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# 47062
SUMIRA, Sylvia
The art and history of globes
London : The British Library, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 224, illustrated. ‘This book celebrates the art and history of the globe, focusing on the 400 years when the printed globe – as navigational tool, scientific instrument and powerful status symbol – occupied an important place in the history of European exploration. It ranges …
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# 47065
MUNDINE, Djon and CARUANA, Wally
Urban focus : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from the urban areas of Australia
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated self wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated with works by Ron Hurley, Byron Pickett, Robert Campbell Jr., Laurie Nilsen, Euphemia Bostock and Richard Bell, essay by Don Mundine and Wally Caruana. ‘Discussion of art created by Aboriginal people in urban centres, its development and acceptance, and the various …
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# 47064
ADAMS, Jeanie
Made with meaning. Crafts of Aboriginal far North Queensland : the Yalga-Binbi collection.
Cairns, Qld. : Yalga-Binbi Institute for Community Development, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation and Cairns Regional Gallery, 1995. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Published in conjunction with an exhibition, Made with meaning: crafts of Aboriginal far North Queensland, curated by Jeanie Adams and presented at Cairns Regional Gallery from July 15 to …
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# 47063
CAPON, Edmond
Gamarada : friends
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 84, illustrated. ‘Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1995 in recognition of a number of donors whose particular support led to the success of the Yiribana Gallery and the collection it holds. Artists: Bininuwuy, …
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# 47075
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Past unfolded 1986
Gouache on card, 175 x 125 mm (image), with additional pencil drawing and title in lower margin, 280 x 180 mm (card), inscribed lower margin ‘Past Unfolded 1986’, floating mount, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original painting by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s …
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# 47074
LYNTON, Norbert et al
Searching for Gaia : the art of Guy Warren
By Norbert Lynton & John McDonald ; Deborah Hart ; with an autobiographical account by the artist. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy of an out of print book. ‘Offers an artist’s view of life and art in Sydney during the better part of the 20th …
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# 47072
HABY, Gracia and JENNISON, Louise [Gracia & Louise]
Those two daring pirates
[Melbourne] : the artists, 2004. Artist’s book, 180 mm tall, 22 page concertina offset lithograph with original hand colouring, bound in coloured fabric, initialled by the artists. Printed in an edition of 30 copies with one artist’s proof, this is copy 13/30. A colourful celebration of the cultural life of New Orleans, Louisiana. “[These two …
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# 47071
[KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo, ELLWOOD, Tony, NISHINO, Hanako, et al.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye : utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Canberra, Australia and Japan : National Museum of Australia/ The National Museum of Art, Osaka/ The National Art Centre, Tokyo/ The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2008. Quarto, boards in pictorial dust jacket, very lightly rubbed, pp. 256, illustrated throughout in colour, exhibition catalogue in English and Japanese language for the travelling exhibition of Australian Indigenous artist Emily …
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# 47070
PEARCE, Barry
Master of stillness. Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940 – 2011
Adelaide : The Wakefield Press, 2012 (2021 reprint). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 136, illustrated. New copy. Master of Stillness illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy, where he lived for five decades until his death in 2013. …
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# 47069
[LOXTON, John] ROWELL, John; TAYLOR, H. Vivian
The art of John S. Loxton
Melbourne : Osboldstone & Co, 1956. Quarto, inlaid boards illustrated dustjacket (light crease and stain to upper wrapper), [15]pp with 28 plate leaves. Features 22 reproductions in full colour, and 6 in duotone, with text by John Rowell. Limited to 1250 copies, signed by the artist.
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# 47068
RYAN, Judith et al.
Brook Andrew : the right to offend is sacred (with ephemera)
Judith Ryan with Brook Andrew; Nick Aikens, Anthony Gardner, Marcia Langton, Simon Maidment and Trent Walter. Melbourne, Vic. : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 177, illustrated. Scarce. A fine copy. This copy with a signed letter from Tony Ellwood, Director of the NGV and other related ephemera.
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# 47067
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty. Arthur Streeton Number.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy (some loss/splitting on spine and rust stains from staples). Highlighting the Streeton’s iconic Australian works, this edition includes essays by Lionel Lindsay and J.S. McDonald. …
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# 47054
MICHNIEWICZ, Onufry et al.
Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.
[Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: ‘Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et …
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# 46885
PLOMLEY, N. J. B. (Norman James Brian)
A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages
Launceston, Tas. : N.J.B. Plomley in association with the Government of Tasmania, 1976. Large octavo (255 x 180 mm), cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (front panel a trifle worn at top edge); endpaper maps; xv, 486 pp, map; internally unmarked, an excellent copy. Plomley’s scholarly work on Tasmanian Aboriginal languages was compiled over twenty-five years …
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# 46733
SWEET, Robert (1783-1835)
Flora Australasica ; or, a selection of handsome, or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea islands…
London : James Ridgway, 1827-1828. First edition, first issue. Octavo (250 x 160 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (edges slightly rubbed), spine in compartments with raised bands ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title piece lettered in gilt; front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles Scrase Dickins; 56 exquisite hand-coloured engraved plates by S. …
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![[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1724-300x300.jpg)
# 46766
WALKER, Mary Edwards (1832-1919)
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); lower margin recto with imprint of ‘Joseph B. Forster, Pho.’, and a roughly contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the sitter as ‘Dr. Mary Walker’; verso with the studio’s printed motto ‘Light and Truth’; in very good condition. A rare full-length studio portrait of …