Spencer Sir Walter Baldwin (6 results)

1st ed. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, colour & black & white text-photos, maps, few tiny dents spine, minor edgewear. 272 pp. This fascinating book combines Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer's diary notes, field notes and photos from different sources to depict his research in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Included are additional photos and rock art images of people and cultural artefacts of the region, and a Baldwin biography at the rear. The additional text and photos are by David M. Welch who compiled, edited and published the book. Includes 204 illustrations with 47 of rock art. (No 3 in the Australian Aboriginal Culture Series.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1932. Octavo, xii (last blank), 174, [1] (colophon) pages with a map and 2 illustrations. Cloth a little marked; new endpapers; 'School of Oriental and African Studies, London' stamp on the verso of the title page and the last page of text, and a 'SOAS Library Withdrawn' stamp on the title page; a very good copy (internally excellent). 'The greater part of this book consists of the correspondence between Sir Baldwin Spencer and Sir James Frazer . [and] these provide a nearly continuous account of the progress in method and discovery made by the Explorer during his three great Australian Expeditions'. These expeditions were conducted in conjunction with Francis James Gillen, Spencer's '"most important discovery" according to Professor Elliot Smith'. The introduction further states that 'The news of Gillen's death reached Spencer while he was camping on the East Alligator River in the Northern Territory. Through the kindness of Gillen's son, we are able to quote a part of Spencer's letter to Mrs. Gillen, dated June 18, 1912'. Spencer died on a field trip to Tierra del Fuego in July 1929.

Boards. 1st edition. 2 volumes 8vo, original green cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Volume I pp xxviii, 456; volume II pp xiv, -457-930 plus ii pp advertisements. Black and white plates, colour plates, maps, folding maps, complete. Upper and lower boards heavily spotted, previous owner's inscription ffep, hinge split internally between title page and half-title page volume I, small closed tear to edge of one map, o/w very good condn. Travels in Central Australia. A classic account, profusely illustrated. A wealth of detail regarding the Aboriginals of Central Australia; also general exploration and descriptions of flora and fauna.

Boards. 1st edition. 2 volumes octavo, original green cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Volume I pp xxviii, 456; volume II pp xiv, 457-930 inc. index plus ii pp advertisements. Black and white plates (574 illustrations, mostly photographs, with many illustrations and drawings including artefacts,), colour plates (16 colour plates including rock drawings, cermonial objects, and fauna including a parakeet by Neville Cayley, 4 maps (all are folding), complete. Light flecking to boards, corners bumped, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. Previous owner's signature ffep vol. II. Very good condition. Travels in Central Australia. A condensed account of the famous Horn Expedition of 1894. A classic account, profusely illustrated. A wealth of detail regarding the Aborigines of Central Australia; also general exploration and descriptions of flora and fauna. A very good set.

Edited by Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv; 223, illustrated. 'In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta to Borroloola and took an amazing 500 glass-plate photographs, 2,000 feet of moving film and recordings of Aboriginal songs on wax cylinder phonograph. The Baldwin Spencer photographic archive is now regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ethnographic records of Aboriginal life in Australia. This extraordinary collection recorded with compassion and beauty the day-to-day lives of Aboriginal people and their cultural traditions and was to be one of the first major template for European Australia's understanding of indigenous Australians. This expanded, new edition of "The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer" includes stunning panoramic images of the Top End that have never before been published, as well as essays by prominent thinkers in this field, such as John Mulvaney, Howard Morphy, Nicolas Peterson and Philip Jones. The essays give us a way to understand and consider Spencer's work, the collaboration with Gillen and importantly, how the present generation of Aboriginal Australians view their work. "The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer" will remain one of the most important records of Aboriginal people at the time of early white settlement. With more than 140 powerful images including stunning portraits and extraordinary documentation of ceremonies and traditions, this is a unique and valuable archive.' - the wrapper.

Edited by Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. xv; 223, illustrated. A fine copy. 'In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta to Borroloola and took an amazing 500 glass-plate photographs, 2,000 feet of moving film and recordings of Aboriginal songs on wax cylinder phonograph. The Baldwin Spencer photographic archive is now regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ethnographic records of Aboriginal life in Australia. This extraordinary collection recorded with compassion and beauty the day-to-day lives of Aboriginal people and their cultural traditions and was to be one of the first major template for European Australia's understanding of indigenous Australians. This expanded, new edition of "The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer" includes stunning panoramic images of the Top End that have never before been published, as well as essays by prominent thinkers in this field, such as John Mulvaney, Howard Morphy, Nicolas Peterson and Philip Jones. The essays give us a way to understand and consider Spencer's work, the collaboration with Gillen and importantly, how the present generation of Aboriginal Australians view their work. "The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer" will remain one of the most important records of Aboriginal people at the time of early white settlement. With more than 140 powerful images including stunning portraits and extraordinary documentation of ceremonies and traditions, this is a unique and valuable archive.' - the wrapper.