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Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2008. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 272, illustrated throughout in colour, exhibition catalogue for the exhibition of Australian Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s work ‘Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’. Contains text by Craddock Morton, Kevin Rudd, Murray McLean, Margo Neale, Tony Ellwood, Hanako…

Verve : Vol. VIII, No. 29/30. Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso

Paris : Éditions de la revue Verve, 1954. Distributed in Great Britain and the Dominions by A. Zwemmer Ltd. Quarto, papered boards with Picasso illustration designed for this publication (spine and upper board sunned, edges rubbed and split to head of spine), pp. [204], text by Tériade, Michel Leiris and Rebecca…

A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

[Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55]. Single folio leaf. 371 x 300 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letters rubricated in red; light foxing and very small edge chips, remnants of binding along one edge with tiny fragments of…

Mappe-monde 1833

Paris : Charles V. Monin, 1833. Engraved map, 204 x 275 mm, with hand colouring, laid on wood and dissected to form a jigsaw puzzle, original backing card and paper wrapper with title in manuscript copperplate, some scattered foxing, complete. A charming puzzle map of the world. The maps were usually unbound sheets from an…

Ambrotype portrait of a young married couple. Geelong, February 1865.

Quarter plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 90 x 64 mm (sight), housed in its original wooden-based leather case with embossed velvet lining, 117 x 93 mm, the case with floral and geometric designs and gilt borders to front and back (lightly rubbed), and with a working brass clasp; the ambrotype…

Spinifex and Sand. A Narrative of Five Years’ Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia

London : C. Arthur Pearson, 1898. Thick large octavo, publisher’s sand-coloured cloth over boards, upper board illustrated and lettered in black (corners a little bumped, spine dulled as usual), spine with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt; ; pp xvi, 454, portrait frontispiece and a total of 47 photographic…

Unfair arguments with existence. (Signed by Ferlinghetti)

New York : New Directions, 1963. Sixth printing. Trade paperback, octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, inscribed on the half-title in pen ‘For [Toronto book collector] Arthur Winter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’; 85 pp; with an illustrated double title page, and 1 photographic illustration; a fine inscribed copy. Born March 24 1919, Ferlinghetti was…

Before the lamps are lit

Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1911]. Oblong quarto, illustrated cloth boards (minor rubbing), inscription on front endpaper, pp 189. A compilation of six children’s stories with engravings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Muir 1907.

Aspen. (Complete run of 10 issues)

American magazine Aspen, “the first three-dimensional magazine”, was published in ten issues between 1965 and 1971. It was edited by Phyllis Johnson and featured contributions from many renowned and influential artists, among them Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Sol LeWitt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, John and Yoko…

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Called up

HOFF, Rayner et al.

Sculpture of Rayner Hoff

[CAMPBELL]. CRAYFORD, Peter.

The woodblock paintings of Cressida Campbell (signed copy of the first edition)

[WALLER, Christian]

The great breath

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New Acquisitions May 2022

KEANE, Kim

The Herald Atomic Age and Industrial Exhibition

RUSSELL, Henry (1812-1900) (music); CARTER, Harry Lee (words)

[SHEET MUSIC; GOLD RUSH] Pull away cheerily! (The Gold Digger’s song.)

TURNBULL (LEAKE) (née GELLION), Mary (1841-1920) (compiler); BONNEY, Frederic (1842–1921) (photographer)

Two albums of photographs and ephemera compiled by Mrs Mary Turnbull (Leake), including photographs of Aborigines on Momba Station near Wilcannia, New South Wales, and a studio portrait of pastoral heiress Letitia Sarah Leake, of Glencoe Station, South Australia. Late 1870s to early 1880s.

ROYAL GRECIAN THEATRE (LONDON); CONQUEST, George Augustus (1837-1901)

Royal Grecian Theatre. Forget & forgive ; or, Love me, leave me not.

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Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Verve : Vol. VIII, No. 29/30. Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso

A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

Mappe-monde 1833

Ambrotype portrait of a young married couple. Geelong, February 1865.

Spinifex and Sand. A Narrative of Five Years’ Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia

Unfair arguments with existence. (Signed by Ferlinghetti)

Before the lamps are lit

Aspen. (Complete run of 10 issues)