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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 43095
GOLD, Frances Joslin
[HOWARD ARKLEY] The instant decorator
New York : Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. First edition. Oblong folio, spiral bound, cloth covered boards (short splits and cracking along spine, the laminate flaking), pp. xiii; 104; colour plates, glassine stencilled designs of interiors, internally clean, protected in a modern mylar jacket. A good copy of this classic guide to 1970s interior design. Gold’s …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …