Western Australia
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# 18139
BARDON, Geoffrey
Papunya Tula : art of the Western Desert
Marlston, S.A. : J.B. Books, 1999. First soft cover edition. Quarto, pictorial card covers, half-title with gift inscription, pp 140, illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with diagrams by Judith Ryan; a very good copy.
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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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# 18538
BEDFORD, [George] Randolph (1868-1941); SPENCE, Percy (illustrator)
Billy Pagan, mining engineer
Sydney : N.S.W. : Bookstall Co. Ltd., 1921. Fourth edition, 18th thousand. Octavo, original wrappers with a colour illustration by Percy Spence (creasing, spine chipped and with paper split at foot), pp [2], 210, [4 advertisements], lower and inner wrappers with advertisements; pale waterstain to upper margin of a few leaves, otherwise internally very good. …
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# 17069
STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)
Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.
London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Two volumes, thick octavo, original blind blocked green cloth boards, spines (a little faded) with gilt lettering and gilt kangaroo and emu vignettes; hinges expertly strengthened; pp xv, 521 ; x, 543; with 8 folding engraved maps (6 in endpockets) and 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting …
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# 17634
LOWE, Pat; PIKE, Jimmy (illustrator)
Jimmy and Pat meet the Queen
Broome, W.A. : Backroom Press, 1997. Large oblong octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp 30, with colour Illustrations by Australian indigenous artist Jimmy Pike; a fine copy.A notable commentary on native title and land rights, in the form of a children’s story.
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# 17635
DURACK, Mary; DURACK, Elizabeth (llustrator)
The courteous savage : Yagan of Swan River
Edinburgh : Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1964. First edition. Quarto, boards with illustrated dust jacket (chipped at corners and head and foot of spine; waterstain along spine); pp 83, with Elizabeth Durack’s monochrome and bichrome illustrations throughout; internally clean and sound, a good copy.
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# 17500
FLANAGAN, Roderick J. (1826-1862)
The Aborigines of Australia. (Presentation copy inscribed by the author’s brother)
Sydney : Edward F. Flanagan and George Robinson, 1888. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s blind blocked blue cloth boards (rubbed) with gilt device to front, spine lettered in gilt (softened at head, cloth chipped at foot), frontispiece portrait of the author, verso of title inscribed ‘Presented to W.P. Byrne by the author’s brother Edward F. Flanagan, …
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# 17859
Photographer unknown.
Group of photographs of Coolgardie, Western Australian goldfields, 1901.
Four silver albumen print photographs, in identical format 110 x 150 mm, mounted recto and verso of a page removed from a travel album, all with an accompanying manuscript caption by the photographer and with a date of 1901; they show the Vale of Coolgardie Mine, Bonnievale; Lake View Mine; interior of the Church of …
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# 17755
JAMES ALSTON & SONS.
Alstons’ patent steel windmills, patent steel-framed galvanized stock troughs, pumps, valves and fittings.
South Melbourne : James Alston, [1928?]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 128 pp, illustrated throughout, a fine copy. Approximate dating suggested by reference to a ‘1927 model’. A superbly produced and illustrated agricultural trade catalogue – a goldmine for research into life on the land in Australia in the interwar years. Copies of this edition …
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# 17571
BASEDOW, Herbert
Narrative of an expedition of exploration in North-Western Australia
Adelaide : W. K. THomas, 1918. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp. 105 – 295, photographic illustrations, a fine copy. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Vol. XVIII., Session 1916 – 1917.
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# 17757
STUART, Donald
Yaralie. (Presentation copy)
Melbourne : Georgian House, 1962. First edition. Octavo, red cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket (spine faded, a few tiny edge tears, chipped at head and foot of spine); book label of Marian Currie, East Fremantle, to free endpaper; presentation copy with a humorous dedication to ‘The Curries’ signed by the author on title page, with …
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# 16877
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, LONDON.
[SWAN RIVER COLONY] The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Volume the first. 1831. Second edition.
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1833. Octavo, rebound in twentieth century green cloth boards with gilt lettered spine, original printed brown wrappers bound in (some creasing and stains), pp xi, 264, with 8 engraved maps and plates (some folding) at rear, including the folding map Western Australia from the latest Documents received in the Colonial …
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# 17427
LOWE, Pat; PIKE, Jimmy (illustrator)
Desert cowboy
Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, 2000. First edition. Small quarto, illustrated stiff wrappers, pp [vi], 119, colour illustrations (many full-page) by Indigenous artist Jimmy Pike; the stories are based on true incidents from Pike’s life; a fine copy.
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# 17428
LOWE, Pat; PIKE, Jimmy (illustrator)
Yinti : desert child
/ by Pat Lowe, based on true stories told by Jimmy Pike. Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, 1992. First edition. Small quarto, illustrated stiff wrappers, pp [x], 91, colour illustrations (most full-page) by Indigenous artist Jimmy Pike; a fine copy.
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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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# 15496
PELSAERT, François, 1595-1630
Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia uytgevaren onder’t beleydt van den E. Francois Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman, … Verhalende ‘t verongelucken des schips / en de grouwelijcke moordery onder ‘t scheeps-volck / op ‘t eylandt Bataviers Kerckhof, nevens de justitie gedaen sen de moetwillige in de jaren 1628 en 1629.
Amsterdam : Gillis Joosten Saeghman, n.d. [circa 1663]. Small quarto, later half vellum over marbled boards (rubbed), manuscript title to spine; ex libris bookplates to endpapers; pp 44, title page with woodcut vignette (paper repair to the gutter), allegorical woodcut verso; 6 copperplate vignette illustrations in the text, which is printed in two columns with occasional side notes; occasional pale foxing, else a very …