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A painters' box made from an eighteenth-century book.
circa 1780.
Eighteenth-century book-art
Mottled-calf binding sculpted to form a painters' box 210 x 140 x 55 mm, fully-lined in floral linen with two-removable inner trays, containing 28 ceramic paint-shells and three paint-brushes. An eighteenth-century painters' box intricately sculpted from a book-binding of full mottled-calf with marbled fore-edges. Intriguingly the...
Price (AUD):
$3,500.00
Ref: #3706053
Un Nouveau Grand Palais des Expositions. Technique pour l'Utilisation de l'Acier.
Paris: Office Technique Pour l'Utilisation de l'Acier, 1935. Folio, numerous photogravure plates, plans, elevations and details, black leather spine, coloured decorative boards edged with white leather scuffed. Binding signed 'Barast' apparently one of a number of special copies for presentation, this copy numbered '8' and inscribed to M.Bruneton. This impressive.....
Price (AUD):
$2,550.00
Ref: #4403231
The First Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales…
Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1880.
The inaugural exhibition catalogue
Duodecimo, pp. 22, [ii]; original wrappers, preserved in a folding cloth box. The rare catalogue of the Society's inaugural exhibition held at the Garden Palace which had been purpose-built for the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. An impressive two hundred and...
Price (AUD):
$4,750.00
Ref: #4504264
A Nocturne.
Melbourne: Edward A. Vidler, 1920.
With illustrations by Napier Waller
Octavo, two black & white plates by Napier Waller; original pictorial wrappers with yap edges. A two-act play with an unusual idea for staging involving cinematic sets. Illustrated by Napier Waller.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #2203561
George Barbier Vingt-cinq costumes pour le théatre. Préface par Edmond Jaloux.
Paris: Chez Camille Bloch & Jules Meynial, 1927.
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Quarto, portrait frontispiece, introduction followed by twenty-five pochoir colour plates, each signed by the artist and mounted on tinted grey Arches paper; fine in polished half-calf with black lettering. A remarkable collection of elegant theatrical costume designs...
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4504079
Nicodème dans la Lune…
Paris: l'Auteur, 1791.
Lunar living is rather like France
Octavo; original condition, stitched in plain blue-grey wrappers. First edition: lunar life proves very similar to life in provincial France, but the music is better.Beffroy de Reigny (1757-1811) was a highly successful journalist and dramatist. His most important works were written...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #3005370
John Boydell, Esq.
London: Cadell & Davies, 21 June, 1814. Soft ground etching, plate size 380 x 325 mm. on a larger sheet; ex-library stamp to verso, together with the relevant letterpress. A fine portrait of the great publisher John Boydell (1720-1804), the most important print publisher of his day, and together with...
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4109664
Practical Hints on Colour in Painting.
London: John Carpenter, 1843. Quarto, eight handcoloured engraved plates; in original cloth-backed boards, paper titling label on front board. Fifth edition of this beautifully-produced but practical guide to colour in painting, which uses works by old masters such as Titian, Van Dyck and Rubens as a guide.
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3211645
Victoria Cantata…
London & Melbourne: Novello Ewer & Co. [and] Allan & Co., 1880.
Prize-winner for the Melbourne International Exhibition
Tall octavo, some foxing, all advertisements present; in original lilac wrappers, Surprisingly scarce: a 161 pp. musical score for Victoria, the prize cantata written by Caron for the opening of the Melbourne...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #4111733
Centennial Cantata…
Melbourne: W.H. Glen & Co., circa 1888. Octavo; modern marbled cloth-backed boards with original printed stiff wrappers bound in. A rare musical souvenir of the lavish opening of the Centennial International Exhibition, held in the Exhibition Building in Melbourne, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the landing of the First...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #3311984
Australian Album 1857.
Sydney: J.R. Clarke, 1857.
The first music album published in New South Wales
Large quarto, with a total of ten lithographic plates, including the illustrated title-page and frontispiece; comprising eight musical scores with introductory letterpress (preface and contents leaves); a very good copy in original red cloth decorated in gilt...
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00
Ref: #4308572
Terres et Peuples de Sumatra.
Amsterdam: Société d'Edition, 1925. Thick quarto, with 180 plates and 150 illustrations in the text, large folding colour map; untrimmed, in original colour decorated wrappers. Limited edition of 1000 copies, printed on 'papier vergé'.This is a beautifully produced and exceptionally detailed study of the Sumatran people and culture. In addition.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #3103160
"Capt. James Cook: Courage and Perseverance".
London: circa 1780.
Exceptionally rare medal, an early commemoration of Cook's death
Bronze medal, 37 mm. Extremely rare: the "Courage and Perseverance" medal, struck soon after news of Cook's death reached England. News of Cook's death was first published in Büsching's Wöchentlichte Nachrichten (Berlin, 1780) in early January 1780, via...
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
Ref: #4102433
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Das Leben des Malers Johann Weber von Bern…
Zurich: n.p., 1821.
Elusive biography of the great Cook voyage artist, with portrait and view
Square octavo, aquatint frontispiece, 13pp. with engraved oval portrait at head of first page; a fine copy in the original printed brown wrappers, preserved in a folding bookform case. Only edition: with the famous engraved...
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #4302366
A Series of Progressive Lessons intended to Elucidate the Art of Painting…
London: T. Clay, 1828.
Learning to paint in watercolour
Oblong quarto; illustrated throughout with full-page hand-coloured lithographs; in later quarter maroon calf over original marbled boards. Artistic tuition by a notable English painter whose reputation has grown in recent years. The recent major exhibition of Cox's work at the Yale...
Price (AUD):
$3,600.00
Ref: #3806703
La Geografia en Laminas y Mapas…
Barcelona: por los herederos de D. Agustin Roca, 1834. Oblong octavo, engraved frontispiece, title and 32 plates; a fine copy in original printed boards. A very good copy of this very rare illustrated Spanish edition of the costumes of the world, after the original French publication La Géographie en estampes...
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #3605521
Histoire archeologique, descriptive et graphique de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais.
Paris: Felix Malteste et Cie, 1857. Folio, twenty chromolithograph plates and five engraved plates, sound copy in quarter morocco, cloth, gilt title and decoration. This volume illustrates the chapel as restored by the architect J.B.A. Lassus, the chromolithograph plates show decorative panels, borders, murals etc highlighted in gold.
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4403234
The Sea Songs of Charles Dibdin…
London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. Tall quarto, copperplate engraved music and text;; contemporary half calf, a very handsome copy, the spine gilt and with an unusual triple "harlequin" set of labels in red, white & blue. First edition of this early collection of the patriotic ditties and rollicking shanties...
Price (AUD):
$2,650.00
Ref: #3702877
An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c of the Natives of the Pacific Islands…
Manchester: issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, "Lithographed by Palmer, Howe & Co., Manchester" 1890/1895/1898.
The complete set of a core ethnographical classic, in original portfolios
Three volumes, oblong folio, with 854 lithographic plates loose in the three original cloth portfolios, as issued, complete with the...
Price (AUD):
$34,000.00
Ref: #4504782
A Voyage to Terra Australis…
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1814.
Flinders' classic account, with plates by Westall and Bauer; atlas in the rare largest format and entirely uncut
Complete set of the Flinders account, comprising: two volumes large quarto, with nine steel-engraved plates after William Westall, the half-titles present; and elephant folio atlas with...
Price (AUD):
$87,500.00
Ref: #4504258
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
The Chewg-Um Blewg-Um.
Whitcombe & Tombes, circa 1919.
Lavish colour plates
Quarto, three tipped-in plates (two in full colour); a fine copy, stitch-sewn, with the pictorial wrappers tied on with the original blue ribbon. A fine copy of this book of poetry written and illustrated by Gaze, known for his 'distinct personal style'...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3704939
The Great Globe Quadrilles on Airs Characteristic of All Nations.
London: Robert Cocks & Co., circa 1900. Sheet musical score, illustrated cover and 6 pages. Front cover features a coloured world map of Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.
Price (AUD):
$500.00
Ref: #3702889