Indigenous Australians
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# 34659
HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul
Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. A fine copy.
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# 34648
DONALDSON, Mike and KENNEALLY, Kevin (editors)
Rock art of the Kimberley
Proceedings of the Kimberley Society Rock Art Seminar held at the University of Western Australia, Perth 10 September, 2005. Perth : Kimberley Society, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 158, illustrated. Contents : Introduction and overview of Kimberley rocka rt / Mike Donaldson Rock art as inspiration for contemporary Aboriginal painting / Donny Woolagoodja (with an …
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# 34645
ANEMAAT, Louise
Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …
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# 34490
PICKERING, Michael et al.
Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2010. Quarto, cards in dustjacket, pp. [xx]; 230, illustrated. The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …
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# 34527
WEBB, T. T.
The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.
/ Ninth Methodist Laymen’s Memorial Lecture delivered by T.T. Webb, Wesley Church, Monday 26th March 1934. [Melbourne] : Methodist Laymen’s Missionary Movement, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers, stapled; pp 39, map; scattered foxing.
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# 34328
HUTCHISON & CO. (ELITE PHOTO CO.)
Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 108 mm (mount); recto with imprint of ‘Hutchison & Co., Elite [Photo Co.], 8 Queen St., Brisbane’; the print has some pale foxing scattered around the margins; the mount is clean and stable. This group portrait was taken in a photographer’s studio, presumably that of Eddie Hutchison’s …
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# 34398
ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)
Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.
[Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 314 x 241 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 21 printed upper right. light foxing and handling marks. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …
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# 34397
ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)
Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal
[Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving, 318 x 242 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 22 printed upper right; pale foxing and handling marks, a very good example. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …
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# 34062
WISEMAN, Judith Proctor
Thomson time : Arnhem Land in the 1930s : a photographic essay
Melbourne : Museum of Victoria, 1997. Quarto, boards in glassine dustjacket (tear with tape repair to head, edges rubbed), illustrated endpapers, pp. xvii, 94, illustrated. Photographs by anthropologist Donald Thomson. This is an insight into an important period of Australian history and the lives of Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in the 1930s. This was …
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# 34126
WEBSTER, Mags (editor)
Ngurra Kuju Walyja – One Country, One People : Stories from the Canning Stock Route
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2011. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 400, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, sealed in shrink-wrap. A collaborative enterprise between FORM, the National Museum of Australia, and nine Aboriginal arts and cultural centres, leading to a major publication and exhibition. An extraordinary volume, documenting the relationships between …
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# 33823
Alice Springs Branch of the Country Women's Association
The Alice.
A story of the town and district of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, compiled by the Alice Springs Branch of the Country Women’s Association. Alice Springs : Alice Springs Branch of the Country Women’s Association, 1952. Quarto, lettered papered boards, dustjacket (a few small creases, neat tape repairs verso), two small tape marks to endpapers, pp. …
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# 34322
H.A.L.T. (Healthy Aboriginal Life Team)
An̲angu way
Ir̲iti pukul̲pa pika wiya nyinan̲tja munu pukul̲pa pika wiya kun̲pu nyinan̲tjaku ngula = in the past we were happy and free from sickness, and in the future we will become strong and healthy again. Alice Springs : Nganampa Health Council, 1991. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (toned, small tear to lower panel), pp. viii; 88, illustrated. …
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# 34372
TIPPING, Marjorie
Ludwig Becker : artist & naturalist with the Burke & Wills expedition
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, light edge wear, small bump to one corner, pp. 224, illustrated. A very good copy.
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# 34276
KLINGENDER, Tim
Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art. Sydney, 28-29 July 2003.
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2003. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers, pp 292; auction catalogue with 560 lots, most illustrated in colour (one folding plate of the so-called Ngurrara canvas); including works on paper by 19th century artist Tommy McRae; Kimberley bark paintings by Charlie Numbulmoore, early Queensland artefacts (baskets, clubs, boomerangs, rainforest shields) …
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# 34256
EDWARDS, Robert
Australian Aboriginal art : the art of the Alligator Rivers region, Northern Territory
Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979. Small quarto, publisher’s illustrated wrappers, inscription to half-title, pp [xii], 202; illustrated with 45 photographic plates (17 colour), 2 full-page maps; bibliography. The first edition, titled simply The Art of the Alligator Rivers region, was published in 1974; this second edition has more coloured plates.
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# 34216
[NAMATJIRA]. HARDY, Jane, MEGAW, J.V.S., and MEGAW, M. Ruth
The Heritage of Namatjira. The Watercolourists of Central Australia.
Melbourne : Heinemann, 1992. Large octavo, illustrated wrappers (spine sunned), pp. xxii; 350, illustrated in colour, a good copy. The primary reference work on the Hermannsburg school. A quality reference copy of a title which is out of print and quite scarce