Architecture

# 47230

C. H. SODEN (photographer)

[AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] Boomerang Theatre, Taree, New South Wales, 1929.

Taree, NSW : C. H. Soden, [1929]. Gelatin silver print photograph printed as a real photo postcard, 89 x 137 mm; lower margin imprinted ‘C. H. Soden, Series 100’; not mailed, in superb condition. This photograph of Taree’s Art Deco-style Boomerang Theatre was taken by local photographer C. H. Soden and can be dated to …

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# 47409

GIURGOLA, Romaldo

Luminous simplicity : the architecture and art of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta

Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2006. Quarto, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. International multi-award winning architect, Romaldo Giurgoila (b. Rome, 1920) is best known in Australia as the principal architect of the New Parliament House in Canberra. His latest major work is St. Patrick’s …

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# 41889

TOLLET, Casimir (1828-1899)

De l’assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Plan d’un Hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme. (With the author’s manuscript for the second edition)

Par C. Tollet, ingénieur. Paris : chez l’auteur, 49, rue d’Amsterdam, 1889. Large quarto (325 x 260 mm), later cloth binding (boards a little flecked), spine with printed title label; original wrappers bound in (darkened and lightly marked); pp. x, 104, with 32 plates and numerous in-text illustrations; text in French; fore- and bottom edges …

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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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