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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 …

    $750,000.00 AUD Read more
  • VII (Sculptural lithograph)

    # 46542

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    VII (Sculptural lithograph)

    Lithograph, 18 x 23 cms, signed lower right ‘Jacks 87 – 89’, numbered lower left 2/10, and titled lower centre ‘VII’, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original graphic by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged …

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  • [POSTER] Laienkunst

    # 46682

    FRITZSCHE, Ulrich

    [POSTER] Laienkunst

    Malerei Grafik Plastik Kunsthandwerk. Zeigen vom 25.mai bis 30.Juni 1960. Zirkel fur bildende Kunst der Volkhochschule Pankow. (Verband bildende Kunstler Deutschlands, Bezirk Berlin). Kulturbundhaus Erich Weinert, Berlin-Pankow, Breiterstrasse 43a. Exhibition poster, 1960. Lithographic process, 580 x 400 mm (image), 880 x 720 mm (frame). A scarce Communist era poster for an exhibition of works by …

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  • Portfolio of 19 copperplate photogravure prints from the exhibition "Photogravure Images", United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 1987.

    # 46278

    Robert ASHTON (1950- )

    Portfolio of 19 copperplate photogravure prints from the exhibition “Photogravure Images”, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 1987.

    [Melbourne : the artist, 1987]. Complete suite of nineteen copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 10; 195 x 295 mm (plate size), 370 x 460 mm (sheet size); all untitled, but signed and dated in the plate l.r. ‘Robert Ashton 1987’, and numbered at l.l. 1/10 (4), 2/10 (3), 3/10 (2), 4/10 (2), 5/10 …

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  • Sturt's Desert Pea, 1925

    # 38842

    PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

    Sturt’s Desert Pea, 1925

    Woodcut, printed in black ink from one block, coloured by hand, measuring 184 x 248 mm (image), signed in the image lower left M. P., signed in pencil lower right Margaret Preston, titled lower left 15 Proof Sturt’s Desert Pea etc., framed in black timber. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. This striking modernist woodcut features …

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  • [FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women's films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women's Group.

    # 46329

    [BLACK, Wendy, designer & printer]

    [FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women’s films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women’s Group.

    Lipstick Addiction with The Blister Sisters, For Whom the Avon Bell[e] Tolls, The Object, Size 10, Farewell to Charms. Forester’s Lounge, July 30. / Taking Off Stereotypes: The Invisible Woman, Age Before Beauty, Take Off, The Stripper, A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts. Forester’s Lounge, Wed. Aug. 6. / Bodies, We Should Call it a …

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

    # 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 …

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  • Bruno Leti. Market forces

    # 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 …

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  • Ex Libris C. W. H. Barnes circa 1934

    # 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 …

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  • Yuendumu Doors suite

    # 46007

    SIMS, Paddy Japaljarri (c. 1917 - 2010); STEWART, Paddy Japaljarri (1935 - 2013)

    Yuendumu Doors suite

    Darwin : Northern Editions Print Workshop for Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, 2000. Thirty sugar lift etchings, printed in colour from single plates, each titled lower centre and editioned lower left 56 / 75 by the publisher, each personally signed by the artist either ‘P S’ (Paddy Stewart) or ‘X’ (Paddy Sims, who could not write), each …

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  • Gallipoli-Kampagne.

    # 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. …

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  • Bestiaries of Five Centuries.

    # 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 …

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  • Paella (signed print)

    # 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, …

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

    # 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, …

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

    # 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 …

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

    # 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 …

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