Graphics
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# 19550
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
The James Joyce House of the Dead
A suite of etchings by Robert Jacks. Melbourne: Port Jackson Press Australia, 2004. Folio, gilt-embossed green oxford buckram clamshell box measuring 395 x 290mm containing title sheet and nine original etchings each 380 x 280mm, each signed and titled by the artist. Edition limited to thirty copies. ‘Ulysses by James Joyce has been the source …
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# 19633
GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques (1757 - 1810)
Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook & de la Perouse
Paris : chez l’auteur, rue Coqueron Mon. de France ; Bordeaux : chez le Cne. S. Sauveur sous le peristyle de la Grande Comedie, l’an 7 de la Republique Francaise [1798 or 1799]. Aquatint with hand colouring, 430 x 534 mm (sheet), old mount burn to margins, a very good copy with vibrant original colour. …
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# 18751
HITTI, Deanna
Cultural transaction [with] Towla
An extraordinary collection of works by contemporary Melbourne artist Deanna Hitti, comprising her artist’s book Towla and two monumental wall pieces titled Cultural Transaction. Towla [Melbourne] : the artist, 2017. Folio, screenprinted buckram, screenprinted endpapers, pp. 40; [8]; 40; screenprinted on Somerset 115gsm Bookwove paper, housed in a screenprinted clamshell box. Limited to 10 copies plus three …
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# 18510
LINDSAY, Lionel
Bookplate for K. Brian Stonier
Etching, 10 x 7.4 cm, created 1951. Signed in the image. A later impression
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# 17327
PELLERIN
[RACISM; ÉPINAL PRINT] The black man
Kansas City, Missouri : Humoristic Publishing Co., [1893-94]. No. 7. Épinal print, single sheet, folio (400 x 295 mm), chromoithographed, lower margin imprinted Imagerie d’Epinal. – Pellerin, imp.-édit. “Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo.”; original horizontal fold, 8.5 cm tear at upper right corner affecting the fourth illustrated panel, a few small …
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# 16001
CROFT, Thomas; TERRY, F.C. [Frederic Casemero] (artist), 1825-1869; SANDS & KENNY
[EASTER ISLAND] Double Bay from South Head Road. [1853]
Sydney & Melbourne: Sands & Kenny, [c.1867]. Illustrated letter paper, sheet 252 x 200 mm (lacking the blank third and fourth sides), steel engraving in black ink 118 x 168 mm (irregular), signed in image ‘Terry, del., 1853’; the letter paper is written on both remaining sides and bears a letter from the Tahiti-based merchant Thomas …
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# 15626
CHERRY, J. W. (John William), 1824-1869; LAKE, J.W.; DEGOTARDI, Johann Nepomuk, 1823-1882.
[SHEET MUSIC] Shells of ocean / words by J.W. Lake ; music by J.W. Cherry.
Sydney : Woolcott and Clarke, [1853 or 1854]. Folio, disbound, original illustrated wrappers lithographed by John Degotardi (old paper reinforcement to original stitching and small closed tear at fore-edge), 6 pp of engraved music notation for voice and piano; page 2 has a publisher’s advertisement at the head of the music; internally very clean, a good example. …
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# 13723
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS
La lune à un mètre : Souvenir de l’Exposition 1900
[Paris : Exposition Universelle, 1900]. Lithograph on tinted paper laid down on board, as issued; circular format, diameter 400 mm; a couple of surface marks and tiny amounts of paper loss at the right edge, otherwise fine; mounted in a glazed frame. A striking souvenir “poster” produced for the Exposition Universelle held in Paris between …
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# 11801
LESSER, Sol (director)
[TAHITI; EARLY CINEMA] “Isle of Desire”
[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.
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# 11802
LESSER, Sol (director)
[TAHITI; EARLY CINEMA] “Isle of Desire”
[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.
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# 4631
[SOCIETY OF MARY]; [CHANEL, Pierre Louis Marie (Saint Peter Chanel), 1803-1841]
[MISSIONARY] S. Petrus Chanel
Rome : L. Salomone, [circa 1930]. Offset printed card, 117 x 75 mm, recto with illustration depicting the martyrdom of Father Peter Chanel, a Marist missionary murdered on the island of Futuna, to the northwest of Tonga, in 1841. Chanel was one of the first group of Marist missionaries to be sent to the southwest …