Western Australia

  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 33117

    Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

    Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    [Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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  • [ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.

    # 46209

    METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

    [ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.

    [Sydney] : The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, circa 1920. Tin collection box with hinged lid, 130 x 80 x 20 mm, lettering on the lid; some oxidisation, overall in very good condition. Wesleyan Methodism is generally considered to have formally been established in Australia in 1815 with the arrival of clergyman Samuel Leigh, although …

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  • 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.

    # 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, [c.1663]. Small quarto, later half vellum over marbled boards (rubbed), manuscript title to spine; ex libris bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper; pp. 44, title page with woodcut vignette (paper repair to the gutter), and allegorical woodcut verso; a further 6 copperplate vignette illustrations in the text, which is printed in two columns with occasional side …

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  • The Colony of Western Australia :

    # 48404

    OGLE, Nathanial

    The Colony of Western Australia :

    a manual for emigrants to that settlement or its dependencies : comprising its discovery, settlement, Aborigines, land-regulations, principles of colonial emigration, statistical, financial, and agricultural reports, also instructions and hints to settlers, directions for the anchorages, &c., with the most correct map extant. By Nathaniel Ogle. With an appendix, containing the governor’s commission, land-regulations, a …

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  • The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    # 47283

    A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)

    The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    [Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …

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  • Carving and Turning in Ivory and Wood, by Captain G. F. Wilkinson, Perth, W. A. ... Nov. 1881.

    # 47245

    WILKINSON, George Faulkner (1838-1884)

    Carving and Turning in Ivory and Wood, by Captain G. F. Wilkinson, Perth, W. A. … Nov. 1881.

    Perth, WA : [G. F. Wilkinson], 1881. Broadsheet, 255 x 125 mm, lithograph-printed in black on white paper; mounted on a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, with some ghosting from the original glue, otherwise good. A rare broadsheet apparently issued to accompany Captain Wilkinson’s ivory and wood carving exhibit at the Perth International Exhibition …

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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