Architecture

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

    # 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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  • Luminous simplicity : the architecture and art of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta

    # 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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  • 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)

    # 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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  • [FEDERATION] View of the French Arch, corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney, 1901.

    # 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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  • The Oriental Bank, corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne, c.1864.

    # 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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  • View of Rundle Street, Adelaide, circa 1864.

    # 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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  • View of the Market Square, Geelong, Victoria late 1860s.

    # 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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  • The "Gothic Bank" building, corner of Collins and Queen Streets, Melbourne, circa 1950.

    # 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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