Australian Aboriginal Portraits
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
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Australian Tree Portraits
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More
'A stone was once the head of a poisonous snake. The stone when rubbed causes sickness to one's enemies'
The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two..... More
![An autograph letter signed ('Monty') to Rose and Harold [Sheard]; one page small quarto, undated...](/pictures/thumb/59935_00.jpg?v=1550893321)
An autograph letter signed ('Monty') to Rose and Harold [Sheard]; one page small quarto, undated but 1964 from the content
Mountford has been busy in the eastern states: 'Ayers Rock is in the hands of the publishers, the last volume of the Arnhem Land reports is almost complete, and I am going to get my M.A. Apparently the last examiner (undoubtedly Stanner) was much fairer in his criticisms than the..... More
![Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1: Art, Myth...](/pictures/thumb/102270_00.jpg?v=1550894016)
Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. [Volume] 1: Art, Myth and Symbolism. [Volume] 2: Anthropology and Nutrition. [Volume] 3: Botany and Plant Ecology. [Volume] 4: Zoology
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
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