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…

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A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. [Subscriber’s copy]

  By George Andon Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty’s ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from the papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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[TASMANIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Manuscript letter from grazier Robert Leake to his brother, Edward Leake of Lewisham near Campbell Town, Van Diemen’s Land. Adelaide, October 1838.

Entire letter. Folding letter sheet, 315 x 200 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘J. Green & Co. 1836’, cross-written on [3] pages; headed ‘Adelaide S.A. / October 31st 1838’ and signed ‘Your affectionate brother Robt. Leake’, the letter is addressed on the outer side to ‘Edward Leake…

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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…

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

 / written and sung by Harry Lee Carter in his entertainment of “The Two Lands of Gold”. Also sung by George Henry Russell, in Mr. Payne’s popular entertainment, “A Night in the Lands of Gold.” Music composed by Henry Russell. London : Musical Bouquet Office ; J. Allen, [1855]. Series:…

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Yirrkala drawings

Edited by Cara Pinchbeck with essays by Andrew Blake, Howard Morphy and John Stanton. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with the University of Western Australia, [2013]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. ‘In 1946–47 the senior ceremonial leaders of the Yirrkala region produced 365 vibrant…

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New Acquisitions June 2022

HUNTER, Percy; WESTON, Harry (artist)

Alpine sport in New South Wales, Australia : with ski, skate, toboggan and dog sleighs on snow-clad Kosciusko.

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Photographer unknown.

Aboriginal football team, Coranderrk, Healesville.

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MAUCLER, Lucien

[MOVING DIORAMA] Voyage autour du monde par un petit Francais

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TULLOCH, David

Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

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