Australian Art - General
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# 44557
McDONALD, John
Art of Australia. Vol.1 : Exploration to Federation (signed copy)
Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008. Quarto, black boards with silver lettering, illustrated dustjacket, a few handling marks, light stain to fore edge, 656pp, fully illustrated in colour. A major monograph exploring Australian art across the colonial period, looking at leading artists and their works in a social historical context. Signed and dated by the author …
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# 44349
ANEMAAT, Louise
Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet)
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, light handling marks, pp. 256, illustrated. A fine copy. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden …
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# 44319
RAMSAY, Christine Wu
Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …
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# 44260
McCORMICK, Tim
First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney
Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks, light foxing to preliminaries, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good copy of this important …
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# 44163
McKenzie, Janet
Contemporary Australian drawing #1
By Janet McKenzie ; with contributions by Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2012. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. ‘Janet McKenzie visited Australia in 2008 to update her research and exercise a global perspective on the current state of drawing …
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# 44156
BUTLER, Roger
Printed: images in colonial Australia 1801 – 1901 [with] Printed: images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955 [and] Printed: images by Australian Artists 1942 – 2020
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007 – 2021. Three volumes, quarto, pictorial boards in dustjackets, light handling wear to the dustjacket of the second volume, a few spots of foxing, otherwise fine, pp. 294; 328; 416, extensively illustrated in colour, a very good set. The complete set of Roger Butler’s comprehensive survey of printmaking …
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# 44124
[JERREMS, Carol et al.].
Woman 1975
Melbourne : Young Women’s Christian Association of Australia, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (cover image by Laurie Wilson), lightly marked and rubbed; pp. 160, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; foreword by Stella C. Watson, introduction by Jennie Boddington; front free-endpaper inscribed ‘Mrs and Mr Annita Connor – for your contribution to International Women’s Year – Catherine 1975’; …
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# 44121
SMITH, Bernard
European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale’s copy, signed by artist and author)
A study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s navy cloth over boards, in dust jacket (chipped, sunned and worn), 287 pp, with 171 b/w plates; internally very clean and sound, a good copy of the scarce first edition. Signed on the title page by …
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# 44120
RIENITS, Rex and Thea
Early artists of Australia (presentation copy for Russell Drysdale)
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear, chips to head and foot of spine, a little more than evident in the photo), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed from the authors ‘Maisie and Tass with lots of love from Rex …
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# 43956
Youth Annual : December 1930.
Sydney : W. H. Honey, 1 December 1930. Special number of the children’s periodical “Youth”. Large quarto (310 x 255 mm), publisher’s paper wrappers with French flaps (chipped edges, small loss around foot of spine, rear flap with split); pp. 82, texts by various Australian writers including Ed Dyson, Zora Cross, J. H. M. Abbott, …
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# 44032
McGREGOR, Ken
Unfinished Journey
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2006. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light edge wear), 224pp. An artistic journey into Central Australia bu leading contemporary Australian artists, including John Olsen, Jason Benjamin, Anthony Lister, Zhong Chen, Fred Cress, Sharon Green, Tim Storrier, and Yvette Swan.
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# 43698
RADFORD, Ron
Mirage : an exhibition of romantic landscapes in watercolour by Blamire Young, J. J. Hilder, R. W. Sturgess, M. J. MacNally and J. W. Tristram
Ballarat : The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, [1973]. Quarto, self-wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated in sepia, catalogue of 74 works.
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# 43659
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia (Special edition)
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The Special edition, limited to 85 copies signed by the author (a standard issue of 200 copies was also published). Quarto, papered boards in quarter imitation parchment (slightly worn), printed dustjacket (edges worn, light foxing), acetate jacket, a couple of chips, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some …
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# 43532
CUNNINGHAM, W. (editor)
Sydney Art School Magazine. The Art Student. Volume One, Number One (with a related signed letter to the Editor by Sydney Ure Smith)
Sydney : Sydney Art School, 1930. Large octavo, red wrappers with printed title label, pp. [32], illustrated with a reproduction of a George Lambert drawing of Julian Ashton, and with an original linocut titled Mother by Joshua Smith, occasional foxing, articles and verse. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Loosely enclosed, a signed typed letter …
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# 43736
VAN DAELE, Patrick van; LUMBY, Roy
A spirit of progress. Art Deco architecture in Australia
Sydney : Craftaman House, 1997. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 228, extensively illustrated.
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# 43735
McDONALD, John
Art of Australia. Vol.1 : Exploration to Federation
Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008. Quarto, black boards with silver lettering, illustrated dustjacket, a few handling marks, 656pp, fully illustrated in colour. A major monograph exploring Australian art across the colonial period, looking at leading artists and their works in a social historical context.