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An Account of the State of Agriculture & Grazing in New South Wales…
London: J. Cross, 1826.
The first book on Australian agriculture
Octavo, half-title, with four hand-coloured aquatint plates, and advertisement leaf for the printer Joseph Cross; a very attractive copy in modern half calf. Scarce: The first book on Australian agriculture, with the earliest published architectural drawing of an Australian house.....
Price (AUD):
$5,000.00
Ref: #4505134
Sydney in 1848: Illustrated by copper-plate engravings…
Sydney: D. Wall, 76 York Street, n.d. but, 1848. Quarto, with full page copper plate engravings throughout, owner's name "Alfred C. Johnson"; a good copy in the original pink papered boards, preserved in a blue folding quarter morocco book-form box, lettered to the spine. First edition, first issue of Australia's.....
Price (AUD):
$6,250.00
Ref: #2406575
Sydney in 1848: Illustrated by copper-plate engravings…
Sydney: Gibbs, Shallard and Company, 1878.
Important Australian architectural record.
Quarto, with full page copper plate engravings throughout, half black roan with gilt lettering, bookplate of Henry White. Joseph Fowles arrived in Sydney in 1838 and this is without doubt his most important work, providing remarkably detailed information on the.....
Price (AUD):
$900.00
Ref: #4403193
London, Revised and Corrected to the Present Time by E. Walford, M.A.
London: Virtue and Company, circa 1875. Three thick quarto volumes, engraved vignettes, full page plates, page-edges gilt; in contemporary red morocco gilt, flat spines elaborately gilt, cloth boards marked. Beautifully illustrated collection of essays on the history of London bound in ornate handsome contemporary gilt decorated red morocco. In addition.....
Price (AUD):
$1,475.00
Ref: #3905154
An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture…
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833. Thick octavo, half title including publishers advertisements to verso, almost 100 lithographs on thicker art pages (but with continuing pagination) as well as more than 2,000 wood engravings throughout, early owner's inscription,, very good; half dark blue morocco, original marbled boards.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3812999
The Country Gentlemen's Architect…
London: M. Taylor, 1838. Quarto, with 22 engraved plates (eight double-page); in the original grey boards with paper label,, with the 16pp. publisher's catalogue. A very charming, but practical, pattern-book aimed at the country gentleman who wished to construct villas which looked like farms, and for genteel farmers who wanted.....
Price (AUD):
$2,400.00
Ref: #2812008
Views in Australia…
London: J. Souter, 1825.
By Governor Macquarie's artist
Oblong folio, a tall copy with the pictorial lithographed title untrimmed, 48 coloured aquatint views after drawings by Joseph Lycett, the colouring generally very bright and of notably high quality, two engraved maps (one folding), with descriptive letterpress text, later neat owner's.....
Price (AUD):
$74,500.00
Ref: #4504397
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New South Wales. View of Sydney from the West Side of the Cove No. 1 [and] No. 2.
London: John Booth Duke Street Portland Place, 4 June 1810.
The first panoramic views of Sydney to be exhibited
Pair of uncoloured aquatints joined as a panorama as intended, 340 x 980 mm; in original bird's-eye maple frame. A rare panoramic view of Sydney Harbour. John Eyre arrived in New.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
Ref: #4202818
Les Bâtimens et les desseins de André Palladio… Seconde edition [with] Les Thermes des Romains…
Vicenza: Jean Rossi, and Modena, 1785-1786.
Palladian revival architecture
Three volumes, folio, comprising: "Les Bâtimens et les desseins", four parts (bound in the first two volumes), each with separate decorated title-pages, portrait frontispiece to the first volume and a total of 208 engraved plates, many folding; "Les Thermes", being the.....
Price (AUD):
$18,750.00
Ref: #4212298
Royal Agricultural Show of 1897.
Sydney: N.S.W. Government Printer, 1897.
Photographic Panorama of the Sydney Agricultural Show
Five-panel panoramic photograph, highlighted by hand, laid down on canvas, 390 x 3490 mm.; some wear and staining to canvas backing, very lightly cracked at one joint, but overall in very good condition. A rare very large panoramic.....
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00
Ref: #3504681
Rural Residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages…
London: for R. Ackermann, 1818.
Cottages ornés: influential on Colonial design
Imperial octavo, frontispiece and 26 aquatint plates, all handcoloured; nineteenth century purple half calf. In this beautifully illustrated book George Papworth (1775-1847) intended to demonstrate that even a modest cottage could be raised to a high aesthetic plane with.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #2802508
Architectural Designs for Rustic Cottages, Picturesque Villas &c…
London: for J. Taylor, 1823. Quarto, 33 engraved plates (23 sepia aquatints), partly unopened in original grey boards, with 16 pp. publisher's catalogue. An excellent unsophisticated copy of the second edition. Pocock (1779-1849) had an extensive and varied architectural practice in England, Ireland and Canada, where he built the Ball.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #2812010
The Gallery of Nature and Art; or, A Tour through Creation and Science.
London: R. N. Rose, 1821.
"A literary conservatory of rare, curious, and interesting productions…"
Six volumes, octavo, illustrated by one hundred engravings (some folding); contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Generously illustrated cyclopaedia of curious knowledge gleaned from myriad sources for the general reader. In the preface, the good Reverend Polehampton.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #3710489
Prout's Microcosm…
London: James Rimell and Son, 1881. Folio, with a suite of 24 tinted lithographs, some foxing; a very good copy bound in original dark blue cloth, small worm hole to front board, gilt. An attractive copy of this increasingly rare book of illustrations by Samuel Prout, an important and influential.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3601262
Photographs of Views of Sydney, 1842.
Sydney: Charles Potter, 1893. Large oblong album of 27 original photographs mounted on card with letterpress title-page; bound in gilt lettered full dark blue morocco by the Government Binder. Rare and sumptuous album of early Sydney prepared at the artistic pinnacle of Government printing and binding. John Rae (1813-1900), a......
Price (AUD):
$3,500.00
Ref: #4202802
Designs for Ornamental Villas.
London: James Carpenter, 1830. Quarto, lithograph title and 96 lithograph plates; possibly lacking additional letterpress title (?), in modern quarter calf. Third edition of this classic architectural pattern book. Robinson (1776-1858) was a prolific and versatile designer of country mansions and picturesque cottages. In the present work he provides sixteen.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #2802469
Designs for Ornamental Villas.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1836. Quarto, lithograph title and 96 lithograph plates; original quarter roan. Third edition "greatly improved" a re- issue of the 1830 edition by Bohn, with a new preface. Robinson (1776-1858) was a prolific and versatile designer of country mansions and picturesque cottages. In the present work.....
Price (AUD):
$1,285.00
Ref: #2812011
Rural Architecture being a Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1836. Quarto, decorative lithographed title, 96 plates; in original quarter morocco with morocco label on upper board. Fourth edition of the first of Robinson's six pattern-books. Peter Frederick Robinson (1776-1858) was a very successful architect as well as a prolific writer on architectural styles. As a......
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #2812013
Village Architecture. Being a Series of Designs for the Inn…
London: James Carpenter, 1837. Quarto, plates; original publisher's quarter calf. Fourth edition of Robinson's fourth pattern-book, including designs for all types of village buildings from an Anglo-Norman church to a pump. The last of the high-quality plates is a view of the village street which emphasises the irregularity and varied.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #2812012
A General Plan for laying out Towns and Townships…
London: n.d., but, 1794.
Laying out the settlements
Octavo, large folding plate of plans with early handcolouring in red; bound in original heavy pink card wrappers, a bit faded, with early manuscript title to front. Very scarce first edition of this model for the planning and building of an ideal.....
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4002604
Vite de' più Eccellenti Pittori Scultori e Architetti…
Siena: Pazzini Carli, 1791-1794.
Eighteenth-century edition of the classic account of artists of the Italian Renaissance
Eleven volumes, octavo, printed upon pale blue tinted paper with 159 engraved plates, an excellent set in contemporary gilt decorated quarter calf with crimson morocco labels. Remarkably fine and fresh late-18th-century edition of Vasari's.....
Price (AUD):
$8,850.00
Ref: #4211250
L'Architettura di M. Vitruvio Pollione…
Naples: Stamperia Simoniana, 1758.
Large format Vitruvius
Folio, with engraved frontispiece and 25 plates, woodcut diagrams and vignettes throughout; contemporary vellum. Splendid edition of Vitruvius, published in large format with 25 detailed plates specially prepared for this edition. This is the best textual edition of Vitruvius, translated and edited by.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4211251