International Artists
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# 34645
ANEMAAT, Louise
Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …
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# 34212
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
Brittany
London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Mortime Menpes. …
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![[WARHOL] Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1, No. 3, ‘The Pop Art Issue’.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/25164227/2022_DSFB_1068-300x300.jpg)
# 34389
WARHOL, Andy; DALTON, David; JOHNSON, Phyllis (editor)
[WARHOL] Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1, No. 3, ‘The Pop Art Issue’.
Cover title: Now Aspen in an all new fab issue. Vol. 1 no. 3. New York : Roaring Fork Press, December 1966. Box with colour graphic based on Fab laundry detergent, 310 x 230 x 20 mm (edge wear and splits at corners), containing a flip-book of Warhol’s film Kiss and Jack Smith’s film Buzzards …
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# 34191
ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios (TÉRIADE)
Verve : Vol. VIII, No. 29/30. Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso
Paris : Éditions de la revue Verve, 1954. Distributed in Great Britain and the Dominions by A. Zwemmer Ltd. Quarto, papered boards with Picasso illustration designed for this publication (spine and upper board sunned, edges rubbed and split to head of spine), pp. [204], text by Tériade, Michel Leiris and Rebecca West, illustrated with heliogravure reproductions …
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# 34308
LOZANO, Luis-Martin et al.
Frida Kahlo. The Complete Paintings XXL
Cologne : Taschen, 2021. Oversized folio (36 x 30 cm, weight 6.5 kgs), boards in dustjacket, new copy in publisher’s box. Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Art styles of the Papuan Gulf. (Ian Hogbin's copy, inscribed by Douglas Newton)](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/04101124/2022_DSFB_0602-300x300.jpg)
# 33975
NEWTON, Douglas (1920-2001)
[NEW GUINEA] Art styles of the Papuan Gulf. (Ian Hogbin’s copy, inscribed by Douglas Newton)
New York : Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. First edition. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial black papered boards printed in white (corners bumped, spine with a few small abrasions), a significant association copy, the front free-endpaper with the ownership signature of Australian anthropologist Ian Hogbin, inscribed below by the author, renowned ethnographer and …
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# 33732
GUIART, Jean
L’art autochtone de Nouvelle-Calédonie.
[Nouvelle-Caledonie] : Éditions des Études Mélanésiennes, [1953]. Octavo, publisher’s illustrated wrappers, 49 pp, illustrated with 27 plates (2 colour), line drawings in the text, folding colour map, bibliography; a fine copy. Text in French. An important and scarce reference work on the indigenous art of New Caledonia.
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# 33829
WINSOR & NEWTON
Solid block of Winsor & Newton oil sketching paper, circa 1900
London : Winsor & Newton, circa 1900. Complete block of 24 sheets of thick oil sketching paper, 14 x 6 3/4 inches (35.5 x 17 cm), in manufacturer’s card wrappers (opened, lower wrapper torn). Uncommon unused pad of sketching paper from the late Victoria era.
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# 34494
NEVILLE, Richard
Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist
Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated. Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia – Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr JW Lewin takes a fascinating look at Lewin’s life and work, …
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# 34434
McHUGH, Vincent (1904 - 1983); ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)
Alpha : the mutabilities
Poems by Vincent McHugh ; with wood engravings by Tate Adams.San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1958. Folio, letterpress wrappers (lightly handling wear), stringbound, pp. [16], letterpress text by McHugh and wood engravings by Adams. A very good copy. Poems & Pictures series number eleven. 137 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. …
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# 34109
STEELE, Peter
The whispering gallery : art into poetry
By Peter Steele ; with a foreword by Gerard Vaughan. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2006.Quarto, silver lettered boards in dustjacket, pp. 128, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. Contains 55 poems, inspired by art works in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated alongside. Inspiration is drawn from the works of …
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# 34263
CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENSINGTON LTD.
Christie’s South Kensington. Tribal art. For sale by auction. Tuesday, June 24, 1986 at 10.30 a.m.
London : Christie’s South Kensington Ltd., 1986. Small square quarto, colour pictorial wrappers, staple bound; pp 25, [5]; descriptions of 348 lots, approximately 50 of which are illustrated in b/w; Australian Aboriginal, Maori, New Guinea, Micronesian, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonian, Fijian, Indonesian, Native American, and West African artefacts and historical photographs; a good …
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# 34319
GRIFFITHS, Antony
The print before photography. An introduction to European Printmaking 1550 – 1820
London : The British Museum Press, 2016. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 560, illustrated. New copy. A landmark publication-beautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museum’s renowned collection-which traces the history of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography. Copper-plate printmaking, developed alongside Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type, was a …
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# 34313
BASSENS, Maarten et al.
Bruegel : The Complete Graphic Works
London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 250, illustrated. One of the greatest Netherlandish artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) is best known today for his paintings of peasant life. Yet it was above all through his exceptional graphic work that he achieved widespread fame during the 16th century. This luxurious …
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# 34309
MARIANI, Pietro C.
Leonardo da Vinci : the complete paintings (revised edition)
New York : Abrams, 2019. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 400, new copy. The most comprehensive book on the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, with hundreds of illustrations. This classic volume on Leonardo’s paintings captures the magical qualities that make him one of the most beloved painters in the history of art. Pietro Marani’s definitive …
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# 34197
ESCHER, M. C.
Between two worlds : Escher x Nendo
Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Quarto, boards in slipcase, pp. 325, illustrated. New copy, sealed in shrink-wrap – pristine. Originally released at the retail price of $49.95, this book won the Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Under $50, and Designers’ Choice Book of the Year awards from the Australian Book Designers Association in 2019. …