Brown Men and Red Sand. Wanderings in Wild Australia
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens Limited, 1948. Signed by the author on the title page (with a neat line through his printed name). More about Brown Men and Red Sand. Wanderings in Wild Australia
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The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume One: Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1847
Sydney, Macleay Press, 2002. A related newspaper clipping is loosely inserted. More about The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume One: Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1847
Glenelg. Birthplace of South Australia. A Centenary Publication to mark the attainment of 100 Years of Civic Administration and Development 1855-1955. Together with a Synopsis of Events between the Foundation of South Australia and the Establishment of Local Government
Glenelg, Glenelg Town Council, 1955. More about Glenelg. Birthplace of South Australia. A Centenary Publication to mark the attainment of 100...
Tribes and Boundaries in Australia
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976. With the ownership signature of the Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope (1920-2018), Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus, 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' (LCA obituary). The book contains, in rewritten form... More about Tribes and Boundaries in Australia
The Gawler Handbook. A Record of the Rise and Progress of that important Town; to which are added Memoirs of McKinlay the Explorer and Dr Nott
Hampstead Gardens, Austaprint, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1880. More about The Gawler Handbook. A Record of the Rise and Progress of that important Town; to which are added...
The Scandinavians in Australia, New Zealand and the Western Pacific
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1939. Not least, Scandinavian migration to Queensland. More about The Scandinavians in Australia, New Zealand and the Western Pacific
A Straight-out Man. F.W. Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1992. Presentation copy, signed and warmly inscribed by the author to Dr Les Grope. The Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope (1920-2018), Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus, 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' (LCA obituary)... More about A Straight-out Man. F.W. Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines
Old and New Australian Aboriginal Art
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1964. A period newspaper cutting on Yirawala is loosely inserted. The old, 'whether practised by the natives in the distant past or in our own time' and the new, 'as taken up by contemporary white Australians working on paintings and designs for murals, pottery, textiles, book... More about Old and New Australian Aboriginal Art
Die Geschichte der Neuendettelsauer Mission in Neuguinea. [Together with] Band 2: Die Mission zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen mit einem Uberblick [and] Band 3: Werdende Kirche in Neuguinea - Kopie oder Original?
Neuendettelsau, Freimund, 1961, 1963 and 1962. With two related magazine articles loosely inserted. Text in German. More about Die Geschichte der Neuendettelsauer Mission in Neuguinea. [Together with] Band 2: Die Mission...
Neu-Guinea
Berlin, Alfred Schall, [1899]. The rest of the title in full: 'mit Beiträgen von Professor Dr. A. Freiherrn von Danckelman, Professor Dr. F. von Luschan, Kustos Paul Matschie und Professor Dr. Otto Warburg mit Unterstützung der Kolonial-Abteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes, der Neu-Guinea-Kompagnie und der Deutschen Kolonial-Gesellschaft'. Text in German..... More about Neu-Guinea
The Life of Charles Lever. In Two Volumes
London, Chapman and Hall, 1879 [first edition]. With the uniquely-shaped bookplates of William E. Stuart, featuring a unicorn (possibly William Stuart (1825-93), see wiki) // Charles Lever (1806-1872) was a mercurial Irish novelist. More about The Life of Charles Lever. In Two Volumes
Ellen Nora Payne. Woodcarver of Tasmania
Launceston, The Author, 1975. Number 155 of only 750 copies. Signed by the author. More about Ellen Nora Payne. Woodcarver of Tasmania
A collection of 14 stereophotographs from the expedition, mainly taken in the vicinity of the Western Base hut, Queen Mary Land, in early 1912, with some images relating to the voyage south from Hobart, via Macquarie Island
One outstanding image depicts a group of exhausted expeditioners 'resting' on the deck of the 'Aurora' after establishing the Macquarie Island Base. The best were taken in and around 'The Grottoes', the name given to the Western Base hut and its numerous caverns created in the enveloping snow drifts. These... More about A collection of 14 stereophotographs from the expedition, mainly taken in the vicinity of the...
A collection of 29 original stereophotographs from Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
In 1907 Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934) was Professor of Geology at the University of Sydney, with a world-wide reputation, when 'Ernest Shackleton invited him to journey south with his expedition and return in the "Nimrod" at the end of the summer.... [In] December 1907 David, with two former... More about A collection of 29 original stereophotographs from Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition,...
A very large embroidered silk piano shawl or Manila shawl. The cream silk ground is elaborately hand-embroidered on both sides with blue silks in a floral design, and is edged with a knotted silk border and thick, heavy fringe
The Manila shawl originated in China, but became popular in Spain and its colonies (exported via Manila, hence the name), before making its way into European fashion more broadly in the early nineteenth century. It saw a revival in the 1920s; this example is most likely from this period and... More about A very large embroidered silk piano shawl or Manila shawl. The cream silk ground is elaborately...
A Georgian wine cooler (circa 1750s); oak with mahogany veneer; original brass insert and hardware (the drawer pull a vintage replacement), the whole standing on four cabriole legs with pad feet
Provenance: G.D. Delprat; Sir Douglas and Lady Paquita Mawson; by descent. More about A Georgian wine cooler (circa 1750s); oak with mahogany veneer; original brass insert and...
A transverse section of steel rail stamped 'B.H.P. Co. | Newcastle. | N.S.W. | 73. lb. Rail. | 18.9.16. | Rolled. for. | War. Service. in. France.'. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steel works at Newcastle opened in 1915 and was soon producing steel for use in the First World War, both in Australia and on the Western Front. The Newcastle plant was the brainchild of G.D. Delprat, General Manager of BHP from 1898 to 1921; it was the foundation of the company's subsequent success and expansion. This commemorative item comes from his personal collection
Provenance: G.D. Delprat; by descent. More about A transverse section of steel rail stamped 'B.H.P. Co. | Newcastle. | N.S.W. | 73. lb. Rail. |...
An Edwardian crystal cabinet with a large decorative panel, embroidered in gros point and petit point by Lady Paquita Mawson or her mother, Henrietta Delprat, mounted behind the original glass panel in the door
The cabinet, in Australian oak, is 1415 mm high, 900 mm wide and 410 mm deep, with four internal shelves; the embroidered panel measures 705 × 515 mm. Both cabinet and embroidery are in fine condition. Provenance: Sir Douglas and Lady Paquita Mawson; by descent. More about An Edwardian crystal cabinet with a large decorative panel, embroidered in gros point and petit...
A very large and impressive Dutch rosewood veneer and carved oak 'rankenkast' ('tendril cabinet') or armoire, dating from the second half of the seventeenth century
In her 1958 biography of her father, G.D. Delprat, Paquita Mawson records his lengthy trip to England, Europe and America, from February to October 1907. She notes that he 'was always generous in his gifts to us and this time there was quite a lot of furniture, which we still... More about A very large and impressive Dutch rosewood veneer and carved oak 'rankenkast' ('tendril cabinet')...
A Jaeger camel-hair woollen blanket as supplied to members of the AAE, 1911-1914
Mawson makes specific reference to the camel-hair woollen material supplied by Jaeger of London to the expedition, not least 'the blankets which were used at Winter Quarters at both Antarctic Bases' (see the first edition of 'The Home of the Blizzard', Appendix VII, 'Equipment'). Examples of these blankets are clearly... More about A Jaeger camel-hair woollen blanket as supplied to members of the AAE, 1911-1914
'Erecting Tents in a Blizzard'. An evocative original oil painting from Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, given to him and his wife Paquita (née Francisca Adriana Delprat) as a present for their wedding on 31 March 1914 at Holy Trinity Church in the Melbourne suburb of Balaclava
Charles Turnbull Harrisson (1866-1914) was selected by the AAE as the biologist and artist on the Western Base Party, Shackleton Ice Shelf, Queen Mary Land, under Frank Wild. He accompanied Wild on his main eastern sledge journey, and participated in several other expeditions. He was the only Tasmanian member of... More about 'Erecting Tents in a Blizzard'. An evocative original oil painting from Douglas Mawson's...
'An Ice Capped Islet'
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the title (as... More about 'An Ice Capped Islet'
'A Blizzard'
This classic image shows assistant medical officer Leslie Whetter and assistant collector John Close cutting ice for use in the nearby Winter Quarters (visible in the background). This prosaic description captures none of the awesome beauty of the scene. The print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley... More about 'A Blizzard'