Architecture

# 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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# 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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# 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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# 42611

"The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition"

The house New Zealand built in England

London : The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, 1950. Oblong quarto, full crushed red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, the panels ruled and lettered in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers creased, introductory text, 35 original photographs mounted on cards with printed captions opposite. Ex-library the …

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# 16114

VALENTINI, Agostini

I Freschi delle Loggie Vaticane inventati da Raffaele Sanzio

Illustrati per cura di Agostino Valentini. Rome : Agostino Valentini, [1855]. Folio, publisher’s illustrated papered boards (slightly marked but very good), engraved title page, pp. 42; [2]; 41 steel-engraved plates illustrating Raphael’s frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Some very light, sparse foxing, else a very good clean copy.

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# 13471

GINNINGS, J. T.

Mount Gambier Mechanics’ Institute under construction, south-eastern South Australia, c.1868.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm; verso with the imprint of J.T. Ginnings Photographer Mt. Gambier & Portland; the albumen print with some toning, confined to the upper edges; the verso of the mount with a little foxing. ‘Mount Gambier Institute under construction. The ground floor library, reading rooms and …

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# 41385

RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)

Camp in Otway Ranges, Victoria, early 1890s.

[Title from caption in negative]. Albumen print photograph, 140 x 210 mm, numbered 991 in the negative; preserved as issued mounted on the original green backing sheet, 190 x 230 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD. View Specialist, 257 Bourke Street’, and at lower centre: ‘VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS’, with at l.l. ‘C. RUDD, …

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# 37961

CARLU, Jean; KRULL, Germaine; COCTEAU, Jean; LARA, René;

Théâtre Pigalle : ses éclairages, sa machinerie.

Montrouge : Draeger, [1929]. Quarto (290 x 200 mm), metal spiral binding, silvered boards, the upper board with 8 circular “windows” allowing glimpses of the stunning illustrated title leaf, a serigraph of a cubist-stye poster for the theatre designed by Jean Carlu, which is printed on black with six colours in pochoir; [24] leaves, with …

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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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