Architecture
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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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# 45813
LIND, James P.
Proprietor and licensee Richard Benham and his wife outside the Gasometer Family Hotel, Smith Street, Collingwood, circa 1869.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘J. P. Lind, Landscape Photographer, Ambrose House, Tyne Street, Carlton, off Lygon Street’; the print has excellent clarity and is in good condition (a couple of tiny marks); the mount has some toning on the verso. The Gasometer, on …
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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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# 40188
MANLEY, Thomas C.
Housing : Hong Kong, Singapore and London, England. Illustrative album.
A study by Thomas C. Manley. Summer 1973. 16-970-698-20. Special Studies in Urban Planning. [Title from typed title leaf]. Folio scrapbook, 360 x 310 mm, wooden boards with typed label affixed to front with variant title Housing : Hong Kong, Singapore and London, England. A study by Thomas C. Manley. Summer 1973. 16-970-698-20. Special Studies in …
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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. …
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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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# 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 …