Western Australia

  • The art of the Wandjina. Aboriginal cave paintings in Kimberley, Western Australia.

    # 49233

    CRAWFORD, I. M.

    The art of the Wandjina. Aboriginal cave paintings in Kimberley, Western Australia.

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1968. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), tape marks to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper and primary school wet stamp to rear pastedown, pp. 144, illustrated in colour, edges toned, a very good copy. Wandjina are the revered creator and rainmaker spirits in the mythology …

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  • Innovative Aboriginal art of Western Australia.

    # 48198

    STANTON, John E.

    Innovative Aboriginal art of Western Australia.

    Arranged and presented by John E. Stanton. [Nedlands, WA] : University of Western Australia, Anthropology Research Museum Board of Management, 1988. Series: University of Western Australia Anthropology Research Museum, Occasional Paper no. 1. Large octavo (245 x 175 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp. 24; b/w photographic and line-drawn illustrations, map; a very good copy. An …

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  • Shirley Purdie : Boutwell Draper Gallery

    # 48102

    BOUTWELL DRAPER GALLERY

    Shirley Purdie : Boutwell Draper Gallery

    Redfern, NSW : Boutwell Draper Gallery (in association with Warmun Arts Centre), 2004. Octavo folding card (210 x 150 mm), [8] panels, one with a short essay Balu-Wah, Jirragyn and Mabel Downs country by Carolynne Hamdorf, and seven with colour illustrations of the artist’s paintings; fine condition. Shirley Purdie is a senior Gija artist based at …

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  • Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    # 29076

    BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)

    Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    : contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …

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  • Yilpinji : love art and ceremony

    # 48209

    NICHOLLS, Christine

    Yilpinji : love art and ceremony

    Melbourne : Craftsman House, 2006. Square octavo, white boards with lettering in blind, dustjacket, pp 86. Illustrated exhibition monograph exploration the notion of Yilpinji, the ceremonies and arts of love as practiced by the Warlpiri and Kukatja people of the Central and Western Deserts of Australia.

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  • In the track of the native.

    # 48211

    TENNANT, D.

    In the track of the native.

    [Sydney] : T. Tennant, c. 1938. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), pictorial wrappers (handling creases and small edge chips), staple bound, 49 pp; an extended photographic essay focusing on the indigenous cultures of northern Australia (Arnhem Land and Far North Queensland) and New Guinea; b/w illustrations throughout reproducing photographs from the author’s own collection …

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  • Bradshaw's ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia

    # 47909

    WALSH, Grahame L. (1944 - 2007)

    Bradshaw’s ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia

    Geneva : Edition Limitee for The Bradshaw Foundation, 1994. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xviii; 284, 99 colour plates, maps. A fine copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Since their ‘discovery’ by pastoralist Joseph Bradshaw in 1891, the Bradshaw rock paintings of the Kimberley, or Gwion Gwion, have been the subject of controversy. …

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  • [KIMBERLEY REGION] Know your granny / Yiyili Aboriginal Community

    # 48080

    YIYILI ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL

    [KIMBERLEY REGION] Know your granny / Yiyili Aboriginal Community

    [Cover title]. [s.l.] : Yiyili Aboriginal Community School, 2001. Oblong quarto (220 x 270 mm), pictorial wrappers, pp. [40], [1], colour illustrations throughout; an excellent copy. ‘Recollections and illustrations of country, customs and changes, by the Gooniyandi, Jaru and Kija people on Louisa Downs Station, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia’ (verso of upper …

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  • Object of the game

    # 47323

    HITTI, Deanna

    Object of the game

    Fremantle : Fremantle Arts Centre, 2021. Quarto, illustrated wrappers in illustrated card dustjacket, pp. [40], illustrated. Limited to 200 numbered copies signed and dated by the artist. An artist’s book and exhibition catalogue ‘Object of the Game presents the 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award-winning artist’s book Towla by Deanna Hitti, a Melbourne based artist …

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  • A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P., of Adelaide, South Australia (signed presentation copy)

    # 47623

    MacDERMOTT, Marshall [c. 1791 – 1877]

    A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P., of Adelaide, South Australia (signed presentation copy)

    Written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends. Adelaide : William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1874. Octavo, flush cut yellow papered limp boards (corners chipped, a few stains and creases), cloth spine, with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Mrs. Barr Smith to the front free endpaper, pp. 53, light foxing to …

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  • [SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register :

    # 46768

    LINDLEY, John (1799-1865)

    [SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards’s Botanical Register :

    consisting of a complete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, and matter, adjusted to the present state of systematical botany; together with A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With nine coloured plates, containing eighteen coloured figures of plants, and with four wood-cuts. London : James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1839. First edition, …

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  • Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia

    # 47287

    CHARLETON, A. G.

    Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia

    London : E. & F. N. Spon, and New York : Spon & Chamberlain, 1903. Thick octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, worn and rubbed (particularly at corners), rebacked with original spine laid down, cloth repairs to head and foot of spine, touching a few letters, advertisements to endpapers, previous owner’s wet stamp to endpaper and title page, …

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  • [PLAYBILL] [April 7, 1883]. Amateur Theatricals, St. George's Hall, Perth. Uncle's Will ... A Husband to Order. 

    # 47249

    [THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY?] (Perth)

    [PLAYBILL] [April 7, 1883]. Amateur Theatricals, St. George’s Hall, Perth. Uncle’s Will … A Husband to Order. 

    Perth, WA : [s.n.], 1883. Broadsheet, 210 x 130 mm, lithograph-printed in navy on light blue linen paper, on the first side of a bifolium (the other three sides blank); some silverfishing along the fold and at bottom edges, otherwise good condition. Perth playbill listing the casts of two plays. Performers include Mrs. Wilkinson, Mr. …

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  • [PLAYBILL] [St. George's Hall, Perth, 4 November 1881] Programme. The original Serio Comic Drama in two Acts, entitled Milky White, by H. T. Craven Esq.

    # 47250

    [FREMANTLE AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB]

    [PLAYBILL] [St. George’s Hall, Perth, 4 November 1881] Programme. The original Serio Comic Drama in two Acts, entitled Milky White, by H. T. Craven Esq.

    [Perth, WA : s.n., 1881]. Broadsheet, 210 x 130 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in black on mauve paper; horizontal fold, some paper adhesions at left edge, otherwise good condition. Perth playbill listing full cast of a production by the Fremantle Amateur Dramatic Club. Performers include Mr. A. G. Rosser, Mr. W. H. Turner, Mr. F. …

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  • [PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma ... Whitebait at Greenwich.

    # 47251

    [ROBINSON, William Cleaver Francis, Sir]

    [PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma … Whitebait at Greenwich.

    [Perth, WA : s.n., 1876]. Broadsheet, 215 x 140 mm, lithograph-printed recto in blue on buff paper, text set within decorative border with royal coat of arms at head; laid down on a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, mild toning. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. H. C. Princep, …

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  • [PLAYBILL] Thespians. St. George's Hall, 8 Sept[embe]r. 1880. Our Wife ... Patient Penelope.

    # 47247

    THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)

    [PLAYBILL] Thespians. St. George’s Hall, 8 Sept[embe]r. 1880. Our Wife … Patient Penelope.

    [Perth, WA : s.n.], 1880. Broadsheet, 210 x 145 mm, lithograph-printed in violet recto only, on cheap white paper, with two vignette illustrations; some light foxing and creasing, else good condition. Perth playbill for two theatrical pieces; the characters in each play are listed in French and Classical Greek, respectively (the names of the performers are …

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