International Artists

  • Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    # 47137

    SMITH, Jason

    Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine 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 (born 1960), and on the …

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  • The Birds of Australia (complete set)

    # 47089

    GOULD, John (1804 - 1881); GOULD, Elizabeth (1804 - 1841); RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821 - 1902)

    The Birds of Australia (complete set)

    London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Seven volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, elaborate gilt panels and rules, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (bindings with some light edge rubbing and scuffs); all edges …

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  • Joan Miro. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.

    # 47124

    CRAMER, Patrick

    Joan Miro. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.

    Preface by Rosa Maria Malet. Geneva : Patrick Cramer, 1989. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 676, extensively illustrated with over a thousand images. A fine copy. The invaluable catalogue raisonné of all of Miro’s illustrated books. An indispensable reference.

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  • The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 4 : Paintings and Sculptures late 1974 - 1976.

    # 47120

    PRINTZ, Neil; KING-NERO, Sally et al.

    The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 4 : Paintings and Sculptures late 1974 – 1976.

    London : Phaidon, 2014. Oblong quarto, boards in slipcase, pp. 608, 740 illustrations. New copy. Note : released at the RRP of $695, we are able to offer a mint copy at the original publisher’s price. ‘The 607 paintings and one sculpture documented in Volume 4 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne were produced during …

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  • The art and history of globes

    # 47062

    SUMIRA, Sylvia

    The art and history of globes

    London : The British Library, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 224, illustrated. ‘This book celebrates the art and history of the globe, focusing on the 400 years when the printed globe – as navigational tool, scientific instrument and powerful status symbol – occupied an important place in the history of European exploration. It ranges …

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  • Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs

    # 46886

    HAMER, Heather (1885 - 1962)

    Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs

    Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist style the nursery rhymes. Heather …

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  • The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin's voyagers 1800-1804

    # 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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  • The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (coloured version)

    # 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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  • Cindy Sherman

    # 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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  • The shorter dictionary of English Furniture. From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian period

    # 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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  • Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929

    # 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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  • The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh : with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

    # 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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  • Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    # 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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  • Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 - 1981

    # 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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  • Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    # 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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  • Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    # 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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