International Artists

  • Tiepolo's Cleopatra

    # 50834

    ANDERSON, Jaynie

    Tiepolo’s Cleopatra

    Melbourne : Macmillan Publishing. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 224, illustrated. As new copy. Professor Jaynie Anderson is an internationally recognised scholar, renowned for her research and publications on the Italian masters. On this occasion she has concentrated on one painting, the National Gallery of Victoria’s famous Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra by Giambattista Tiepolo. …

  • Postcards From Asia

    # 50810

    HAZELWOOD, Art

    Postcards From Asia

    [San Francisco : the artist, circa 2000]. Quarto, concertina style bound artist’s book, papered boards, containing 14 original woodcuts, each signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 25. Created in a small edition with prints made for Hazelwood’s  Walking up and down in Asia series (2000), with different prints included in each …

  • Helmut Newton "One Off"

    # 50743

    NEWTON, Helmut

    Helmut Newton “One Off”

    Berlin : Phaidon Press, 2026. Folio, lettered cloth, exposed stitching (as issued), pp. 144, illustrated. A very good copy. A stunning reproduction of a unique album of Helmut Newton’s iconic photographs including many previously unseen images ‘A stunning reproduction of a unique album of Helmut Newton’s iconic photographs, including many previously unseen images German-Australian photographer …

  • Gilbert and George : The Banners

    # 50732

    GILBERT AND GEORGE

    Gilbert and George : The Banners

    London : White Cube, 2015. Oblong quarto, laminated card wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated. Reproduces the conceptual artist’s indecent protest banners.

  • World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    # 50463

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1902. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine ruled, light wear), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 332, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. This is copy …

  • Brittany

    # 50545

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Brittany

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies …

  • The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 - 1860

    # 50532

    ORANGE, James

    The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 – 1860

    With historical and descriptive letterpress. London : Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (lightly marked), top edge gilt, pp. 528, numerous colour and black and white plates, tissue guards; a very good copy. Limited to 750 numbered copies. “The book was compiled by James Orange in 1924 and is one of the most significant historical …

  • Linocuts of the machine age : Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School (limited edition)

    # 50648

    COPPEL, Stephen

    Linocuts of the machine age : Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School (limited edition)

    Aldershot, Hants, Eng. : Scolar Press, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1995. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 205, extensively illustrated; a fine copy. The limited edition of 30 copies, which was issued with the oversized print by Lill Tschudi Ski-joring (Coppel LT 54), not included with this copy. …

  • Hiroshige

    # 48726

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Hiroshige

    Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1938. Limited to 200 copies signed and numbered by the author, this is copy 156. Small quarto, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered boards, illustrated endpapers, pp 45, [1] colophon, illustrated with 20 chuban woodcut prints after Hiroshige, tipped in (some ghosting from the glue as usual); a near fine …

  • Souvenir of Japanese colour-prints (presentation copy)

    # 48725

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Souvenir of Japanese colour-prints (presentation copy)

    Sydney : privately printed for the author, 1936. Quarto, lettered textured cards, string bound, colour print to upper wrapper, pp. [12], tipped-in colour prints, some offsetting from the glue, a very good copy. Limited to 65 copies for presentation, signed and numbered by Barnett, this copy is number 37 and a presentation copy for S. …

  • Figure prints of Japan (Special De-Luxe edition)

    # 48717

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Figure prints of Japan (Special De-Luxe edition)

    Sydney : Beacon Press, 1948. Large quarto (450 mm tall), white vellum over floral decorated silk covered boards, decorated endpapers, 54pp. printed on hand-made paper with numerous tipped-in Japanese woodcuts, offsetting from glue as usual, Adrian Feint signed bookplate for W. R. Griffiths to preliminary blank. Limited to 100 copies, this one of the 47 …

  • Japanese colour-prints

    # 48669

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Japanese colour-prints

    Sydney : Privately printed [by The Beacon Press], 1936. Standard de luxe edition limited to 185 numbered and signed copies, with the author’s seal (this is copy no. 118). Large quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards (lightly foxed), upper board with gilt lettering and device in red, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rule, decorated …

  • Souvenir of glimpses at Ukiyo-ye and Nishiki-ye : brocade prints of Japan (first printing)

    # 48731

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Souvenir of glimpses at Ukiyo-ye and Nishiki-ye : brocade prints of Japan (first printing)

    Sydney : Privately published, 1942. Edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies with author’s seal (this is copy no. 29). Quarto, original stiff wrappers with black lettering to front, original blue silk ties, 16 pp, with tipped-in colour illustrations and 2 tipped-in black and white photographs advertising the de-luxe editions of Glimpses at Ukiyo-ye …

  • Colour-prints of Hiroshige

    # 48718

    BARNETT, P. Neville (1881-1953)

    Colour-prints of Hiroshige

    Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon press, 1937. Folio, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered silk (a few marks, a little discoloured along upper and lower edge from glue in the binding, as often found), patterned endpapers, Adrian Feint signed bookplate for W. R. Griffiths to front pastedown, 83 pp. illustrated with 64 original woodblocks after Hiroshige, …

  • The stone implements of the Maori.

    # 50553

    BEST, Elsdon

    The stone implements of the Maori.

    Wellington, NZ : John Mackay, Government Printer, 1912. Series: Dominion Museum. Bulletin No. 4. First edition. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt-lettered black leather title label; title-leaf, pp. 410; with 50 b/w photographic plates and one folding line-drawn plate, plus other illustrations in the …

  • From Paris with love : the graphic arts in France 1880s-1950s

    # 50552

    BUNBURY, Alisa et al.

    From Paris with love : the graphic arts in France 1880s-1950s

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrated. ‘Paris’s extraordinarily creative milieu is shown by the many movements that emerged in and around the city, including Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism. Presented here is an array of prints, posters, drawings, and artists’ books from the period 1880s to 1950s …