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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,…

Sic Transit (deluxe edition)

London : Stanley/Barker, 2020. Quarto, 310 x 300 mm, blind lettered silk in illustrated dustjacket, pp. [164]; fully illustrated photobook of Bill Henson images, printed by EBS in Verona, Italy, housed in a lettered slipcase. New copy, acquired directly from the publisher, of this rare edition which sold out within…

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.…

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…

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-stree. 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…

ANTIPODEANS

[THE ANTIPODEAN MANIFESTO] Antipodeans 4th – 15th Aug. 1959

MOFFATT, Tracey (Australian, b. 1960)

Beauties (in cream)

HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

Sic Transit (deluxe edition)

OPPEN, Monica

Metropolis

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New Acquisitions June 2021

WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907)

A group of twenty-four stereoscopic views of rock formations and other topographical features along the coastline of southwest Victoria, circa 1865.

REICHENBACH, Kurt (compiler)

Trial Bay internment camp, New South Wales : an archive of printed ephemera and photographs, including twenty issues of the newspaper “Welt am Montag”, collected by internee Kurt Reichenbach, 1917-18.

FOX, Ethel Carrick (1872 - 1952)

On the river

MARSH, Henry (1824-1906) (composer & publisher) (

[SHEET MUSIC; GOLD RUSH] The Nugget Schottische. Dedicated to his friend, C. W. F. Stier, by Henry Marsh.

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

Sic Transit (deluxe edition)

Reconstructed moa and Maoris.

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.

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

AUSTRALIAN ART | June 2021