New Acquisitions
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# 51580
THOMSON, Peter G.
Natural history for little folks
/ Peter G. Thomson, publisher. Cincinnati, OH : Peter G. Thomson, [c.1883]. Small quarto (257 x 193 mm), original cloth-backed pictorial boards, the upper board featuring illustrations of kangaroos and a cockatoo (some restoration at corners of upper board); edges stained yellow; first blank with a gift inscription ‘Gilbert C. Greenway from his mother, Xmas …
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# 51732
OLSEN, John, McGREGOR, Ken; ZIMMER, Jenny
John Olsen. Journeys into the ‘You beaut country’. (Revised edition)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2016 (first published by Macmillan, 2007). Quarto, illustrated boards lettered in gold, pp. 344, illustrated. An extensive journey of Olsen’s artistic relationship with the Australian landscape. A fine copy, as new, of an elusive title. ‘This volume, companion to Teeming With Life (2005), which contained this artist’s complete printmaking oeuvre …
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# 51808
ASHTON, Will (1881 - 1963)
The life and work of artist Will Ashton (deluxe edition)
Sydney : The Legend Press, 1961. Quarto, lettered cloth (foxed) in blue slipcase, illustrated endpapers, pp. 64, numerous tipped-in plates, a very good copy. With a Preface by Rt. Hon. R.G. Menzies, C.H., and an Artist’s Tribute by William Dargie. Printed in an edition of 300 signed copies printed ‘for friends and collectors’ (there also …
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# 51718
McGREGOR, Ken
James Drinkwater : encrusting the marvellous heart (signed copy)
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2016. Folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 173, illustrated. Designed by Jenny Zimmer. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the artist and author. Scarce.
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# 51716
EISLER, William and SMITH, Bernard
Terra Australis : the furthest shore
Sydney : International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 239, light handling marks, illustrated. A large scale exhibition on the history of the discovery and colonisation of the Australian continent, a detailed catalogue.
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# 51514
Japan Tourist Bureau.
From the car window. Kyoto – Shimonoseki
Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, April 1936. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, light edge rubbing and a crease, staple bound, 17 pp, illustrated, maps, a very good copy.
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# 51701
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks. Dots
Hand stamped / New York / 1978. New York : [the artist], 1978. Small artist’s book approximately 120mm square, staple bound with blue tape, 12pp. rubber stamped with designs of red dots. Hand-printed artist’s book, a companion to others (such as Twelve Red Grids, Red Diagonals, Lines Dots etc.) created by the artist in small numbers in …
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# 51699
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks. Red Dots.
Hand stamped. Sydney 1979. Sydney: [the artist], 1979. Small artist’s book approximately 120mm square, staple bound with red tape, 12pp. rubber stamped with designs of red dots. Hand-printed artist’s book, a companion to others (such as Twelve Red Grids, Red Diagonals, Lines Dots etc.) created by the artist in small numbers in the 1970s. Produced …
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# 51690
TOOLEY, R. V.
The mapping of Australia
London : The Holland Press, 1979. First edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth with leather title labels in illustrated dustjacket (edges lightly foxed), pp. xx; 633, internally clean, extensively illustrated. The essential reference for Australian and Antarctic maps. The first edition. Volume 1 in the Holland Press Cartographical Series. A fine, clean copy of a scarce reference.
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# 51681
KOLENBERG, Henrik and RYAN, Anne
Australian Prints from the Gallery’s collection
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine slightly sunned, inscription to interior of upper wrapper), pp. 164, illustrated. Includes several works by Margaret Preston, Aida Tomescu, Sydney Nolan, Napier Waller, George Baldessin, Arthur Boyd, Fred Williams, David Strachan, Violet Teague, Lionel Lindsay, Cressida Campbell, Norman Lindsay, Brett Whiteley, John …
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# 51678
[SIDNEY NOLAN; HAROLD STEWART; JAMES McAULEY]
The Darkening Ecliptic. Poems by Ern Malley. Paintings by Sidney Nolan (standard edition)
Preface by Robert Melville. Introduction by Elwyn Lynn. [London] : R. Alistair McAlpine, 1974. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Quarto, cloth with pictorial dustjacket (light foxing and edge wear), pictorial endpapers, 56 pp, colour illustrations. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. A very good copy. The poems of Ern Malley, the fictitious poet created …
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# 51676
AUDETTE, Yvonne (1930 - )
Yvonne Audette. Paintings and drawings 1949 – 2014
Essays by Christopher Heathcote, Bruce James, Gerard Vaughan and Kristy Grant. With a preface by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014 (revised edition). Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 256, extensively illustrated. A new, pristine copy in publisher’s shrink-wrap. First published in 2003 and reissued in a revised and expanded edition in 2014 (as here), this …
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# 51675
[ARKLEY, Howard]
Howard Arkley, white + black : 20 Years Work on paper and Canvas 1975-1991
Melbourne : Tolarno Galleries, 1995. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 24. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Introduction by Andrew Sayers of the National Gallery of Australia. Very scarce. A fine copy. Price list enclosed. Howard Arkley (5 May 1951 – 22 July 1999) was a renowned Australian artist known for his airbrushed paintings of Melbourne …
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# 51674
FILMER, Veronica
More than a memory : the art of Elizabeth Parsons.
Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897) – also known as Mrs. George Parsons – was a significant but under-recognised female colonial artist working in Melbourne and Victoria in the 1870s and 1880s. She was a founding member of the Australian Artists’ Association. Examples of Parsons’ work are …
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# 51673
[BECKETT]. HOLLINRAKE, Rosalind.
Clarice Beckett. The artist and her circle
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1979. Oblong folio, boards in illustrated dust jacket (light handling marks), 64pp., illustrated in colour. Important monograph on the artist, the modernist Melbourne painter from the first half of the twentieth century. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title, with a page of notes loosely …
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# 51672
PULLIN, Ruth
Eugene von Guerard. Nature revealed (scarce hardcover edition)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2011. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 302, extensively illustrated. The very scarce hardcover edition.