International Artists
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# 47000
FORNASIERO, Jean et al.
The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin’s voyagers 1800-1804
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2016 (2017 reprint). Quarto, 265 x 218 mm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew …
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# 46968
RADFORD, Ron
An exhibition of art nouveau in Australia
Sydney : Australian Gallery Directors Council, [1975]. Royal octavo, pictorial stiff card covers, decorative liner papers, 87 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, a very good copy. Catalogue of a 1975 touring exhibition (Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, NGV, Queensland Art Gallery, S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery).
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# 46931
[CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor
The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (coloured version)
Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …
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# 46925
[SHERMAN, Cindy]
Cindy Sherman
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2016. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, silver cloth spine, pp 141. Catalogue of Sherman’s works exhibited in the 2016 Queensland Art Gallery retrospective. As new copy.
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# 46860
EDWARDS, Ralph
The shorter dictionary of English Furniture. From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian period
London : Country Life, 1977. Sixth impression. Folio, gilt-lettered buckram in dustjacket (spine sunned, general handling wear), top edges gilt, pp. 684, extensively illustrated in black and white. An encyclopaedic alphabetically listed guide to English antique furniture. A very useful book.
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# 46800
AMTORG TRADING CORPORATION (New York)
Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929
[Cover title]. Also titled: Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia. New York : Peasant Art & Handicraft Department of Amatory Trading Corporation, 1929. Small quarto (265 x 180 mm), illustrated wrappers with original owner’s name to front, original ties, [15], [1] pp, numerous illustrations (some colour); an excellent copy. A scarce catalogue of Russian …
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# 46724
van GOGH, Vincent (1853 - 1890)
The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh : with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2001. A Bulfinch Press Book. Third edition, second printing. Three volumes, octavo, blue buckram lettered in gilt on the spine, with gilt decoration, pp. lxviii; 559; 625; 625, illustrations, a fine set housed in the publisher’s buckram slipcase. ‘One of the most important and powerful works in the literature …
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# 46700
KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)
Old Korea : the land of morning calm
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (worn, chips with losses, old tape repairs), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy in the flimsy dustjacket, an important illustrated account of Korea.
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# 46677
Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981
[New York and Sydney] : the artist, 1973 – 1981. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, manuscript title page, nine sections of original rubber stamp works, each between two and three pages each and containing five or six rubber stamps per page, each section separated with a blank page. An unique …
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# 46676
Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985
Melbourne : the artist, 1985. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, unpaginated, being an artist’s book of photocopied (xeroxed) designs. Provenance : the estate of Robert Jacks.
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# 46821
SMITH, Jason
Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print
Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Edges lightly rubbed, a very good copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell …
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# 46622
McCAHON, Colin; GASCOIGNE, Rosalie
Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place
Sydney : Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Melbourne : The Ian Potter Gallery, 1990. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held “on the occasion of the Sesquicentenary of New Zealand, 1990”. Scarce.
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# 46878
ESCHER, M. C.
Between two worlds : Escher x Nendo
Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Quarto, boards in slipcase, a few light marks, pp. 325, illustrated. A very good second hand copy. Originally released at the retail price of $49.95, this book won the Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Under $50, and Designers’ Choice Book of the Year awards from the Australian Book Designers …
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# 46797
COPPEL, Stephen
Claude Flight and his followers : the colour linocut movement between the wars
Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1992. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Includes artists such as Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Lill Tschudi, Dorrit Black, Eileen Mayo, etc. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.
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# 46744
SUMMERS, Charles
Charles Summers 1825 – 1878
Weston-super-Mare : Woodspring Museum, 1978. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (marked), pp. [12], biography, catalogue of works, and list of holdings in England. Curator : Jane Evans. Catalogue of works by the British sculptor Charles Summers (1825-1878), who lived and worked in Melbourne between 1854 and 1867. Among Summers’ many colonial commissions the most famous and enduring …
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# 46720
GOTT, Ted et al.
Napoleon : revolution to empire
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …