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  • The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (deluxe issue, with the coloured version of the engraving 'Probable effects of over female emigration')

    # 51164

    [CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor

    The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (deluxe issue, with the coloured version of the engraving ‘Probable effects of over female emigration’)

    Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …

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  • Vocabularies of four representative tribes of south eastern Queensland, with grammatical notes thereof and some notes on manners and customs. Also, a list of Aboriginal place names and their derivations (signed presentation copy)

    # 51159

    WATSON, F. J.

    Vocabularies of four representative tribes of south eastern Queensland, with grammatical notes thereof and some notes on manners and customs. Also, a list of Aboriginal place names and their derivations (signed presentation copy)

    Supplement to Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia (Queensland). No. 34, Vol. XLVIII. Brisbane : RGSA (Queensland), [1944]. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), orange wrappers lettered in black; pp. 114, [1 index], [1 blank]; frontispiece portrait of author; the four languages in this study are Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi), Wakka (Wakawaka), Yugurabul, and Yugumbir …

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  • [BATHURST] The President of St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, requests the honour of Mr. O'Connor's presence at the Academical Execises and Distribution of Premiums ... Tuesday, December 10 [1889] ...

    # 50783

    BYRNE, James (President)

    [BATHURST] The President of St. Stanislaus’ College, Bathurst, requests the honour of Mr. O’Connor’s presence at the Academical Execises and Distribution of Premiums … Tuesday, December 10 [1889] …

    [Bathurst : s.n.], 1889. Duodecimo card, 90 x 118 mm; lithograph printed recto only, in black on buff card, with chromolithographed border; some loss along bottom edge, verso with residual glue from an album mount. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and …

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  • All this and Bevin too

    # 50607

    CRISP, Quentin (1908 - 1999)

    All this and Bevin too

    With drawings by Mervyn Peake. London : Nicholson & Watson, 1943. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small hole to upper panel, extending to a couple of leaves, lightly marked), pp. 28, illustrated by Peake. A very good copy. A satirical tract on enlistment into the military by English raconteur and queer icon Quentin Crisp. The …

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  • A signed photograph of John Olsen in his studio

    # 50745

    [OLSEN, John]

    A signed photograph of John Olsen in his studio

    Contemporary photographic print, 355 x 280 mm (image), framed in black timber, framed dimensions 63 x 49 cms, signed by the artist John Olsen lower right in black Texta. A fine photographic portrait of John Olsen in his studio, taken by an unknown photographer, signed by Olsen. Provenance: Ken McGregor, author of several books on …

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  • James Drinkwater : At mid-career

    # 51110

    HAUSER, Nicole

    James Drinkwater : At mid-career

    Canberra : Drill Hall Gallery, and Sydney : Nanda/Hobbs Prism Editions, 2023. Folio, lettered flush cut cloth boards, illustrated endpapers, unpaginated, (pp. 80), essays and illustrations. A new copy. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. ‘James Drinkwater emerged early on as a remarkable talent, never shying away from the intensity and boldness that define …

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  • Luke Cornish (Elk) : wake up to the stink

    # 51112

    McGREGOR, Ken

    Luke Cornish (Elk) : wake up to the stink

    (Cover title : Elk. The stencil art of Luke Cornish). Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2025. Quarto (318 x 250 mm), pictorial laminated boards; red endpapers, pp. 304, extensively illustrated. Printed in a small edition. New copy of a title not in commercial distribution. Text by Ken McGregor, designed and edited by Jenny Zimmer. ‘ELK is …

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  • John Olsen. Journeys into the ‘You beaut country’. (Revised edition)

    # 51111

    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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  • William Dobell : paintings from 1926 to 1964

    # 51081

    DOBELL, William

    William Dobell : paintings from 1926 to 1964

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1964. Second revised edition. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, [40pp]. Catalogue for a major retrospective of Dobell’s works, listing 223 pieces with selected items illustrated in colour and black and white. Introduction by Hal Missingham. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial …

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  • Sam Fullbrook

    # 51079

    FULLBROOK, Sam

    Sam Fullbrook

    Main Beach, QLD : Art Galleries Schubert, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 8, illustrated.

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  • Judy Cassab (the artist's own annotated copy)

    # 51078

    CASSAB, Judy

    Judy Cassab (the artist’s own annotated copy)

    Sydney : Rudy Komon Art Gallery, 1975. Exhibition catalogue, folded card, biography and list of works. Judy Cassab’s own copy, annotated by her in blue biro with the location of various paintings (Queensland Art Gallery, Lord Kenilworth, Home etc).

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  • Charles Blackman : schoolgirls and friends

    # 51077

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Charles Blackman : schoolgirls and friends

    Sydney : Savill Galleries, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, [8]pp. Exhibition catalogue with numerous full page coloured plates throughout.

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  • Nyungar landscapes : Aboriginal artists of the South-West: the heritage of Carrolup, Western Australia.

    # 51043

    STANTON, John E.

    Nyungar landscapes : Aboriginal artists of the South-West: the heritage of Carrolup, Western Australia.

    [Nedlands, WA] : University of Western Australia, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, 1992. Series: Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Occasional Paper no. 3. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 38, with numerous colour illustrations, map.

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  • Byzantium. From the death of Theodosius to the rise of Islam

    # 50884

    GRABAR, Andre

    Byzantium. From the death of Theodosius to the rise of Islam

    London : Thames and Hudson, 1966. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (price clipped), pp. [viii]; 407, extensively illustrated, folding maps and plates, an immaculate copy housed in the publisher’s card slipcase. The Arts of Mankind series. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), her wetstamp on the endpaper, acquired in 2025.

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  • Picturesque Hong Kong

    # 50586

    AH YUEN

    Picturesque Hong Kong

    Hong Kong : printed by Goodyear Printing Press, distributed by Ah Yuen Photo Service, circa. 1975. Booklet of colour postcards, with smaller versions of each image as a stub, seven (of eight) photographic postcards included, the first one neatly detached and lacking, the remaining images of Kowloon, Kai Tak Airport, Victoria City, Ocean Theatre, Banking …

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  • [NORMAN LINDSAY] The legendary Lindsays (hardcover edition)

    # 50992

    PRUNSTER, Ursula

    [NORMAN LINDSAY] The legendary Lindsays (hardcover edition)

    [Roseville, N.S.W.] : Beagle Press in conjunction with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, 120 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, with short essays by Robert Holden and Helen Glad. A superb pictorial survey of the art and private world of the Lindsays. Alongside reproductions …

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