Album Chinois

Paris : Formentin, 1849. Quarto, original papered boards (slightly chipped to spine), title leaf, 19 hand coloured lithograph plates by Formentin, each with an adjacent leaf of text, after Aubry-Lecomte, E. Deveria, C. Choran, J. Vidal, H. Grevedon, and Chenot and three pages of engraved and lithographed music. An album…

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The world dissected upon the best principles to teach youth geography.

London : made by William Darton, 58 Holborn Hill, 1820. Jigsaw puzzle map of the world in two hemispheres, dissected and laid on mahogany, in the publisher’s original wooden box with sliding lid, paper labels to the lid and sides, ‘Darton, London. Warranted’; also titled ‘The world from the best…

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Icones Piscium, or plates of rare fishes.

London : Richard and John Taylor, 1843. Quarto, publisher’s printed wrappers, string bound, manuscript correction of ‘Four’ to ‘Five’ coloured plates, pp. 8 (unopened); 5 plates with striking original hand colouring. Housed in a custom made folding clamshell box. Book label of Alan John Jarvis to inside upper wrapper and…

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Photographic portraits of Aborigines from New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Territory, 1892-95.

Suite of fifteen albumen print photographs, format 200 x 150 mm; each with blind stamp of ‘Kerry & Co. Photo, 308 George St. Sydney’ and with manuscript sequence number and title in the negative; a few with some toning or fading, but the majority are strong prints in very good condition;…

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A suite of nine plates from Shaw’s Zoology of New Holland, 1794.

[London] : Printed by J. Davis : Published by J. Sowerby, 1794. Nine engravings with original hand colour, each approximately 230 x 160 mm (plate lines), on J. Whatman watermarked paper, 303 x 242 mm (sheet), titled and imprinted in the image (imprint erased from one as issued), small stab…

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Histoire générale des voyages,

ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu’à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues … … Paris : Didot, 1746 – 1789. Twenty volumes, quarto (290 x 230 mm), uniformly bound in period full French…

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Esculetin

Woodcut. Created 2012. Measures 470 x 560 mm (sheet), signed lower right, editioned out of 55 copies verso, presented floating in a white timber frame. Active in London’s contemporary art scene since the 1980s, Damien Hirst shot to national prominence as part of the Young British Artists movement in the…

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New Acquisitions September

HAZELWOOD, Art; ROTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich

Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts

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GAZE, Harold (1884 - 1963)

The Mite Merry Series [Complete] : The SImple Jaggajay; The Chewg-um-blewg-um; The Billabonga Bird

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LESOT, A; BRICOT, J

[MAP] Océanie

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BROWNING, Lily

Portfolio of original watercolour and graphite designs made by a student at Swinburne Technical College (Senior School for Girls), Melbourne, 1916-18.

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Seven Centuries

MORT, Eirene (1879-1977); CROOK, Ethel Frances (1885-1973)

First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907. Diploma, Second Class. Awarded to Bendigo artist Ethel Crook, and accompanied by an archive of her designs.

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LANG, John Dunmore, Rev. (1799-1878)

A sermon, preached on Sunday, June 15, 1823, to the congregation of Scots Presbyterians, in Sydney, New South Wales; preparatory to the building of a Scots church.

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BAILEY, Nathan; [LEICHHARDT, Ludwig, 1813-c.1848]

[LUDWIG LEICHHARDT] The universal etymological English dictionary:

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KERRY, Charles (1857-1928)

Photographic portraits of Aborigines from New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Territory, 1892-95.

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LATEST CATALOGUE: Seven Centuries

We are excited to present our catalogue Seven Centuries.

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AA&ADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney

22-25 August 2019

We will be exhibiting together with many of Australia’s top antique & art specialists at the AA&ADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney.

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