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Aboriginal Australian and Tasmanian Rock Carvings and Paintings & Aboriginal Australian Decorative Art
By Daniel Sutherland Davidson. With a Foreword by Kim Akerman.
Two volumes in one. ISBN 978-0-85905-374-7 and ISBN 978-0-85905-375-4, Case bound with laminated cover, 330pp, plus 6 colour plates, 16.5 x 25cm, 950 grams
$95.00* + POST
First published in 1936 and 1937 these rare books are unknown to most anthropologists, art dealers and collectors.
Davidson was the most important ethnographer of his time and his reputation for the quality and quantity of work produced is unmatched.
Aboriginal Ethnographica
Australian Aboriginal Axes, Spears, Clubs, Canoes, Baskets and Boomerangs.
Petroglyphs, [Rock art] , [Interlocking] Key Designs, Waningas, Churingas, Fire, Footwear & Death.
by Daniel Sutherland Davidson.
With an Appreciation of D.S. Davidson by Kim Akerman.
ISBN 978-0-85905-491-1, (2011R), A4, 489pp, illustrated, 1500 grams
$120.00* + POST
NOW AVAILABLE IN A "SOFT COVER" EDITION. FOLDED FLAPS 300gsm COVER. 1300 GRAMS, $85.00* + POST
This magnificent volume of 489 x A4 pages contains the majority of Davidson’s Australian ethnographic papers from 1933 to 1953.
The sub-title presents the range of material included, all profusely illustrated.
Aborigines of the King George Sound Region
1836 - 1838
The collected works of James Browne (1821-1887)
Compiled and annotated by Ken Macintyre and Barbara Dobson
ISBN 978-0-85905-498-0, 2011 New, A4, 37pp, 140 grams
$22.00* + POST
The collected known works of James Browne have been annotated with explanatory notes by Ken Macintyre and Dr Barbara Dobson in order to provide a biographical and ethnohistorical context. Where Browne has omitted to use the traditional Noongar terms for artefacts and known ceremonial rituals, these have been provided in the annotations.
Browne's collected works provide a valuable contribution to the historical ethnography of indigenous southwestern Australia. His perceptions are insightful, often analytical and in the case of Aboriginal title to the land, he leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that the original inhabitants were 'owners'.
All Australians Now
by Willem van Ravenstein
ISBN 978-0-85905-295-5, (2010 new), illustrated, 221pp, 510grams
$35.00 + POST
For the ten-year old Dutch boy who arrived with his migrant parents at Fremantle one intolerably hot day in 1950, Australia was an alien, almost incomprehensible land.
A clear-eyed observer with an outsider’s perspective, the child grew up and was educated in postwar Perth, where he was gradually transformed into an Australian.
The experience was a complex, testing and sometimes confusing process.
Along the Road to Cue
and other verses
by Andree Hayward
ISBN 978-0-85905-136-1, (2010 new), 106pp, illustrated, 156grams
$22.00 + POST
Andree Hayward was a lawyer, poet and newspaper editor and one of the greatest influences on the developing high culture of the Westralian goldfields. This collection of his verse, a biography and literary criticism fulfils promises made by Hesperian to Hayward's grand-daughter over 25 years ago, and to Beverley Smith, the first of 'modern times' to recognize the value of a virile goldfields literature.
Chris Holyday has researched and edited this expanded collection, marking the 60th anniversary of Andree Hayward' death.
The Apotheosis of the Kero Tin
ISBN 978-0-85905-140-8, (2011), 16pp, illustrated, 40grams
$8.00 + POST
How an outcast of society became the object of admiration and utility, if not a thing of beauty.
An essay on the role of the old kero tin.
Bibliography of books, articles, and pamphlets dealing with Western Australia, issued since its discovery in 1616
by Francis G Steere
ISBN 978-0-85905-500-0, (1923, reprint 2011), 186pp, A4, 515 grams
$45.00* + POST
This important and interesting bibliography, compiled by the then Parliamentary Librarian, contains many references no longer easily accessible through the library catalogues due to the iniquitous policy of not indexing journal articles. An essential reference for bibliophiles, librarians and historians. The original in exceptionally rare.