Lux et Nox
Zurich, Scalo, 2002. More
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Japanese Tradition in Color & Form Cuisine
Tokyo, Graphic-Sha Publishing Co. Ltd., 1987. Text in Japanese and English. Illustrates the utensils used in the preparation and consumption of Japanese food. More
A group of four nineteenth-century photographs featuring Thomas Walker Higgins, a pioneer of Currency Creek and Middleton, about 80 kilometres south of Adelaide
Two of the photographs are approximately 100 × 150 mm, the other two are approximately 70 × 75 mm. All four have been removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; each one has a small number pencilled unobtrusively in the sky in the top right-hand corner..... More
A portrait photograph of an old salt, framed in a small-format model of a life buoy from HMS 'Satyr'
The gelatin silver print is behind a circular mat (visible image size approximately 135 mm in diameter), behind slightly convex glass. The wooden frame is fashioned from timber with a half-round profile (depth 35 mm, inner diameter 200 mm, outer diameter 315 mm), thick with white paint; rope is attached..... More
An advertising postcard (captioned 'I always use Waterman's - J.B. Hobbs') featuring a portrait of a late-vintage Jack Hobbs complete with blazer, cigarette and Waterman's pen, busily signing autographs for lads
This slightly foxed but otherwise unused example has been signed prominently in blue ink by Jack Hobbs (and the lad who received it has written - almost unnoticed in dark ink in the dark bottom margin - 'Jack Hobb's [sic] autograph'). More
Gardens of Persia. Photography by Jerry Harpur
Glebe, Florilegium, 2003. A former review copy, with the loosely inserted publisher's descriptive blurb (on Florilegium's letterhead). More
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David Hockney Photocollages, Tynte Gallery, March 1-23 1986, Adelaide Festival [cover title]
[Adelaide, Tynte Gallery, 1986]. Featuring 8 full-colour plates and the lecture, 'David Hockney on Photography. A Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 1983'. More
Zwolf - Twelve
Munchen, Schirmer/ Mosel, 2001. Text in German and English. More
Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book
Sydney, Hordern House, 1988. 'An Historical Survey' (38 pages); 'Photographic Genres' (34 pages) and a detailed (but not comprehensive) bibliography of 130 photographically illustrated books (86 pages). A fascinating and little-known branch of book illustration; limited to 1000 copies. More
Splendour Under Sail. [Cover subtitle]: The new generation of Superyachts
St. Heller, Shoreline Publishing Limited, 1988. More
The Fifth Continent
London, Simpkin Marshall, 1931 (Australian edition). 'Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era ... a brilliant landscape and travel photographer.' (E.O. Hoppe Estate Collection website). More
'Kappacoola' by 'Go-ahead' - Dam unknown 1905. By 'Gang Forward' from 'Rivalry' by 'Talk o'the Hill' [caption on the original mat around a large gelatin silver photograph, image size 238 × 298 mm]
The Hundred of Kappakoola [sic], derived from Kappakoola Hill, near Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula, is the best we can do to give this item some context. The horse features at South Australian country races in a few issues of the 'Sporting News' in 1913 and 1914 (information courtesy of..... More
Two photographs from the funeral of Reginald Player Fuller (1905-1933), a well-known South Australian jockey killed in a steeplechase accident
The photographer is not identified, but written in ballpoint pen on the verso of each mount is '1933 | Probably funeral of Reg Player Fuller'. Reg Fuller, one of 'the State's best riders over hurdles and fences', died as a result of injuries received when his horse 'fell with him..... More
A vintage photograph of a hospital operating theatre, complete with nine doctors and nurses - and a dog
The gelatin silver postcard-format print (circa 1920s) is in fine condition. The unidentified location depicted is presumably in England, where the item was sourced. The British passion for dogs is taken to extremes in this instance, with the bulldog resting on its stomach and front paws on the operating table..... More
The American Annual of Photography 1916. Volume XXX
New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1915. Volume 30 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More
The American Annual of Photography 1920. Volume XXXIV
New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1919. Volume 34 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More
The American Annual of Photography 1921. Volume XXXV
New York, American Annual of Photography Inc, 1920. Volume 35 in this remarkable, profusely illustrated series. More
A Complete Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction, including Iron Foundations. In three parts: theoretical, practical and descriptive
London, Lockwood, 1870 [third edition, carefully revised and considerably enlarged]/ [1857]. All of the plates in the second volume relate to specific bridges: one double-page plate gives details of the 'Bridge over Salt Water River, Melbourne and Williams Town Railway, Victoria' (and one of the diagrams in the first volume..... More
'Frilled Lizard'. A vintage sepia-toned carbon print on the original flush-cut thick card mount
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other..... More
'A Javanese Market Place'. A vintage sepia-toned carbon print on the original flush-cut thick card mount
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other..... More
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'A Monster Anthill' [Northern Territory, Australia, 1914]
Although this print does not have an original 'Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London' label on the verso, it almost certainly comes from the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title..... More
'Wayside Scene'. A vintage gelatin silver photograph (350 × 460 mm) mounted on the original flush-cut thick cardboard
This is an example of item 143 of the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works, which emanated from the Fine Art Society, London. The full title of the catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other Photographic Studies by Frank Hurley' (small octavo..... More
Picturesque France. The Country, the People and the Landscape
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1927. More
Farewell to Eden
New York, Harper and Row, 1964. Features 148 illustrations, 48 in colour. More