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# 31467
KUMAGAI, Kojiro
Fashion illustrations : Ladies, Men & Children (signed copy)
Tokyo : Graphic-Sha Publishing, 1984. Quarto, lettered cards in illustrated dustjacket (signed by the artist on the upper wrapper in red marker), pp. 144, illustrated. Text in Japanese. Illustrated guide to drawing Western fashion at the height of 80s glamour. Rare signed copy.
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# 31507
YOUNG-SANCHEZ, Margaret
Cartier : the exhibition
Margaret Young-Sánchez ; with essays by Martin Chapman, Michael Hall, Stefano Papi, Pierre Rainero, Janet Zapata. Canberra, ACT : National Gallery of Australia, 2018. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. 304, lavishly illustrated, a very good copy. Never before have so many incredible diamonds, emeralds and other precious stones been seen in Australia. …
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# 31439
BURBERRY
Manteaux Imperméables Costumes et Chapeaux de Sport et de Ville pour Dames & Enfants.
Cover: Burberrys. Paris : 8 et 10, Boulevard Malesherbes, [c.1914]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (a few discrete tape repairs to the inner front and rear), pp [50], virtually all full page photographic plates with models in the latest women’s autumn fashion; contents in fine condition; a couple of text pages (in French), including a list …
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# 31190
STANFORD & CO. (MELBOURNE)
Illustrated price list of the Singer Manufacturing Company’s lock-stitch sewing machines.
Melbourne : Stanford & Co., Colonial Agents for the Singer Manufacturing Company, Corner of Bourke and Russell Streets, 1877. Octavo leaflet (215 x 140 mm), [4] pp, lithograph printed in blue on mauve paper, front with vignette illustration of Stanford & Co.’s head agency in Melbourne; paper toned and with a few light marks to …
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# 31117
ROBB, E. M.
Early Toorak and district
Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens Limited, 1934. Oblong folio, lettered cloth (flecked), illustrated. Photographically illustrated history of Toorak and the surrounding suburbs of Malvern, Prahran, South Yarra and Hawthorn. A fine record of nineteenth century colonial architecture and society in Melbourne.
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# 31145
LAWSON, James R.
Catalogue of the Eedy Collection
To be sold by auction by James R. Lawson, … on Tuesday, October 11th, and following days. Sydney : James R. Lawson Pty. Ltd., 1921. Quarto, gilt-lettered wrappers over stiff cards with photographic illustration (short tear), pp. 76, 23 plates, a very good copy. Catalogue of nearly 1000 lots from the collection of the late …
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# 31008
EARNSHAW, John
Early Sydney cabinetmakers 1804-1870. A directory & introductory survey
Sydney : Wentworth Books, 1971. Octavo, boards in dusjacket (lightly foxed, label mark), pp. 55, black and white plates. Limited to 1000 copies.
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# 28117
HAWKINS, J. B.
The influence of Scottish and Irish cabinet makers over the production of Australian colonial furniture in Sydney and Hobart before 1835
Presentation by John Hawkins to the Furniture History Society (Australasia) Inc. March 12, 2008 and the creation and furnishing of Government House, Hobart. Adapted by Gary Morgan. Melbourne : The Roy Morgan Research Centre Pty Ltd, November 2009. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 208, illustrated. Illustrated publication of a lecture on colonial furniture by John Hawkins …
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# 31416
HOGAN, Lou Rand
The Gay Cookbook (facsimile edition)
By Chef Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. New York : Bell Publishing Company in association with Sherbourne Press, 1965 (but Australia? 2020). Facsimile edition of the first edition, second impression. Octavo, illustrated boards, pp. viii; 280, line illustrations. New copy. Printed in Australia. The first cookbook aimed exclusively at a gay audience. ‘On Wednesday, …
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# 31378
The Antique Dealers' Association of New South Wales
The Antique Dealers’ Fair and Exhibition 1963
At Anthony Hordern’s Art Galleries – 4th Floor. Sydney : The Antique Dealers’ Association of New South Wales, 1963. Quarto, lettered self-wrappers (marked), pp. 36, illustrated. Includes a number of essays such as ‘Primitive art of New Guinea’ by L. L. Barton; ‘Chinese Art’ by John Burden; ‘Oriental Carpets and Rugs’ by L. Frank and …
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# 31099
MENZ, Christopher
Morris & Co.
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002. Quarto, illustrated laminated pictorial boards, pp. 188, illustrated throughout, including numerous folding plates, a fine copy, as new. Includes a chapter on the publications of the Kelmscott Press, including the Kelmscott Chaucer. This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition Morris & Co., held at the Art …
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# 13741
VUITTON, Louis; LEHOT, G. de
Le confort et l’élégance de l’automobile
Paris : Louis Vuitton, 1925. Quarto, printed grey card portfolio (very lightly foxed, spine sunned), containing loose 6-page illustrated extract from Horizons de France, July 1925, specially printed for Louis Vuitton, as issued; occasional toning spots, else fine. A brief, poetic essay on motoring which extols the virtues of Louis Vuitton’s designer luggage – both …
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# 28676
BROADBENT, James
The Australian colonial house
Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842. Sydney : Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates, contains in-depth academic text on the architecture of houses …
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# 30767
MATHEWSON & CO.
Studio portrait of a female domestic servant, Brisbane, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘Mathewson & Co.. Artist Photographers. Brisbane’; both the print and mount are in very good condition. A scarce early Brisbane “occupational” photographic portrait, taken in the studio of Mathewson & Co. (note the painted backdrop). Scottish-born Thomas Mathewson was …
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# 30240
MONCRIEFFE, Mona
The magic of colour harmony in dress
Sydney : Bebarfald’s Ltd., 1927. Quarto, publisher’s cloth boards with pictorial onlay and gilt lettering and design to front (small stains to lower board), 140 pp (light foxing), illustrated with tipped-in colour plates (a couple of corners creased) and b/w line drawings in the text. A scarce and lavishly produced Australian guide to dress sense …
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# 29070
PONTISSALIENNE (PARIS)
[ABSINTHE] Catalogue Général … Distillerie Pontissalienne … Fabrique d’Absinthe Supérieure.
Pontarlier, Doubs: Distillerie Pontissalienne, [circa 1900]. Small octavo (150 x 105 mm), green faux crocodile-skin textured stiff card wrappers, gilt lettering to the front; 20 pp, chromolithographic pastedowns with Art Nouveau designs by the celebrated lithographers A. Waton of St. Etienne, title page and text in red and black, double-page halftone plate at centre; a superb …