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  • Cartier : the exhibition

    # 43734

    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 and creases), pp. 304, lavishly illustrated, a very good copy. Never before have so many incredible diamonds, emeralds and other precious stones been seen …

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  • The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection

    # 43596

    ADIDAS

    The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection

    Cologne : Taschen, 2020. Quarto, 34 x 38 cm, (weighs 5.6 kgs), illustrated boards, publisher’s illustrated box, pp. 644, illustrated. New copy. Photographs by Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger 100 years ago the brothers Adolf (“Adi”) and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs …

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  • Wallpaper sample book, 1931

    # 40580

    BROOKS, ROBINSON & CO. (MELBOURNE & SYDNEY)

    Wallpaper sample book, 1931

    [Melbourne?] : Brooks, Robinson & Co., 1931. Oblong large folio (250 x 500 mm), maker’s canvas-covered boards (heavily rubbed and stained) with hand-coloured decorative title to front ‘Brooks Robinson & Co. Ltd. / Wall Papers / 1931′, original rivet binding with leather carry strap, containing over [200] samples of wallpaper friezes and drops in a …

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  • The Gay Cookbook (first edition)

    # 42496

    HOGAN, Lou Rand; COSTAIN, David (illustrator)

    The Gay Cookbook (first edition)

    / by Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. Los Angeles : Sherbourne Press, 1965. First edition, first impression. Large octavo, lettered paper boards (bumped at corners, spine sunned, lightly marked, stain to fore edge), pp. viii; 280, line illustrations; internally clean. A good copy of the true first edition, issued in much larger format …

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  • The history of Wesley College 1920 - 40 (deluxe edition)

    # 42614

    MacNEIL, N. H.

    The history of Wesley College 1920 – 40 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : McCarron, Bird & Co., 1941. Octavo, gilt-lettered full purple Morocco (spine sunned with wear to head and foot), purple and gold marbled endpapers, pp. [viii]; 136, errata slip, limitation statement signed by the Headmaster MacNeil stating the edition is limited to 300 copies, illustrated. Scarce. Limited edition history of the private school in …

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  • Wesley College : the first hundred years (Bruce Gregory's copy)

    # 42606

    BLAINEY, Geoffrey; MORRISSEY, James and HULME, S. E. K.

    Wesley College : the first hundred years (Bruce Gregory’s copy)

    Melbourne : Wesley College in association with Robertson and Mullens, 1967. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustacket (edge wear), illustrated endpapers, pp. 240, illustrated. Presentation label on the half-title to Bruce Gregory (former Headmaster of the Junior School) to the half-title, signed by Gregory on the same page. Loosely enclosed, the original publication of The Lion …

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  • Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West

    # 42560

    RAMSAY, Christine Wu

    Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …

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  • Physiologie du gout

    # 41577

    [BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean-Anthelme (1755-1826)]

    Physiologie du gout

    ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante; ouvrage théorique, historique et a l’ordre du jour, dédié aus gastronomes parisiens par un professeur membre du plusieurs societés savantes. Edition précédée d’une notice par M Le Baron Richerand; suivie de La Gastronomie, poème en quatre chantes, par Berchoux. Paris : Charpentier, 1840. Octavo, in a fine Swedish binding (very …

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  • Nineteenth century Australian gold & silver smiths

    # 41850

    ALBRECHT, Kurt

    Nineteenth century Australian gold & silver smiths

    Melbourne : Hutchinson Australia, 1969. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 69, light foxing to preliminaries, illustrated.

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  • [SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of "Greycairn", Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.

    # 41420

    [NEILD, John Cash, 1846-1911]

    [SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of “Greycairn”, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.

    Group of 17 (seventeen) lithographically printed calling cards, various dimensions (smallest 40 x 75 mm, largest 57 x 93 mm); a number are annotated, some with PPC (Pour prendre congé, indicating a temporary absence), and several with the name of Major (or Lt. Colonel) Neild; all in good condition, with occasional light marks and toning. A …

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  • Australian Jewellery : 19th and early 20th Century

    # 41618

    SCHOFIELD, Anne and FAHY, Kevin

    Australian Jewellery : 19th and early 20th Century

    Sydney : David Ell, 1990. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, bookplate from the Chapman collection to front pastedown, pp. [viii]; 284, extensively illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.  

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

    # 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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  • Mambo. Summer 2001

    # 40898

    "MAMBO" [MOMBASSA, Reg (pseud.)]

    Mambo. Summer 2001

    [Sydney?] : Mambo, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (inner wrapper design by Christopher O’Doherty, better known by his pseudonym Reg Mombassa), pp. [52], illustrated. Summer 2001 catalogue for the iconic Australian streetwear and surfer clothing band, with numerous photographs. Includes designs by Red Mombassa, representative of the iconic status his illustrations have in the history of …

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  • The Home. Vol. 19, No. 3. March 1, 1938

    # 40784

    GELLERT, Leon; URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)

    The Home. Vol. 19, No. 3. March 1, 1938

    Sydney : John Fairfax, 1939. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (small amount of wear to spine), pp. 88, without the removable map of Sydney, a very good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc., colour advertisements and photographs. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was …

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  • The Home. Vol. 19, No. 1. January 3rd, 1938

    # 40783

    GELLERT, Leon; URE SMITH, Sydney (editors)

    The Home. Vol. 19, No. 1. January 3rd, 1938

    Sydney : John Fairfax, 1938. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (some light wear along spine), pp. 78, a very good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles on Sydney fashion and society, home and gardens, with numerous photographs and advertisements for Electrolux, Rolex, Hardy Bros, Orient Line, P. & O., etc. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The …

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  • [ABSINTHE] Catalogue Général ... Distillerie Pontissalienne ... Fabrique d'Absinthe Supérieure.

    # 40359

    PONTISSALIENNE (PARIS)

    [ABSINTHE] Catalogue Général … Distillerie Pontissalienne … Fabrique d’Absinthe Supérieure.

    Pontarlier, Doubs: Distillerie Pontissalienne, [circa 1900]. Small octavo (150 x 105 mm), maroon 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 …

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