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# 46983
BAIL, Murray
Fairweather
Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009. Quarto, plum cloth boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and a little canted, 280 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Revised and expanded edition of Murray Bail’s definitive work on the life and art of Ian Fairweather. Scarce in the market.
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# 46982
BUCKMASTER, Ernest
The art of Ernest Buckmaster (signed copy)
Melbourne : Lothian, 1951. Small quarto, cloth, pp. 54, tipped-in colour plates, essay by Buckmaster, foreword by A. H. Spencer; lightly marked and edge wear, a very good copy. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the half-title ‘Ernest Bustkmaster, Athenaeum Gallery, August 26, 1958’.
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# 46980
NEALE, Margo
Urban Dingo. The art and life of Lin Onus 1948 – 1996
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, numerous illustrations, light handling wear and sunning to spine. A very good copy of a scarce title.
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# 46979
CHAPMAN, Christopher et al.
Dreamings of the desert : Aboriginal dot paintings of the Western Desert
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 140, illustrated. Celebration of 25th anniversary of dot painting movement resulted in this publication and in an exhibition of the entire collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s western desert art; recognition of movement; map of central Australian languages; illustrated history of …
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# 46978
COOK, Captain James
The journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery (complete set)
Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1968-1969. Five volumes octavo, gilt-decorated cloth in dustjackets (lightly marked), plus the folio of maps and charts. Light scattered foxing, more prominent to the gutters and in the folds of the panels of the portfolio of charts. A good set.
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# 46977
PICKERING, Michael et al.
Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2010. Quarto, cards in dustjacket, pp. [xx]; 230, illustrated. The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …
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# 46966
SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)
Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century
With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Reprint, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 162, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected …
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# 46965
HALL, Vic
Namatjira of the Aranda
Adelaide : Rigby, 1963. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket , pp. 56 plus numerous photographic plates. A fine copy.
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# 46883
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988
Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …
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# 46933
[LINDSAY, Ruby]. "Celt"
The cynic’s autograph book No. 2
Illustrations by Ruby Lind. London : Gay & Hancock, 1913. Duodecimo, decorated boards, pp. 95, illustrations. A book of pithy phrases with space for supporters to sign their autograph (none in this example). Scarce illustrated work by Ruby Lindsay.
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# 46932
BARNETT, P. Neville
Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir
Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, pp. [32], illustrations of bookplates by Phyllis Shillito, Freda Robertshaw, George Hay and many others. limited to 150 copies signed by the author. A humorous and amusing printed souvenir for Barnett’s larger work on Woodcut Book Plates.
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# 46931
[CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor
The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (coloured version)
Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …
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# 46930
PHILLIPS, Emma
Send me a lullaby
Melbourne : Photo Australia x Perimeter Editions (Melbourne), 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 48, photographically illustrated. Send me a lullaby is a love letter to a city undergoing immense change, created during a period of both urban transformation and global upheaval. Emma Phillips was commissioned by Photo Australia to make a photographic portrait of Melbourne …
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# 46926
JACUNSKI, Jaclyn
You are a warrior
[Chicago? : the artist, 2017]. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated. Artist’s book / zine on the subject of civil disobedience and the protest movement. ‘Jaclyn’s work is driven by political controversies that surround land, communities, and acts of resistance. By framing evidence of those acts, her work recontextualizes how they manifest in public spaces …
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# 46925
[SHERMAN, Cindy]
Cindy Sherman
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2016. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, silver cloth spine, pp 141. Catalogue of Sherman’s works exhibited in the 2016 Queensland Art Gallery retrospective. As new copy.
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# 46916
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 …