Rare Books
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# 47000
FORNASIERO, Jean et al.
The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin’s voyagers 1800-1804
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2016 (2017 reprint). Quarto, 265 x 218 mm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew …
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# 46997
HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme
Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy.
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# 46987
HETHERINGTON, Michelle
James Northfield. The art of selling Australia
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp.96, illustrated. Striking modernist poster designs promoting Australian tourism.
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# 46986
MUNDINE, Djon
The native born : objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land (softcover)
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Bula’bula Arts, Ramingining, [2000]. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 242, extensively illustrated, a little edge wear, a good copy. Focuses upon the character and background of the Ramingining Collection, formed by Djon Mundine — who also provides the major essay for this book. ‘This exhibition of …
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# 46977
PICKERING, Michael et al.
Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2010. Quarto, cards in dustjacket, pp. [xx]; 230, illustrated. The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …
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# 46966
SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)
Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century
With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Reprint, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 162, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected …
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# 46883
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988
Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …
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# 46933
[LINDSAY, Ruby]. "Celt"
The cynic’s autograph book No. 2
Illustrations by Ruby Lind. London : Gay & Hancock, 1913. Duodecimo, decorated boards, pp. 95, illustrations. A book of pithy phrases with space for supporters to sign their autograph (none in this example). Scarce illustrated work by Ruby Lindsay.
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# 46932
BARNETT, P. Neville
Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir
Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, pp. [32], illustrations of bookplates by Phyllis Shillito, Freda Robertshaw, George Hay and many others. limited to 150 copies signed by the author. A humorous and amusing printed souvenir for Barnett’s larger work on Woodcut Book Plates.
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# 46931
[CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor
The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (coloured version)
Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …
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# 46926
JACUNSKI, Jaclyn
You are a warrior
[Chicago? : the artist, 2017]. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated. Artist’s book / zine on the subject of civil disobedience and the protest movement. ‘Jaclyn’s work is driven by political controversies that surround land, communities, and acts of resistance. By framing evidence of those acts, her work recontextualizes how they manifest in public spaces …
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# 46916
BROADBENT, James
The Australian colonial house. Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842
Sydney : Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates, contains in-depth academic text on the architecture of houses and buildings in New South Wales in the …
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# 46890
HETHERINGTON, Michelle et al.
Cook’s Pacific encounters. The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Gottingen.
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv; 110, illustrated. Ephemera enclosed. “Cook’s Pacific Encounters brings together objects from the Cook-Forster collection of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany, and materials related to Cook’s voyages held in Australian collections. The Cook-Forster collection comprises artefacts collected during the three Pacific voyages …
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# 46860
EDWARDS, Ralph
The shorter dictionary of English Furniture. From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian period
London : Country Life, 1977. Sixth impression. Folio, gilt-lettered buckram in dustjacket (spine sunned, general handling wear), top edges gilt, pp. 684, extensively illustrated in black and white. An encyclopaedic alphabetically listed guide to English antique furniture. A very useful book.
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# 29073
HOWE, Robert (1795-1829) (printer and publisher); MANSFIELD, Ralph (1799-1880) (editor)
The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence. Volume 1. For 1821.
Sydney : Printed by Robert Howe, Government Printer, 1821. Volume 1, Number 1, May 1 1821, to Volume 1, Number 8, December 1, 1821 (i.e. the first eight issues). Octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary half calf over pink papered boards (heavily rubbed, with some surface loss), spine with contrasting red morocco title label lettered in …
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# 17466
AMATI, Scipione; HENDSCHEL, Tobias (translator); [SOTELO, Luis, 1574-1624]
Relation und gründtlicher Bericht von dess Königreichs Voxu im Japonischen Keyserthumb
gottseliger Bekehrung und dessentwegen außgefertigter Ambasciada : an Päbst. Heil. gen Rom Paulum den fünfften, und an die Cathol. May. Philip. den dritten König in Hispania etc. Anno 1615. durch Ludovicum Sotelum S. Francisci Ordens … und … Don: Rocuyemon Faxecura … … Ingolstadt: in der Ederischen Truckerey, bey Elisabeth Angermayrin, Wittib, 1617. Small quarto, recent …