New Acquisitions
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# 46439
GRAY, Anne
Painted women : Australian artists in Europe at the turn of the century
Anne Gray with essays by Helen Carroll, Ann Galbally, Janda Gooding, Barbara Kane, Ruth Zubans. Perth : Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the University of Western Australia, [1998]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, illustrated, vertical crease to covers and text block. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, …
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# 46435
GREGG, Simon
Nicholas Chevalier : Australian odyssey
Sale, Vic. : Gippsland Art Gallery, 2011. Small quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 330, extensively illustrated. ‘Nicholas Chevalier (1828 – 1902) was one of Australia’s most accomplished and acclaimed colonial artists. Australian Odyssey is the first ever survey of his Australian works. Detailing over two hundred and fifty works in lavish colour this …
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# 46430
GRAY, Anna
George W. Lambert retrospective. Heroes & icons (Ann Galbally’s copy)
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 212, illustrated. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, her business card enclosed, and with a signed card to her from the author, Anne Gray.
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# 46429
GRAY, Anne
George Lambert 1873-1930. Catalogue raisonné : paintings and sculpture, drawings in public collections
Perth, W.A. : Bonaray Press in association with Sotheby’s and the Australian War Memorial, 1996. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers (lower wrapper a little marked), pp. xiii, 23, unillustrated. Scarce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half title.
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# 46427
EAGLE, Mary
The oil paintings of Arthur Streeton in the National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, ACT : National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 216, illustrated. ‘This publication focuses on the Gallery s collection of 46 Streeton works ranging from Sandrige (painted on cigar-box wood in 1884) through to his late canvas In a London garden c1934. Tracing Streeton’s career, the book tells how he painted his …
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# 46425
JAMES, Rodney
The artists’ retreat : discovering the Mornington Peninsula, 1850s to the present
Mornington, Vic. : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, [1999]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly rubbed), pp. 40, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. Includes works by Penleigh Boyd, John Perceval, Rupert Bunny, Eugene von Guerard, Louis Buvelot, Walter Withers, Nicolas Chevalier, Rick Amor, Arthur Boyd, Arthur StreetonHugh Ramsay, Fred Williams, Violet Teague and others.
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# 46424
STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Painted panorama 1800 – 1870
Paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales. Sydney : Blaxland Gallery, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 140, illustrated. Paintings from the Mitchell and Dixon collections exhibited at the Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 1 to 30 November 1985. Includes works by Lewin, Martens, Rae, Garling, Terry, Fowles, Peacock, Prout, Lycett, …
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# 46423
McDONALD, Patricia R.; PEARCE, Barry
The artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (light handling creases), 187 pp, colour and black and white illustrations, a very good copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half title.
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# 46422
ENTWISTLE, Peter et al.
Nerli : an exhibition of paintings & drawings
[Dunedin, N.Z.] : Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lprice sticker to lower panel), pp. 184, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Dunedin Public Art Gallery during 1988.
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# 46421
JONES, John
Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire (Anne Galbally’s copy)
Melbourne : NGV, 2010. Octavo, illustrated boards, pp. 192, illustrated. Dowling holds a special place in the history of Australian art, as the first artist to be be trained in Australia and was renowned for his paintings of pastoralists, indigenous people and biblical themes. This is the first major exhibition of his work. Published in conjunction …
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# 46419
[BOCK]. BUTLER, Roger, et al.
Thomas Bock. Convict engraver, society portraitist
Tasmania, Canberra : Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery and Australian National Gallery, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 108, preface by Kevin Munn, introduction by Diane Dunbar, chronology of Bock’s life and work, essay on Bock by Roger Butler, essay by Andrew Sayers, essay on Thomas Bock’s portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines by N. J. …
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# 46402
"OLD FRIEND OF HIS"
[MISSIONS] Old Sefanaia, the Fijian herald / by an old friend of his.
London : C.H. Kelly, n.d. [c.1898]. Small octavo, original decorated cloth boards (rubbed), front free-endpaper with a school prize inscription dated 1898, 64 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Scarce. The story of Sefanaia Mbilavuthu, told by an anonymous Methodist missionary. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of …
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# 46401
COOTE, Walter
The western Pacific. Being a description of the groups of islands to the north and east of the
Australian continent. By Walter Coote. With a map and twenty-three illustrations executed by E. Whymper from drawings by the author. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1883. First edition. Octavo, pictorial brown cloth, gilt, xvi, 184 pp, illustrations, map; a very good copy. Ferguson, 8664. A study of Norfolk Island, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, …
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# 46400
LOVIOT, Fanny Mme.
[MARITIME; CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH] De chinesiske sjöröfvarne: Reseminnen.
Öfvers. från franskan af M.Wester. Gefle [Gavle], Sweden : Hjalmar Ewerlöf, [1865]. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over pebbled red cloth (lightly rubbed, corners bumped), spine with gilt ornament and lettering (head with small amount of loss), original owner’s inscription to free-endpaper dated 1865, [4], 126 pp, a good copy. Text in Swedish. Swedish translation of …
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# 46398
LUQUIENS, H.M. (Huc Mazelet)
Hawaiian art.
Honolulu, HI : Bishop Museum, 1931. Series: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 18. First edition. Tall octavo (240 x 160 mm), original cloth backed papered boards, pp 59, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; ex library of the San Francisco firm S & G Gump Company (card pocket to pastedown and wet stamp to …
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# 46397
GILES, Herbert A.
Chinese without a teacher.
Being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect with a vocabulary. Fifth and revised edition. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1901. Octavo, lettered papered boards, cloth spine, pp. [viii]; 67, text in Chinese and English, a few pencil annotations, but a good copy. Scarce.