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# 46717
CAMPBELL, Alastair H.
John Batman and the Aborigines
Malmsbury [VIC] : Kibble Books, [1987]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (spine sunned), pp. viii; 270, black and white plates. Scarce. “Describes conflict and violence in Tasmania, including Ben Lomond massacre; lifestyle of Woiwurung tribe and social organization of tribes around Port Phillip; detailed discussion of circumstances surrounding alleged signing of Treaty; attitude of British Government towards …
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# 46716
TURNER, Henry Gyles
A history of the colony of Victoria, from its discovery to its absorption into the Commonwealth of Australia
Melbourne : Heritage Publications 1973 (first published 1904). Two volumes, octavo, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. xvi; 395; x; 389; folding map, a few small marks, a very good set. A history of the colony of Victoria from European arrivals in the late eighteenth century to Federation. Facsimile of the 1904 edition.
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# 46719
HANCOCK, Marguerite
Colonial consorts : the wives of Victoria’s Governors 1839 – 1900 (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xxii; 326, colour plates. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally, with a warm inscription to her from the author on the title page. ‘”Carrying out the duties of a governor’s wife was the pinnacle of public service for women in colonial …
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# 46720
GOTT, Ted et al.
Napoleon : revolution to empire
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …
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# 46730
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Life’s a beer
Melbourne : Ross Books, 1984. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling marks) pp. 96, a very good copy. Ellis’ candid photographs of Australians with tinnies, stubbies, pots and schooners, middies, pints and slabs. Think Hawkie, Hoges and Sir Les Patterson.
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# 46729
CRAIG, Clifford (1896-1986); ROBERTSON, E. Graeme (Edward Graeme) (1903-1975); FAHY Kevin
Early colonial furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land
Melbourne : Georgian House, 1972. First edition. Quarto cloth in dustjacket, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. A fine copy.
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# 46728
GASCOIGNE, Rosalie
Rosalie Gascoigne. Plain air
Wellington : City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, 2004. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated. Survey exhibition of the New Zealand born, Australian resident artist.
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# 46727
CROMBIE, Isobel et a.
Brave New World. Australia 1930s
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, corners a little bumped, small mark to endpaper, pp. 198, extensively illustrated. Includes works by Albert Tucker, Percy Leason, Daniel Vassilieff, Noel Counihan, Max Dupain, Dorothy Thornhill, Fred Ward, Sybil Craig, William Ricketts, Margaret Preston, Arthur Murch, Elioth Gruner, Freda Robertshaw, Albert Namatjira, Lionel Lindsay …
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# 46726
SINGER, Peter (1946 - )
Animal liberation
A new ethics for our treatment of animals. London : Jonathan Cape, 1976. First English edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered boards in illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge wear, fore edge foxed), pp. xvii; [1]; 301, illustrated. First British edition of Australian ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer’s landmark work on the treatment of animals.
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# 46725
URE SMITH, Sydney (ed.)
Adrian Feint flower paintings
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith, introduction by Tatlock Miller. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1948. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, light edge wear, pale foxing to endpapers, 78pp. illustrated in colour, catalogue of works. Limited to 1500 copies signed and dated by the artist. A very good copy.
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# 46718
BARRY, John Vincent
Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)
A study of a pioneer in penal reform. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1958. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, signed by the author on the title page, pp. xxii;277, a fine copy. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally. Loosely enclosed, a letter from the author The Hon. Sir John Barry addressed to the …
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# 46714
UNDERHILL, Nancy
Nolan on Nolan : Sidney Nolan in his own words (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : Penguin Group (Australia), 2007. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (lightly creased along top edge), pp. 414, illustrated, a very good copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, with a warm personal inscription to her signed by the author.
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# 46712
PRESTON, Margaret
Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.
Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, August 1938. Quarto, original green wrappers, 80 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white, previous owner’s name to upper wrapper, a fine copy. Among the various articles and illustrations is a revised piece by Preston based on a series of lectures she gave at the Art Gallery of …
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# 46711
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-Nine
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1933. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 92pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, edges rubbed and a crack to upper hinge, else good. Features essay by Gavin Long on the Heysen loan exhibition; essay on S. Woodward Smith and Kenneth MacQueen …
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# 46710
UNDERHILL, Nancy
Sidney Nolan : a life (signed presentation copy)
Sydney : Newsouth, 2015. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 414, illustrated, a fine copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, with a warm personal inscription to her signed by the author.
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# 46709
HAESE, Richard.
Rebels and Precursors. The revolutionary years in Australian art
Melbourne: Allen Lane, 1981. First edition. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (corners bumped, light edge wear), 324pp., extensively illustrated. Important work on the Angry Penguins, their contemporaries and influence on modern Australian art. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title under her married name Ann Quinn.