Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2010. Quarto, leather bound, slipcase, colour illustrations. William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his nineteenth-century illustrated..... More
[Denver]: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1971. Octavo, paperback, photographs, maps, signed by the author. More
[Canberra]: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The emu is an iconic Australian bird of significance to all Australians, but especially so to Indigenous Australians who have had a special relationship with this curious animal for thousands of years. In this bilingual, highly illustrated, full-colour publication Something about..... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. This book is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they adapted to European settlement before cultural..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards,3133. colour photographs. This book combines artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their Country in the communities of Mulan..... More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2019. Octavo, paperback, photographs and illustrations. Would Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson have ever crossed the Blue Mountains without the help of the local Aboriginal people? The invaluable role of local guides in this event is rarely recognised. As silent partners, Aboriginal Australians gave Europeans their..... More
London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, four volumes, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition is..... More
Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this book Annamaria Weldon offers an intimate portrait of the chain of lakes that includes Lake Yalgorup, between Mandurah and Bunbury on Australia's south-west coast. This book contains a suite of poems, with celebrated essays, and photographs and nature notes cognisant..... More