Fine Early Aboriginal and Oceanic Art. Sydney, Monday 18 August 2008
South Yarra, Mossgreen Auctions, 2008. Quarto, 176 pages with 390 colour illustrations from photographs. Colour pictorial card covers lightly scuffed; a few trifling marks; rear top corner slightly creased and torn; a very good copy. Auction catalogue. Lots 1 to 259, early Aboriginal art.
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Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
London, The Folio Society, 1995 [first thus]. Octavo, xx, 276 pages plus 8 full-page colour plates. Decorated cloth; spine lightly sunned and rubbed; an excellent copy in the slightly marked and flecked slipcase. Introduction by Frederic Raphael with illustrations by Leonard Rosoman; The text of this edition follows that of the revised edition first published by Chapman & Hall in 1960'. A World That Was. The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition). Quarto, xxxii, 624 pages with 10 maps, 20 tables and 36 illustrations plus 20 pages of plates (comprising 45 illustrations from photographs). Papered boards lightly bumped at the extremities; top edge slightly marked; an excellent copy with the lightly creased and bumped dustwapper. One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. A.A. Dutton’s Compendium of Relevant but Unreported Twentieth Century Phenomena .
Phoenix, The Artist, 1977. Oblong quarto, [vii], 151 pages with dozens of illustrations from photographs by A.A. Dutton. Pictorial card covers a little rubbed; diagonal crease across one leaf (a production flaw), with some associated offsetting to the adjacent leaves; edges foxed; a very good copy. Surrealist photocollages of nudes in American landscapes. The accompanying text is equally surreal, and we presume that the contributors - such as Amy Abletung (D.Symb.) of the Center for Creative Symbology, Mount Grundy, Iowa - are fictitious. August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Portraitphotographien, 1892-1952
Munich, Schirmer / Mosel, 1980. Quarto, 80, [2] pages plus 431 plates from photographs by August Sander. Cloth; top edge foxed, leading edge lightly foxed, bottom edge slightly marked; an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. Edited by Gunther Sander, the photographer's son; the text is in German. This My Country. A View of Arnhem Land
Sydney, Collins, 1985. Large quarto, 40, [2] (bibliography, last blank) pages plus 182 pages of colour plates (many full-page) from photographs by the author. Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. 'As late as 1975 very little visual information was available to anyone seeking a better understanding of their unique culture. To redress this imbalance, Penny Tweedie spent nine months in Arnhem Land during 1978 and 1979, living and working with a number of Aboriginal families' (dustwrapper blurb). August Sander – Photographer Extraordinary
London, Thames and Hudson, 1973 (first edition in English)/ 1971. Quarto, 314 pages with '275 photographs [and] 4 line drawings'. Decorated papered boards slightly rubbed; top edge slightly foxed; contemporary ownership signature on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper lightly sunned and rubbed. This substantial study is by the son of the photographer. This translated from the original German edition ('August Sander - Menschen ohne Maske') is by Maureen Oberli-Turner; the foreword is by Golo Mann. I Shall Save One Land Unvisited. Eleven Southern Photographers. Selected by Jonathon Williams
Frankfort, Gnomon Press for Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1978. Square quarto, [18] pages plus 77 full-page plates. Pictorial card covers a little unevenly sunned; edges a little tanned or lightly foxed, with the first and last pages a little foxed; a very good copy. The catalogue for a travelling exhibition featuring works by Lyle Bongé, Alex Harris, Paul Kwilecki, John McWilliams, Sally Mann, Robert C. May, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, John Menapace, Guy Mendes, Bart Parker and Evon Streetman. Portugal. With an Afterword by Mary McCarthy
New York, Lustrum Press, 1971. Quarto, [vi], [20] (Afterword), [2] (colophon, blank) pages plus 32 full-page plates (versos blank) from photographs by the author. Pictorial card covers lightly marked and rubbed; top edge foxed; an excellent copy. A pictorial record of Portugal during the reign of Salazar. Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde
Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1977. Quarto, xvi, 335 pages with '135 black and white illustrations' from photographsby Alfred Stieglitz. Black cloth a little flecked and rubbed; to edge foxed; a very good copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper unevenly sunned and slightly worn. Provenance: with the ownership signature of Melbourne photographer and pioneering gallerist Joyce Evans OAM (1929-2019). A Victorian Album. Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circle
London, Secker & Warburg, 1975 (first English edition). Quarto, [viii], 252 pages with a two-page family tree and 119 full-page illustrations from photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. Gilt-decorated cloth slightly rubbed; leading edge and initial leaves slightly foxed; front free endpaper lightly creased; pastedowns lightly discoloured; a very good copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper unevenly sunned and slightly rubbed and marked. Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Essentially a facsimile of a family album, the subjects also include Alfred Lord Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Mrs Herbert Duckworth (the eventual mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), Earl Somers, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Gustav Rejlander. A Victorian Album. Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circle
New York, Da Capo Press, 1975 (first American edition). Quarto, [viii], 252 pages with a two-page family tree and 119 full-page illustrations from photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. Gilt-decorated cloth lightly scuffed and slightly marked; edges a little foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned and slightly rubbed. Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Essentially a facsimile of a family album, the subjects also include Alfred Lord Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Mrs Herbert Duckworth (the eventual mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), Earl Somers, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Gustav Rejlander. Klaus Ullrich. Schmuckmacher seit 1955
Pforzheim, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim in association with the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf and Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, 1992. Small square quarto, [124] pages with over 100 colour illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards very slightly rubbed; a fine copy. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name, featuring Ullrich's jewellery. Text in German. 'From 1952-1955, Klaus Ullrich studied at the Werkkunstschule Düsseldorf and later taught at the Kunst- und Werkschule Pforzheim. As can be seen from his designs, he considered gold to be the central material of his jewelry design. Geometric forms were the basis of his compositions. In turn, he set accents with the help of stones, gold wire, silver, steel and bone' (Quittenbaum website).
An invitation to attend the Jubilee celebrations of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (now BHP Group Limited) at Newcastle in July 1935
Newcastle, The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., 1935. Oblong octavo, [4] pages (a bifolium). Unevenly tanned; an excellent copy. The printed text of the invitation, with the details inscribed in ink, reads; 'The Directors of The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. request the honor of the Company of [W.T. Rofe Esq.] at Newcastle on the occasion of the Celebration of the Jubilee Year of the Company from [Evening July 7] 1935 to [July 10] 1935 inclusive'. William Taylor Rofe was long-standing president of the South Australian Employers' Federation. A small printed Christmas card from him, dated 1940-41, is loosely inserted. [2 items]. Antique and Twentieth Century Jewellery. A Guide for Collectors
Tiptree, Gemmological Association of Great Britain, 1989 (second impression)/ 1987 (second edition)/ 1980. Small quarto, 319 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus numerous pages of colour plates. Papered board very slightly marked and a little bumped at the extremities; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper (a little sunned and creased). 'An important study of both well-known and forgotten jewellery fashions and trends. It aims to spotlight areas of collectibility - mainly from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries - which are available for enthusiasts today.' (From the blurb). Vanishing Africa
London, Collins, 1974 (revised edition)/ 1971. Folio, [approximately 250] pages with a map and over 200 pages of illustrations from photographs (many in colour). Pictorial papered boards; top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper unevenly sunned and slightly rubbed and creased. Türk Maden Sanati. The Art of Turkish Metalworking
Istanbul, Türk Kültürüne Hizmet Vakfi, 1987. Quarto, 221 pages with numerous illustrations (many full-page and in colour). Colour pictorial card covers unevenly sunned and very slightly rubbed; a very good copy. Text in Turkish and English. Sanat Yayinlari 2.
Thuis in de Jordaan. Inside the Jordaan
Deventer, Thieme Art, 2010. Oblong quarto, 119 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Pictorial papered boards very slightly bumped at the extremities; an excellent copy. Signed by the photographer on the title page. Text in Dutch, with an English translation at the rear. Loosely inserted are two related postcards.
