Architecture

  • [SYDNEY] View of the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, c.1870.

    # 50313

    DEGOTARDI, John (1823-1882) (attributed)

    [SYDNEY] View of the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, c.1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 100 mm (mount); verso blank (i.e. without photographer’s imprint); both the print and the mount are in very good condition. New South Wales Parliament House is the oldest public building in continual use in Australia, having formerly been the northern wing of Governor Macquarie’s Rum Hospital, completed …

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  • Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.

    # 47226

    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 …

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  • View looking east across Woolloomooloo Bay to Potts Point, with the mansion "Bomera" prominent, early 1870s.

    # 50172

    DEGOTARDI, John (1823-1882) (attributed)

    View looking east across Woolloomooloo Bay to Potts Point, with the mansion “Bomera” prominent, early 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, 128 x 190 mm; laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf with a fully contemporary caption beneath: Potts Point, Woolomoloo [sic]; a very stromg print with rich tonal range, in excellent condition. A rare early photograph of the magnificent Potts Point mansion “Bomera”, which was built in 1856 by architect John …

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  • Front view of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, Concord West, Sydney, c.1893.

    # 50170

    [Photographer unknown].

    Front view of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, Concord West, Sydney, c.1893.

    Albumen print photograph, 138 x 206 mm, laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf of heavy cardstock; mount with fully contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Walker Hospital, Parramatta River’, and another in a different hand: ‘near Sydney’; a very strong print in excellent condition; mounted on the verso is another print in identical format (so …

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  • [TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at 'Outu'ai'ai point, Arue.

    # 50117

    SPITZ, Charles Georges (1857-1894)

    [TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at ‘Outu’ai’ai point, Arue.

    [Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph, 193 x 152 mm; verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil: Pomare’s tomb – Tahiti; a strong print with dark tones; the print has some light creasing but is otherwise in very good condition; unmounted. [TOGETHER WITH] A smaller albumen print, 110 x 165 mm, with another view of the …

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  • The Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, circa 1950.

    # 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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  • Gunyah Goondie + Wurley. The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia

    # 49983

    MEMMOTT, Paul

    Gunyah Goondie + Wurley. The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia

    Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, 2022. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. xxxiii, 404, illustrated. New copy. The updated edition of the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, richly illustrated with rare photographs. Here is the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, comprehensively updated to showcase the flourishing Indigenous design practices reshaping Australia’s architectural …

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  • Mount Gambier Hospital, south-eastern South Australia, c.1870.

    # 49770

    [NIXON, J. H. or GINNINGS, J. T., attributed]

    Mount Gambier Hospital, south-eastern South Australia, c.1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Mount gambier Hospitle‘; the print has lost some contrast but is otherwise in good condition, as is the mount. This carte was sourced with others taken by travelling photographer J. T. Ginnings. However, the State Library of …

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  • Australian leadlighting

    # 49860

    DANAHER, Paul and Dexter JACKSON

    Australian leadlighting

    Ringwood, Vic. : Viking (Penguin Books Australia), 1998. Quarto (270 x 205 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers; pp. vi, 154, with line-drawn illustrations throughout, plus [12] full-page colour photographic plates at centre; half-title with the original price sticker; an excellent copy.

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  • Stained glass pattern catalogue : Allen Kenoyer Glass.

    # 49859

    ALLEN KENOYER GLASS INC.

    Stained glass pattern catalogue : Allen Kenoyer Glass.

    [Cover title]. Manhattan Beach, Calif. : Allen Kenoyer Glass Inc., 1990. Quarto (275 x 215 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers (a few light marks, worn at spine ends); pp. [2], 97, with order form at rear; line-drawn illustrations throughout; wet-stamp of New South Wales importer, retailer and wholesaler Albury Leadlight to preliminary leaves and final blank; …

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  • Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    # 37926

    Photographer unknown.

    Government Buildings, Sydney, circa 1875.

    [Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, and a short tear at bottom edge, otherwise in very good condition.

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  • The Federation house. Australia’s own style

    # 49548

    FRASER, Hugh; JOYCE, Ray

    The Federation house. Australia’s own style

    Sydney : Weldon, 1989 (reprint). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 127, pale foxing to preliminaries, illustrated.

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  • The Federation house : a restoration guide

    # 49549

    EVANS, Ian

    The Federation house : a restoration guide

    Yeronga (QLD) : Flannel Flower Press, 1992 (reprint). Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 160, illustrated.

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  • Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the World

    # 49215

    JODIDIO, Philip

    Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the World

    Cologne : Taschen, 2020. Folio, 34 x 25 cms, pp. 592, illustrated. New copy. Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities …

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  • The Geelong Orphan Asylum. On the occasion of the Presentation of an Address and Bouquet to James Austin, Esq. [1862, or earlier]

    # 47302

    [Photographer unknown].

    The Geelong Orphan Asylum. On the occasion of the Presentation of an Address and Bouquet to James Austin, Esq. [1862, or earlier]

    [Title from printed label verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm (arch-top format), on original flat mount of buff card, 83 x 173 mm; verso with printed caption label; light foxing to the prints and the mount, otherwise very good condition. The Geelong Orphan Asylum was founded in 1854. James …

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  • The foundation stone of the Robe Mechanics' Institute, south-eastern South Australia, laid on 24 September 1868.

    # 48840

    [Photographer unknown].

    The foundation stone of the Robe Mechanics’ Institute, south-eastern South Australia, laid on 24 September 1868.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; no photographer’s imprint (but possibly attributable to the travelling Mt. Gambier-based photographer Ginnings); the print has lost some contrast, nevertheless all of the text in the inscription can be easily read (see below); verso blank. From a carte de visite album belonging to William …

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