New Acquisitions
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# 46395
MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887)
Gamle Ny-Zeeland
[=Old New Zealand]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1870. First Danish edition. Duodecimo, contemporary blind-blocked green cloth boards, 66 pp, a fine copy. Text in Danish. Rare. Politician and religious authority Ditlev Gothard Monrad lived in New Zealand between 1864 and 1869, where he settled in Palmerston North and played an important role in promoting Scandinavian …
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# 46378
ZEDONG, Mao 1893-1976
[CHAIRMAN MAO’S LITTLE RED BOOK] Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
Peking : Foreign Languages Press, 1966. First edition. 132 x 95 mm, stiff wrappers in red plastic cover with pressed title, as issued (lightly marked), 311 pp, contents clean and sound.
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# 46330
MAY, Patricia (curator); BROUCKXOU, Louis (director)
[SYDNEY] Bronzes from West Africa / Abbia Gallery of Primitive Art. March, 1970.
Edgecliff, N.S.W. : Abbia Gallery of Primitive Art, 1970. Octavo, stapled wrappers, [8] pp., includes essay, list of 60 works for sale with prices, 3 b/w photographic illustrations, bibliography; a very good copy. This commercial exhibition included works from Benin, Bamun (Cameroon), and Ivory Coast collected between the 1930s and 1960s by Belgian collector Louis …
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# 46351
THIELEN, Beth
If a universe formed in your living room, could you ever tell?
[Pasadena, CA] : the artist, 1992. Artist’s book. Quarto, hand-decorated folding portfolio with magnetic clasp, folding cards [pp. 8] with 4 pop-up figures, with a hand-written quote from the L.A. Times in 1991 about the creation of multiple universes. Limited to 20 copies signed by the artist. Other examples are held in the Library of …
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# 46346
HOOVEN, F. Valentine
Tom of Finland. The official life and work of a gay hero
New York : Abrams, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 296, illustrated. New copy. Tuoko Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland (1920-1991), was an iconic and provocative artist who rose to cult status in the international gay community and beyond for his work celebrating gay archetypes and masculinity during a time when being gay was …
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# 46345
PIGOT, John
Hilda Rix Nicholas : her life and art
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2000. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. xiv; 95, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Scarce. A fine copy.
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# 46344
HUMPHRIES, Barry, SAYERS, Andrew and ENGLEDOW, Sarah
The world of Thea Proctor
Canberra : Craftsman House, 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 185, faint edge foxing, extensively illustrated. A substantial monograph on the modernist artist.
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# 46342
MIDDLETON, Angela
Pewhairangi. Bay of Islands Missions and Maori 1814 to 1845 (signed presentation copy)
Dunedin : Otago University Press, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 336, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page with a presentation inscription on the half-title. ‘When a small group of three English families were landed in the bay below Rangihoua pā in 1814, under the protection of its chief and inhabitants, the story …
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# 46341
[DICKERSON]. POWELL, Louisa
Robert Dickerson : the complete graphics
Sydney : Queen Street Fine Art, 2002. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 132, illustrated. A detailed survey of the graphic output of the noted Australian artist, with all works illustrated. New copy.
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# 46326
GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI
Printed invitation to an exhibition of paintings from Ngukurr, Roper River, Northern Territory at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 14 February 1989.
Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 1989. Folding card, 200 x 100 mm, work by Ginger Riley illustrated; gallery information printed inside and verso; good condition, aside from the fact that the card was once pinned to a noticeboard by the original invitee.
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# 46310
AIAS (Canberra)
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Film catalogue 1986.
Canberra : AIAS, 1986. Quarto (300 x 215 mm), stapled wrappers, [4] pp., illustrated; loosely inserted are 7 film flyers plus price lists; Virginia Fraser’s copy, with her annotations in biro. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser, feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. Trove locates no copies (although there is one in the AIATSIS …
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# 46294
THOMPSON, Tom (compiler)
Australasian artists at the French salons.
Revised and updated. Compiled by Tom Thompson. Sydney : ETT Imprint (Published in association with Pierre Sanchez at Éditions de l’ Échelle de Jacob, Dijon), 2023. ‘This 3rd edition in colour with additional material …’. Octavo (235 x 155 mm), pictorial wrappers, pp. 152, colour illustrations; an as new copy.
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# 46279
QUALITY FILMS (Sydney)
Quality Films 16mm film catalogue. Volume II, 1979.
[Cover title]. Sydney, NSW : Quality Films, [1979]. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (lightly foxed), 20 pp, b/w photographic illustrations; contents very clean. Trade catalogue for a film hire company based in Sussex Street, Sydney, which specialised in arthouse and classic movies.
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# 46296
DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.
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# 46270
SAMUEL WOOD (publisher)
Sydney and its bridge
Sydney : Printed and published by Samuel Wood, [1932?]. Oblong octavo (135 x 196 mm), original pictorial wrappers printed in yellow and blue on maroon paper, a couple of small edge tears, staple bound, [32] pp, nearly all full-page b/w photographic plates, including many different views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, plus others of the …
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# 46269
COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA
Printing currency for a continent / Note Printing Branch, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
[Melbourne : Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1935]. Small octavo (173 x 120 mm), original brown paper wrappers with gilt embossed crest of the Bank to upper wrapper, original ties, [9] pp, with a full page half tone photographic plate showing a view of the Note Printing Branch building in Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Melbourne; a pristine …