Architecture
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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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# 46586
[Photographer unknown].
View of Scott’s Hotel, Collins Street West, Melbourne, c.1880.
Albumen print photograph, 155 x 205 mm, laid down recto of card mount (250 x 360 mm) removed from a nineteenth-century album, with a contemporary caption in ink below the image: ‘Melbourne. Scotts Hotel, Collins Street West’; no photographer’s imprint; a beautiful print with excellent tonal range, in fine condition; verso with a faded albumen …
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# 46713
ROBB, E. M.
Early Toorak and district
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), lettered cloth (boards lightly stained and flecked); pp. 137, illustrated throughout with b/w photographic plates, gift inscription to front free endpaper, blind stamps to half-title and title pages, light foxing to preliminaries, a good copy. Scarce photographically-illustrated history of Toorak and the …
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# 46585
[Photographer unknown].
[FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 82 x 77 mm, on maroon mount 86 x 175 mm; no photographer’s imprint (verso blank); the prints and the mont are in excellent condition. An anonymous stereoview which shows the French Arch at the intersection of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, during the Commonwealth celebrations in January 1901. …
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# 46738
DOKULIL, Heide
Australia : architecture & design
Cologne : daab, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 237, illustrated. ‘This new survey of Australian architecture takes an expansive look at over 50 buildings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today.’ – the publisher. Ashton Raggatt McDougall – Marion …
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# 46737
CELANT, Germano
Frank O. Gehry : since 1997
Milan : Skira, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 318, extensively illustrated. A fine copy. ‘The only complete monograph on the past twelve years of the great architect’s career. Published in conjunction with the major exhibition curated by Germano Celant at the Milan Triennial, this volume brings together all the projects realized by Frank O. …
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# 46566
RUSSELL, Frank (editor)
Art nouveau architecture
London : Bibliophile Books, 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 332, illustrated.
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# 46202
MORRIS, Alfred
The Oriental Bank, corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne, c.1864.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 72 mm (arch-top format), on pale yellow board mount 82 x 171 mm; verso with printed label worded ‘A. Morris & Co.’s Stereoscopic Views of Victoria. Oriental Bank [in ms.] Melbourne’, and with the firm’s address ’56 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne’ at lower right; both prints are …
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# 45925
CHAMBERS, Sir William (1726 - 1796)
Desseins des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustenciles des Chinois
Gravés sur les originaux dessinés à la Chine. Auxquels est ajoutée une description de leurs temples, de leurs maisons, de leurs jardins, etc. Londres, l’auteur, A. Millar & J. Nourse, 1757. First edition, published simultaneously in French and English editions the same year. Folio (535 mm tall), papered boards with title label to spine, pp. …
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# 45866
GOODE, Bernard (1834-1897)
View of Rundle Street, Adelaide, circa 1864.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 72 x 62 mm (octagonal format), original yellow card mount 85 x 173 mm, verso with small printed label ‘B. Goode, Photographer, 69, Rundle Street, Adelaide’, and a manuscript caption in ink ‘Rundle Street’; both prints are in good condition; the mount has some light handling marks. This view …
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# 45863
[Photographer unknown].
View of the Market Square, Geelong, Victoria late 1860s.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 82 x 82 mm (arch-top format), on original yellow card mount, 84 x 173 mm; the verso has a mounted label with the word ‘Geelong’ and a double border in gold (it is evident that this has been cut from a larger label); light surface marks to the …
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# 45851
CATO, Jack (1889-1971)
The “Gothic Bank” building, corner of Collins and Queen Streets, Melbourne, circa 1950.
Large-format gelatin silver print photograph, 460 x 370 mm; on the original board mount, signed in full by the photographer beneath the image; a touch of silverfishing at the bottom edge of the print, else fine condition; in a later gazed timber frame. An evocative early post-war Melbourne street view by photographer and photographic historian …
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# 45852
CATO, Jack (1889-1971)
The Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, circa 1950.
Large-format gelatin silver print photograph, 460 x 370 mm; on the original board mount, signed in full by the photographer beneath the image; a touch of silverfishing at the edges of the print, else fine condition; in a later gazed timber frame. An early post-war view of an iconic Melbourne building, by photographer and photographic …
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# 45857
CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918) (ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)
[MELBOURNE] The Wesley College.
[Late 1870s]. Albumen print photograph, 135 x 190 mm, on the photographer’s original card mount with printed caption below the image and descriptive text verso; titled ‘The Wesley College’, this is no. 27. from Caire’s portfolio series ‘The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition.
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# 45814
AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [LIND, James P.]
A couple posing on the verandah of their double-fronted timber cottage. Melbourne, 1869-70.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East’; both print and mount are in superb condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was the Melbourne arm of the American & Australasian Photographic Company (note the …
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# 45099
BARTLETT, N. S. (compiler)
Department of Lands and Surveys, Western Australia. Handbook for surveyors and draftsmen
Perth : Fred W. Simpson, Government Printer, 1911. Octavo, gilt-lettered roan, light edge wear, hinges cracked, pp. [vi]; 110, diagrams, folding ‘Map of Western Australia shewing T.S. Plan System’, another folding plate, and contained within and endpocket, ‘Chart shewing nautical almanac stars’ and a diagram of the South Pole and collatitude circle printed on linen. …