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  • Sfumato. Paintings and Drawings of David Boyd (signed copy)

    # 50894

    [BOYD, David].

    Sfumato. Paintings and Drawings of David Boyd (signed copy)

    Foreword by James Burr, A background to Sfumato by Sheldon Williams. London :  Zwemmer Gallery, 1967. Small folio, 24 pages, illustrated laminated boards, illustrated throughout. A scarce publication from Boyd’s London years, signed by the artist on the endpaper to Frank Thompson ‘To Frank with affection David Sydney 1968’. .

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  • Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a middle-aged man in a patterned vest, early 1850s.

    # 43256

    [Photographer unknown]

    Tinted daguerreotype portrait of a middle-aged man in a patterned vest, early 1850s.

    [British, 1850-1855]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 55 x 40 mm (sight); in an arch-top brass mat (scattered mould spiders), housed in a plain leather case with working clasp; the daguerreotype is in good condition, the case is a little scuffed; accompanied by an old Christie’s, Melbourne auction house label from October 1998.    

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  • Felix Schweighofer, Austrian actor : real photo portrait postcard with signed autograph message to opera librettist Emil Norini. Blasewitz (Dresden), July 1907.

    # 50828

    SCHWEIGHOFER, Felix; MAYER, Otto (photographer)

    Felix Schweighofer, Austrian actor : real photo portrait postcard with signed autograph message to opera librettist Emil Norini. Blasewitz (Dresden), July 1907.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; in the negative are the photographer’s handwritten details lower left ‘Otto Mayer, Dresden’, and facsimile signature of Felix Schweighofer lower right; lower margin recto with Schweighofer’s handwritten note explaining that the portrait is of him in character as August Nippes for the comedy …

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  • Gisela Timony, Viennese actress : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for opera librettist Emil Norini. Vienna, April 1903.

    # 50829

    ANGERER, Victor

    Gisela Timony, Viennese actress : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for opera librettist Emil Norini. Vienna, April 1903.

    Wien : Victor Angerer, [1903]. Silver albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 163 x 103 mm; signed by the sitter in ink in the image lower right: ‘Gisi Timony’; verso with the Angerer studio imprint and with a presentation inscription by Timony: ‘Meinen lieben Collegen Herrn Emil Norini, zur freundlichen Errinerung, Wien 5. IV. …

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  • 38 magnificent views illustrating Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

    # 50760

    Anon.

    38 magnificent views illustrating Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

    [Cover title : Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. 38 Views]. [Adelaide] : H.R. James & Co, circa 1930. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly sunned and marked, staples rusted, pp. [16], photographically illustrated with views of Parliament House, Government House, Albert Hall, shipping centres at Civic, Hotel Canberra, the National Library, the Lodge etc.

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  • Jimmy. The magazine of the Royal Corps of Signals in Middle East. No. 3. Christmas 1941

    # 50804

    Royal Corps of Signals

    Jimmy. The magazine of the Royal Corps of Signals in Middle East. No. 3. Christmas 1941

    [Cairo] : Royal Corps of Signals, 1941. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated, paper toned a couple of annotations, a very good copy of this scarce wartime magazine.

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  • Rose Lindsay : a model life

    # 50947

    LINDSAY, Rose; BLOOMFIELD, Lin (editor)

    Rose Lindsay : a model life

    Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2001. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. x; 380, illustrated, a mint copy, with the original order form and exhibition brochure enclosed. Edition of 1000 copies. Rose Lindsay’s memoirs Ma and Pa: My Childhood Memories and Model Wife: My Life with Norman Lindsay were first published in 1963 and 1967 respectively and both …

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  • The art of Gordon Bennett

    # 51044

    McLEAN, Ian and BENNETT, Gordon

    The art of Gordon Bennett

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 140, illustrated, a fine copy.

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  • Men at leisure: a spot of rowing, some beach cricket, a picnic hamper, and a bottle of wine. Near Melbourne, c.1910.

    # 51035

    [Photographer unknown].

    Men at leisure: a spot of rowing, some beach cricket, a picnic hamper, and a bottle of wine. Near Melbourne, c.1910.

    Silver bromide print, 150 x 200 mm; very good condition, on it original board mount, 180 x 235 mm (chipped at one corner). From a large group of Melbourne family photographs.  

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  • Being and nothingness : Bea Maddock. Work from three decades (signed copy)

    # 50896

    [MADDOCK, Bea]. KIRKER, Anne and BUTLER, Roger

    Being and nothingness : Bea Maddock. Work from three decades (signed copy)

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery and Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 118, light foxing to preliminaries, illustrated. A detailed catalogue of the Australian printmaker. Signed with short gift-inscription (to ‘Joe’) by Bea Maddock to half-title page, with Joe’s signature also present. Madonna Staunton’s copy, also signed by Staunton to half-title …

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  • The Skottowe Manuscript.

    # 51082

    BONYHADY, Tim et al.

    The Skottowe Manuscript.

    Thomas Skottowe’s select specimens from nature of the birds, animals, &c. &c. of New South Wales. Published for the first time from the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Edited, with an introductory essay, by Tim Bonyhady. Natural history consultant: John Calaby. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, C.B.E., F.R.S. …

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  • The plains

    # 51156

    MURNANE, Gerald (1939 - )

    The plains

    Melbourne : Norstrilia Press, 1982. First edition. Octavo, fine blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, in near-fine dust jacket (very slight edge wear); 126 pp.; an excellent copy of the scarce first edition of Murnane’s third novel, in the second state dust jacket designed by Marius Foley.

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  • The Irish in Australia

    # 50728

    HOGAN, James Francis

    The Irish in Australia

    London : Ward & Downey, 1887. Octavo, lettered cloth (edges rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers, faded stamp to half-title, pp. [viii]; 348; [blank]; viii, text block slightly shaken, a good copy. Written mostly in Melbourne, Hogan’s history of the Irish population in Australia covers the history of Irish emigration to …

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  • Aboriginal art galleries of western New South Wales.

    # 51177

    BLACK, Lindsay

    Aboriginal art galleries of western New South Wales.

    Part 3. Being a continuation of a series on the Aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales. Burial Trees being Part 1. Cylcons. The Mystery Stones of the Darling River Valley being Part 2. Foreword by C. P. Mountford. [S.l. : s.n.], 1943. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 76, …

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  • The selfish gene

    # 51188

    DAWKINS, Richard (1941 - )

    The selfish gene

    Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1976. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling marks), pp. xii; 224, internally clean with no inscriptions, marks or foxing, not price clipped, a fine copy. First edition of the groundbreaking work by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins which posits a gene-centred basis for evolution, in essence the …

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  • [CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres

    # 50537

    Anon.

    [CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres

    Lille : L. Lefort, 1849. First edition. Small octavo, publisher’s papered cartonnage binding with gilt decoration, frontispiece (Prise de possession des Iles marquises), previous owner’s name to front pastedown, pp. 201,a fine copy. Accounts of European exploration and discovery of and early settlements in the Pacific, with chapters on the Malay archipelago, Melanesia (includes New …

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