ABORIGINES from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Melbourne: Georgian House, 1959. Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED by the author. Documentary novel which gives an answer to the question can the Aborigines earn the status of full citizenship in white Australia; tells of a strike of Aboriginal station hands in the north west of Western Australia in l946. 8vo, 156pp, yellow cloth boards with red title on… Read more about this item

Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales, 1892. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Article extracted from the Proceedings of Royal Society of New South Wales. 8vo, 14pp text, 22 b&w photogravure plates, in tan full linen boards. Bound with an article by R.H. Mathews, "Some Stone Implements Used by the Aborigines of New South Wales" with… Read more about this item

Scandinavia, Danish?, 1930. Good. Each card is illustrated with a printed photographic facial portrait of 8 children, identified below by their respective countries. The image titled "Australien" portrays a child who appears to be from the far North Queensland, wearing a necklace that looks to be composed of hide and possibly shells. The boy's name is Toby from… Read more about this item

London: The Wesleyan Mission House, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. The illustrated edition, with much on the missionary interactions with the aboriginals of New Zealand and Australia. Page 256 has an engraved view of "Swan River female and child". 8vo, vi,418pp, frontispiece, engraved title page, 14pp b&w illustrations. Publishers purple cloth, gilt title on front and… Read more about this item

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1835. First edition. Hardcover. The first important published account of the settlement of Western Australia by the man who would serve as acting governor of the state in 1847 - 1848. With Chapter II on Aborigines. Appendix VIII tells the extraordinary account of the two native trackers who found the 5 year old son… Read more about this item

London: Hamilton, Adams, 1862. Third edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Fine colour lithograph frontispiece, view of Sydney from the North Shore. Australian content includes: Tasmania, convicts, Hobart Town, Melbourne, Sydney, Botany Bay, notes on New South Wales, Australasian conference on Methodism, visit to Kapunda mining region, and Aborigines. Small 8vo, 281pp, 6pp ads. Maroon and gilt cloth.… Read more about this item

Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1991. Paperback. Very good overall. Inscribed by the author to Mervyn Meggitt- "For Mervyn. the No. 1 Anthopologist. Amitie, Barbara". Large 8vo, 362 pp, index. "Specimen" stamped on foredge, discoloration on top edge.

Paris: Plon, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Very good overall, with slight markig on foredges.. Inscribed by the author to Mervyn Meggitt, "For Pr. Mervyn Meggitt whose beautiful 'Desert People' gave a history fo the Warlpiri. Cordialement Barbara Glowczewski". 8vo, 285pp, central section of b&w photographs.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1935. Second edition. Hardcover. Good + condition. Account of Australian mounted police in northwest Australia, with content and photographs on aboriginal trackers (the "Black Intelligence", p152). 8vo, frontispiece, xii, 330 pp, b&w photographic illustrations throughout; maps at end papers. Original red cloth boards with black lettering & black rule, spine sunned; inscription… Read more about this item

London: Orr and Smith, 1836. Hardcover. Very good overall. Full yearly bound volume of 52 numbers, beginning with January 31, 1835, through January 23, 1836. Content includes the Mutiny of the Bounty, Halley's Comet, and Ross' s Expedition to the Arctic (p346 - 347). Folio, 416 pp, all edges marbled. Three quarter black gilt leather and marbled… Read more about this item

London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1890. Hardcover. Very good overall. Much important material on Australia contained in these 4 profusely illustrated volumes bound in two. Includes Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Gold, Adelaide, Ballarat, Eureka Stockade, Bush Life, explorers, Rockhampton, Western Australia, Aborigines, land explorations, and more. Also includes Fiji, New Guinea, and New Zealand. … Read more about this item

Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales, 1889. Hardcover. Very good condition. Two extracts from the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. The Aborigines of Australia by Edward Stephens, read before the Royal Society NSW, October 2, 1889. [With] "New South Wales as a Health Resort in Phthisis Pulmonalis" (tuberculosis), read before the… Read more about this item

London: F. Tarrant and Company, 1908. Wraps. Good + condition. Older juvenile fiction, of young English man's quest for fortune in Australia. With much gold mining content (Mount Morgan Mine). Many amusing examples of period Australian slang: "The goldfields after the dust storm, was a sight never to be forgotten ... the miners rushing to the hotel for… Read more about this item

Paris; Lyon: Lecoffre Fils et cie., 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Good + condition. A French history of New Norcia, one of the first Catholic missions to work to convert aborigines, founded in Western Australia by Spanish Benedictines, Fathers Joseph Serra and Rosendo Salvado, in 1836. With a large folding map of Australia at the rear, numerous full page… Read more about this item

Sydney: William Dymock, 1900. Hardcover. Very good condition. A history of the Hawkesbury River region of Australia which contains much commentary on the local aborigines, buildings and people, including Margaret Catchpole, the Rev. Samuel Murray and James Hardy Vaux. 'Compiled from the columns of the Windsor and Richmond gazette'. The volume includes a historically interesting record… Read more about this item

Australia: The Aboriginal Arts Board of The Australia Council, n. d.. Paperback. Very good overall. Uncommon art exhibition catalogue of aboriginal art of North Australia. No date, but circa 1976. Essays, b& w photographs and descriptions of 118 items, including a bibliography. Square 8vo, unpaginated (44 pp), staplebound in brown embossed wrappers ( a bit edge rubbed). Previous… Read more about this item

New York: American Geographical Society, 1878. Hardcover. Very good overall. The first published account of exploration in Australia by Jess Young (pp116 - 141), titled 'Recent Journey of Exploration Across the Continent of Australia; Its Deserts, Native Races, and Natural History'. Young joined Ernest Giles during his 4th Australian expedition, making important botanical discoveries and collections. Giles' expedition… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, xxiv, 286pp. Original publishers green gilt cloth.

London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Highly important early Western Australia content, with report by Captain Stirling on his expedition to the Swan River, undertaken in the year prior to the first settlement. A 7 page report from Captain Stirling's despatches describes the results of his 1827 expedition. Other topics include:… Read more about this item

1815. Very good condition. Early hand colored copper engraving of Sydney, with Aborigines tending a fire at the left foreground, tents on the shore in the middle ground, and the harbor with many sailing ships, and the city in the distance. With the text sheet, in both German and French, which describes Sydney as a place… Read more about this item