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hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 9 Volumes 4to. b&w photographs 9 large-format minute books, being 8 Ships' Registers (Monstrings Liggare) for Steam Ships, Motor Ships/Vessels, Motor Tankers, travelling between Sweden and Australia from the 1940's-1970's, including numerous official applications for Seaman's Passports (including b&w photos of applicants, along with names, d.o.b's etc), and 1 large-format minute book of the Swedish Vice Consulate in Australia 1920's-1940's, referencing all issues maritime, including lists of Swedish ships reported at Vice Consulate (names, ports of registry, crews, dates of arrival, etc) - all details hand-written, and also including numerous official typed documents such as Seaman's Service Ratings, Notices of Masters of Swedish Vessels, incidental letters regarding requests for ships' repairs to be carried out in Australian ports, and so forth; many of the ships named herein also list the owner at the time, e.g. M.V. Camilla (F. Bjornberg), the cargo carried, dates… Leer más

New York: White Gallaher & White, 1828. 1st Edition. three-quarter leather, marbled boards. Good-Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. fold-out map 1st Edition of Samuel Gridley Howe's historical outline of the Greek Revolution, with gift-inscription to prelims by the author's son Henry Marion Howe and Eliza Howe (possibly SG Howe's daughter, the writer Laura Elizabeth Howe), inscription dated Boston December 1895, and also signed (presumably by the recipient) J.S. (or I.S.) Howe; includes the fold-out frontispiece map (often missing); Samuel Gridley Howe was an American physician, Abolitionist, and advocate for the blind, who (after being inspired by Byron) served as a surgeon in the Greek Revolution; his son Henry Marion Howe was a prominent metallurgist who wrote the Iron and Steel article for the 11th Edition (1911) Britannica; a unique copy with the Howe family connection; bound in (later) three-quarter calf with marbled boards, raised bands with six compartments, black title label with gilt titling… Leer más

London: Walker's Galleries Ltd, 1921-1932. 1st Edition. leather/leatherette. Very Good/no dustwrappers. 7 volumes 8vo. profusely illustrated Scarce collection of Walker's Quarterly, being 28 issues bound in 7 volumes of four issues each from 1921-1932 including an unbroken run from No 5 - 28; No 5 Dictator of the Royal Academy (an account of Joseph Farrington R.A. with some notes on his brother George) No 6 William Payne No 7 Claude Hayes No 8 John Laporte No 9 Alfred William Rich No 10 David Roberts No 11 William Turner No 12 Robert Hills No 13 Edward Duncan No 14 Francis Nicholson No 15 John Glover No 16 John Burgess No 17 Brian Hatton No 18 Thomas Shotter Boys Nos 19-20 John Sell Cotman (The Bulwer Collection) No. 21 Miles Edmund Cotman No 22 William Callow No 23 James Holland No 24 John (Warwick) Smith Nos 25-26 George A Fripp and Alfred D Fripp No 27 Samuel Lucas No 28 John Frederick Lewis Nos 33-34 British Farm Animals in Prints and in Paintings Nos 35-36 Thomas Daniell William Daniell;… Leer más

Brisbane: Scott Redford, 2012. Signed. metal and dice. 18 x 11 x 7cm. Scott Redford sculpture, being a rectangular structure (roughly 18 x 11 x 7cm) consisting of a metal base, turned up at the sides and with the corners cut out, on which rests a wire cage part filled with six-sided dice, black with white dots, and presumably numbering 152 (although we haven't counted); two lengths of heavy wire fold over the ends of the cage; a barred, inverted cone hangs from centre top, trapping one of the dice at its (open) tip; titled in black texta on the underside of the base ""Why Not Sneeze Reinhardt Dammn"", signed 'S.R.' and dated 8-3-2012; further to the title is inscribed 'Rat c**t...'; the sculpture is after Duchamp's 1921 assisted Readymade ""Why Not Sneeze Rose Selavy?"", Redford replacing Duchamp's alter-ego with his own fictional 'Reinhardt Dammn'; the dice might also be seen as a reference to Mallarme; an obscure Redford object, for which we can find no exhibition references.

London: Kosmos Press Bureau etc, 1938/1952. Good. b&w photos 11 original official press photos of the historic visit to Paris of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in July 1938; all photos eventive; all with descriptive text typewritten on butter-paper (3 on thin brown paper) tags adhered to rear, stamps of relevant press bureau (Kosmos Press, Sport and General Press Agency, Fox Photos, Planet News Ltd - all London), text typewritten direct to rear of each photo stating 'Royal Visit To France July 1938', 3 photos with handwritten pencil notation stating dimensions etc, 2 with contemporary pink printed Block Order tags stating date, serial number, title, size, and 'sent to process' and 'required by' details all inscribed in pencil; photos show a military review (with numerous tanks in procession) at Versailles, the King's tribute to the French Unknown Soldier at the Arc d' Triomphe, the Queen's visit to the British Hospital at Levallois, The Royal Couple at a reception in Hotel de Ville, the Queen… Leer más

Russia, 1879. Silver over wood panel. Good. 17.5 x 20cm. Russian Icon, 1879 most likely St. Petersburg, showing a rendition of The Christ behind a riza (silver covering) with repousse work and pierced (in the traditional fashion) to show elements of the painting beneath; the painting is not of the highest quality here, the silver being more impressive, with a rather spectacular halo extending beyond the upper edge of the panel; silver stamped 1879 lower lh corner, and with the numerals 84, ie 84 zublotniks (the highest grade Russian silver); further silver marks show a double-sided eagle (being the Romanov Family crest), and a Byzantine emblem of a bird looking east and west; silver with ornate borders, folded and nailed over the edge of the canvas-covered wooden panel; dimensions 17.5 x 20cm (but with halo extending 2cm beyond edge); painting and silver generally a little rubbed, but generally Good.

Melbourne: G.W. Green & Sons, 1934. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in rubbed/scuffed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations/fold-out maps 1st Edition of AT Paterson's history of the 39th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, an infantry unit of the Australian Army, founded in February 1916 for service during WWI as part of the first AIF; list of Battle Honours include Messines, Ypres, Somme, Amiens, France and Flanders - the text providing a chapter on each battle; foreword by Lieut-General John Monash; includes a Lest We Forget list, list of Decorations and Recommendations, and Nominal Roll; 36 b&w illustrations; 11 fold-out maps (all maps in VG condition with sharp folds); this copy with a typed letter (loose-inserted) from Paterson addressed to 'Capt. Matthews...Victoria Barracks' - I take this to be Captain Lionel Colin Matthews of the 27th Brigade who served in the Second Australian Imperial Force in WWII; the letter states ""I have pleasure in forwarding to you....a copy of 'The… Leer más

New York: Primary Information, 2007. Numbered Limited Edition. paperback. Very Good in Very Good box. 20 vols 8vo in pine box. b&w illustrations Pine box with Great Bear motif (and titling) screenprinted to top, containing facsimile reproductions of the 20 booklets published by Dick Higgins at Something Else Press between the years 1965-67, which went under the general title of The Great Bear Pamphlets; produced by Primary Information New York in an edition of only 200 numbered copies, this being No. 83; the content is broadly (but not exclusively) Fluxus in nature; Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Claes Oldenburg, Al Hansen, Jerome Rothenberg, Allan Kaprow, ""Manifestos"", Wolf Vostell, Jackson Mac Low, John Cage, Bengt Af Klintberg, David Antin, Philip Corner, Robert Filliou, Allan Kaprow, Diter Rot (Dieter Rot), Luigi Russolo, Emmett Williams, A Zaj Sampler; each booklet 16pp - apart from the Manifesto volume (32pp), and produced in a different colour, all text b&w apart from the… Leer más

California: JP Publications, 1984. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Scarce Stelarc publication; images in colour and b&w of various Stelarc performance art pieces, all involving the suspension of the naked body in space held by hooks attached to cord and hooked into the artist's skin; Event for Clone Suspension Maki Gallery Tokyo 1982, Moving/Modifying Suspension for Obsolete Body Espace DBD Los Angeles 1982, Trajectory Ibaraki Kenmin Bunka Centre 1983, Tilted/Twisting Event for Cone Configuration Tamura Gallery 1980, Event for Obsolete Body La Mama Melbourne 1980, and many more; various authors, including extracts from Japanese art journals; compiled and edited by James D Paffrath (with the artist); Signed in black texta by Stelarc to translucent prelims page; Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, with minor loss to head of spine.

Koln: Taschen, 2009. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good Slipcase/slipcase. 2 volumes Folio in Slipcase. profusely illustrated Monumental Taschen 2 Volume set of works by Matisse: one a profusely illustrated study of the artist's Cut-outs (drawing with scissors) - work Matisse produced from the 1930's to his death in 1954; the other a facsimile of the illustrated book 'Jazz' originally published in 1947 by Editions Teriade, keeping to the format of that production with 38 unbound folded folios in printed card folder and again in an illustrated cloth folder with colour plate to front; both volumes housed in cloth slipcase with colour plates laid-on to front and rear; Cut-outs volume 333pp, with countless colour and b&w illustrations, including some gate-fold; text by Xavier-Gilles Neret, chapters - Tahiti, The Dance, Verve and Jazz, Oceania, The Rosary Chapel, The Last Monumental Gouaches - bound in cream cloth boards with colour plate laid-in to front, black and red titling to spine;… Leer más

Sydney: Walter Stone & Sons, 1960. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in poor dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Unique copy of Fisher's Ghost, being an association copy from the library of Queensland playwright, director and theatre personality Eunice Hanger, who also taught English and Drama at the University of Queensland in the 1950's-60's, and whose manuscripts are held at the Fryer Library; flat-signed/dated (1960) by Hanger to front endpaper; colophon signed by Douglas Stewart, Norman Lindsay, and publisher Walter Stone, who adds a gift-inscription 'for Eunice Hanger with regards 23.9.60'; apart from the Hanger association this is one of the more scarce of Lindsay's illustrated books - hand-tipped frontispiece plate and 4 full-page illustrations; No. 37 of 200 copies; blue buckram with gilt titling to front board; foxing/tanning to endpapers, some foxing to plates (mild-med), occasional foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper is present but heavily edgeworn… Leer más

Dublin: William Curry, 1844. 2nd Edition. half leather marbled boards. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. 2 colour maps, b&w text engravings 2nd Edition, revised and enlarged, of William Wilde's narrative of his journey to Madeira, Teneriffe, the Middle East etc, describing his travels and observations in the region which he undertook in 1837; 2 full-page colour maps - Plan of Jerusalem, and Chart of the Coast of Tyre (this latter stated in list of illustrations to p.336 but in fact p. 356), b&w text engravings; William Wilde was a prominent Irish doctor and author, producing works on medicine, archaeology, and Irish folklore, he was the father of Oscar Wilde; this copy new bound in half black leather with gilt bands and titling to spine, marbled boards, new endpapers; occasional light foxing in text, archival repair to top corner of one page (prelims), and edge of illustrations page, o.w. Very Good throughout.

London: T.C. Newby, 1844. 1st Edition. 3/4 calf. no dustwrapper. 3 volumes 12mo. Scarce 1844 1st Edition in three volumes of Mrs Grey's The Gambler's Wife; much controversy surrounds the identity of the author of this and other novels to appear under the name of 'Mrs. Grey' - it's now generally assumed that works by writers of similar (and not so similar) names were all attributed to one writer; in the case of The Gambler's Wife, while the original attribution was to Elizabeth Caroline Grey, research has shown that the true author was most likely Catherine Maria Grey; moreover the life story of Elizabeth Caroline Grey has been revealed by Patrick Spedding (in the essay ""The Many Mrs Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey and Others"") to be something of a fabrication; in any case this 1844 edition is exceedingly scarce (not in Sadleir, Wolff or Block); three-quarter calf with raised bands and gilt titling to spines, marbled boards; all… Leer más

London: John Murray/Thomas and William Boone, 1828-1840. 1st Edition. 3/4 calf with marbled boards. All volumes Very Good throughout boards/leather lightly scuffed and rubbed. 6 volumes 8vo. b&w maps Complete set in 6 volumes of Napier's Peninsular War, published between the years 1828-1840, first volume published by John Murray, volumes 2-6 by Thomas and William Boone; all volumes 3/4 maroon calf with 6 compartments to spine (2 black title labels with gilt titling, 4 gilt devices), marbled boards, marbled endpapers and text block; includes numerous full-page plates, being maps illustrating key battle moments and strategies; also includes substantial reference appendices; to foot of title page vol 5 reads 'to which are prefixed answers to some attacks in Robinson's Life of Picton, and in The Quarterly Review; with counter-remarks to Mr. Dudley Montagu Perceval's remarksupon some passages in Colonel Napier's fourth volume of The History of the Peninsular War', and similar… Leer más

Melbourne & Sydney: Lothian, 1916. Signed Limited Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. folio. hand-tipped plates No. 206 of 1000 copies Signed by Frederick McCubbin, 45 full-page hand-tipped plates in colour and b&w, with printed tissue-guards, essay by James MacDonald, and including a text by McCubbin on aspects of Australian Art; list of subscribers to rear of text; all plates present (No. XXIII frontispiece, No. VII bound before VI) green cloth boards with gilt titling and detail of a McCubbin picture of two trees (also in gilt) to front board, gilt titling to spine; tanning and foxing to endpapers and prelims, short closed tear to one page of prelims, offset to contents page; tissue-guards vary in condition, some with closed tears and (occasionally) tape-repair, some intact, some with significant loss and creases; all plates clean and unmarked, with some tanning to edges of pages; generally Good throughout; boards rubbed, with dulling to gilt titling, in particular to spine; wear to head and… Leer más

Brisbane, 2016. Signed Unique Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. Scott Redford artists book, consisting of (mostly) vertical strips of masking tape applied to the pages of a spiral-bound A4 notebook of heavy black paper, the artist then applying paint to the tape and surface of the pages (spray-paint in the main, but occasionally oil or glitter), often in black, but also varieties of colour - the overall work being an homage to Barnett Newman; Signed and titled to reverse side of front cover, and further signed with gift-inscription to this bookseller to rear cover; Redford also supplied the following note ""My artist's book is based on the fact that in the work Onement 1 Barnett Newman DID NOT remove the strip of masking tape but instead chose to keep it and paint orange over it but parts of it still show in the finished work now in the collection of MoMA.....Over the years people have said they were 'amazed' that Newman didn't remove the masking tape.""; throughout the book the… Leer más

Munich: Schirmer Mosel, 1997/2019. 1st Edition. hardbound. Both volumes Very Good in Very Good dustwapper/Dustwrapper. 2 Volumes 4to. profusely illustrated 2 volume set (complete) of Nicola Del Roscio's monumental Catalogue Raisonne of Cy Twombly's sculpture, Vol 1 covering a period from 1946-1997, Vol 2 1998-2011; both volumes edited by Del Roscio (who also provides a preface for vol 2), volume 1 with text by Arthur Danto; documents a total of 303 sculptures, each with a full-page plate along with details of date, medium, dimensions, collection, and notes; vol 2 with biographical notes, one-person exhibitions, one-person exhibition catalogues, group exhibition catalogues, monographs, and general literature; both volumes in handsome cloth boards with dustwrappers; vol 1 with mild creases to prelims, mild toning to edges of some pages, o.w. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper; vol 2 Very Good tight and clean in like dustwrapper; PLEASE NOTE: EXTREMELY HEAVY TWO VOLUME SET WILL INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING… Leer más

UK: Studio Parris Wakefield, 2012. Numbered limited edition. Very Good. 59.5 x 42cm (x3). Scarce New Order memorabilia, being three limited edition colour posters (all with similar design theme of red, blue and black criss-crossing colour bands, with red, black or white titling) for the 2012 reunion tour; designed by Studio Parris Wakefield, being 3-colour screenprints on heavy paper stock, hand-numbered to lower edge of poster: New Order London Brixton Academy 2 & 3 May 2012 13/220; New Order Manchester Apollo 26 & 27 April 2012 59/220; New Order United Kingdom 2012 9/320 (this last poster giving a list of all six venues and dates for the tour); some auction records list Peter Saville as part of the design team, but according to Howard Wakefield (who had taken over as creative director) ""this was the first time Peter hadn't been involved with New Order"" - source: Studio Parris Wakefield website; with regards the design of the posters, bassist Peter Hook had recently (and acrimoniously) split from… Leer más

Brisbane: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1987-1994. paperback. Very Good. 7 volumes 4to. profusely illustrated Very Scarce - complete run of all 75 issues of the MOCA Bulletin (Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane) from No. 1 September 1987 - No. 75 May 1994, and including an index to all 75 issues (bound in to last volume); the Bulletins are bound in 7 volumes in cream card wraps (printed to spines) with clear acrylic to front; the complete sequence of 75 issues provides an important and continuous overview of art in Brisbane in the late 80's-early 90's; run by independent art collector James Baker, MOCA was an non-commercial art space in South Brisbane, holding shows of artists emerging and established, and also providing a meeting place for the Brisbane arts community; Issue No. 1 covers the Museum's first exhibition featuring Stelarc, Scott Redford and Jeff Thomson; artists featured throughout are too numerous to mention but include Davila, Davida Allen, John Lethbridge, Peter Tyndall, Luke… Leer más

London: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 2003. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Definitive reference to Dieter Roth's graphic work, being a Catalogue Raisonne of Roth's prints produced between 1947-1998; all prints reproduced in full colour, often showing several examples of the unique prints shown; curated by Dirk Dobke; includes the numbered limited edition print of 'A Bunch of Flowers' being No. 25 of 100, with the stamp of the Dieter Roth Estate, Basel (to pocket reverse side of rear board); a companion volume to Dieter Roth Unique Pieces, and Books + Multiples; orange cloth boards with black titling to spine; Very Good tight and clean throughout, with no marks or flaws; dustwrapper lightly sunned to spine, o.w. Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING IF DESTINATION IS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA