Western Australia
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# 24770
ANDERSON, Roderick
Western Australian art : a selection of early works from the Robert Holmes a Court collection
Perth, W.A. : Heytesbury Holdings, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp.80, illustrated.
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# 24522
GIRARD, Maurice (1822-1886)
F. Péron : naturaliste, voyageur aux terres Australes : sa vie, appréciation de ses travaux, analyse raisonnée de ses recherches sur les animaux vertébrés et invertébrés d’aprèses collections déposées au Museum d’Histoire naturelle.
Paris : J.-B. Ballière et Fils ; Moulins : Enaut, 1857. Second edition. Large octavo (238 x 160 mm), publisher’s printed green wrappers (foot of spine with small area of paper loss and a couple of marks), frontispiece engraved portrait of Péron by Leseur, pp 278; text in French; scattered foxing (more pronounced on the …
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# 24534
BOAS, Harold
[JUDAICA] Australian Jewry book of honour : the Great War, 1914-1918
/ compiled by Harold Boas. Perth, W.A. : Lamson Paragon (W.A.) Ltd., 1923. Small oblong quarto (185 x 250 mm), original printed brown wrappers (a little wear to the yapp edges), staple bound, 88 pp, illustrated with b/w photographic plates; title page and edges foxed, else clean and sound throughout. Dedicated to Lieutenant-General Sir John …
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# 24491
THE WESTERN MAIL
The Western Mail annual, 1949.
Perth W.A. : [West Australian Newspapers Ltd.], 1949. Folio (360 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers with design featuring an Aborigine hunting kangaroos with a Xanthorrhoea in the foreground (some minor chipping at edges and on spine, but very good), pp [92], photographic illustrations throughout (many in colour) of Western Australian primary industries and tourist …
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# 24216
Great Britain. Oversea Settlement Department.
Handbook on the Commonwealth of Australia : containing official information regarding climate and general conditions, openings for settlers, land settlement schemes, wages and hours of labour, cost of living, assisted passages, fares, &c.
London : Printed under the authority of His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1928. “Revised to January 1st, 1928”. Octavo (215 x 135 mm), printed blue wrappers (staples rusted but holding), pp 37, [2], maps, tables; internally very clean, a good copy. This publication is recorded in only one Australian collection (National Library of Australia).
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# 24416
WILLETTS, George (1841-1909)
Portrait of young pianist Miss Ada Willetts, taken by her father, professional photographer George Willetts. Ballarat, circa 1890.
Albumen print, carte de visite format, 110 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Willetts, Photo., Ballarat’; verso with the decorative back mark of ‘Willetts Photographic Temple of Light, Bridge Street, Ballarat’, and with an identifying caption in pencil in contemporaneous hand: ‘Miss Ada Willetts’; the strong albumen print has some mottling in the …
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# 24366
CROFT, Brenda et al.
Indigenous art : Art Gallery of Western Australia
Edited by Brenda L. Croft; essays by Michael A. O’Ferrall and Brenda L. Croft. Perth, W.A. : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2001. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 112, illustrated (some folding). This book offers a window into the indigenous art collection in the Art Gallery of WA. Through comprehensive essays by past and present staff …
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# 24364
Yarnangu ngaanya : our land – our body
a touring exhibition from the Warburton Community. Perth : Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1993. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 90, illustrated, CD enclosed (Turlku : ritual songs by the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Pintubi people).
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# 24265
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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# 23777
[KLINGENDER, Tim]
Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 26-27 July 2004.
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2004. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, pp 3162, auction catalogue with 595 lots, most illustrated in colour; artefacts, bark paintings and contemporary Indigenous art; a very good copy.
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# 23776
[KLINGENDER, Tim]
Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 25 July 2005.
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2005. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, pp 272, auction catalogue with 306 lots, all illustrated in colour; artefacts, bark paintings and contemporary Indigenous art; includes index of artists; a very good copy.
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# 23778
KLINGENDER, Tim
Sotheby’s. The John McCaffrey Collection of Kimberley Art. Sydney, 28 July 2003
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2003. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers, pp 104, auction catalogue with 71 lots, most illustrated in colour; including works on paper by Indigenous artists from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, decorated coolamons, boomerangs and spearthrowers, and boab nuts carved by Jack Wherra; a very good copy.
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# 23412
FLYNN, John, Rev.
The Inlander. A Quarterly Magazine dealing with National Interests from the Outbacker’s Point of View. Volume 1, nos. 1-3.
Sydney : Home Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, 1913-14. Vol. 1, no. 1, November 1913; vol. 1, no. 2, March 1914; vol. 1, no. 3, June 1914. Three individual issues, octavo, original pictorial wrappers (mild sunning and foxing), illustrated with photographic plates, maps; in good condition with occasional marginalia and some light …
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# 23398
R.S. COUCHE & CO. PTY. LTD.
State Sawmills of Western Australia. Wholesale jarrah price list. October, 1937.
Melbourne : R.S. Couche & Co. Pty. Ltd., [1937]. Duodecimo, printed grey wrappers, staple bound, [8] pp, a fine copy. Appears unrecorded in Australian collections.
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# 23399
KAURI TIMBER CO. LTD.
The Kauri Timber Co. Ltd. Melbourne wholesale list-net. July, 1937.
Melbourne : Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., Printers, [1937]. Duodecimo, printed blue wrappers, staple bound, 20 pp, a fine copy. Includes prices for both New Zealand kauri and Western Australian jarrah. Appears unrecorded in Australian collections.
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# 23425
DURACK, Mary; DURACK, Elizabeth (llustrator)
Chunuma
Sydney : The Bulletin, 1936. Small quarto, publisher’s cloth backed pictorial papered boards (lightly marked), pp 160, light foxing to edges and preliminaries, with line illustrations by Elizabeth Durack; a good copy. Stories of Aboriginal life in Western Australia written in the style for children.