New Acquisitions
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# 46540
MAYNARD, Margaret
Fashioned from penury : dress as cultural practice in colonial Australia
Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1994. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 234, illustrated. Previous owner’s name on half-title. Good copy.
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# 46539
BUSCOMBE, Eve
Artists in early Australia and their portraits : a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia with special reference to colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land to 1850.
With detailed biographies, catalogues of works and sources of Australian portraiture. Sydney : Eureka Research, 1978. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, light handling marks, unpaginated (approx. 500 pages), illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. An encyclopaedic publication.
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# 46529
KOORIVISION INC.; DEACON, Destiny et al.
KooriVision Inc presents Kitch’en Koori. Art works, a kitchen, words, and an Oz kitsch dis-play. Fringe Studio, 1st Floor 184 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, 2-19 September 1992.
[Melbourne] : KooriVision Inc., 1992. Exhibition flyer/invitation. A4 sheet folded to form [4] sides (last side is blank), illustrated; very good condition; loosely inserted is a 2-page essay on the significance of the kitsch Aboriginalia display by Kylie Belling and Johnny Harding. This exhibition was part of the 1992 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It included a …
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# 46506
BATE, Weston (editor)
Liardet’s water-colours of early Melbourne.
Introduction and captions by Susan Adams. Edited by Weston Bate. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Library Council of Victoria, 1972. First edition. Oblong quarto (230 x 300 mm), linen over boards in illustrated dust jacket; illustrated endpapers, pp. ix, 101; internally very clean, an excellent copy.
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# 46503
TUNNICLIFFE, Wayne; CULLEN, Adam
Adam Cullen : let’s get lost
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 107, illustrated.
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# 46499
TURNER, John
Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.
Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light handling marks, a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett.
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# 46496
COOPER, John Butler
The History of Prahran : from its first settlement to a city.
Compiled by order of the Prahran Council. Melbourne : Modern Printing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1912. First edition. Octavo, gilt-decorate cloth (light edge wear), previous owner’s name written on endpapers, portrait frontispiece, pp. xii; 338, photographic plates.
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# 46492
[LINDSAY]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin.
The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay (reference copy)
Sydney: Odana Editions,1998. Large quarto, gilt lettered boards with pictorial inlay in colour illustrated wrappers, 480pp. Comprehensive monograph covering Lindsay’s published and unpublished etchings. There are several hundred illustrations. This is the expanded edition of two books published by Odana on Norman Lindsay’s etchings, much enhanced by the additional content. This copy has foxing to …
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# 46491
BLACKMAN, Charles
Paintings and drawings. Charles Blackman. 3 – 25 November 1961
London : The Matthiesen Gallery, 1961. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [16]. illustrated. Introduction by Bryan Robertson, catalogue of 39 works, biography. A fine, clean copy. Blackman’s important series of works created in London while on the Helena Rubenstein travelling scholarship at the age of thirty-three. Scarce.
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# 46471
ERSKINE, Commodore James E. / DYER, Augustine (photographer)
Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the South-East Coast of New Guinea, October to December, 1884
Bathurst : Robert Brown, 1984. Folio (approx. 425 x 345 mm), blue leather, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, in gilt-lettered slipcase. Facsimile of the 1885 edition which commemorated the raising of the British Flag in Port Moresby in 1884. “The Imperial Government … decided to take steps to establish a Protectorate over that part …
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# 46371
SPENDER, Stephen; HOCKNEY, David
China diary
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1982. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 200, illustrated. A fine copy of the first edition of Spender and Hockney’s illustrated tour of China.
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# 46453
[BECKETT, Clarice]
Clarice Beckett
26 June – 21 July 2002. Melbourne : Martin Browne Fine Art in association with Niagara Galleries, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (foxed), pp. 34, illustrated in colour throughout, catalogue notes, biography, portrait photograph of the painter. A fine copy, with price list and invitation loosely enclosed.
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# 46452
[BECKETT, Clarice]
Clarice Beckett 1887 – 1935
Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 48 pp. Exhibition catalogue including full page colour images, with catalogue and commentary on the works. A fine copy.
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# 46447
TRINCA, John C.
Harold Herbert, convivial artist 1891-1945
Melbourne : Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. vii, 56, illustrated. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half title.
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# 46445
TAYLOR, Alex
Perils of the studio : inside the artistic affairs of bohemian Melbourne
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 216, illustrated. “Focusing on Melbourne’s inner-city bohemia, including the famous Grosvenor Chambers at 9 Collins Street, this book is the first major work to examine the role of the studio in Australian art.”–Dust jacket.
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# 46440
FILMER, Veronica
Making their mark : colonial artists of the Western District
Geelong : Geelong Art Gallery, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine slightly sunned, pp. 46, some colour illustrations. Catalogue of 69 works from the exhibition. A fine copy.