Rare Books

# 50502

[LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).

Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards (very small bump to one corner), 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 …

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# 50498

MAYNARD, John

True light and shade : an aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …

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# 50484

GROOM, Linda

First Fleet artist. George Raper’s birds & plants of Australia

Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 146, slight sunning to spine. Natural history and topographical art from the First Fleet.

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# 50483

EMMETT, Peter

Fleeting encounters : pictures & chronicles of the First Fleet

Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 132, illustrated.

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# 50482

HAMMOND, Victoria

A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine slightly sunned, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick …

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# 50473

PORTER Dorothy (1954 - 2018); COLVIN, Robert (1942 - )

Foreign forests (copy number 1)

[Euroa, Vic.] : Robert Colvin, 2018. Folio, lettered buckram, screen printed endpapers, pp. [48], poems by Dorothy Porter illustrated with original screen prints by Robert Colvin, a fine copy. Limited to 8 copies plus 4 artist’s proofs, this is copy number 1, signed by Robert Colvin and Andrea Goldsmith, the partner of Dorothy Porter who …

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# 50453

"J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)

[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.

Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …

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# 50447

TURNER, John

Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.

Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light edge wear, else a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett by New South Wales historian Dr. John Turner.

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# 50433

[ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE.

[MELBOURNE] Consecration and solemn opening of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, October 31st 1897. The Archbishop of Melbourne requests the favour of the presence of Mr. & Mrs. O’Connor …

[Melbourne : s.n.], 1897. Folding card, 125 x 160 mm, printed on [4] sides, lithograph printed, front with embossed episcopal coat of arms, second side with invitation including the names of the O’Connors in manuscript, third side with lithographed illustration of the cathedral; laid down on section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf; …

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# 50432

[SYDNEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. CITIZENS' RECEPTION COMMITTEE]

[SYDNEY; MUSIC] To meet Miss Marie Narelle: The Premier and The Citizens’ Reception Committee request the pleasure of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. O’Connor’s Company at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Thursday Evening 15th June [1906] from 8 to 10 o’clock.

[Sydney : s.n., 1906]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm; lithograph printed; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the O’Connors; scattered small stains, bottom edge roughened; laid down on section of card from a nineteenth-century album. Scarce ephemeral item associated with the career of the “Australian Queen of Irish Song”. …

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# 50430

WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)

A woman’s hand

contained within Australian Letters. Vol. 7, No. 3, August 1966. Kapunda : Sun Books, 1966. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Jacqueline Hick, lightly marked, pp. 82, illustrated by Jacqueline Hick. The first appearance in print of Patrick White’s novella A woman’s hand, published the same year as The solid mandala, and later collected in White’s 1974 …

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# 50422

JOHNSON, Vivien

Lives of the Papunya Tula artists

Alice Springs : IAD Press, 2008.Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. xvi; 402, extensively illustrated. New copy. ”Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’ chronicles the beginning of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades. Through comprehensive and widely researched biographies of more than …

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# 50420

ISAACS, Jennifer et al.

Le picture su corteccia di Oenpelli [= An Exhibition of Oenpelli paintings on bark]

[Sydney] : [Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council], circa 1978. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 52, illustrated. Italian language edition.

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# 50278

MALORY, Sir Thomas; BEARDSLEY, Aubrey

Le Morte d’Arthur. The birth life and acts of King Arthur of his noble Knights of the Round Table, their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the San Greal, and in the end le morte Darthur with the dolourous death and departing out of this world of them all.

The text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCCLXXXV and now spelled in modern style, embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. London : Dent, 1927. Quarto: striking gilt …

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# 49328

GAULTIER, Théophile

Jean and Jeannette

With illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Preface by Leo Clarate. Paris : Societe des Beaux Arts, 1890s. Quarto, in a magnificent binding of full levant morocco, upper and lower boards elaborately decorated in gilt and multiple inlaid leathers with a large central fleur de lys within a floral border, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered …

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# 38356

GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)

Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …

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