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  • # 46692

    OLSEN, John; DURACK, Mary; DUTTON, Geoffrey; SERVENTY; Vincent; BORTIGNON, Alex

    The Land beyond time : a modern exploration of Australia’s north-west frontiers. (signed copy with original pen drawing)

    With Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1984. Folio, boards in dust jacket, 312 pp, fully illustrated; a very good copy. This copy signed and inscribed John Olsen and his then-wife Noel Hjorth also adding an original pen drawing of a pelican plunging its beak into the pond where …

  • # 46691

    LANE, Terence; SEARLE, Jessie

    Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 449, extensively illustrated. A very good copy. “This study of Australian home interiors surveys the decoration, arrangement, and use of domestic interiors from the time the Europeans settled at Sydney Cove in the eighteenth century until 1914. Richly illustrated with over 500 …

  • # 46689

    MANION, Margaret (1935 - 2024)

    The Felton Illuminated Manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria

    Melbourne, National Gallery Victoria / Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 440, extensively illustrated. Fine copy of the hardback edition, as new. “This scholarly publication ‘The Felton illuminated manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria’ celebrates the Gallery’s small but distinguished collection of illuminated manuscripts and eloquently comments on the development of the handwritten …

  • # 46688

    CONNOR, Peter and JACKSON, Heather

    A catalogue of Greek vases in the collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2000. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, extensively illustrated.  A fine copy. The catalogue of the University of Melbourne’s superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers. This richly illustrated book is …

  • # 46687

    CULLEN, Jenny

    No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in storage since publication, still sealed in publisher’s plastic. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton …

  • # 46686

    BROADBENT, James

    The Australian colonial house. Architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842

    Sydney : Hordern House in association with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates, contains in-depth academic text on the architecture of houses and buildings in New South Wales in the …

  • # 46685

    CLARK, Jane and DRUCE, Felicity

    Violet Teague (signed copy)

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 128, published in conjunction with the Violet Teague retrospective exhibition (1999), foreword by Professor Jaynie Anderson, contains 52 colour and black & white plates of Teague’s works, introduction by Jane Clark, essays by Felicity Druce, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Anita Callaway, Kay Vernon, Jeanette Hoorn, …

  • # 46684

    HAYSOM, Rob

    Arnold Shore : pioneer modernist

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. As new. Nearly every history of Australian modern art, and monographs dedicated to artists of the period, will refer to the writings of Arnold Shore. Deakin University academic, Rob Haysom, explores the background of the artist, the difficulties of his time, and the development …

  • # 46683

    BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)

    Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)

    Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …

  • # 46682

    FRITZSCHE, Ulrich

    [POSTER] Laienkunst

    Malerei Grafik Plastik Kunsthandwerk. Zeigen vom 25.mai bis 30.Juni 1960. Zirkel fur bildende Kunst der Volkhochschule Pankow. (Verband bildende Kunstler Deutschlands, Bezirk Berlin). Kulturbundhaus Erich Weinert, Berlin-Pankow, Breiterstrasse 43a. Exhibition poster, 1960. Lithographic process, 580 x 400 mm (image), 880 x 720 mm (frame). A scarce Communist era poster for an exhibition of works by …

  • # 46681

    [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. …

  • # 46680

    GRISHIN, Sasha et al.

    Baldessin/Whiteley : parallel visions

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, a few light marks, pp. x; 202, illustrated. A fine copy. Published for the exhibition Baldessin/​Whiteley: Parallel Visions at NGV Australia, Melbourne, 31 August, 2018 – 28 January, 2019. Born forty-two days apart in 1939, Australian artists George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley had much …

  • # 46679

    JENBERGS, Jan; McCAUGHEY, Patrick

    Voyage and landfall : the art of Jan Senbergs

    Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2006. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 234, numerous illustrations.

  • # 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 / …

  • # 46671

    JORDAN, Caroline

    Picturesque pursuits : colonial women artists & the amateur tradition

    Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2005. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 224, illustrated. Australian colonial women artists produced a rich ouevre of paintings, drawings and craftworks of the highest quality. In this cultural history, Caroline Jordan explores the work of Georgiana McCrae, Fanny Macleay, Elizabeth Gould, Louisa Anne Meredith and …

  • # 46662

    JOHNSON, Heather

    The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.