A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul
Sydney, Academic Press, 1982. With the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
Australian Aborigines
The Australian Aboriginal Heritage. An Introduction through the Arts
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
Oceanic Art
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
Desert Country
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
The Queensland Aborigines [in three volumes]
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
Puntutjarpa Rockshelter and the Australian Desert Culture
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
The Lapstone Creek Excavation: Two Culture Periods Revealed in Eastern New South Wales. [Contained in]: Records of The Australian Museum. Vol. XXII, No. 1, June 30, 1948
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
Archaeological Excavations at Fromm's Landing on the Lower Murray River, South Australia. [Contained in]: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. New Series, Volume 72, Part 2
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
Archaeological and Geomorphological Investigations on Mt. Moffatt Station, Queensland, Australia. (Reprinted from The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1965 - Volume XXXI)
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
Notes on Some Human Remains in the Lower Murray Valley, South Australia. [Contained in]: Records of the South Australian Museum, Volume 3, Number 2, July 18th, 1930
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
Late Cainozoic History of Vegetation, Fire, Lake Levels and Climate, at Lake George, New South Wales, Australia
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
South Australia Illustrated
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
Australian Totemism. A Psycho-Analytical Study in Anthropology
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
A substantial number of important articles on exploration and Indigenous Australia, mainly relating to Northern Australia, contained in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 2 (Sessions 1886-7 and 1887-8) and Volume 3 (Sessions 1888-9 to 1897-8)
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
A two-colour bookplate for Sydney Long
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
A substantial collection of 'Walkabout' magazine, unbound and in the original pictorial wrappers, running from the Volume 4, Number 1 (February 1935) to Volume 24, Number 1 (January 1958) is offered as one lot
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
Australia's Greatest Rock Art
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
Australian Aboriginal Paintings in Western and Central Arnhem Land. Temporal Sequences and Elements of Style in Cadell River and Deaf Adder Creek Art
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
Aboriginal Australia
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
Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert
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
Reminiscences of the Aboriginal Station at Cummeragunga and its Aboriginal People
[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
Desert Country
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
Central Australia
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
Aborigines, Artefacts and Anguish
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1981. A biography of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow. More
Australia's Aboriginal Heritage
North Blackburn, Collins Dove, 1995 (second impression)/ 1994. More