Yanyuwa Country. The Yanyuwa People of Borroloola tell the History of their Land
Richmond, Greenhouse Publications, 1988. More
Northern Territory
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
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
Two exhibition-quality photographs of Central Australian interest by Hugo Keil ARPS
The titles are 'Glen Helen Gorge, Cent. Aust.' and 'Ellery Creek Gorge'. The Northern Territory Archive Service has an album containing twenty-five similar images, captioned but apparently unsigned. The catalogue record for that album (NTRS 3050) states that 'Hugo Keil was a photographer who worked at the Appropriation Ledger Section..... More
Autobiographical Narrative of Residence and Exploration in Australia, 1832-1839
London, Caliban Books, 1984. Edited by Jill Waterhouse from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. More
Untold Miles. Three Gold-hunting Expeditions amongst the Picturesque Borderland Ranges of Central Australia
London, Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd, [1932]. McLaren 15922 (quoting Barnard on the date). Provenance: Norman Lewis, former head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership details on the front flyleaf, and occasional emphases and relevant annotations in pencil and ballpoint pen to the text and..... 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
Uluru, Kata Tjutu & Watarrka. Ayers Rock, The Olgas and Kings Canyon, Northern Territory
Sydney, University of NSW Press, 2002 (fourth impression)/ 1995. 'This guide is your key to the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre' (from the blurb). 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
Journey across the Western Interior of Australia
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968 (facsimile edition)/ 1875. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership signature on the front free endpaper, and an occasional ink annotation. A few relevant newspaper clippings are loosely inserted in a manila pocket mounted..... More
Australia Twice Traversed ...
Sydney, Doubleday Australia, [1979, facsimile edition]/ 1889. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his contemporary ink ownership signature to the front free endpaper of each volume. More
Aborigines, Artefacts and Anguish
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1981. A biography of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow. More
Bombers North. Allied bomber operations from Northern Australia, 1942-1945
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. 'Drawing on a wealth of new sources ... for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia' (rear cover blurb). Not least, B-25 Mitchells and B-24 Liberators. More
Hell's Airport and Lasseter's Lost Legacy
Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1981 ('third and edited edition')/ 1934. 'Account of author's exploits as a member of Harold Lasseter's gold prospecting expedition 1930-31 [with] reference to Aranda, Luritja, Eumos and Wongapitcha (Pitjantjatjara) people in text and photograph captions' (Trove). Foreword by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. More
Coasts and Tidal Wetlands of the Australian Monsoon Region. A Collection of Papers presented at a Conference held in Darwin, 4-11 November 1984
Darwin, Australain National University, North Australia Research Unit, 1985. With ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. More
Identifying Wood Charcoal Remains as Palaeo Evidence for Regions of Central and Northeast Australia
Canberra, ANH Publications, RSPAS, The Australian National University, 1998. With the ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). Research Papers in Archaeology and Natural History, Number 28. More
Modern Sedimentation and Late Quaternary Evolution of the Magela Creek Plain
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992. With the contemporary ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). The editor was Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region. Research Report Number 6. More
The Shape of the Dreaming. The Cultural Significance of Victoria River Rock Art
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995/ 1988. The Institute Report Series. More
North and Aloft. A Personal Memoir of Service and Adventure with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Far Northern Australia
Brisbane, Amphion Press (Department of Child Health Publishing Unit, University of Queensland), 1988. Not least, Aboriginal health. More
Port Essington. The Historical Archaeology of a North Australian Nineteenth-century Military Outpost
Sydney, Australian Society for Historical Archaeology/ Sydney University Press, 2008. 'At one level this monograph is of historical importance in establishing where the discipline began in this country. It explains both the theoretical and methodological problems Allen faced and how he sought to overcome them. At another level it provides..... More
In the Tracks of Old Bluey. The Life Story of Nat Buchanan
Rockhampton, Central Queensland University Press, 2006 (eighth impression)/ 1997. 'Nat Buchanan was the first European to cross the Barkly Tablelands from east to west and first to take a large herd of breeding cattle from Queensland to the Top End of the Northern Territory' (from the blurb). More
The Uranium Hunters
Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. 'Uranium hit the news in a big way in August 1970, when the huge deposit of uranium ore found by a woman prospector in the Northern Territory of Australia was valued at many milions of dollars.... The hope of making such a lucky strike was what kept..... More
Kings in Grass Castles
London, Constable & Company Limited, 1979/ 1968 (seventh printing, with a new introduction)/ 1959. 'This is perhaps one of the greatest biographies of an Australian pioneering family ever written' (from the blurb). These are the pioneering histories of the Costello and the Durack families in Queensland, the Northern Territory and..... More
From Palaeoart to Casual Paintings. The Chronological Sequence of Arnhem Land Plateau Rock Art
Darwin, Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1984. Monograph Series 1. With the ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
Colliding Worlds. First Contact in the Western Desert, 1932-1984
Melbourne, Museum Victoria and National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Tandanya, 2006. 'This book accompanies an exhibition that has been developed by the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Tandanya and Museum Victoria, first showing as part of the Adelaide Festival' (from the foreword). Includes essays by Dick Kumber, Jeremy Long and John Kean..... More