, An Authentic Narrative of fifteen years in the life of Wm. Jackman. In which, among various other adventures, is included a forced residence of a year and a half among the cannibals of Nuyts’ Land, on the coast of the Great Australian Bight. Also including, with other appendices, Australia and its Gold, from the latest and best authorities…
New York : C. M. Saxton, 1859. Third edition. Small octavo, original blind blocked black coth over boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine slightly rolled, front joint with short split in cloth); 2 lithographed frontispiece portraits of Jackman depicted in western clothing and as a naked “captive” (the first with small portion of loss at …