Rare Books
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# 50858
KRAUSMANN, Rudi; WHITELEY, Brett
From another shore. Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley (signed presentation copy)
Sydney : Wild & Woolley, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers with cover illustration by Brett Whiteley, pp. 78, illustrated throughout with drawings by Brett Whiteley. Signed presentation copy to Australian art academic and author Jenny Zimmer from the author.
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# 50854
BARKER, Ernest (translation.)
The Politics of Aristotle
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1968 (reprint). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket, pp. lxxvi; 411, a fine copy. Sir Ernest Barker’s translation and commentary is the definitive English framework for understanding Aristotelian political theory.
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# 50814
Ribadeneira, Pedro de, 1527-1611; Alegambe, Philippus, 1592-1652; Southwell, Nathaniel, 1598-1676
Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu, opus inchoatum a R.P. Pedro Ribadeneira
Eiusdem Societatis Theologo, anno salutis 1602. Continuatum a R.P. Philippo Alegambe Ex eadem Societate, usque ad annum 1642. Recognitum, et productum ad annum Iubilæi M.DC.LXXV. [1675]. A Nathanaele Sotuello Eiusdem Societatis Presbytero. Romæ : Ex typographia Iacobi Antonij de Lazzaris Varesij, MDCLXXVI [1676]. Folio, contemporary vellum over boards; front pastedown with the ex libris of …
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# 50812
ADIDAS
The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection
Cologne : Taschen, 2020. Quarto, 34 x 38 cm, (weighs 5.6 kgs), illustrated boards, publisher’s illustrated box, pp. 644, illustrated. New copy. Photographs by Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger 100 years ago the brothers Adolf (“Adi”) and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs …
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# 42022
HOWE, George (compiler and printer)
New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1815;
Being the third after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the fifty-fifth of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1815]. Duodecimo (155 x 95 mm), later half …
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# 50803
JONES, Phillip
Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …
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# 50801
SCOTT, Ernest
Historical memoir of the Melbourne Club
Melbourne : The Specialty Press, 1936. Octavo, gilt decorated full crushed morocco (edges slightly rubbed), pp. xi; [blank]; 111; [blank], photographic illustrations, errata sheet pasted to lower pastedown, a few specks of foxing, else fine. Edition limited to 650 numbered copies, bookplate and owner’s name to endpapers.
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# 50782
LYDON, Jane (editor)
Calling the shots : Aboriginal photographies
Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 280, illustrated with images of indigenous Australians from across Australia. Edited by Jane Lydon, with contributions from Julie Gough, Sari Braithwaite, Shauna Bostock-Smith, Lawrence Bamblett, Michael Aird, Karen Hughes, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, Donna Oxenham, Laurie Baymarrwangga and Bentley James.
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# 50780
JONES, John
Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire
Melbourne : NGV, 2010. Octavo, illustrated boards, corners slightly bumped, pp. 192, illustrated. Dowling holds a special place in the history of Australian art, as the first artist to be be trained in Australia and was renowned for his paintings of pastoralists, indigenous people and biblical themes. This is the first major exhibition of his …
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# 50779
GILMOUR, Joanna
Elegance in Exile : Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia
Canberra : National Portrait Gallery, 2012. Octavo, decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, maps to endpapers, pp. 180, illustrated, folding plates. Includes works by Thomas Watling, Elizabeth Prinsep, Thomas Wainwright, Thomas Bock, Richard Read, Charles Rodius et al.
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# 50778
OLSEN, Penny
Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art
Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. 228, a very good copy. This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. There …
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# 50750
SHEAD, Garry (1942- )
Ern Malley : The Darkening Ecliptic
Darwin : Basil Hall Editions, 2003. Nine etchings, each 150 x 220 mm, hand-printed by Natasha Rowell. Edition of 50; housed in a purpose-built ceramic box (290 x 215 x 60 mm); the etchings join up in the fashion of a puzzle to complete Shead’s image, Petit Testament; each of the nine etchings is signed verso, …
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# 50749
DRAPER, William, Sir (1721-1787)
Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction :
in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department. London : printed for J. Dodsley, 1764. Octavo, recent half calf over cloth boards with gilt rule; spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. 43; [blank]; bound with the half title (which is …
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# 50747
PESCOTT, Edward Edgar.
James Bonwick : A writer of school books and histories with a bibliography of his writings.
Melbourne : H. A. Evans, 1939. Quarto, quarter cloth over lettered boards (lightly marked), 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. Limited to 250 copies signed by Pescott.
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# 50740
[LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).
Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.
Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards, 335 pages, profusely illustrated; a new copy. During his long creative life Norman Lindsay produced works in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. The earliest drawing reproduced in this book was done in 1889, when he was …
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# 50724
HOWGEGO, Raymond John.
The Encyclopedia of Exploration
Sydney : Hordern House, 2003 – 2008. Five volumes, quarto, bound in cloth with colour dust jackets (lightly sunned), pp. xv; 1168; xi; 690; x; 724; xii; 1046; prospectus loosely enclosed, a very good set. The definitive reference works. The first four volumes, covering the history of exploration by land and sea from the earliest …