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  • # 45880

    MENDELSSOHN, Albert

    [TICHBORNE CASE] “Twenty Years After,” Roger Tichborne was lost A.D. 1854, the Claimant was lost A.D. 1874.

    [Title from artist’s caption]. London : Albert Mendelssohn, [1874]. Albumen print photograph of a satirical cartoon (artist’s monogram W.R. in the image), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount), recto with the artist’s printed caption to lower margin; verso with wet stamp of ‘Albert Mendelssohn, Publisher, London’; in fine condition. The case of the …

  • # 46163

    LETI, Bruno

    Bruno Leti. Market forces

    Melbourne : the artist, 1991. Folio, folding card portfolio with original signed and numbered screenprint on front panel, containing four signed and numbered sugar lift etchings and four cibachrome prints, the folio also signed and numbered and limited to 35 copies. Leti’s visual response to the Queen Victoria Market. A single copy recorded in Australian …

  • # 45969

    TRAILL, Jessie Constance Alicia (1881 - 1967)

    Ex Libris C. W. H. Barnes circa 1934

    Etching on paper, 110 x 55 mm (trimmed to plate line), undesignated impression, signed in the image lower right, framed in museum timber, measuring 53 x 44 cms. A fine and rare etching by noted Australian printmaker Jessie Traill commissioned as an ex lib’s bookplate and featuring an atmospheric landscape. Another example is held in …

  • # 45717

    BLUTH, Manfred (1926-2002)

    Gallipoli-Kampagne.

    Berlin : Graphische Werkstatt, [1975]. Edition limited to 20 copies (no. 2), signed and numbered by the artist. Oblong elephant folio, original red cloth boards lettered in black (a few light marks) with black cord binding, containing 12 coloured lithographs signed by the artist, each 370 x 750 mm; text in German, English and Latin. …

  • # 45672

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    O Man! Take Heed

    Created 1922. Etching, engraving, stipple and roulette, 324 x 291 mm (upper plate); 49 x 123 mm (lower plate), signed and dated lower right, edition 12 of 55 copies, framed in black timber with gold trim. A lyrical large format etching by Norman Lindsay inspired by the music of Swiss-born Sydney composer Adolph G. Beutler, …

  • # 45808

    NISSEN, Claus (1901 - 1975)

    Bestiaries of Five Centuries.

    Description and Introduction by the late Claus Nissen. Edited and Revised by Sandra Raphael. With an Introductory by S. Peter Dance. Amsterdam : Antiquariaat Junk B. V. and Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 2024. Folio (29.8 x 21.3 cm). With sixty-one original prints, many hand-coloured, from famous zoological books published between 1491 and 1878; each mounted, matted, and …

  • # 45832

    OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)

    Paella (signed print)

    Offset lithograph, 210 x 150 mm, on fine paper (some examples are watermarked Holland, and some examples are not watermarked), personally signed by John Olsen. Some examples are signed in pen and dated ’08 and some examples are signed in pencil and dated ’07. A whimsical signed print of one of John Olsen’s recurring subjects, …

  • # 45554

    [BLACK AMERICANA] Four nineteenth-century Christmas and New Year’s greeting cards with racist caricatures of African American men and women.

    [New York, NY] : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1880s]. Four chromolithographed cards, in uniform 102 x 63 mm format; rectos featuring a head-and-shoulders caricature and a greeting below, with ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons, Copyright’ in fine print across lower margin; versos with the RT&S monogram trademark and ‘Artistic Series 1256’; a couple of small marks, …

  • # 45556

    W. J. NORMAN (publisher / retailer)

    Carte de visite photograph of a French risqué print, published and sold in Melbourne around 1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘W. J. Norman, Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Looking Glasses Re-silvered, Frames Re-gilded. Great variety of Photographs’; some very light foxing to the print, more pronounced on the verso. We have previously …

  • # 30168

    BIGOT, Georges Ferdinand (1860-1927)

    Croquis Japonais par G. Bigot. 1886. Tokio. [Bound with] Le Jour de l’an au Japon.

    [Tokyo : The artist, 1886]. Two volumes in one, large folio (480 x 330 mm) (as issued), slightly later half burgundy crushed morocco over marbled papered boards ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, pastedown with bookplate of Grolier Club Library with its ‘WITHDRAWN’ stamp, marbled endpapers, original Japanese textured grey paper …

  • # 45518

    PAGOWSKI, Andrzej (designer); ASIA AND PACIFIC MUSEUM, WARSAW.

    [ABORIGINAL ART EXHIBITION POSTER] Sztuka aborygenów australijskich

    Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku w Warszawie / The Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw. Galeria Azjatycka ul. Freta 5. Mai 1990r. Warszawa : Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku, 1990. Exhibition poster, 660 x 930 mm, unmounted; light handling marks, a fine example. Text in Polish. The exhibition’s title translates to “Australian Aboriginal Art”. It appears to have …

  • # 44934

    FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)

    A womb for the Pope : cards distributed at Right to Life rally and anti-Right to Life demonstration, Treasury Gardens, 1982.

    [Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Stencilled card, 90 x 110 mm; verso blank; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as …

  • # 44876

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Swanston Street (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.5 × 36.5 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.9 cm (outer framing line); 35.5 x 45.5 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine view looking down the main boulevard of Melbourne during the height of …

  • # 44874

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Sandridge from Hobson’s Bay (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.6 × 35.7 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.1 cm (outer framing line); 40.1 × 52.3 cm (sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine, animated view of Sandridge (now called Port Melbourne), from Troedel’s The Melbourne album …

  • # 44875

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Botanical Gardens (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.3 × 36.1 cm (image); 28.1 × 37.8 cm (outer framing line); 31.6 × 41.0 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, mounted. A fine view looking across the Yarra River and the City of Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens, taken from Troedel’s The Melbourne album (Melbourne : Charles …

  • # 45176

    [SHIRLOW, John]. CROLL, R. H.

    The Etched Work of John Shirlow (deluxe edition)

    Selected reproductions in half-tone of John Shirlow’s handicraft. Biography by R. H. Croll. Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin, n.d. [1920]. Quarto, quarter-calf over cloth, bookplate to front pastedown, 20 tipped-in plates reproducing Shirlow’s works. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, with an original etching by Shirlow tipped-in.