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# 41191

CUTHBERTSON, Walter R. [Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Victorian Branch]

[NEW GUINEA] Report of the Society’s expedition to explore the highlands of south-eastern British New Guinea; under the leadership of Walter Robert Cuthbertson, M.R.G.S.A., July to October, 1887. With journal and map.

At head of title: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch). Vol. V. Part II. Melbourne : Kemp & Boyce, printers, Russell Street, 1887. Series: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch. Volume V, Part II. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original printed wrappers (expertly replaced paper spine and small edge tears …

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# 40961

PEAKE, Andrew Guy

Gardens, Orchards and Vines: The Histories of Wilson, Neilson and Townsend Families of Penola, South Australia

Adelaide : Tudor Australian Press, 2014. Quarto, cards with plastic cover, pp. 160, illustrated. New copy. ‘Traces the descendants of William Wilson (1816-1891) who emigrated with his family from Scotland on the Agincourt in 1850. He became a shepherd on sheep runs round Penola. After a trip to the Victorian goldfields, he was able to …

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# 41156

[GERALD, Maurice]

[HOLBROOK] School of Arts, Germanton … Maurice Gerald’s Famous Dramatic Company … Conn, the Shaughraun.

Germanton [i.e. Holbrook], N.S.W. : “The Courier” office, [circa 1908]. Broadsheet, 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides, verso with lithographed portraits of Maurice Gerald (acror-manager) and Miss Maud Philippi (actor); loss to upper corner (marginal only), old fold lines. Maurice Gerald’s Dramatic Company toured extensively throughout Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and New …

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# 40425

EVANS, Jane (attributed)

Keepsake in the form of a needlework sampler bookmark, commemorating the birth of John Evans at Round Mountain, near Rylstone, Central West New South Wales, on 17 June 1878.

Needlework sampler bookmark, 105 x 65 mm; very well preserved. The text reads: ‘John Evans / Born / June 17th 1878 / Round Mountain / Sweet copy far more dear to me / Than all the living forms could be. / Save him who placed thee next my Heart‘; [together with] another sampler bookmark, sewn …

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# 41088

WHITEFIELD'S INSTITUTE (ADELAIDE)

Whitefield’s Hindmarsh. Pennies for the Poor. Four hundred families amid the dense poverty of Southwark, Hindmarsh, Brompton, Bowden and Devon Park look to us for aid. Giving makes us glad.

Hindmarsh, S.A. : Whitefield’s Congregational Institute, [circa 1927]. Collection box, 142 x 235 mm (still folded flat), printed in red and blue on white card, with two illustrations; fine condition. The Whitefield’s Institute was a mission to the Adelaide poor established in 1927 by Rev. Wilfred J. Magor, minister of the Congregational Church in the …

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# 40921

URE SMITH, Sydney (editor)

The Home. Vol. 15, No. 4. April 3rd, 1934

Sydney : Sydney Morning Herald, 1934. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (small wear to spine), pp. 84, a very good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc., an article ‘The wicked spots of Old Sydney’, articles on interior decoration, a women’s fashion supplement, colour advertisements (including those by …

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# 40952

COTTON, William, 1880-1958 (illustrator)

[ART DECO] Vanity Fair. April, 1934.

New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., April, 1934. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers featuring a superb front cover illustration of actress Katharine Hepburn by American artist William Cotton, 80 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; front cover lightly marked and with original 35-cents price sticker, spine chipped, contents in fine …

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# 41207

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

The Complete Collection of Etchings by Norman Lindsay

Sydney : David Jones’ Art Gallery, 1958. Octavo, paper wrappers (lightly marked), 12 pp. 1 black and white plate. Introduction by Jane Glad and essay by Norman Lindsay. Catalogue of 200 etchings, with prices. Scarce.

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# 40941

FIFE, Kirsty

Move under yr own power. Interviews with women and queers making DIY music

[Leeds] : Kirsty Fife, 2016. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. ‘Move Under Yr Own Power, a zine about women and queers making DIY music in the UK. The zine is 72pp, black and white riso printed, A5 with a rad centrefold illustration. It’s mainly interviews and an introduction. The zine comes with a link …

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# 41351

INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman.

True Patriots All, or, News from Early Australia, as told in a collection of broadsides. (Deluxe edition with three signed etchings – the Coles copy)

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1952. Quarto, gilt-titled half-calf over buckram (small mark to upper board), 280pp. reproducing illustrated broadsides with Australian content. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 signed copies (this is copy number 15), bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, and containing three original etchings signed by Ingleton. An exploration on ephemeral early printings …

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# 41346

TIPPING, Marjorie

Ludwig Becker : artist & naturalist with the Burke & Wills expedition

Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 224, illustrated, in acetate slipcase. A good copy. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery …

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# 41125

SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES (DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP)

[GEELONG] Copy of a bond document pertaining to a suit by Barrabool farmer John Furlong against Edward Willis and Charles Lambert Swanston for theft of his property. May, 1850.

[Geelong : Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip], May 1850. Manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of a folio bifolium, in the hand of a legal clerk; recording a bond of £160 payable to Deputy Sheriff Alastair Mackenzie. The three liable parties are John Furlong of …

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# 41296

[LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).

Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.

Bungendore: Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards, 335 pages, profusely illustrated; new copy. During his long creative life Norman Lindsay produced works in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. The earliest drawing reproduced in this book was done in 1889, when he was ten years …

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# 41294

SCHLEIF, Nina

Andy Warhol : Drag & Draw. The Unknown Fifties (new copy)

Munich : Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2017. Quarto, illustrated boards (lightly marked), pp. 144, illustrated. New copy, sealed in shrink-wrap. This book highlights two series of little known drawings from the 1950’s, drawings where Andy Warhol first explored the controversial and for him deeply personal subject of drag. His oeuvre during the first decade of his …

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# 41283

THOMAS, David

Artists of the Bendigo goldfields 1852 – 1864

Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 1989. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 32, illustrated, a couple of underlined lines.

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# 41242

AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY

The Australian Ex Libris Society Year Book, 1935 & 1936

Sydney : Beacon Press, 1936. Edition limited to 175 copies (this copy out of series). Octavo, printed wrappers (sunned) in glassine wrapper (a few small tears and chipping to edges), 47 pp, tipped-in bookplates by George Perrottet (2), Harold Byrne, Ella Dwyer, Pixie O’Harris, P. Roach Pierson, William Hunter, Adrian Feint, Helen Ogilvie, L. Hopkins …

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