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  • The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90

    # 46913

    CALABY, John (editor)

    The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90

    By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.

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  • Une Australienne. Hilda Rix Nicholas : in Paris, Tangier & Sydney

    # 46914

    HOORN, Jeanette et al.

    Une Australienne. Hilda Rix Nicholas : in Paris, Tangier & Sydney

    Mosman : Mosman Art Gallery, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated. Scarce. ‘Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian painter of great ambition who established her career in the early decades of the 20th century both internationally and in Australia. Classically trained in the studios of Paris she became part of the artist colony in …

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  • [KNGWARREYE]. Utopia : Women, country and batik

    # 47031

    GREEN, Jenny

    [KNGWARREYE]. Utopia : Women, country and batik

    Written and illustrated by Jenny Green. [Utopia, N.T.] : Utopia Womens’ Batik Group, [1981]. Quarto, screenprinted wrappers (light edge wear and handling marks), pp. [25], illustrated with portraits of the artists and the landscape. ‘This publication was produced for an exhibition of batik from Utopia initially presented at the Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery in October, …

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  • Wanderings in wild Australia

    # 47028

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Wanderings in wild Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, original green cloth boards (lightly rubbed and marked), spines lettered in gilt, gilt lettered spines, top edges gilt, light water stain to upper margin of second volume, volume I pp xxviii, 456; volume II pp xiv, 457-930, ii advertisements, illustrated with black and white …

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  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 47023

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (very well preserved), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, xx, 516 [2] pp, illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, bookseller’s label to pastedown, a very good copy.

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  • Lux et nox (first edition)

    # 47022

    HENSON, Bill (b. 1955)

    Lux et nox (first edition)

    Zurich : Scalo, 2002. First edition. Extended oblong folio (430mm wide), cloth in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks, 175 pp. of Henson’s ethereal photography. This is the first edition, printed in Germany. It was then reprinted in Melbourne in 2008. Invitation card and ephemera enclosed.

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  • Lloyd Rees Drawings

    # 47021

    [REES]. KLEPAC, Lou.

    Lloyd Rees Drawings

    Sydney : Australian Artist Editions, 1978. Oblong quarto, cloth in dustjacket, spine sunned, 128 pp. illustrated throughout, lightly foxed to edges and preliminaries. Housed in a buckram slipcase.

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  • Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs

    # 47019

    [REES]. KOLENBERG, Hendrik

    Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs

    A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp. 112, scholarly text on Lloyd Rees’ life and work written by Hendrik Kolenberg, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. A fine copy.

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  • New Australian Printmaking

    # 47017

    SPRAGUE, Quentin et al.

    New Australian Printmaking

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2022. Quarto, boards, pp. 208, illustrated. New copy. New Australian Printmaking, a project by the NGV and Australian Print Workshop, features new work by artists Megan Cope, Shaun Gladwell, Tim Maguire and Patricia Piccinini, each a recipient of an Australian Print Workshop Artist Fellowship. With varied experiences in printmaking, these …

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  • [POETRY] Along the fault line. Late slippages and abrasions (signed copy)

    # 47016

    GLEESON, James.

    [POETRY] Along the fault line. Late slippages and abrasions (signed copy)

    Sydney: The Northwood Press (a division of The Beagle Press), 2005. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, 50 pp of James Gleeson’s poems. Limited to 350 copies, this is one of the first 100 copies which have been signed by the poet/artist.  Produced for private distribution. A rare literary work by the artist.

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  • William Yang : Stories of Love and Death

    # 47015

    GREHAN, Helena and SCHEER, Edward

    William Yang : Stories of Love and Death

    Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 190, illustrated. New copy. Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else, providing a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney’s theatrical and social scenes, and changing notions of ‘belonging’ in multicultural Australia. In this ground …

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  • A book about Australian women

    # 47014

    JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980); FRASER, Virginia (1947 - 2021)

    A book about Australian women

    Photographs by Carol Jerrems. Text edited by Virginia Fraser. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few light creases and lightly marked), pp. 141; [3], illustrated in black and white, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary small gift inscription dated 1974, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol …

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  • The Artist and the River (deluxe edition)

    # 47011

    [BOYD, Arthur]. McGRATH, Sandra.

    The Artist and the River (deluxe edition)

    Sydney: Bay Books, 1982. Folio, gilt-decorated silk-bound boards in matching silk slipcase, 314 pp. fully illustrated. The de luxe edition, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Arthur Boyd. A fine, clean copy.

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  • [BOOK-LOVER]. Vincent Brown. Life and Work (deluxe edition)

    # 47010

    [BROWN, Vincent]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).

    [BOOK-LOVER]. Vincent Brown. Life and Work (deluxe edition)

    Sydney: Odana Editions, 1980. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, 80pp. fully illustrated, slight foxing to title page. Limited to 1000 copies, of which the first 160 are deluxe editions, containing an original etching ‘The book lover’. This is one of the deluxe copies, with the etching, signed by the artist.

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  • Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

    # 47008

    PHILIPP, Franz; BOYD, Arthur

    Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

    With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, in gilt-lettered clamshell box, light foxing to the interior lining paper of the box and a trace to the endpapers, otherwise pristine, 288 pp., extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 107 numbered copies (100 available …

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  • Le mémorial : un chef-d'oeuvre d'art arborigène / The Memorial : a masterpiece of Aboriginal art. (Inscribed and signed copy)

    # 47007

    QUAILL, Avril; CARUANA, Wally; JENKINS, Susan; MUNDINE, Djon

    Le mémorial : un chef-d’oeuvre d’art arborigène / The Memorial : a masterpiece of Aboriginal art. (Inscribed and signed copy)

    Lausanne : Musée Olympique, 1999. Large quarto (300 x 240 mm), pictorial card with French flaps, pp. 144, colour illustrated; parallel text in French and English; a fine copy, the front free-endpaper inscribed and signed by the curators ‘Dear Sarah, this could not have happened without you. Best wishes, Wally [Caruana] / Cariños siempre, Gloria [Morales] …

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