Architecture
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# 44635
AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY [LIND, James P.]
[WINE] Front view of a colonial cottage showing rows of neatly planted grape vines. Melbourne (or Beechworth?), 1869-70.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); recto of mount inscribed in ink at top edge: ‘William’s cottage’; verso with the imprint of ‘American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East’; both print and mount are in excellent condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was …
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# 44541
LEMAIRE, Gerard-Georges
Artists’ houses (from the library of Criss Canning)
New York : Vendome Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated. Signed by Criss Canning in ink on the front free endpaper. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023
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# 44148
CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918) (ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)
The Melbourne Club, Collins Street East, 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 Melbourne Club House’, this is no. 35. from Caire’s portfolio series ‘The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition. The Melbourne Club …
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# 44090
Photographer unknown.
[MELBOURNE] Suite of four views of Oakover Bridge on Merri Creek between Coburg and Preston. Early 1925.
Four large format gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 150 x 200 mm format, on original matching board mounts each 245 x 300 mm; no photographer indicated; verso of one photograph has a slightly later explanatory inscription in pencil which reads: ‘Oakover Bridge opp. Oakover Road, Preston. Crosses Merri Ck. to Grant St. Coburg. Photo …
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# 44125
Photographer unknown.
[MELBOURNE] “Hawksview”, Manningtree Road, Hawthorn, circa 1900.
Large format sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 145 x 180 mm, laid down on its original board mount, 255 x 300 mm; verso inscribed in a later hand ‘Hawksview / Manningtree Road’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some light foxing. “Hawksview” was an impressive Hawthorn family residence built in the 1870s, …
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# 44559
WILSON, W. Hardy
[HARDY WILSON] Catalogue of drawings of early Greek and Chinese architecture
“On view in the print room of the National Gallery of Victoria” [cover title]. Canberra : L.F. Johnson, Government Printer, 1935. Small quarto, textured card wrappers, original silk ties, [4] pp, including [2] full page plates, a very fine copy. ‘This collection of fifty drawings of the finest examples of Classical Greek and early Chinese …
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# 44535
BONYNGE, Richard
Chalet Monet : Inside the home of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge
Foreword by Marilyn Horne. Photography by Dominique Bersier. Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. 343, extensively illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. New copy. This sumptuously produced coffee table book captures the essence of the fairy tale that is Chalet Monet. Inside its pages over …
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# 44260
McCORMICK, Tim
First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney
Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks, light foxing to preliminaries, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good copy of this important …
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# 43682
WRIGHT. Geo. P. (George Parkinson)
Brisbane illustrated : a series of twelve views of some of the principal public buildings and scenery of the city / photographed and published by Geo P. Wright.
Brisbane : Geo. P. Wright, James Street, Fortitude Valley, 1875. Oblong elephant folio (340 x 440 mm), original half black morocco over dark green cloth ruled in gilt, upper board titled in gilt (boards rubbed, spine somewhat worn); marbled endpapers, title-leaf printed in red and black, [12] albumen print photographs in more or less uniform …
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# 31527
JONES, Shirley (compiler)
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings relating to Melbourne and regional Victoria, compiled in 1938.
Notebook with limp black roan covers, original dimensions 230 x 170 x 20 mm; [420] pp, with the pasted-in newspaper cuttings on every page expanding the dimensions to 230 x 220 x 110 mm; binding still holding firm, contents with an expected amount of browning and a minimal amount of foxing. This fascinating scrapbook, with …
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# 42691
LLOYD, Susan
The Queen’s Club : celebrating one hundred years 1912-2012
Sydney, NSW : Queen’s Club, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (illustrated by Cressida Campbell), pp. 271, illustrated. Explores the life and history of the Queen’s Club, a distinguished Sydney women’s club.
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# 43736
VAN DAELE, Patrick van; LUMBY, Roy
A spirit of progress. Art Deco architecture in Australia
Sydney : Craftaman House, 1997. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 228, extensively illustrated.
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# 30144
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO; CESARIANO, Cesare Di Lorenzo (translator and artist) (Italian, 1483 - 1543)
Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece Traducti de Latino in Vulgare affigurati:
commentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti: per il quale facilmente potrai tovare la multitudine de lí abstrusi & reconditi Vocabuli a li soi loci & in epsa tabula con summo studio expositi & enucleati ad Immensa utilitate de ciascuno Studioso & benivolo di epsa opera. [Como, Lombardy] : Gotardus de Ponte, 1521. Folio (430 x 290 …
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# 42611
"The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition"
The house New Zealand built in England
London : The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, 1950. Oblong quarto, full crushed red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, the panels ruled and lettered in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers creased, introductory text, 35 original photographs mounted on cards with printed captions opposite. Ex-library the …
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# 43095
GOLD, Frances Joslin
[HOWARD ARKLEY] The instant decorator
New York : Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. First edition. Oblong folio, spiral bound, cloth covered boards (short splits and cracking along spine, the laminate flaking), pp. xiii; 104; colour plates, glassine stencilled designs of interiors, internally clean, protected in a modern mylar jacket. A good copy of this classic guide to 1970s interior design. Gold’s …
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# 32963
BOWDEN & THRELKELD; [CALDWELL, John, 1817-1884)
Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.
Foolscap folio bifolium (330 mm), with the printed letterhead ‘City Mart, 362, George Street, Sydney. By Bowden and Threlkeld, at auction.’; the first side with entries in manuscript, dated 7 April 1859, recording the sale ‘on account of Messrs. Spier, Callaghan and others’ of ‘A Building in Sussex St. used as a Chapel, purchased by …