Architecture
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# 24380
DUEK-COHEN, Elias (editor)
Utzon and the Sydney Opera House : Statement in the Public Interest
Sydney : Morgan Publications, 1967. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (foxed), pp. 128, illustrated. Advocation of the return of Utzon in the building of the Opera House in Sydney.
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# 23765
Photographer unknown.
A pair of very early stereoview photographs of Adelaide streets, circa 1860.
Both views are exceptionally early and are possibly unrecorded. They appear to have been kept together for almost 160 years, as the manuscript captions on both are written in the same contemporary hand. It is likely that the same unidentified photographer was responsible for both views. I. Adelaide, S.A. Rundle St. from Gawler Place, north …
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# 24320
GOLD, Frances Joslin
[HOWARD ARKLEY] The instant decorator
New York : Clarkson N. Potter, 1976 (1977 second printing). Oblong folio, spiral bound, cloth covered boards, pp. xiii; 104; colour plates, glassine stencilled designs of interiors, internally clean. A very good copy of this classic guide to 1970s interior design. Gold’s ‘Instant decorator’ would be the major source book for many paintings by Australian …
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# 23983
HERMAN, Morton
The early Australian architects and their work
Illustrated and decorated by the author. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1954. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (a couple of small tears), pp. 248, illustrated. First edition. Provenance: F. G. Coles, his bookplate tipped-in to endpaper, Joan McClelland, her name inscribed to endpaper.
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# 23690
PERROTT, Leslie M.
Concrete homes
Melbourne : G.W. Green & Sons [for the author], [1925]. Small quarto (250 x 190 mm), original cloth backed printed papered boards with colour pictorial onlay to upper board (boards slightly bowed and sunned, and with scattered ink spots), 82 pp, with line illustrations and plans throughout, advertisements at front and rear; first few leaves …
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# 23420
Australian house and garden annual 1964.
Sydney : Australian House and Garden Magazine Pty Ltd, 1964. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 130, illustrated. Fantastic house design, furnishings and household goods from the sixties, with kitsch advertisements.
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# 23447
O'NEILL, Helen
A singular vision : Harry Seidler
Sydney : Harper Collins, 2013. First edition. Quarto, boards, pp. 378, illustrated. Monograph on the influential Australian architect.
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# 23220
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 …
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# 23160
STRIZIC, Mark
Mark Strizic. Melbourne : marvellous to modern
Text by Emma Matthews. Introduction by Barry Jones. Melbourne : Thames & Hudson in association with the State Library of Victoria, 2009. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (a little wear at edges), pp. 176, illustrated; a fine copy. Strizic’s iconic images of twentieth century Melbourne. “This work shows us many aspects of Melbourne – its magnificent …
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# 22975
SAINI, Balwant and JOYCE, Ray
The Australian house. Homes of the tropical north
Sydney : Lansdowne Press, 1982. 1986 reprint. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp.128, illustrated, bookplate to endpaper, light foxing to preliminaries. Architecture found in Northern Australia.
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# 22867
COOPER, John Butler
The History of Prahran : from its first settlement to a city.
Compiled by order of the Prahran Council. Melbourne : Modern Printing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1912. First edition. Octavo, gilt-decorate cloth, portrait frontispiece, pp. xii; 338, photographic plates.
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# 22382
CHUCK, Thomas Foster
A mother and her infant outside Alma Terrace, Moray Street, South Melbourne, circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 102 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘The London Portrait Gallery. T. F. Chuck, Photographer … Royal Arcade, near the Fountain, Melbourne’, and contemporary inscriptions in pencil ‘Alma Terrace, Moray St. S. Melb, where Annie was born, Sep. 1st 1874, and ‘R.A. Lloyd, Russell Street’; the …
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# 19903
JOHANKNECHT, Susan
Baring antebellum & Bishopsgate within. CITY A.M.
London : Gefn Press, 2010. Octavo (28 x 21cm), publisher’s brown-marbled ledger wrappers, sewn binding, housed in a cream card document folder, 38pp, with red and blue line decorations; ink jet printed onto Zerkall paper, internally pristine, a fine copy. One of 100 copies. “Text derived from research at the Baring Archive, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Marble …
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# 22420
Photographer unknown.
Lyons Terrace, Sydney, N.S.W.
Circa 1868. [Title from contemporary caption in ink on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 120 x 160 mm, laid down on a section cut from an album page; a strong print in fine condition. From an album of Sydney views compiled during Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh’s Australian visit of 1867-68, which included a number of …
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# 21753
GARDEN, Donald Stuart
Heidelberg, Victoria : the land and its people, 1838-1900. (Thesis)
Thesis (M.A.), Monash University, 1970. Two volumes, quarto, bound in 2 matching spring-back binders of black pebbled cloth over boards, typescript, 220 leaves, with several folding maps and plans; fine condition. Another typescript copy of this thesis, which treats such topics such as the urban planning, agricultural development and social and religious history of the …
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# 22027
DUPAIN, Max et al.
Georgian architecture in Australia.
With some examples of buildings of the post-Georgian period. Photography by Max Dupain. Architectural commentary and notes by Morton Herman. Social histories of New South Wales and Tasmania by Marjorie Barnard and Daniel Thomas. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1963. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (a couple of short tears ), pp. 148, illustrated with Dupain’s …