Search Results: Australian Aborigines from Lawrence Jones

Armidale: Armidale Christian Book Centre, 1975. xvii, 193pp, folding maps. Or pale green card. Light foxing to page edges. Intended originally to be a supplement of new information on Queensland Aboriginal languages only, the scope spread into the Northern Terriotry, NSW, South Australia through to the Western Desert and West Australian coast.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Brisbane: Jollen Press, 1992. 2 volumes. viii, 239; iv, 76pp, map, tables. Wraps. Light edge wear. light crease to cover Thaayorre/English volume, bottom front corner crease to Englsih/Thaayorre volume. Printed for the Pormpuraaw Community & School, Edward River, Cape York Peninsula. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1925. HEAVY. 2 volumes-complete. x, 768, 748pp, num bw & col ills, maps. Or green cloth titled in gilt to spine, map of Australia in blind to front of each volume. Minor toning/foxing to page edges. Spine of Volume I slightly concave, minor bump to top front corner of Volume II. Angus & Robertson were proud that this set was entirely written and produced in Australia. Along with expected history, geography, nature and other usual subjects there is considerable content on the Aborigines and their languages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

London: Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes-complete. xv, 440; vii, 428pp, engraved frontis to each volume, errata slip. Contemporary half red morocco on marbled boards, marbled endpaper and edges. Ex Queensland Geological Survey library with their bookplate over an earlier personal bookplate both partially covered by card pocket, minimal handwritten cataloguing information inside, and paper label to spine of each volume. Heavy toning to frontispieces and margins of many pages. A very attractive set.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo.

Mount Lawley, WA: Wildrocks Publications, 2012. VERY HEAVY-will require additional postage to most destinations. Destinations outside Australia will involve significant additional postage costs. 3 volume set. Volume One: 528pp, bibliography, map, appendix, approx 600 col ills. Volume Two: 396pp, bibliography, approx 400 col ills. Volume Three: 527pp, bibliography, approx 500 col ills. All volumes in maroon cloth with impressed image, in jackets. All volumes as new. A spectacular and monumental work involving many years of work which is certainly destined to become a standard work in the field, if it has not already achieved that status.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 162pp, index, list of works cited, bibliography, notes, num bw & some col ills, map. Cloth boards in jacket. Ex-library with expected stamps, bar codes, labels etc (inc Cancelled stamp).Boards edges rubbed. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to. Ex-Library.

Parkes, NSW: Parkes & District Historical Society., 1970. 11pp. Textured light stapled card. No date- NLA suggests 1970s. One manuscript correction to Aboriginal words/meanings otherwise near new. Scarce little booklet including material on Mitchell's expedition, Aboriginal weapons and implements, ceremonial grounds, dendroglyphs, intertribal battles, early settler memories and a very brief vocabulary (place names).. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo.

Canberra: Australian National University, 1973. xviii, 307pp, index, references, appendices, tables. Or cloth in jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing with one short tear at top of front panel. A study into the problem of Aboriginal health covering many diseases, conditions and causes of early mortality. The problem, of course, continues today despite the Closing the Gap initiatives.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Collins Publishers, 1989. 22 col postcards. Or pictorial card. A little toning to egdes. Complete and intact series of 22 postcards featuring Australian Aboriginal art, published in association with the Australian National Gallery.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Various. Oblong 12mo.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977. xxiv, 185pp, index, maps, notes, endpaper maps. Or boards in jacket. Offset toning to endpapers, prev owner stamp and name to half-title, occasional minor foxing, light edge wear to jacket. An anthropologist reveals the secret and sacred practices of the Australian aboriginal shamanic tradiiton concentration on the karadji. Looks at the rites of initiation by which young aboriginal men begin the degrees of shamanis initiation, beforee focusing on the men of high degree, believed to possess magical powers including the ability to kill and cure, control weather, anticipate future events and appear or disappear at will.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Phaidon Press, 2007. 447pp, index, further reading,map, chronology, glossary, num col ills. Or card covers with integral (French) flaps. Near new. Surveys the great variety of Aboriginal art, discussing paintings (on bark, rock, human bodies and canvas), sculptures, weapons and utensils, from across Australia, bringing out common themes but also highlighting regional diversity., . Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Adelaide: Government Printer, 1978. 12pp, references, col ills, map. Or pictorial stapled wraps. . First Separate Issue. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies., 1976. 418pp, references, tables. Or olive card. Some rubbing to covers, spine creased, light foxing to page edges. Psychology Series No 1. . First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1963. 143pp, index, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed at folds, small chip at top of spine, NOT price clipped. Tape stains to endpapers, light toning/foxing to page edges. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1984. xix, 366pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, bw ills, maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket faded on spine and edges of rear panel, otherwise as new. A balanced account of the Aboriginals of the subtropical coast at the time of their earliest contact with the white man. The region the author describes in centred on Brisbane, extending along the coast from Fraser Island to Evans head in NSW and inland to the Great Dividing Range covering some 20 tribal regions. Draws on early eyewitness accounts, photographs, place-nmaes, languages, legends, archaeology and museum collections in the US and UK, as well as Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2009. viii, 400pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. Near new. The history of Australia from European settlement from the standpoint of the original inhabitants.. Revised Fourth Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: UNSW Press, 1995. ix, 160pp, index, bibliography, endnotes. Pictorial card. Light crease to front cover, small stain on last (blank) page. SIGNED (Jim) and inscribed (to Julia) by author on half-title page. For 50000 years before white settlement the Aboriginal people were an integral part of the environment. They harvested the land and they changed the environment to suit themselves. Fire was their tool for doing this.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Naracoorte, SA: SEBP, 1994. 39pp, bibliography, bw ills. Pictorial stapled card. Ex-university library with expected stamps, labels etc (inc withdrawn stamp). Indigenous peoples of south east South Australia. Chapters on the Ngarrindjeri, Bunganditj/Buandiks, Meintangk and Tattyara/Potaruwutj. Also some content on James Ngunaitponi, David Unaipon, Lindsay and Dulcie Wilson and Eunice Saunders.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Brett, Lea.. 8vo. Ex-Library.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. xiv, 236pp, index, bibliography, tables, appendix, bw ills, 1 col ill. Maroon card. Light edge wear to covers, very light even toning to page edges. An accomplished ethnomusicologist with a wide knowledge of Western and Aboriginal music explores the educational possibilities of the medium.. Second Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii, 242pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. SIGNED with personalised inscription by author on half-title page. Near new. Looks at conflict between Aborigines and white settlers on first contact, Aborigines being absorbed into the pastoral economy (the extent that by 1886 they represented about half of the total workforce in the industry), and government complicity in ensuring the availablity of Aboriginal labour at mush lower rates than their white counterparts.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.