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Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Pamphlets Dealing with Western Australia Issued Since its Discovery in 1616
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrancis G. Steere
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.“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.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Gold Fields Maps of the Early 1900s
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWA Mines Department
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2005.A reprint of the rare booklets of WA goldfields maps, ‘The State of Western Australia Shewing Goldfields & Mining Centres published by the Department of Mines, W.A.’, supplied to the early prospectors. Essential for goldfields historians and modern prospectors.
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Photographs from the Frontier: Kimberley, 1910-1911
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017.Taken by the first Swedish scientific expedition to Australia from prints held by the National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden. Organised and arranged by Kim Akerman.
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Ludovic de Beauvoir’s Visit to Australia
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Melville-Jones
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2017.“This publication presents a revised English translation of the first volume (Australie) of an account of a voyage around the world undertaken in 1866 by two young French aristocrats. In Australia they visited Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo, and outside Melbourne experienced the life of a squatter at that time. They also visited Hobart, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane before sailing north towards South East Asia. The separate chapters are preceded by a general introduction written by Marie Ramsland (University of Newcastle), and by introductions to the separate chapters written by the editor, and by Nicola Cousen (Federation University), Steve Mullins (Central Queensland University), Stefan Petrow (University of Tasmania, and John and Marie Ramsland (University of Newcastle). The text and the introductions provide a vivid picture of the eastern states of Australia as they were in 1866, seen through the eyes of a young French aristocrat.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Northmost Australia (3 Volumes)
AU$220.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Logan Jack
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1998.Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, by Robert Logan Jack, Queensland Government Geologist. Facsimile Edition with maps in pocket in a third volume.
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Western Australian Ethnographic Papers
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Dugald Campbell; Peter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.“W. D. Campbell, an English geologist working in New Zealand and Australia undertook pioneering ethnographic work in the Eastern Goldfields, North West and Murchison. This collection is of rare and difficult to obtain papers that are little known to those interested in such material. The items on churingas and phallic objects are sure to ‘raise’ an interest in those so oriented.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Wilgie Mia: Cave of Red Ochre and Raddled Ranters
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter J. Bridge
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2018.“A history of the discovery of the cave, early mining, and the industry that grew around it. Also an examination of the Wadgela myths of the sacred cave, which are less believable than those of the Aboriginal dreamtime. Wishful thinking guides government policy resulting in closure and restriction as the home for a red elephant.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Wanjina: Notes on Some Iconic Ancestral Beings of the Northern Kimberley
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKim Akerman
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2016.“Wanjina Beings — among the most distinctive of all the Aboriginal Ancestral Beings depicted in Australian rock art — have been a topic of conjecture among Western scholars since their discovery by the explorer George Grey in the northwest Kimberley Region of Australia, in 1838. Their origins have at various times been ascribed to travellers from other continents and even extraterrestrial sources. This essay presents a brief history of past research into the Wanjina cult of the Kimberley: and examines some of the core mythology that embraces the country of the Wanjina and which links people, from the coasts lapping the Timor Sea, to the fastness of the Kimberley Plateau. Drawing together a range of ethnographic data this essay shows that the Wanjinas have played an integral role in underpinning the identity of the Worrorra, Wunambal and Ngarinyin peoples. This cultural connection stretches back for many millenia and continues today, through both oral traditions and the visual arts, playing a major role in defining the bond that holds these three groups of Indigenous Australians together.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness
AU$135.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2015.Published in Swedish in 1918 as ‘Bland Stenaldersmanniskor i Queensland’s Vildmarker’, and now available for the first time in English translated by S. M. Fryer and edited by Asa Ferrier and Rod Ritche. A magnificent book on Eric Mjoberg’s North Queensland anthropological and natural history collecting expedition. 31 plates. 226 captioned figures and 2 maps, showing rarely seen photographs of North Queensland Aboriginals, ethnographic items, tropical rainforests and their endemic animals.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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The Queensland Aborigines (3 Volumes)
AU$240.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1984.3 volumes collecting in facsimile various works of Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation. Volume 1 contains Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines, and includes the ethno-pornographical plate reproduced in colour. Volume 2 contains Bulletins 1-8 of North Queensland Ethnography from The Home Secretary’s Department, Brisbane, 1901-1908. Volume 3 contains Bulletins 9-18 of North Queensland Ethnography, Records of the Australian Museum Sydney, 1907-1910. In total, over 1,500 photographs, line drawings, and maps in three volumes.
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Les Passagers
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristophe Bourguedieu
Cherbourg-Octeville: Point du Jour, 2007.Photobook by French photographer Christophe Bourguedieu taken in Perth and regional Western Australia between 2004 and 2006.
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Rage Against The Light
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page.
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Rage Against The Light (w/ Signed Print)
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarkus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed to the title page and with an original signed photographic print laid in.
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Cactus: Surfing Journals from Solitude
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristo Reid
Forresters Beach: Strangelove Press, 2010.Illustrated history of surfing in South Australia, primarily around the remote surf spot of Cactus Beach on the Eyre Peninsula.
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Bushwalking Around Sydney
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaddy Pallin
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1959.Guidebook by the famed Australian bushwalker and camping equipment retailer Frank Austin “Paddy” Pallin. Pallin was a founding member of the Search and Rescue arm of the Confederation of Bushwalking Clubs NSW in 1936 and his chain of stores are still operating today.
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Public Fitting
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Johnson
Sydney: Tim Johnson, 1972.A 1972 artist’s book by Sydney conceptual artist (now painter) Tim Johnson (1947-), containing 40 full page black and white street photographs which show the wind lifting the skirts of women on the streets of Sydney. Produced during his time as co-founder of one of Sydney’s first artist-run spaces, Inhibodress, alongside Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, the work forms a key part of Johnson’s early-1970s investigations into public space, social conditioning, and eroticism. While the images might initially appear voyeuristic (see upskirt), they are best understood through the lens of his contemporaneous performances, Disclosure and Fittings. Those live works staged situations to expose and analyze unconscious “sexual mores” and “sex-role conditioning”, manipulating participants’ clothing in a gallery, provoking direct responses. Public Fitting explores similar themes through the “found performance” of the street, framing the wind as an unwitting collaborator and the women’s reactions as unscripted data on social behaviour. Published alongside a Super 8 film of the same name (featuring different images as compared with the film in the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane), the film’s duration underscores the work’s non-erotic, analytical dimension. In contrast, the book’s static images are more readily misread as purely voyeuristic. This copy bears a later manuscript title on the spine, “Public Fitting – XXX”, a direct annotation of the work’s perceived erotic content, demonstrating the very social-sexual condition the artist sought to examine. Beyond this conceptual framework, the work also serves a vidid record of women’s fashion in early-1970s Sydney, an era dominated by the miniskirt. The edition size is unstated, though several sources, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, state that 200 copies were produced. This copy with an additional folded sheet containing 5 further small images of a woman’s underwear (perhaps from a different source), the artist’s stamp with his 54 Albermarle St address, and the contemporary signature Micheal [Mansell?] dated 17th/4/72.
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Spinning Tops and Gumdrops: A Portrait of Colonial Childhood
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwin Barnard
Canberra: NLA Publishing, 2018. -
Brisbane: 150 Stories, 1859-2009
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank McBride; Helen Taylor; Carmel Black; Brian Rough; Heather Richards
Brisbane: Brisbane City Council, 2009.A history of Brisbane incorporating and expanding upon the 1997 publication, Brisbane: 100 Stories.