Architecture
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# 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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# 37929
Photographer unknown.
The Australian Museum, Sydney, with staff outside including the Curator, Gerard Krefft. Circa 1868.
Albumen print photograph, 135 x 225 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original mount of thin card, with a fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘Museum’ at bottom left; the print has exceptional clarity and rich tonal range; the mount has some silverfishing at top left and right, encroaching on the print very slightly …
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# 37703
LIVESEY, H. G.
Loudon House, John Moffat’s residence. Irvinebank, North Queensland, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, 190 x 245 mm; verso with pencilled inscription by the photographer: ‘Mr. Moffat’s residence, Irvinebank. / H. G. Livery, Photo.’; a strong print with superb tonal range, in very good condition (unmounted). A rare photograph of a highly significant North Queensland heritage-listed building in its early years, with the owner himself, John …
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# 37224
JOHN KIMBERLEY & CO. [DISCACIATI, J. L.]
The Bendigo Pottery depot, (Victoria), 1891-93.
Albumen print photograph, 150 x 210 mm, laid down on its original mount of thick card, imprinted in the lower margin ‘John Kimberley & Co., Photographers / Firebrace Street, Horsham’; the print is a little yellowed and has a short crease at upper right edge; the mount has some small stains and is darkened around …
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# 37709
LIVESEY, H. G. (attributed)
Bird’s-eye view of Herberton, North Queensland, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, 190 x 245 mm; verso with pencilled inscription by the photographer: ‘Herberton.’; a strong print with good tonal range; slight fading at edges, some wrinkling, and a very short tear at bottom edge, but overall in good condition (unmounted). We have attributed this rare mid-1880s view of the Herberton township to local …
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# 37516
BRABAZON, Dennis
[CUMMERAGUNJA RESERVE] “One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement”.
[Title from manuscript caption verso]. [Taken in 1924]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement’; beneath it the wet-stamped name and pencilled address of a relative of the photographer, P. Brabazon, Hardware …
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# 36919
Photographer unknown
[MELBOURNE] “Rosebank”, residence of Thomas Napier Esq., 1866.
Albumen print from a wet-plate collodion negative, 240 x 300 mm, laid down on its original card mount (removed from a frame at some point), with a contemporary inscription in pencil across the bottom edge of the mount: ‘Rose Bank. Residence of Thos. Napier Esq. 1866’; the print has some fading at the edges, but …
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# 36916
[SYDNEY] Anthony Hordern & Sons’ new building at Brickfield Hill under construction, circa 1905.
[Sydney, NSW : s.n., ca. 1905]. Sepia tone gelatin silver print photograph, 270 x 315 mm (oval format), laid down on its original thick board mount, 350 x 400 mm; fully contemporary inscription in pencil beneath the image: ‘Anthony Hordern’s Brickfield Hill store under construction’; the print is in flawless condition, the mount has some …
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# 36661
Photographer unknown.
Stereoscopic view of a private colonial residence with a bark roof. Possibly Sydney region, circa 1860.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 72 x 79 mm (square format), on yellow mount 83 x 172 mm; verso blank; the surfaces of both prints are lightly rubbed, and the left-hand print has lost contrast at the left edge, while the right-hand print – which has the stronger definition of the pair – has …
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# 35834
DROSTE, Magdalena
Bauhaus
Cologne : Taschen, 2019. Updated Edition. Quarto, 34 x 25 cm, boards in dustjacket, pp. 400, illustrated. New copy. In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, …
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# 35142
CRAIG, Clifford
Notes on Tasmania
Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1986. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 106). Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards in dust jacket, xvii, 324 pp, illustrated with 45 plates (some colour); light foxing to edges and preliminaries, light tape marks to endpapers, a very good copy with the scarce prospectus loosely enclosed.
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# 34674
Picton Hopkins & Son Pty Ltd
General catalogue of decorative plaster designs
Melbourne : Picton Hopkins & Son Pty. Ltd., 1920s. Oblong quarto, pressed boards (small chip to spine), pp. xxvi; [2]; 159; [4], illustrated throughout, light creasing to preliminaries, half of pp. 11-12 neatly excised as well as a small sections of pp. 21-22, 25-26, 29-30, where sample images have been neatly removed. A good reference …
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# 33769
SMITH, Sydney Ure; GELLERT, Leon
Sydney bridge celebrations, 1932
Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1932. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with silver highlights (staples slightly rusted, as usual), slight edge wear, pp. 80. illustrated, colour advertisements. A fine Australian art deco publication. A bright copy.
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# 32941
Maker unknown.
Artist’s impression of the Harbour Bridge approaches, North Sydney. Late 1920s.
Silver gelatin print photograph of an artist’s drawing, 165 x 390 mm; verso annotated in ink ‘Harbour Bridge Approaches, North Sydney’, and with a newspaper editor’s annotations in pencil ‘1 / 17’ and ‘6 cols’; old vertical fold with a tiny tear at top edge, pin holes at top corners; unmounted.
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# 33103
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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# 33100
CAMPBELL, James and PRYCE, Will
The Library
London : Thames & Hudson, 2020. Quarto, pictorial boards, gilt-lettered cloth spine, pp. 328, extensively and lavishly illustrated. New copy. ‘Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world and from the beginnings of writing to the present day. …