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  • The Great War

    # 46734

    CHURCHILL, Winston (1874 - 1965)

    The Great War

    Fully Illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps. London : George Newnes, 1934. Three volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered embossed blue cloth (edges slightly rubbed), edges speckled red, a very good set. Originally issued in 26 fortnightly parts, this is the first bound edition of Churchill’s monumental history of the First World War.

  • Lewis and Clarke's journal to the Rocky Mountains in the years 1804, -5, -6; as related by Patrick Gass, one of the officers in the expedition.

    # 46543

    GASS, Patrick (1771 - 1870)

    Lewis and Clarke’s journal to the Rocky Mountains in the years 1804, -5, -6; as related by Patrick Gass, one of the officers in the expedition.

    New edition with numerous engravings. Dayton : Ells, Claflin, and Co., 1847. Octavo, later leather with title label, early ownership inscription to pastedown, pp. 238; (2 – advertisements), wood engraved plates, scattered foxing and a few stains, a folded slip of paper laid in with a note indicating it contains the original title label from …

  • Mansfield Park

    # 46386

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

    Mansfield Park

    With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1929. Octavo, decorated leather, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. xviii; 429, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, clean internally, a very good copy. A desirable Thomson illustrated edition of one of Jane Austen’s most …

  • [HORSE RACING] Victoria's greatest races.

    # 24237

    MICHELL, H. (ed)

    [HORSE RACING] Victoria’s greatest races.

    With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners – trainers – jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges …

  • Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

    # 46589

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

    Sydney : published for the author by Art in Australia, 1920. First edition. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards, spine lettered in gilt (a fine example); inscribed by the artist in pen on the front pastedown ‘Yours sincerely, Norman Lindsay’, small tape marks to endpapers, upper hinge slightly split, original signed etching by Norman Lindsay …

  • Thin Air : a portfolio of 12 copperplate photogravure prints of Ladakh.

    # 46721

    Robert ASHTON (1950- )

    Thin Air : a portfolio of 12 copperplate photogravure prints of Ladakh.

    [Ladakh and Melbourne : the artist, 2013]. Complete suite of twelve copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 5; 290 x 390 mm (plate size), 395 x 485 mm (sheet size); all titled and dated 2013 by the artist lower left, and signed by the artist lower right in 2023; very fine, loosely housed in …

  • Gum trees, Ambleside

    # 45887

    HEYSEN, Hans (1877-1968)

    Gum trees, Ambleside

    Charcoal on paper with conte highlights, 175 x 240 mm (sight), signed lower left, framed. A charming rural study by Hans Heysen, one of a number he made in and around Ambleside, his property at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. The scenery is typically Heysen, featuring majestic gum trees in the landscape. Provenance : Private …

  • Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor : autograph letter signed, dated 27 November 1922, thanking a well-wisher for congratulating him on his election to the Royal Academy.

    # 46784

    MACKENNAL, Bertram (1863-1931)

    Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor : autograph letter signed, dated 27 November 1922, thanking a well-wisher for congratulating him on his election to the Royal Academy.

    1 page, octavo, on embossed letterhead with the artist’s St. John’s Wood address; written in fountain pen entirely in Mackennal’s hand, the letter is dated 27 November 1922, addressed to ‘Dear Mr Bowles’, and signed at the foot ‘Yours sincerely, Bertram Mackennal’; Mackennal had just become a Royal Academician, and although it is not mentioned …

  • Thieves' kitchen

    # 46602

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Thieves’ kitchen

    Created 1929. Etching, engraving, and soft ground, 253 x 304 mm, signed and dated lower right, edition 25 of 55 copies, in a vintage black timber frame. An etching by Norman Lindsay with enormous visual power, being a rollicking response to the poem Thieves’ kitchen written by Kenneth Slessor (copied in full below), first published …

  • Paysages rêvés : artistes aborigènes contemporains de Balgo Hills (Australie Occidentale)

    # 46838

    NICOLAS, Alain (ed.)

    Paysages rêvés : artistes aborigènes contemporains de Balgo Hills (Australie Occidentale)

    Marseille : Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens, Galeries Gaston Defferre, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2004. Large quarto (300 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, pp. 128, colour illustrations, maps; a very fine copy. Scarce catalogue produced for an exhibition of works by artists from the remote Balgo Hills community in Western …

  • Melbourne from the south side of the Yarra Yarra 1839

    # 46678

    CARMICHAEL, John (1803-1857)

    Melbourne from the south side of the Yarra Yarra 1839

    Original etching and engraving, 177 x 357 mm (plate line), mount burn, engraved inscription lower left Drawn by J. A. Adamson Esq., engraved inscription lower right Eng.d by J. Carmichael. for R.Clint, manuscript inscription lower centre in Tate Adams’ hand Melbourne 1839. Printed from the original plate in an edition of 100. No. 85 / …

  • From turmoil to peace 1998

    # 43178

    GREGORY, Drew (1947 - )

    From turmoil to peace 1998

    Watercolour and gouache on paper, 650 x 400 mm, framed (99 x 71 cm). A highly detailed work by the acclaimed Australian realist. Provenance: Leonard Joel. The Auction Salon, 16 September 2021, Lot 3104

  • The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay

    # 46660

    [LINDSAY]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin.

    The complete etchings of Norman Lindsay

    Sydney: Odana Editions,1998.  Large quarto, gilt lettered boards with pictorial inlay in colour illustrated wrappers, 480pp, signed by Lin Bloomfield on the title page (lightly foxed) and a large pen inscription on the front free endpaper from Merlin & Chris Costello and family, who were involved in the publication of the book. Light handling marks, …

  • VII (Sculptural lithograph)

    # 46542

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    VII (Sculptural lithograph)

    Lithograph, 18 x 23 cms, signed lower right ‘Jacks 87 – 89’, numbered lower left 2/10, and titled lower centre ‘VII’, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original graphic by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged …

  • Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 - 1981

    # 46677

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981

    [New York and Sydney] : the artist, 1973 – 1981. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, manuscript title page, nine sections of original rubber stamp works, each between two and three pages each and containing five or six rubber stamps per page, each section separated with a blank page. An unique …

  • Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    # 46676

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    Melbourne : the artist, 1985. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, unpaginated, being an artist’s book of photocopied (xeroxed) designs.   Provenance : the estate of Robert Jacks.