New South Wales

# 51596

MAYNARD, John

True light and shade : an Aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …

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# 11417

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY DENTAL UNDERGRADUATES' ASSOCIATION

The Articulator : journal of the Sydney University Dental Undergraduates’ Association. Vol. 10, no. 3

Sydney : The Association, 1957. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with short tear at fore-edge), 91 pp, illustrated, a very good copy.

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# 49329

PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

The most sought after of all Margaret Preston books, with a magnificent signed colour woodcut. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. Quarto, folding white buckram clamshell box with gilt-lettered title label (edges and joints restored), original ribbon ties, containing the following elements: 1. A black card folio, inside which is a copy of the publication …

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# 51311

BERTIE, Charles H.

[MARGARET PRESTON] Sydney streets

Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1928. Octavo, orange card covers, with a Preston woodcut reproduced on the front panel (a couple of small stains), title page reproducing Margaret Preston woodcut of St. Philip’s Church, [10] pp text, [10] leaves with tipped-in sepia-tone plates of Harold Cazneaux photographs, etchings by E. Warner and J.C. Goodchild, …

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# 51201

[Unknown collector]

Album of pressed ferns collected in New South Wales and Fiji, c.1880.

Quarto (295 x 230 mm), original leather over boards with gilt-embossed decoration (rubbed); all edges gilt, watered silk pastedowns and endpapers; containing a chromolithographed title-leaf worded ‘Album’ and a further 25 leaves of thick card with lithographed borders in red, each with a pressed native fern specimen skilfully mounted on the recto; every specimen is accompanied by …

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# 49446

BERTUCH, F. J. (Friedrich Justin) (editor)

[BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING] Neue Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.

Verfasset von einer Gesellschaft von Gelehrten, und herausgegeben von Dr. F. J. Bertuch … … Erster Band. Weimar : im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1817. Octavo, four parts in one volume, octavo (192 x 120 mm), contemporary cloth-backed marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), expertly re-backed; front pastedown with 19th-century University College, London bookplate; frontispiece folding engraved …

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# 51215

DEAMER, Dulcie (1890 - 1972)

The Silver Branch

Twenty-seven poems by Dulcie Deamer. Dover Heights (Sydney) : Swinburne Press, 1948. Octavo, quarter cloth over lettered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge worn), slight split to upper hinge, frontispiece illustration by Rosaleen Norton, pp. 89; colophon, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Dulcie Deamer. Very scarce. ‘Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie …

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# 51030

LUBACH, D. & LOGEMAN, W. M.

Panorama der bewoonde aarde. Eene afbeelding en beschrijving van de merkwaardigste voortbrengselen der aarde en hare bewoners, naar de verschillende aardgordels.

/ door D. Lubach en W. M. Logeman. Schoonhove : S. E. van Nooten, 1851. First edition. Quarto (295 x 225 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green cloth (boards rubbed and with scattered marks), spine lettered in gilt (sunned, ends frayed, outer hinge split near head); both inner hinges split; pp. i-xxviii, 1-180; illustrated with 10 folding …

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# 51221

[State Library of New South Wales]

Miles Franklin : an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of her birth, 1879-1979.

/ Extended to 17 February. Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Sydney : SLNSW, 1979. Foolscap folio, stapled, [12] pp. (last blank); Norman Lindsay drawing of Miles Franklin to front; with brief descriptions of the 96 items in the exhibition (all drawn from the Mitchell Library’s extensive collections), brief contextual essays, …

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# 51146

BURNSIDE, C. L. (Sec. Secretary, Centennial Committee)

[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady’s ticket [+ standard ticket]

[Sydney : Government Printer, 1888]. Companion pair of duodecimo cards, each 60 x 92 mm, printed rectos only in black on yellow and black on brown; both signed by C. L. Burnside, Secretary of the Centennial Committee; the standard ticket has some loss at left and bottom edges; mounted together on a section of an …

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# 51145

[ST. IGNATIUS' COLLEGE]

[SYDNEY] St. Ignatius’ College Rowing Club. Annual Regatta Programme. Riverview, Saturday, June 8th, 1889.

Sydney : Beatson & Co., 1889. Duodecimo folding card, 120 x 75 mm; lithograph printed on all four sides, in red, pink, blue, gold, apricot and black cream card; second and third sides with Programme (light foxing); fourth side with Club officers and statement of thanks (section of paper adhesion from where the programme was …

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# 51147

[CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WEST MAITLAND]

[HUNTER VALLEY] Banquet to celebrate the Sacerdotal Golden Jubilee of West Maitland, 22nd April, 1902. His Lordship Dr. Murray.

West Maitland : T, Dimmock, 1902. Menu. Folding gilt-edged die-cut card (155 x 80 mm, irregular), printed in gold on pink and green card; central panel with episcopal arms of the West Maitland Diocese at head, surmounting the menu itself; some creasing at the tip of the central panel, the blank rear with some residual …

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# 51313

[Warringah Printmakers Studio]; ANSON, Jennifer

Natural Collection

Sydney : Warringah Printmakers Studio, 2017. Elephant folio with printed wrappers, housed in buckram clamshell case with matching printed lining, in printed calico bag. A publication of twenty-nine prints of varying method, showing flora and fauna of Northern Sydney, accompanied by artists’ statements and scientific descriptions. Limited to an edition of 10 copies, with signatures …

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# 48249

WILSON, Hardy

Old colonial architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania

Sydney : published by the author at Union House, 1924. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 324). Large folio, original papered boards (rubbed, upper board with a couple of small marks, spine a little stained), upper board with gilt lettering and “bat and peaches” device, paste-downs and endpapers with a small amount …

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# 50727

CURREY, John (1940 - )

Arthur Phillip. Private letters 1787 – 1796

Selected, with notes and commentary, by John Currey. [Melbourne] : The Banks Society, 2017. Octavo, finely bound in papered boards, pp. 213 set on Caslon typeface printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Soft White 118 gsm, illustrated, folding map. ‘Twenty-five copies of this book marked A to Y were made by John Currey at The Colony …

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# 49878

NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

The Riverine question. Speeches in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.

Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon, Collins Street East, 1864. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green pebbled cloth (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson (New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s); pp. vii, [viii-x], 241, [3 blank]; preliminaries with …

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