Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt.

Edited by Colonel Wilson, R.E., C.B., F.R.S. formerly Engineer to the Palestine Exploration Society. Assisted by the most eminent Palestine explorers etc. With numerous engravings on steel and wood. In four volumes. London : Virtue & Co., [1880-83]. Four volumes bound in two, folio (330 x 270 mm), contemporary quarter…

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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…

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Studio portrait of a lady holding a photograph. Hobart Town, Tasmania, early 1860s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 62 mm (mount); photographer’s name embossed at bottom left corner ‘W. Thwaites’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. This fine carte de visite studio portrait came from a Tasmanian album associated with the Young and Bunster families…

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Clarice Beckett. The artist and her circle (signed copy)

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1979. Oblong folio, boards in illustrated dust jacket (verso foxed), light foxing to preliminaries, bookplate to front pastedown, 64pp. illustrated in colour, fine. Important monograph on the artist, the modernist Melbourne painter from the first half of the twentieth century. Signed by noted Beckett curator, author and scholar…

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Girl Guides “boozing”

[Between 1930 and 1940]. Kodak gelatin silver print, 67 x 110 mm; unmounted; flawless. Sourced from a broken-up 1930s family album of corner-mounted snapshots that belonged to an unidentified Western Australian family. There are two schools of thought on the question of whether or not a great photograph can be…

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Pablo Picasso. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.

Geneva : Patrick Cramer, 1983. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 430, extensively illustrated. The invaluable catalogue raisonné of all of Picasso’s illustrated books. An indispensable reference.

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[INCUNABLE] 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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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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Tarot and Divination Cards : a visual archive

New York : Abrams, 2021. Small quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 400, extensively illustrated. New copy. Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today’s mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive…

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

drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page…

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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.…

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AUSTRALIAN ART August 2022

[CUMBRAE STEWART]

The pastels of Cumbrae Stewart

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[SMART]. QUARTERMAINE, Peter.

Jeffrey Smart. A man is illogical on horseback; but in a satellite, surreal (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

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DICKERSON, Robert (1924 - 2015)

Paris hat 1999

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KING, Natalie (editor); JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980)

Up close : Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang

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New Acquisitions August 2022

[CUMBRAE STEWART]

The pastels of Cumbrae Stewart

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ROWAN, Marian Ellis (1848 - 1922)

Hanging eucalyptus

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GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

Pearling in the Nor. West

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COOPER, John Butler

St. Kilda the beautiful

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Featured: Laing’s Planetarium Orrery

An engaging device in uncommonly good condition, with the rare original manual.

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Events: Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair

Saatchi Gallery 15-18 September 2022

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