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Australia at the Venice Biennale : a century of contemporary art. (Signed copy)

Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards reproducing a painting by Howard Arkley, pp. 262, extensively illustrated. New copy, signed by the author. With works from Sidney Nolan, Howard Arkley and more, this richly illustrated work illuminates the untold stories and origins of the most important event of…

Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece Traducti de Latino in Vulgare affigurati:

commentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti: per il quale facilmente potrai tovare la multitudine de lí abstrusi & reconditi Vocabuli a li soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad Immensa utilitate de ciascuno Studioso & benivolo di epsa opera. [Como, Lombardy] : Gotardus de Ponte,…

12 Inch Terrestrial Globe

Edinburgh : W. & A. K. Johnston [under license to A. J. Nystrom & Co., Chicago], 1929. Chromolithographed paper gores over paper mache base, 12 inches in diameter, isothermal current lines, equatorial, longitudinal and latitudinal lines, international date line, two polar calottes, standing in bronzed cast iron meridian with sympathetic…

In Memory of John Dowel Whittle, who was drowned off Cape Otway (Bass St.), N.W. 10 miles, 7 a.m., 29th July, 1852, aged 23 years.

[Melbourne, s.n., 1852]. Broadside, 210 x 150 mm, printed on one side only, text set within decorative border surrounding the heading and Psalm LXIX, and with a fully contemporary annotation at top left, ‘P. & O. S. “Chusan” 1st arrival at Port Phillip’; in fine condition, mounted on card and housed…

Reconstructed moa and Maoris.

[Title from ms. caption on mount]. [London, U.K. : Newton & Co, 43 Museum Street, circa 1900]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm; black paper border with ms. caption and old collection number in white ink; slide maker’s label partially obscured at top corner; in fine condition.…

Australia : general information

Melbourne : Australian National Travel Association (Printed at The Specialty Press), March 1939. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers with designs by James Northfield (the lower wrapper features his bird’s-eye view of Sydney Harbour including the Bridge), staple bound, 20 pp, with b/w photographic illustrations throughout, double-page colour map at centre…

Map of the City of Sydney and adjacent municipalities from ordnance and actual surveys 1890

Cover title : Map of Sydney and Suburbs. Sydney : John Scott & Co., 1890. Chromolithograph map, 94 x 82.8 cm, folding, occasional light foxing, short splits along folds, housed in original folder, papered boards with cloth spine, pp. [vi], advertisements. A fine late Victorian map from Curl Curl to…

Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

/ By F. B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty’s ship Le Tigre; surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns. London : Published by Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty and the Royal Family, 59, New Bond-street. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row, 1803. First edition. Large folio (470 x 335…

Musket

Pen and ink drawing, 210 x 242 mm, titled lower centre, signed lower right ‘I. Bird’ (?), pale foxing, early twentieth century frame. A fine and detailed nineteenth century drawing of a great English thoroughbred and influential sire in Australian horseracing history, the sire of the great Carbine. ‘Musket (1867–1885)…

A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.

[Title from printed caption in negative]. Circa 1870. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photographs, each individual image 68 x 72 mm, on yellow board mount 83 x 166 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption in the negative at far right edge ‘685. A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope’, recto…

The origin of species

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.New York : D. Appleton & Company, 1889. With additions and corrections from Sixth and last English edition. Two volumes, octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered brown cloth (edges rubbed) original endpapers (with ex libris bookplates), pp…

PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

Unidentified Indian artist.

A group of nine Company School paintings on mica. India, circa 1860.

TUTTLE, Hudson

[SPIRITUALISM] The Psychograph, or Dial Planchette, of Especial Use in the Home Circle.

[CRANWELL, Thomas, preparer & mounter]

Album of New Zealand pressed ferns in a presentation rimu wood binding

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Australia at the Venice Biennale : a century of contemporary art. (Signed copy)

Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece Traducti de Latino in Vulgare affigurati:

12 Inch Terrestrial Globe

In Memory of John Dowel Whittle, who was drowned off Cape Otway (Bass St.), N.W. 10 miles, 7 a.m., 29th July, 1852, aged 23 years.

Reconstructed moa and Maoris.

Australia : general information

Map of the City of Sydney and adjacent municipalities from ordnance and actual surveys 1890

Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

Musket

A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.

The origin of species