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# 44506
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The Magic Pudding (first edition, first issue)
Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (a couple of small stains), lettered in gilt on the spine, in unrestored original illustrated dust jacket (lightly foxed, a couple of small edge tears), patterned green A & R …
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# 45011
"MALLEY, Ern" (STEWART, Harold and McAULEY, James)
Angry Penguins. 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley
Edited by Max Harris and John Reed. Melbourne: Reed & Harris, 1944. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Sidney Nolan (upper wrapper silverfished with a little loss, stained, lower wrapper water stained), pp. 108, water stain to the margins, a good copy of a rare publication. Issue 6. The famous Ern Malley issue, of which 900 copies …
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# 44611
KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs
A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered black calf finely bound with matching slipcase, small scratches to front up upper board, 112 pp, illustrated throughout. This one of 100 copies of the special collectors’ edition, signed by the artist with an original …
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# 137
LASINIO, Carlo (1759 – 1838)
La caduta degli Angeli ribelli. La Chûte des Anges ribelles
[Affreschi celebri del XIV e XV secolo] Engraving 390 x 445mm Published in Florence, 1821 The central image in Laninio‘s engraving is St Michael the Archangel and the army of angels battling the rebel demons during Satan’s uprising as described in the book of Revelations. The Holy Father watches over this scene from Heaven while …
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# 37846
TUCKER, Albert (1914 - 1999)
Antipodean head
Lithograph printed in colour, 245 x 245 mm, numbered lower left 20/100, signed and dated Tucker 81 lower right, framed with a floating mount in chocolate brown frame measuring 540 x 520 mm. A fine graphic by Tucker showing one of his most recognisable motifs, where the figure is integrated with the Australian landscape.
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# 43636
WATSON, Tommy (c. 1935 - 2017)
An original etching by Tommy Watson
Etching printed in colour, with hand painted detail, measures 250 x 180 mm (plate), limited to 50 numbered copies signed with his monogram ‘X’. Framed in white timber measuring 550 x 460 mm. Created by the artist for the deluxe edition of his 2010 monograph published by Macmillan Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson Ngayuku Ngura – …
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# 14447
Anon.
A massive Spanish manuscript choir book in Latin
An early eighteenth century Spanish Graduale Romanum, or Roman Gradual (the second of two volumes), with thick wooden boards and iron fittings, containing music and text for the proprium missal (proper of the mass), including a Peruvian credo and with an index to both volumes at the end arranged mostly alphabetically under five headings for the introits, graduals, …
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# 35209
SOTHEBY, W.
[FIRST FLEET]. A tour through parts of Wales, sonnets, odes, and other poems.
With engravings from drawings taken on the spot. By J. Smith. London : R. Blamire, 1794. Quarto, contemporary papered boards, all edges uncut, pp. 120, 13 tinted aquatints, a fine copy. Includes the first Sonnet titled ‘On the ships sailing for Botany Bay’, a poetic version of the voyage of the First Fleet in 1787-88, …
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# 11001
ALLPORT, Morton (1830-1879)
In Port Esperance, Tasmania
[Title from caption on mount]. Between 1862 and 1866. Albumen print photograph, 190 x 240 mm, laid down on original album leaf, 270 x 370 mm, contemporary manuscript title in ink beneath the image In Port Esperance, Tasmania; the print is in fine condition with excellent tonal range; the album sheet is entirely frre from foxing. …
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# 31256
KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs
A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered black calf finely bound with matching slipcase, 112 pp, illustrated throughout. This one of 100 copies of the special collectors’ edition, signed by the artist with an original signed Lloyd Rees lithograph loosely enclosed (light …
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# 30711
Charapanovskaia, Marina (1961 - )
The Hat
Melbourne : the artist, 2001. Artists’ book, oblong folio (505 x 365 mm), finely bound in tan leather, blind embossed on front panel, patterned endpapers, etched title page, 5 folded leaves printed with 9 original etchings, each signed and numbered, interlined with tissue. Limited to 4 copies. In this handsome folio the artist uses her …
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# 22313
MAIR, John
Book-keeping methodiz’d : or, a methodical treatise of merchant-accompts, according to the Italian form.
Wherein, the theory of the art is fully explained, and reduced to practice, by variety of suitable examples in all the branches of trade. To which is added, a large appendix, containing, I. Descriptions and Specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by Merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the Nature of Bills of Exchange. III. Precedents …
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# 19215
COLQUHOUN, Patrick (1745-1820)
[TRANSPORTATION] Traité sur la police de Londres
contenant le détail des crimes et délits qui se commettent dans cette capitale, et indiquant les moyens de les prévenir….Traduit de l’Anglais sur la sixième édition. Paris : Léopold Collin, 1807. Two volumes octavo, contemporary red half calf over red boards (rubbed), spines with gilt numbers, decoration and stamped title labels, pastedowns and free endpapers …
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# 18809
Photographer unknown.
View of Bourbong Street, Bundaberg, Queensland, late 1890s
Albumen print photograph, 240 x 370 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with later pencil inscription ‘Main street, Bundaberg’; unmounted; a superb print with beautiful tones and sharp detail; the small white fleck at upper left is in the negative. A large format view of Bourbong Street looking west, with the Post Office in the distance. …
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# 18094
FRAZER, David.
Homesick
Castlemaine : Unstable Press, 2013. Quarto, cloth bound boards with illustration to front panel, unpaginated, 12 original wood engravings, letterpress. Limited to 15 copies plus three proofs, bound by George Matoulas. An emotional short story about love and its loss. Held in the collections of the State Library of Victoria, Monash University, University of Melbourne, …
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# 13723
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS
La lune à un mètre : Souvenir de l’Exposition 1900
[Paris : Exposition Universelle, 1900]. Lithograph on tinted paper laid down on board, as issued; circular format, diameter 400 mm; a couple of surface marks and tiny amounts of paper loss at the right edge, otherwise fine; mounted in a glazed frame. A striking souvenir “poster” produced for the Exposition Universelle held in Paris between …