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# 4496
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1995. Foreword by Betty Churcher. Quarto, apricot linen boards in matching slipcase with pictorial inlay, 271pp. illustrated throughout. The de luxe edition, limited to 75 copies signed by the artist, with an original signed etching Self Portrait with Stunned Mullet. A rare limited edition monograph on Robinson. …
$ 1,500.00 AUD
# 4491
150 x 93mm, printed paper wrapper with title, twelve plain postcards with a different hand stamp design, signed by Robert Jacks on front wrapper. …
$ 65.00 AUD
# 4480
Circa 1922. Coloured woodcut, image 165 x 152 mm, sheet 275 x 230 mm, titled and signed by the artist in pencil beneath image, imprinted at lower margin of sheet Published by Hall Thorpe, London. Copyright U.S.A. 1922. Fine. The Australian expatriate artist Hall Thorpe arrived in England in 1902. His woodcuts, particularly those of flowers, expressed his ideal of a decorative, domestic aesthetic. From around 1920 these woodcuts, 'democratic' in the sense that they were affordable and could be enjoyed by people in their homes, proved enormously successful for Thorpe internationally. The …
$ 500.00 AUD
# 4451
Genova : G. Schenone [for Lloyd Triestino], 1951. Three printed menus for first class passengers, one for dinner dated 5th June 1951 (the maiden return voyage of MV Australia from Australia to Italy), and two for breakast dated 19th July 1951 (the second voyage of MV Australia from Italy to Australia), each a single sheet of card folding to four pages of 245 x 170 mm, the front and back covers with superb, humorous illustrations of Australian native animals signed Debarbieri, some very mild foxing but otherwise unmarked, vibrant and striking. Lloyd Triestino launched three ships in 1950 …
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# 4442
London : Joseph Myers & Co., c. 1860 (printed by C. Adler's Printing Establishment, Hamburg). Chromolithographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron, die cut in the shape of a rose, diameter when unfolded of 265 mm., with 28 scenes of Guernsey and Jersey. Intact with no tearing or creasing, faint water staining along the fold lines and some mild toning (more pronounced at one point on the outer edge). A rare and delicate item, one of a series of 'Roses' printed by Adler in Hamburg for the overseas markets. …
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# 4422
Circa 1910. Colour printed postcard of a painting, 82 x 140 mm, captioned 11. By water to Parramatta and Old Sydney, 1819. G.H. Copyright Regd, postally unused, mild corner wear, otherwise fine. The scene shows three Aborigines on a dirt path overlooking the Parramatta River. A seated man makes a fire, while a woman brings more kindling and another man holding a spear stands in the foreground. The artist of the original painting is unknown. Another copy of this postcard is held in the collection of the National Museum of Australia (Object no. 1986.0117.6189). …
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# 4410
Traduit de Lucius de Patras par Paul Louis Courier. Pointes sèches de Maurice Leroy. Paris : Éditions du Mouflon, 1945. Edition limited to 500 copies on vélin d'Arches paper (number 390). Quarto, printed card covers, containing disbound sheets printed in black and blue ink on vélin d'Arches paper, pp 119, with 17 dry-point etchings (5 within the text, 12 plates on individual sheets), the mildest amount of foxing to the edges of some sheets, but a fine copy of a handsome illustrated edition of a Classical work. Lucius of Patras, an obscure Greek …
$ 450.00 AUD
# 4369
From the original wall painting in the Palace of Westminster. Art Union of London, 1875. Etching and engraving, 410 x 1215 mm, housed in a magnificent original Victorian bird's eye maple timber frame, with gold slip and original glass. This enormous panoramic engraving, after the original painting in Westminster, shows the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Commander Blücher meeting at the end of the battle, the dead and dying surrounding them, as Napoleon's army is routed. A grand and handsome engraving in the original frame. …
$ 1,650.00 AUD
# 4362
1925. Wood engraving, no. 9 of an edition of 25, 55 x 45 mm (image), 180 x 170 mm (sheet), signed and dated in pencil beneath image David Jones 25, numered 9 in pencil at upper left corner of sheet. Fine. A limited edition woodcut of the emblem of the Golden Cockerel Press, by David Jones, the emblem's designer and one of the chief artistic contributors to Golden Cockerel Press publications in the 1920s. …
$ 900.00 AUD
# 4361
Kansas City, Missouri : The Woodcut Society, 1936. Wood engraving, 227 x 215 mm (image), 360 x 280 mm (sheet), initialled in the plate lower right R.G., signed in lower margin in graphite Robert Gibbings. Fine. Between 1932 and 1954 Robert Fowler, founder of the The Woodcut Society, commissioned 44 different works by American and international artists which were printed in editions of 200. Initially based in Kansas City, Missouri, Fowler relocated to Alexandria, Virginia in 1942 and later to New York. The purpose of the Society was to make available limited edition wood engravings, …
$ 500.00 AUD
# 4340
Circa1890. Embossed die cut card (designed for use in a scrap album), 150 x 130 mm, verso with Printed in Germany, loss to the kangaroo's ears, otherwise in good condition. …
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# 4339
Sydney & Melbourne : Sands & Kenny, [circa 1855]. Sheet of writing paper, 250 x 400 mm, folding into four pages, with steel engraved illustration, small contemporary inscription in ink M.L. Manning at lower right of engraving, unsightly stain to rear page which penetrates through to the third page and also affects second and front pages, although to a far lesser extent. This engraving was made after F.C. Terry, who was commissioned to complete a series of views for the Australian Keepsake, first issued in 1855. Presumably the writing paper was printed after this work was …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 4338
Sydney & Melbourne : Sands & Kenny, [circa 1855]. Sheet of writing paper, 250 x 400 mm, folding into four pages, with steel engraved illustration, small contemporary inscription in ink M.L. Manning at lower right of engraving, paper with mild toning, faint creasing at upper right front edge, mark at lower left corner of front, 70 mm stain on rear page which also affects third page. This engraving was made after F.C. Terry, who was commissioned to complete a series of views for the Australian Keepsake, first issued in 1855. Presumably the writing paper was printed after this work …
$ 300.00 AUD
# 4335
Sydney & Melbourne : Sands & Kenny, [circa 1855]. Sheet of writing paper, 250 x 400 mm, folding into four pages, with steel engraved illustration, small contemporary inscription in ink M.L. Manning at lower right of engraving, paper with mild toning, small nicks to lower corners, folded edge with 15 mm tear. This engraving was made after F.C. Terry, who was commissioned to complete a series of views for the Australian Keepsake, first issued in 1855. Presumably the writing paper was printed after this work was published. …
$ 300.00 AUD
# 4334
Sydney & Melbourne : Sands & Kenny, [circa 1855]. Sheet of writing paper, 250 x 400 mm, folding into four pages, with steel engraved illustration, small contemporary inscription in ink M.L. Manning at lower right of engraving, paper with mild toning. This engraving was made after F.C. Terry, who was commissioned to complete a series of views for the Australian Keepsake, first issued in 1855. Presumably the writing paper was printed after this work was published. …
$ 350.00 AUD
# 4333
Sydney & Melbourne : Sands & Kenny, [circa 1855]. Sheet of writing paper, 250 x 400 mm, folding into four pages, with steel engraved illustration, small contemporary inscription in ink M.L. Manning at lower right of engraving, paper with mild toning and some faint creasing at lower right. This engraving was made after F.C. Terry, who was commissioned to complete a series of views for the Australian Keepsake, first issued in 1855. Presumably the writing paper was printed after this work was published. …
$ 350.00 AUD
# 4332
Sydney & Melbourne : Sands & Kenny, [circa 1855]. Sheet of writing paper, 250 x 400 mm, folding into four pages, with steel engraved illustration, small contemporary inscription in ink M.L. Manning at lower right of engraving, paper with mild toning (mostly to the rear page). This engraving was made after F.C. Terry, who was commissioned to complete a series of views for the Australian Keepsake, first issued in 1855. Presumably the writing paper was printed after this work was published. …
$ 350.00 AUD
# 4331
Sydney & Melbourne : Sands & Kenny, [circa 1855]. Sheet of writing paper, 250 x 400 mm, folding into four pages, with steel engraved illustration, small contemporary inscription in ink M.L. Manning at lower right of engraving, paper with mild toning, upper corner of back page with some loss. This engraving was made after F.C. Terry, who was commissioned to complete a series of views for the Australian Keepsake, first issued in 1855. Presumably the writing paper was printed after this work was published. …
$ 350.00 AUD
# 4324
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm, verso with imprint of Flintoff, Photographer and Portrait Painter. Sturt Street, opposite the Star Office, Ballarat, both albumen print and mount in fine condition. Thomas Flintoff, an English artist who had arrived on the goldfields in 1856 after working in both Mexico and Tahiti, produced this extraordinary carte de visite in his Ballarat studio in the early 1860s. It combines his artistic and photographic talents. Flintoff painted the entire elaborate scene, as well as the child's dress and shoes, on a flat surface, and his …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 4288
s.l. : s.n., [1895]. Printed on cotton, 550 x 580 mm, the central circular section featuring a portrait of Grace and a text summary of his cricketing achievements, surrounded by a decorative border consisting of small oval cartouches listing every one of the one hundred first-class centuries scored in his career up to this point (spanning the years 1866 to 1895), and an outer border with a design of cricket bats and wreaths, at each corner crossed bats, a set of stumps and cricket ball surmounting a banner with the legend 'Record Score 344, MCC v Kent , Canterbury 1876'; three …
$ 440.00 AUD
# 4284
[London, U.K. ?] : s.n. [but produced for D & W Gibbs Ltd, Wapping, London E1, and distributed in Australia by W.A. Blake Pty. Ltd., South Melbourne], [1935]. Folding card, 350 x 460 mm opened, inner surfaces with colour game graphic (mild toning and foxing and some creasing to edges), rear boards with printed rules, game title and manufacturer's and distributor's information (marked, with moderate foxing and creasing, owner's name in pencil). A variant of Snakes and Ladders produced by the London toothpaste manufacturers D. & W. Gibbs, and used to advertise their …
$ 100.00 AUD
# 4280
Photographic process postcard, published by Star Photo Co., Sydney, circa 1910, with printed caption 'Aboriginal lubra, N.S.W.'; the image is in very good condition; the card has corner and edge wear (although the corners were originally rounded) and the verso is marked and darkened. …
$ 50.00 AUD
# 4276
Part II. Honour to the brave memory of John King, R. O’Hara Burke, William John Wills. London: Joseph Myers & Co., 1862 (printed in Hamburg by C. Adler's Printing Establishment). Chromolighographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron, in the shape of a rose, in the original gilt-printed envelope honouring Burke and Wills. A very rare and significant Melbourne publication based on the engravings after S. T. Gill in Victoria Illustrated (1857) and Victoria Illustrated. Second Series (1862). In the examples we have handled, the composition of engravings are …
$ 7,500.00 AUD
# 4241
[England] : s.n., [circa 1849]. Small octavo, publisher's pictorial card covers (heavily rubbed, edges worn), inscribed to Lucy Ann Pease from her Kind Aunt, H. Ford, Chapel Allerton [West Yorkshire] 10th mo. 18, 1849 on the pastedown, containing a folding panorama (single accordion sheet) with 12 hand-coloured plates featuring various peoples in traditional dress, the paper with mild toning but overall a highly colourful panorama in sound condition. The captions for the subjects include Albanian, Spaniard, Turk, Esquimaux, Georgian, Caffir, Mameluke, Cossack, Japanese, Red Indian, …
$ 750.00 AUD
# 4233
s.l. : s.n., [circa 1914]. Promotional postcard, recto with photogravure process image and printed caption Fatima, the only tattooed lady in 8 different colours; verso simply printed Post card, light creasing, margins and verso with marks and handling wear. A report in the Bendigo Advertiser for 14 April, 1914, describes various sideshow performers who have appeared recently at the Bendigo Prince of Wales Showgrounds, one being The Tattooed Lady: 'Madame Fatima, the tattooed lady, was visited by a great many people, and the beautiful designs on her chest, arms, back and legs …
$ 55.00 AUD
# 4217
[s.l.] : [Government of South Australia], [circa 1905]. Official postcard, 87 x 137 mm, recto with photolithographic process image and printed caption Black trackers' camp, S. Aust., verso printed South Australia. Post card, not postally used, in very good condition. …
$ 125.00 AUD
# 4216
Sydney : Swain & Co., [circa 1905]. Postcard, 87 x 137 mm, recto with photogravure process image and printed caption 41. Aboriginal piccaninnies and gunyah, imprint at lower left Swain & Co. Sydney. Copyright; undivided back (which dates the card to 1905 or earlier), not postally used, in very good condition. …
$ 125.00 AUD
# 4171
[Tasmanian Native Hen]. Hand coloured lithograph from Gould's Birds of Australia (1840-1848), 545 x 370 mm, lower margin with printed caption and 'J. Gould and H.C. Richter del. et lith.' / 'Hullmandel & Waltin Imp.'; matted, fine. …
$ 650.00 AUD
# 4170
Hand coloured lithograph from Gould's Birds of Europe (1837-1837), 545 x 370 mm, lower margin with printed caption and 'Drawn from Life & on stone by J. & E. Gould' / 'Printed by C. Hullmandel'; matted, fine. …
$ 450.00 AUD
# 4169
Hand coloured lithograph from Gould's Birds of Europe (1837-1837), 545 x 370 mm, lower margin with printed caption and 'Drawn from Life & on stone by J. & E. Gould' / 'Printed by C. Hullmandel'; matted, fine. …
$ 450.00 AUD
# 4130
Melbourne : Sands, Kenny & Co., and Sydney : Sands & Kenny, 1862. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered strsight-grained green cloth with gilt rules, all edges gilt, rebacked, recent endpapers (with bookplate from the Steel Collection), engraved title page (with moderate foxing and a small contemporary ink inscription), 44 steel-engraved plates (including the title page), complete, one plate with adjoining text pages heavily creased with expert repairs, another with heavier foxing and creasing to the letterpress description, overall the remaining plates clean and unmarked, except from some …
$ 850.00 AUD
# 3960
Kansas City, Missouri : Humoristic Publishing Co., [1893-94]. No. 7. Épinal print, single sheet, folio (400 x 295 mm), chromoithographed, lower margin imprinted Imagerie d'Epinal. - Pellerin, imp.-édit. "Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo."; original horizontal fold, 8.5 cm tear at upper right corner affecting the fourth illustrated panel, a few small tears to the edges of the sheet, the paper with mild toning, otherwise a clean copy. At the close of the eighteenth century the French publisher Jean-Charles Pellerin was the originator of …
$ 175.00 AUD
# 3908
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, qarter-cloth over papered boards (somewhat sunned and flecked), essay, 55 plates (some in colour, tipped in), original signed etching by Ure Smith. The deluxe edition, limited to 40 copies, with an original signed etching. Rare …
$ 750.00 AUD
# 3811
Albuquerque, N.M. : Loujon Press, [1971]. Edition limited to 7 deluxe and 385 economy issues (this copy is one of the latter), as issued in wooden case, 610 x 490 mm, the sides of the case covered in the original decorative cloth, with sliding wooden lid bearing a mounted photograph of Henry Miller (seated on the toilet) and Hoki Takuda, with printed text (a small amount of insect damage, mainly around the edges, some soiling to the left side, short tear lower left), containing a 'portfolio' (sans cover, as issued), with a 'title leaf' in the form of a board (570 x 450 mm) with …
$ 750.00 AUD
# 3785
[Melbourne] : F.W. Niven [for Victorian Railways], [1947]. Lithograph, printed in colour from multiple zinc plates, image size 994 x 614, sheet 1018 x 636 mm, laid down on a slightly larger backing sheet of archival paper, a couple of expertly repaired tears at upper and right edges, and some inconsequential roughness to the left and right edges of the sheet (not affecting the image), the colours still vivid, signed in the print lower left Harold Freedman, and VR Poster No. 245; imprint lower margin F.W. Niven Pty Ltd. Shortly after the war, Melbourne artist Harold Freedman was …
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# 3747
Illustrated by Roderick Shaw. Imprinted by Richard Edwards & Roderick Shaw at the Barn on the Hill over St. Columbkille's, [1939]. Quarto, vibrant patterned cloth with paper printed label, spine slightly sunned, pp. 34, illustrated with seven colour linocuts, line drawings and a handcoloured frontispiece by Shaw, a fine copy. One of the deluxe edition of 50 numbered copies signed by all the participants, within a total limitation of 600, although not all copies survived due to water damage. A superb example of Australian private press, composed with a delightful aesthetic influenced by …
$ 1,750.00 AUD
# 3446
Ballarat : F.W. Niven & Co., [circa 1885]. Large format (poster size) chromolithographed certificate, 630 x 510 mm, laid down on a contemporary board mount, a beautiful and highly colourful design incorporating a large bell surrounded by a series of vignettes illustrating a fire brigade at work, with pro forma printed text and manuscript entries, reading: 'This certifies that Gr. Capt. D Murdoch became a Member of the Eaglehawk Borough Fire Brigade on the 2nd day of March 1875, and having served as Captain Lieut. and Apparatus Officer was elected a Life Member on the 20th day of August …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 3442
1930s. Etching, 260 x 220 mm (plate size), 340 x 295 mm (sheet size), titled in image H.M. Sloop Investigator. 1802, signed Geoffrey C. Ingleton, numbered 40/50 and with manuscript title Sea Rivalry in ink on lower margin, the sheet edges with residual glue marks from old mount, the etching itself free from flaws apart from some very light marks in the upper sky area. The Sydney-based maritime historian, hydrographer and cartographer, Geoffrey Ingleton, was also a talented artist. This etching is Ingleton's interpretation of the meeting between Matthew Flinders' Investigator and …
$ 750.00 AUD
# 3039
FOUR BROADSHEETS WITH POEMS BY THE IRISH POET SEAMUS HEANEY, NOBEL LAUREATE AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY POETS WRITING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Earth House. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : Friends of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 1990. Loose leaf, broadsheet, 310 x 220 mm, illustrated with a wood-engraving by John O'Connor. Fine. One of 375 unsigned copies of a limited edition of 500. The Fire Gaze. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : Friends of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 1990. Loose leaf, broadsheet, 310 x 220 mm, illustrated with a wood-engraving …
$ 180.00 AUD
# 3014
Chromolithograph, 215 x 260 mm, depicting a drawing room scene with children dressed in traditional costumes from around the world playing a geographical game with their parents. Fine. This chromolithograph was originally designed for use as the graphic on the box lid of a children's game, but never used. The game was the English version of a French children's game of geography designed by Scherer for the games publisher Léon Saussine in Paris around 1880. The French version was called L'Hirondelle savante, but it is not clear whether the English version was ever published. …
$ 100.00 AUD
# 3013
Circa 1925. Etching on paper, 340 x 230 mm (plate), 465 x 320 mm (sheet), signed in pencil beneath image, inscribed in the artist's hand in pencil in lower margin E. Zipperer, Kircheninneres [Church interior], the image in excellent condition, toning to upper margin of sheet and some very light peripheral foxing. …
$ 75.00 AUD
# 2987
[Sydney] : Ant Press, 1991. Folding broadside with a designer binding of cloth bound boards with embossed design, 405 x 120 mm., letterpress with an original woodblock. Limited to 55 copies signed by the author-artist. …
$ 125.00 AUD
# 2901
Drypoint etching 1920. 385 x 27cm, framed. A fine Western Australian etching. Spartalis: 49. Provenance: Joseph Brown Sale, Christie’s Melbourne, 2005 …
$ 1,650.00 AUD
# 2868
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. Quarto, folding white buckram clamshell box with gilt-lettered title label (scuffed, front joint split), original ribbon ties, containing the following elements: 1. A black card folio, inside which is a copy of the publication 'Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929' quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [42], printed in red and black, nine black and white plates numbered 1 to 9, foreword by Leon Gellert and Sydney Ure Smith, text titled 92 aphorisms by Margaret Preston and others limited to 250 numbered copies, printed by Percy Green at the Green …
$ 24,000.00 AUD
# 2794
RARE ADVERTISING POSTER FOR C.W. POOLE'S MYRIORAMA, CORN EXCHANGE, COVENTRY, CIRCA 1885. Birmingham : James Upton [for C.W. Poole], circa 1885. Chromolithograph, 750 x 500 mm (image), 570 x 440 mm (sheet), laid own on linen backing, a few edge tears expertly repaired and some light stains and marks to the margins, otherwise in excellent condition with vivid colour, original printed label for the venue affixed at upper margin: First visit to Coventry of C.W. Poole's Grand New Myriorama. Corn Exchange, Coventry. Positively for two weeks only. Commencing Monday June 8th.... The Diorama and …
$ 3,300.00 AUD
# 2484
Edited with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Perth : The Western Australian Art Gallery, 1978. Quarto, cloth bound boards in white dustjacket (slightly marked, but very good), 128 pp., illustrated, faint foxing to endpapers, related letter regarding original purchase loosely enclosed. Published for the 1978 Perth Survey of Drawing. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies (only 50 produced) with an original signed lithograph by Fred Williams loosely enclosed, Druckma Press blindstamp, titled on the outside of the original mailing box 'Hill with lines', printed in an edition of 50. …
$ 3,300.00 AUD
# 2436
Etching measuring 55 x 50 mm, on paper 230 x 185 mm, signed, dated 2001 and numbered 8/10 in pencil. An interesting early Cullen artwork, being an abstract figure with spiraling linework, printed in low numbers Another example is held in the National Gallery of Australia. …
$ 385.00 AUD
# 2435
Etching measuring 150 x 110 mm printed in colour, signed lower right and numbered 12/85. Commissioned as an annual end of year gift by Australian Art Resources for distribution to their clients. Accompanied by the original documentation, signed by directors Matt Stafford and Victor Stafford. The image is a strongly representative motif of a guitar which is distinctively Jacks. …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 2433
Two advertising magic lantern glass slides, each 83 x 83 mm, with imprint of Linton Slides, 61 Market St., Sydney (fine condition); accompanied by a promotional pictorial fold-out card printed by Barrett's Australian Films, 90 x 70 mm (stained verso). Walter Franklyn Barrett (1873-1964) emigrated to New Zealand from England in the mid 1890s, where his interest in still photography progressed to experimenting with moving pictures. Eventually settling in Australia, in 1904 he became the first cameraman to film an entire Melbourne Cup race. From 1908 he worked on nature and travel …
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# 2088
Etching, 340 x 145 mm (plate), 560 x 380 mm (sheet), signed by the artist lower right, titled lower centre and numbered 47/100 lower left. This etching was created by Irving for use in his book The Laneways of Melbourne (Melbourne : The Lytlewode Press, 25 July 2001), which was researched and written by John Arnold, with photographs by Caitlin Littlewood, and was published in a standard and de luxe edition. Ramsden Place is located between Swanston and Russell Streets and extends north from Flinders Lane. …
$ 330.00 AUD
