Western Australia

  • Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route

    # 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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  • [SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

    # 34251

    HALL, Fred (words and music); TISDALE, Clarence (performer)

    [SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

    Cover: “Sung by Clarence Tisdale”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 200. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of African-American tenor Clarence Tisdale by Talma Studios and vignette portrait of Fred Hall, original owner’s name ‘Roland Thomas’ and wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Miss …

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  • Ngurra Kuju Walyja - One Country, One People : Stories from the Canning Stock Route

    # 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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  • Fred Williams’ Pilbara : images from the North West

    # 34298

    [WILLIAMS]. GRAY, Anne et al.

    Fred Williams’ Pilbara : images from the North West

    The Rio Tinto Pilbara series presented by Hamersley Iron. Perth : Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, 1998. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers (light handling marks), pp. 20, illustrated in colour throughout, text by C J S Renwick, Professor Deryck M Schreuder and Anne Gray, includes excerpts from Williams’ working diary notes and …

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  • Ngayulu-latju palyantja = We made these things : from the Ngaanyatjarra lands

    # 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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  • Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.

    # 32327

    ROUGEMONT, Louis de (Henri Louis GRIN) (1847-1921)

    Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.

    Manuscript in ink on ruled paper, 160 x 200 mm; headed ‘Flitwick, Ampthill, 1.7.03’, the letter is addressed to The Author Syndicate, Lincoln Inn Field, London, and is signed at the foot ‘Yours, Louis de Rougemont’; wet stamped ‘Received 2 Jul 03’, and with a correspondence number in red crayon; original vertical fold, clean and …

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  • Fred Williams : the Pilbara series, 1979-1981

    # 34034

    [WILLIAMS]. MCCAUGHEY, Patrick

    Fred Williams : the Pilbara series, 1979-1981

    Melbourne : CRA Limited, 1983. Oblong octavo, illustrated wrappers, corners slightly bumped, pp. 52, illustrated end papers, preface by Sir Roderick Carnegie, essay on William’s Pilbara series by Patrick McCaughey, numerous colour illustrations of the series of paintings, catalogue of 31 works, very slight handling marks, but a fine copy.

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  • Warlayirti : the art of Balgo

    # 33787

    HEALY, Jacqueline (editor)

    Warlayirti : the art of Balgo

    Edited by Jacqueline Healy. Melbourne, Victoria : RMIT Gallery, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. viiil 168, a fine copy. Catalogue of the exhibition Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo held at RMIT Gallery 16 September – 8 November 2014, and Araluen Arts Centre 21 November 2014 – 22 February 2015.

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  • Portraits from an uninhabited land

    # 33602

    ADLER, Nicholas

    Portraits from an uninhabited land

    Sydney : Bantam, 1988. Quarto , boards in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. [88], striking portraits of the indigenous people of Western Australia. With his portable ‘bush studio’, photographer Nicholas Adler has captured a haunting and confronting series of portraits of Aboriginal people from Western Australia. From the rugged, lush northern Kimberley to the harshness …

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  • Australian Aboriginal paintings

    # 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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  • Australia, the land of hope and sunshine : how women can get there, and what they say of it.

    # 33631

    Great Britain. Oversea Settlement Dept.

    Australia, the land of hope and sunshine : how women can get there, and what they say of it.

    [London : Oversea Settlement Dept.], August, 1925. Series: E.S.A. 26. Small octavo (185 mm), stapled, 8 pp; a fine example. Designed to encourage women to emigrate from Great Britain to Australia, this pamphlet contains information on job opportunities for women in Australia – sadly only household work, employment on farms and stations and in country …

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  • Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler's publications for the Sesquicentenary)

    # 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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  • Thomas Baines and the North Australian Expedition

    # 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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  • Western Desert satellites : works from the Western Australian state art collection

    # 33188

    BULLEN, Clotilde et al.

    Western Desert satellites : works from the Western Australian state art collection

    Fitzroy Crossing, Irrunytju (Wingellina), Kiwirrkura, Papulankutja (Blackstone), Warburton, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills). Perth, W.A. : Art Gallery of Western Australia, c2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 34, illustrated. Articles by Clotilde Bullen, Mary Knights, and Tim Pearn.

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  • William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    # 32325

    WESTALL, William (1781-1850)

    William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 75 x 180 mm; dated ‘Oct. 31st 1826’, the document is written in Westall’s hand and is worded: ‘Recd. of G. J. Robson Esqre. Ten Guineas for a Drawing for Mrs. Haldimand. [Signed] W. Westall. / £10.10’; blind stamped at left margin ‘Receipt Three Pence’; clean and complete. Rare …

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  • Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 - 2011 (deluxe edition)

    # 32130

    WEIGHT, Greg and MCGREGOR, Ken

    Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 – 2011 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, blind embossed ochre cloth in cloth slipcase with draw ribbon, pp. 199, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies, specially bound, with an original signed etching by Mrs Bennett (Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa), numbered in an edition of 50 and signed with her monogram ‘X’. A book of portrait …

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