4. Ronald & Catherine BERNDT. Arnhem 10. Rev. J. B. GRIBBLE. “Black but Come- Land, Its History and Its People. Mel- ly”, Glimpses of Aboriginal life in Austra- bourne University Press, 1954. Octavo, lia. London, Morgan and Scott, (1884). frontispiece in colour, fifteen plates, end- Octavo, frontispiece and seven plates, paper maps, a good copy in original cloth original cloth, gilt and decorated, front (without dust-wrapper). $100 board with minor marking. $450 Born in Cornwall, Gribble was an infant 5. Daniel BUNCE. Language of the Aborig- when his parents arrived in Port Phillip ines of the Colony of Victoria, and other in 1848, settling in Geelong. After joining Australian Districts... Geelong, Thomas the Congregational Union of Victoria in Brown, 1859. Duodecimo, cloth-backed the late 1870s he became the first resi- printed boards. $450 dent missionary at Jerilderie, and from 1879 to 1883 worked at Warangesda Ab- original Mission on the Murrumbidgee. Gribble later established a mission at the Gascoyne River in Western Australia, but faced bitter opposition from local settlers who exploited native labour. His book Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land, published in 1886, created a furore and the mis- sion was abandoned the following year. Gribble’s eldest son, Ernest Richard Bul- mer, also a missionary, was the author of two 1930s works on aboriginals. Fergu- 1. Senator E. FINDLEY (editor and pub- son, 10093 (calling for seven, rather than lisher). The Sunrise, Souvenir of the eight, plates). Labour Fair 1908. Melbourne, D. W. Pa- terson Co., 1908. Tall duodecimo, with group portraits of female stall com- mittee members, illustrated advertise- ments and line-drawn illustrations, stapled in original colour illustrated wrappers: a fine copy. $1850 Rare. Contributions from George Black (Humanity in Politics), Rev. Chas. Strong 6. Philip BATTY et al (editors). The Pho- (Some Ethical Aspects of the Labour tographs of Baldwin Spencer. 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This book recounts their & Kegan Paul, 1952. Octavo, plates and fieldwork of 1901-1902 with the War- diagrams, pp. 320, pale foxing and off- hlow and Aboriginal Possession. Sydney, Random House, 2002. Octavo, black & ramunga, Kaitish and Arunta tribes, and setting of endpapers, original cloth, dust- provides a detailed photographic record wrapper sunned and with minor chips to white plates, pp.818, black boards maps to endpapers, gilt spine, dust-wrapper, as of the rites and ceremonies, as well as of edges, a good copy. $250 new. $150 daily life. 12. W. Baldwin SPENCER (editor). Hand- ART book of Melbourne, For the use of Mem- bers of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Melbourne Meeting, 1890. Melbourne, Spectator Publishing, 1890. Octavo, folding map, slight erasure from title, later boards re- taining original gilt-lettered limp cloth, a very good copy. $120 Contents include Alexander Sutherland on the History of Victoria, and Lorimer Fison on the Aborigines of Victoria. * * * * * * * 16. John POYNTER. Mr Felton’s Be- quests. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2003. Octavo, plates, pp. 639, boards, dust-wrapper, as new. 21. Russell DRYSDALE. Russell Drysdale $70 Drawings 1935-1980, 16-31 March 1981. Most famous for enabling the purchase Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1981. of major paintings by Victoria’s National Exhibition catalogue, sewn in stiffened Gallery during the twentieth century, wrappers, Foreword by Patrick McCa- Felton’s funds were also available to ughey, 121 plates (some in colour), one the Melbourne Public Library for sev- of 1500 numbered copies (No.1404). eral decades, and are responsible for $50 the Library’s acquisition of a number of treasures including medieval illuminated 22. Maureen WALSH. 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