Aboriginal Art, 23 + 24 November 2004
Sydney, Lawson Menzies, 2004. With the results of the sale (Number 3716) with the prices realised loosely inserted (with one sheet tipped-in to the first page) with a few ink annotations. More
Sydney, Lawson Menzies, 2004. With the results of the sale (Number 3716) with the prices realised loosely inserted (with one sheet tipped-in to the first page) with a few ink annotations. More
Brisbane, Government Printer, 1996. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton (dated June 1996). Aboriginal Land Claim number 6. More
Brisbane, Government Printer, 1994. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton (dated 1994). Aboriginal Land Claim number 1. More
Adelaide, AFA, 1949. Less of the usual miscellany of Aboriginal interest from around the country, more a series of longer articles, including ALBRECHT, F.W.: Building a Bridge across the Gulf that separates the White and Black Australian Race (5 pages) and Thinking Black - a Studious Survey of our Aboriginal..... More
Sydney, The Union, 1946. Inscribed and signed by Joseph Archibald Cranwell (1889-1965), then Chairman of the A.E.U. (see pp 3-4 and Index for numerous references, or perhaps the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More
Wien, Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1909 and 1910. Not least, Bird, W. H.: 'Some Remarks on the grammatical construction of the Chowie Language as spoken by the Buccaneer Islanders, North-Western Australia'. 'Anthropos' was a 'leading journal in cultural anthropology; focussing on Anthropology of Religion, Economic and Social Anthropology, Culture History, Linguistics [and] cover[ing]..... More
London, George Robertson, 1893 (second edition) and 1894. The title leaves are laid down on fine blank paper to mask advertising on the verso; the contents leaves are numbered xxiii-xxiv and xiii-xiv respectively, with the running title 'The Antipodean Advertisements' at the head of each page. Contributors include Rolf Boldrewood..... More
Sydney, Government Printer, 1893. More
Adelaide, Aborigines' Friends' Association, [late 1930s?, reprinted from the AFA Report]. The first six pages contain captioned plates depicting 'Uncivilized natives, living under stone age conditions'; the next nine pages 'Civilized natives, who have come under mission influence', and the last page contains text by David Unaipon: 'An Aboriginal Pleads..... More
Canberra, Department of Information, 1943 and 1944. The Australian Army at War series. More
Melbourne, Victorian Artists Society. More
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1864. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including several short ones on snake-bite (approximately 6 pages), and a series of three important lectures on the heart by..... More
Adelaide, B.O.B.S., 1930. The Programme/ Menu is signed on the rear cover by some 35 local business identities. More
Balaklava, District Council of Balaklava, 1977. More
Balaklava, District Council of Balaklava, 1977. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1866. Full details of the project: primarily a monthly service between Java, Brisbane and Sydney, via Torres Straits, but including proposals from "Colonel Finniss, Resident of the northern part of South Australia ... for establishing a steam service between..... More
[Blackwood, Literary Society of the Blackwood, Coromandel and Belair Club], 1914. This elusive journal was 'devoted to the interests of [the Adelaide Hills suburbs] Blackwood, Coromandel Valley, Belair, and Eden Hills'. The editorial to what became the final issue commences thus: 'Many a good man has been hung for no..... More
[No Place, No Publisher, 1955]. More
[Broken Hill, Broken Hill City Council, c.1957]. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile)/ 1861. Originally reprinted from 'The Argus'. Peade A10: a total of 970 copies. More
Seaforth, Craftsman House, 1988/ 1987. More
Rouen, The Editors, September 1917. Melbourne-born William Farrow described himself as a 'Black & White Artist' on his enlistment form in March 1916. He was in the 3rd Division Cyclists' Corps, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion and going to France in September 1916. His service records indicate that for..... More
Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1977. Number 475 of 750 numbered copies. More
[Keswick, The Corporation], 1953. More
[Keswick, The Corporation], 1953. With numerous illustrations. Original purchase receipt loosely inserted. More