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Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity
AU$10,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Schuster; Edmund Carpenter; Lorraine Spiess.
New York: Rock Foundation, 1986-88.Based on the Researches & Writings of Carl Schuster. Edited & Written by Edmund Carpenter. Assisted by Lorraine Spiess. A cornerstone of comparative anthropology, mythology, and art history. This monumental work draws on the vast ethnographic record assembled by American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969). Schuster died suddenly of cancer, leaving the material unpublished. Carpenter spent nearly two decades editing Schuster’s archive into this twelve-volume synthesis. The result is an epic survey of visual and mythic patterns: from Paleolithic Europe to the tribal societies of Oceania, the Americas, and Africa. Issued privately in a very small edition distributed directly to museums and researchers Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism is likely the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of traditional symbolism ever published.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Third Series: An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands.
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Manchester: Lithographed by Palmer Howe & Co., 1898.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. One of 175 numbered copies initialed by Edge-Partington and Heape. This copy with the 7 leaves of additional notes for all 3 parts.
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Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Marshall
London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931.Being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927 edited by Sir John Marshall … In three volumes, with plan and map in colours, and 164 plates in collotype. The official account of the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
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Scripta Minoa Volume I
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArthur J. Evans
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1909.The Written Documents of Minoan Crete with Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos. Volume I: The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes with an account of the discovery of the pre-Phoenician scripts, their place in Minoan story and their Mediterranean relations. Volume I only, Volume II was not published until 1952.
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Scientific Expeditions in the Portuguese Overseas Territories (1783-1808)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Joel Simon
Lisboa: Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, 1983.and the Role of Lisbon in the Intellectual-Scientific Community of the late Eighteenth Century.
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L’Art a Hue Nouvelle Edition
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartl’Association des Amis du Vieux Hue
Hanoi: Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient, No date.A separately issued volume associated with the Bulletin des Amis du Vieux Hue and a classic of Vietnamese motifs, art, and architecture. The Association des Amis du Vieux Hue was a French colonial-era scholarly society based in Hue, the Bulletin was issued 1914-1944, this special issue circa 1925.
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Portraits from a Land Without People
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2008.A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia, 1847-2008. This copy signed and numbered by Jimmy Little and signed by John Ogden.
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Saltwater People of the Broken Bays / Fatal Shore: Sydney’s Northern / Southern Beaches (2 Volumes)
AU$160.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Ogden
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 2012.The slipcased issue of both volumes, together encompassing a focused look at the shorelines of Sydney, New South Wales, and the people who inhabit them, from ancient times through to modern surfing.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMade Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1988.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographers were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. The New Compiled Edition, combining volumes 1 and 2. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page, and with numerous manuscript corrections as well as additional information tabs further describing many of the illustrations.