Western Australia
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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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# 22259
GRUNDEMANN, Reinhold
[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. First edition. Leipzig : Geographisch-Lithographisches Institut H. Kunsch, [1862 or 1863]. …
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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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# 22376
GRAY, Anne
Out of the West. Western Australian art 1830s to 1930s.
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, illustrated.
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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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# 21991
[WITHINGTON, Paul; THOMAS, Lowell]
[THE BLONDE CAPTIVE] Die blonde Sklavin
Illustrierter Film-Kurier Nr. 610. [Vienna, Austria : 1932]. Small quarto, wrappers illustrated front and rear, 6 pp, half-tone photographic illustrations, text in German; short paper spits at head and tail of spine, mild stain to corner of lower wrapper, else very good. An extremely rare edition of the Viennese cinema newspaper Illustrierter Film-Kurier, issued to …
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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 …
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# 21122
GOODING, Janda
Chasing shadows. The art of Kathleen O’Connor
Perth : Art & Australia and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 144, illustrated. Detailed monograph on the Western Australian still life artist.
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# 21798
BROMFIELD, David
Surface Noise : Silent Sea
Perth : School of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Western Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 45, some illustrations. Exhibition catalogue featuring the works of Peter Stafford, John Austin, Stephen Smith and Phillip McNamara.
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# 21781
CLARK, Jane
Exploration and transformation : Australian landscape and artistic imagination
Perth : Heytesbury Pty Ltd, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 34, some illustrations. Exhibition catalogue of 24 works, with essay by Jane Clark.
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# 22116
SPREMBERG, Alex
Alex Spremberg : perceptual objects
Perth : As. Publications Alex Spremberg, August, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, colour illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue with essay by Simon Blond, lecturer at Curtin University of Technology.
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# 18554
[ELLIS, Theophilus Tighe, Captain (1782-1834)]
Letter concerning the inheritance of lands owned by Superintendent Theophilus Ellis in the Swan River Colony.
Manuscript letter addressed to ‘The Hon’ble Colonial Secretary, Perth, Western Australia’ [Peter Nicholas Broun], headed ‘Cockermouth, Cumberland, 4 January 1842′, written by the as yet unidentified husband of one of Theophilus Ellis’ nieces. Single sheet, 265 x 410 mm, bifolium, written in ink on [3] pages, the fourth used for the address; the letter is …
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# 22070
SPREMBERG, Alex
Paintworks 2004 – 2006 : Alex Spremberg
[Perth] : A. Spremberg, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue with essays by Ashley Crawford and John Stringer.
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# 22040
VEDOVA, Emilio
Vedova : graphic works 1960-1978
Perth : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1979. Quarto, black wrappers with white text, [pp. 50],black and white illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue of 44 works, with biographical notes.