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# 34434
McHUGH, Vincent (1904 - 1983); ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)
Alpha : the mutabilities
Poems by Vincent McHugh ; with wood engravings by Tate Adams.San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1958. Folio, letterpress wrappers (lightly handling wear), stringbound, pp. [16], letterpress text by McHugh and wood engravings by Adams. A very good copy. Poems & Pictures series number eleven. 137 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. …
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# 33639
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (after)
Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.
[Title from printed caption below image]. Wood-engraved panorama, 195 x 550 mm (sheet); no engraver’s details; central vertical fold with light foxing, else very good. This engraved view was removed (by a previous owner) from a copy of the April 4 1868 edition of the Illustrated London News, in which the panorama was one of …
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# 32776
[POSTER]. Circle path meander. Central Australian paintings from the Carnegie Collection
Collected in the 1970s by Geoffrey Bardon. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Printed poster, 590 x 415 mm, introduction by Margaret Carnegie, essay by Geoffrey Bardon and catalogue verso. An important poster and catalogue for this landmark exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art. Fine copy. Note: this is the only catalogue for the exhibition, …
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![[POSTER] Dot and circle](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/03154630/2016_DSFB_5021-204x300.jpg)
# 32777
[POSTER] Dot and circle
: a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia. RMIT Gallery [Melbourne], 16th April-3rd May 1985 : a loan exhibition from the Flinders University, South Australia. Screenprint process, printed in colour, from multiple stencils; sheet 760 x 550 mm. Rare. According to the exhibition curator, Jenny Zimmer, approximately 20 copies were printed.
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# 28798
COUNIHAN, Noel (1913-1986)
Group of Soviet propaganda postcards featuring social realist works by Australian communist artist Noel Counihan.
Moskva : Izogis (Experimentalnaya Tipografiya VNIIPP), 1960. Eight postcards (all issued?), 150 x 105 mm, six printed in black-and-white and two in colour, reproducing both lithographs and paintings; versos with ‘Noel Counihan – Australia’, title of work and ‘Australian Artists Exhibition’ in Russian; all in superb condition. In 1960 Counihan travelled to Moscow and Leningrad …
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# 22673
[GILL, S.T.]
Twenty-eight engraved vignettes of Melbourne from The Melbourne Rose.
[London : Joseph, Myers & Co., 1862] (printed in Hamburg by C. Adler’s Printing Establishment). Twenty-eight steel engraved vignettes cut from the original ephemeron, which was an illustrated diecut folding card in the shape of a rose, pasted on to an old album sheet. A significant and very rare Melbourne publication of the gold rush …
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# 30989
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Australian Natives – What, ho! She bumps.
[Sydney : NSW Bookstall Co., c.1905]. Chromolithographic postcard, 138 x 38 mm, recto with Norman Lindsay illustration from the Australian Natives series, captioned What, ho! She bumps; good example with some very light corner wear; mailed locally from Armidale to Yarrowyck, in the New England region of New South Wales, in September 1906.
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# 31256
KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs
A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered black calf finely bound with matching slipcase, 112 pp, illustrated throughout. This one of 100 copies of the special collectors’ edition, signed by the artist with an original signed Lloyd Rees lithograph loosely enclosed (light …
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# 30510
HARRODS LTD.
Ascot 1937
Printed magazine advertisement for Harrods of London (“The Man’s Shop”), 330 x 230 mm, framed (framed size 530 x 420 mm). Extracted from a defective copy of The Sphere, May 15, 1937, p. 369. A stylish advertisement for mens attire suitable for a day at the races available from the most famous department store in …
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# 30096
"J M"
St. John’s Canberra
Linocut, 130 x 105 mm (image), 146 x 113 mm (sheet), captioned and initialled in pencil by the artist at lower margin ‘St. John’s Canberra / J M’; in very good condition, archivally matted; with a loosely preserved fully contemporary typed note, 150 x 120 mm, containing what is clearly an eyewitness account of a visit …
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# 27942
MISSINGHAM, Hal (1906 - 1994)
Bush images: sixteen original lithographs
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1982. Folio, blue cloth board portfolio, yellow wrappers, yellow title plate and blue ribbon tie, containing sixteen signed lithographs printed in black ink from one stone on white and off-white 250 gsm Arches Velin Blanc paper at the Fred Genis Workshop, title sheet and colophon. Limited to 35 copies. ‘Hal Missingham AO (1906-1994), …
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# 29577
JACKS, Robert
Robert Jacks. Post Cards Hand Stamped. 2007.
150 x 93mm, printed paper wrapper with title, twelve plain postcards with a different hand stamp design, signed by Robert Jacks on front wrapper.
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# 29544
WALKER, Simon; PRIMROSE, Sophie; TAME IMPALA
Tame Impala Lonerism Tour – Australia – 2012 – limited edition signed poster
Five colour screenprint, 640 x 450 mm (sheet) printed on 300 gsm ivory paper. Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the artists. Artwork by Simon Walker and Sophie Primrose. Hand printed by Dots Printhaus, 2012. New condition. Limited edition tour poster for hugely popular Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala, founded by Perth musician Kevin …
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# 27106
COUNIHAN, Noel (1913 - 1986)
War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan (signed edition)
London: Collet’s Holdings Ltd., 1950. Later lettered paper portfolio (385mm tall), cut lettering from the original folio pasted on (foxed), 4pp. letterpress (long split along fold), twelve linocuts on separate sheets, very good examples. Limited to 300 copies signed by the artist, this is number 88. In this example, each linocut has been signed by …
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# 27175
W. BUTCHER & SONS LTD.
Our colonies : Australia.
London : W. Butcher & Sons, [circa 1910]. Series: Our Colonies. Chapter III. Australia (from the Primus Junior Lecturers’ Series, no. 742). Complete set of 8 hand-coloured magic lantern glass slides (each 80 x 80 mm), housed in their original box with illustrated lid (fine), and including the rarely seen ‘Lantern Lecture Reading’ information sheet for this …
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# 26813
COLE, William Washington (1847-1915)
South Sea Savages, or Maori War Dancers. The List including a Troupe of Genuine South-Sea Savages tattooed from head to foot, and faithfully giving The Great Maori War Dances.
[Advertised and illustrated on] A double-sided poster for W. W. Cole’s World-Famous, Five-Continent New Mammoth Circus, appearing at Binghamton, New York on Monday, April 24, 1882 (the location and date are wet stamped at foot of the verso). Buffalo, NY : The Courier Company Show Printing House [for W. W. Cole], [1882]. Lithograph printed in black …