Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Bill Evans Anthropology Collection - Australia, Pacific, Asia, 42725, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 27, 2025 - April 27, 2025
Page Size: 192 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Sir Baldwin Spencer and the Late F J Gillen

The Arunta A Study of a Stone Age People in Two Volumes

London Macmillan 1927 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
2 Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen.

The Northern Tribes of Central Australia,

1904 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
3 Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald and Janet Holt, and Jennifer Isaacs.

Emily Kngwarreye Paintings.

1999 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 412.75
4 Geoffrey and James Bardon.

Papunya: A Place Made After the Story. The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement

2004 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
5 Rex Battarbee

Modern Australian Aboriginal Art

Sydney 1951 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 127.00
6 Grahame L. Walsh

Australia's Greatest Rock Art

1988 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 476.25
7 SMYTH, R. Brough.

The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania.

Melbourne, 1878 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 539.75
8 Carl Lumholtz.

Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and Of Camp Life With the Aborigines of Queensland.

1889 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 412.75
9 , Andrew Tavarelli, Steven G. Alpert, Robyn Maxwell, Harry Beran, Barry Craig, Natalie Wilson, Crispin Howarth, and Kevin Conru.

War Art and Ritual: Shields from the Pacific edited by Bill Evans with essays

2019 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
10 Herbert Basedow.

Notes of the Native Tribes of Bathurst Island, North Australia

AUD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
11 edited and co-authored Charles P. Mountford.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Volume 1: Art, Myth and Symbolism

1956 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 203.20
12 Berndt, Elkin, McCarthy, Mountford, Strehlow and Tuckson.

Australian Aboriginal Art. With text

1968 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
13 David R. Moore.

The Torres Strait Collections of A.C. Haddon - A Descriptive Catalogue

1984 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
14

Anthologia anthropologica: The Native Races of Australasia.

1939 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
15 Carl A. Schmitz.

Oceanic Art: Myth, Man and Image in the South Seas

New York: 1969 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
16 Lance Bennett.

Art of the Dreamtime: The Dorothy Bennett Collection of Australia Aboriginal Art

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 508.00
17

Les Arts Indigenes en Nouvelle-Guinee by Stephen Chavet. Limited edition.

1995 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
18

Set of 14 German language art and design books from the series Propylaen-Kunstgeschichte

Berlin 1929 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
19 WALLACE, Alfred Russel.

The Malay Archipelago. The land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A narrative of travel with studies of man and nature.

London, 1902 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
20 CHI-LU, Chen.

Material Culture of the Formosan Aborigines.

Taipei, 1968 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
21

British Museum Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections.

London, 1925 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 63.50
22 KELM, Heinz.

Kunst vom Sepik.

Berlin, Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1966 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 381.00
23 DAALDER, Truus.

"Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa".

2009 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
24 ANELL, Bengt.

Contribution to the History of Fishing in the Southern Seas.

Upsala, 1955 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 177.80
25

Six books on indigenous Australian history, art and culture: McCarthy, F.D. Australian Aboriginal Stone Implements,

Sydney 1976 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 215.90
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