Rare Books
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# 24454
Soul of a city : the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Conception: Oswald Ziegler; principal photography: Max Dupain; text: John Thompson. Sydney : produced by O. Ziegler Pub., and distributed by Angus & Robertson, [1962]. Quarto, papered boards in illustrated dustjacket (chipped and stained), pp. [72], illustrated. Sydney in the sixties, photographed by Dupain.
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# 24594
HENSON, Bill; TOGNETTI, Richard; LIOR
Luminous
Directed by Richard Tognetti. August 2019. Melbourne L Australian Chamber Orchestra, 2019. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Bill Henson, pp. 64, illustrated. Fine copy. Program for a concert of the Australian Chamber Orchestra in collaboration with Bill Henson and Lior. The program features many photograph by Henson.
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# 24538
FLORENCE, Yanni
Street porn / Yanni Florence.
Melbourne : M.33, 2014. Quarto (350 x 270 mm), linen bound boards with pictorial inlay, pp. [44], illustrated. Limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by the artist. “In this large format book of 26 photographs, Yanni Florence identifies and documents the iterations of a specific and highly charged genre of t-shirts. The photographs position …
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# 24617
THOMPSON, Christian (1978 - )
Ritual intimacy
Caulfield East, Vic. : Monash University Museum of Art, 2017. Small quarto (230 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers, 128 pp, 92 pages of colour plates of indigenous multidisciplinary artist Christian Thompson’s work; catalogue essays by Charlotte Day, Brian Catling and Marina Warner; Christian Thomposn and Hetti Perkins in conversation; an as new copy. A …
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# 24520
KERR, D. B. (Donald Beavis) (1919-1942)
Form A.73. (June 1938) Royal Australian Air Force Observer’s, Air Gunner’s and W/T operator’s Flying Log Book. 416431 Kerr D. B.
[Title from cover]. Octavo (205 x 140 mm), original printed blue cloth over boards, upper board with the owner’s name and service number in manuscript ‘KERR, D. B. 416431’; first page titled ‘Certificates of Qualification’, with manuscript entries recording Kerr’s qualifications as a Dead Reckoning Navigator (12 November 1941), Bomb Aimer (10 January 1942), Air …
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# 24855
HAWKING, Karlie; DOYLE, Helen; ALLEN, Max; MURPHY, Joy Wandin
Oil paint and ochre : the incredible story of William Barak and the de Purys
[Lilydale, Vic.] : Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, [2015]. Quarto, stiff wrappers, 48 pp, illustrated in colour, 2 maps; an as new copy. Superb catalogue to accompany an exhibtion at the YRRM, August 29 – November 22 2015, which tells the story of the friendship between Wurundjeri leader and artist William Barak, a long-term resident at the …
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# 24850
MENDELSSOHN, Joanna.
The Art of Sir Lionel Lindsay. Volume II: The etchings.
Part A: Etchings. Part B: Chronological catalogue. Brookvale: Copperfield, 1988. Folio, two volumes, gilt-lettered cloth in slipcase, pp. 328 with numerous illustrations of over 600 etchings, limited to 300 copies signed by the publisher. A scholarly overview of the etchings of Lionel Lindsay. Volume 1, devoted to Lionel Lindsay’s woodcuts, was published as a separate volume in …
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# 24848
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Norman Lindsay favourite etchings
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1977. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, introduction by Daniel Thomas, essay by Norman Lindsay, 100 sepia plates printed recto only. A very good copy.
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# 24846
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Redheap (signed copy)
Sydney : Ure Smith, 1959. First Australian edition. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (a little edgeworn), pp. 317. Signed by Norman Lindsay on the front blank, with previous owner’s gift inscription. Lindsay’s second novel, banned in Australia when first published in 1930.
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# 24845
PRUNSTER, Ursula
[NORMAN LINDSAY] The legendary Lindsays
[Roseville, N.S.W.] : Beagle Press in conjunction with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. First edition. Quarto, red cloth with illustrated dust jacket, 120 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, with short essays by Robert Holden and Helen Glad. Fine copy. A superb pictorial survey of the art and private world …
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# 24843
HOWARTH, R.G. ; BARKER, A.W. (editors)
Letters of Norman Lindsay
Sydney : Angus & Roberston, 1979. First edition. Quarto, pictorial black cloth in very good dustjacket, 656 pp, illustrated, a very good copy.
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# 24838
MOFFATT, Tracey et alia
Visionaire 30 : the game. Australia edition.
[New York] : Visionaire Publishing, 1999. Limited to 6000 numbered copies. Issue 30 of the avant garde photography magazine, presented in the form of a game, featuring photographs by Australian artists and sitting in a box designed by Louis Vuitton. “30 GAME is not only a collection of art but also a game. Taking as …
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# 22302
Raymond of Sabunde (c.1385-1436)
Theologia naturalis sive Liber creatura[rum] specialiter de homine [et] de natura eius in qua[n]tum homo. :[et] de his qu[a] sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendu[m] seip[su]m [et] Deu[m] [et] om[n]e debitu[m] ad q[uo]d ho[mo] tenet[ur] et obligatur tam Deo q[uam] p[ro]ximo.
Impressus Nurembergae : Per Anthoniu[m] koberger [sic] inibi co[n]cluem, 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), contemporary sheep over wooden boards (lacking clasps), elaborate blind-tooling to both boards, upper board including a panel containing abbreviated title, below it a partially remnant contemporary paper label with manuscript in red and black; A-Q8 R6; title with early (unidentified) …
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# 13344
Xavier, Francisco de (1506-1552), et al.
Diversi Avisi Particolari Dall’Indie di Portogallo : riceuuti, dall’anno 1551. fino al 1558,
dalli Reuerendi padri della Compagnia di Giesv; Dove S’Intende Delli Paesi, delle genti, & costumi loro, & la grande conuersione di molti popoli, che hanno riceuuto il lume della santa sede, & religione Christiana; Tradotti nuouamente dalla lingua Spagnuola nella Italiana. (Parts 2-5 titled: Nuovi Avisi delle Indie [or dell’Indie] di Portogallo … … ). In Venetia …
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# 13335
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d’, 1457-1526; Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de, 1478-1557; Eden, Richard; Willes, Richard
The history of trauayle in the West and East Indies and other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : as Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : with a discourse of the Northwest passage.
Imprinted at London : By Richarde Iugge, 1577. Small quarto, later crushed red morocco, panels ruled in gilt with ornaments; spine in compartments ruled and lettered in gilt; edges with pale marbling; title page; ff [x], 466, [6], some misnumbering; two armorial bookplates to front pastedown, including that of art historian and politician Horatio (Horace) Walpole; …
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# 13334
Gonzalez de Mendoza, Juan, 1545-1618; Loyola, Martin Ignacio de, d. 1606; Parke, Robert
The historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof : togither with the great riches, huge citties, politike gouernement, and rare inuentions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
London : Printed by I. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588. First English edition. Quarto, nineteenth century vellum over boards ruled in gilt (small stain to lower board), yapp edges; contrasting morocco title label with gilt lettering to spine; edges stained red; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple; pp [viii], 410; title page with early …