A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul
Sydney, Academic Press, 1982. With the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
Sydney, Academic Press, 1982. With the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
Cologne, Konemann, 1995. Dated (16 February 1997), signed and warmly inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title, with an ink drawing by the author. Text in English, German and French. More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010. The book accompanied a major Indigenous art exhibition at the Art Gallery of SA in 2010-11. 'Showcasing the Gallery's extensive Aboriginal art collection - one of the finest in Australia - 'Desert Country' charts the forty-year journey of the desert painting movement to..... More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1984 [facsimile edition]/ 1897 to 1910. Volume 1 is a reprint of 'Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines' (1897); Volume 2 is a reprint of the separately-issued North Queensland Ethnography Bulletins 1-8 (1901-1908) and Volume 3 is a reprint of Bulletins 9-18, first published in the..... More
New York, The American Museum of Natural History, 1977. Loosely inserted are two enlarged versions of figures 66 and 67, both aligned and taped to allow easier study; and a corrected version of Table 45. Inscribed and signed in ink by pioneering American desert field archaeologist Richard Allen Gould (1939-2020)..... More
Glebe, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited, 1948. With the ink ownership signature of one of Australia's foremost archaeologists, Rhys Maengwyn Jones (19412001) (dated October 1963) on the title-page, and the later colour pictorial bookplate of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022) on the front pastedown. More
Melbourne, The Society, 1960. Bound together with: D.J. MULVANEY, G.H. LAWTON and C.R. TWIDALE (and others): 'Archaeological Excavation of Rock Shelter No. 6, Fromm's Landing, South Australia'. [Reprinted from]: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. New Series, Volume 77, Part 2. Melbourne, The Society, 1964. Quarto, 479-516 pages with..... More
Cambridge, The Prehistoric Society, 1965. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
Adelaide, Printed at the Hassell Press for the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1930. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
London, The Royal Society, 1985. An offprint from 'The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Volume 311'. With the colour pictorial bookplate of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
Sydney, Reed, 1967 [facsimile edition]/ 1847. One of 1000 copies of this fine facsimile. The Aboriginal content is considerable and significant: 22 of the 60 plates (and the accompanying leaves of text) are devoted exclusively to the state's Aborigines. There are numerous portraits (usually four or more to a page)..... More
London, Allen and Unwin, 1925. Inscribed on the front flyleaf 'T.G. Strehlow March 11th 1932 SA' (purchased new from the Adelaide booksellers Preece & Sons, with their small paper label at the foot of the front pastedown). More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1890 and 1899. An impressive, important and unquestionably rare compilation. The contents of Volume 2 include: 1. TIETKENS, W.H.: The Nullabor Plains and the West Boundary of the Province (5 pages plus a very large and detailed folding map of the boundary line between South Australia and Western..... More
Peake 3276. The design, an Indigenous child standing behind a pink flamingo (both on one leg), features a motif that is synonymous with the artist Sydney Long (1871-1955). Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More
The only issue missing from the run is January 1946. Two issues (December 1935 and January 1938) are water-damaged and the leaves are stuck together. Another two issues (June 1935 and July 1935) have the top right-hand corners affected by water and the leaves cannot be separated without risking (minor)..... More
Bathurst, E.J. Brill / Robert Brown & Associates (Aust) Pty. Ltd., 1988. 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..... More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1988/ 1982 (corrected edition)/ 1973. 'Seven unnumbered illustrations have been added to this publication at the end of the chapters ... These additional drawings - all of them reproductions of Aboriginal rock paintings from western Arnhem Land - are not included in the documentation..... More
Sydney, Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1981. An important catalogue of an exhibition that toured the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Australian Museum and the Queensland Art Gallery in 1981 and 1982. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1979. The first book published on the Papunya painting movement, by the man responsible for its development, presenting 'twenty-four of the best paintings by twenty artists who are recognised leaders'. More
[Melbourne], 'A Group of Friends of the Author', 1952. One of 500 copies. The author was a Yorta Yorta and Yullaba Yullaba man, brought up at Cummeragunga mission on the New South Wale bank of the Murray River, near Barmah. More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010. The book accompanied a major Indigenous art exhibition at the Art Gallery of SA in 2010-11. 'Showcasing the Gallery's extensive Aboriginal art collection - one of the finest in Australia - "Desert Country" charts the forty-year journey of the desert painting movement to..... More
London, Oxford University Press, 1936. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink library details on the front free endpaper, his ink ownership details on the half-title, and his (often critical) ink and pencilled annotations. 'An outline of the early exploration of Central..... More
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1981. A biography of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow. More
North Blackburn, Collins Dove, 1995 (second impression)/ 1994. More