Australia's Greatest Rock Art
Bathurst, E.J. Brill / Robert Brown & Associates (Aust) Pty. Ltd., 1988.
Oblong folio, 312 pages with a full-page map, numerous small location maps, and approximately 340 colour plates.
Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover (and decorated in blind on the front); cloth slightly bumped and lightly marked; an excellent copy with the lightly scuffed dustwrapper with a 70 mm tear (now expertly closed) near the bottom corner of the front panel.
An important survey of Aboriginal rock art; 'One hundred individual sections cover the rock art of not only every Australian state and territory but also every major rock art region and art style. Many art panels in the 339 colour plates have never been published'. This was the first major publication by Walsh, who went on to produce two substantial studies of the Bradshaw rock art of North-West Australia in 1994 and 2000. Provenance: pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), with his ownership details in ink on the front flyleaf and his pictorial bookplate on its recto.
Item #133292
Price (AUD):
$750.00