Northern Territory
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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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# 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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# 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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# 34439
Anon.
Six coloured views of Darwin, Northern Territory
Payneham, S.A. : C. A. Pitt, circa 1960. Diecut wrappers containing six colour photographic postcards of Darwin, including the Airport, War Memorial, Smith Street, the Botanic Gardens etc.
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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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# 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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# 34171
PROCTOR, Gary
Ngayulu-latju palyantja = We made these things : from the Ngaanyatjarra lands
Catalogue, design concept and compilation, Gary Proctor. Alice Springs : WAP Press, 1999. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine lightly sunned), pp. 48, illustrated. Includes works by Lorna Jennings, Belle Davidson, Fred Ward, Tjingapa Davies, Ngipi Ward and others.
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# 34160
RUBUNTJA, Wenten and GREEN, Jenny
The town grew up dancing. The life and art of Wenton Rubuntja
Alice Springs : Jukurrpa Books, 2002. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xii; 196, illustrated. A fine copy – as new. ‘The Town Grew Up Dancing is Wenten Rubuntja’s story. It provides a rare view of events that shaped the life of an Arrernte man who has made a major contribution to the art and politics …
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# 33779
RYAN, Judith et al.
Aboriginal and Oceanic decorative art
Melbourne, Vic. : National Gallery of Victoria, 1980. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. Foreword by Judith Ryan. Aboriginal and Oceanic decorative art : travelling art exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, 28 Feb.- 28 Mar., touring Victorian country centres 1 Apr.- 15 Dec. 1980 / introduction by J. Davidson. Includes detailed descriptions of the Manggalili …
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# 33784
MARTIN, Jan
Paintings and sculpture from Yirrkala North East Arnhem Land, including eleven works by the Marika family
Melbourne : Lyttleton Gallery, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 28, illustrated. Works collected from Yirrkala by Jan Martin since 1986. ‘Brief identification of Yirrkala people as Yolngu; techniques used in making bark paintings; illustrates range of paintings, linocuts, carvings and other craft items; artists individually named; outlines of myths; descriptions of some paintings.’ – Trove
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# 33581
ISAACS, Jennifer
Australian Aboriginal paintings
Sydney : Lansdowne, 1995 (reprint). Quarto, laminated boards in illustrated dustjacket (verso foxed, light edge wear), pp. 190, illustrated. Paintings from the Western Desert and Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land.
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# 33508
CROCKER, Andrew (editor)
Papunya : Ureinwohnermalerei aus der Wüste Zentralaustraliens.
Sydney: The Aboriginal Artists Agency and Papunya Tula Artists, 1983. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers (with publisher’s own correction of printing error “Uhreinwohnermalerei” for “Ureinwohnermalerei”, an error which is repeated on the title page), pp 64, profusely illustrated in colour, with essays by Dick Kimber and Andrew Crocker; text in German; an excellent copy. …
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# 33207
ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)
Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)
Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …
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# 32252
PREMONT, Roslyn and LENNARD, Mark
Tjukurrpa : desert paintings of Central Australia
Alice Springs : Centre for Aboriginal Artists, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Photography by Claude Coirault. Exhibition catalogue; desert art of central Australia; artists description of their paintings; contemporary art; dot painting; Don Tjungurrayi; Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi; Big Dave Oldfield Tjupurrula; Colin Dixon Tjapanunga; Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa; Leslie Tjampitjinpa; Young Timothy Dempsey Tjungurrayi; …
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# 33326
BRADDON, Russell
Thomas Baines and the North Australian Expedition
Sydney : Collins in association with the Royal Geographic Society, 1986. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. The North Australian Expedition of 1855-56 was led by Augustus Gregory and is documented in the sketches, watercolours and oil paintings of Thomas Baines, formerly in the collection of the Royal Geographic Society, and now in the …
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# 33319
RYAN, Judith
Spirit in land : bark paintings from Arnhem Land in the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, [1990]. Quarto, pictorial card covers, short tears to upper wrapper, viii, 120 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, a good copy. Catalogue of an exhibition staged at the NGV in 1990.