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# 25162
Anon.
Tiger-Wolf & wombat
Also titled lower centre : Australia (Van Diemen’s Land). Lithograph printed in colour, 173 x 260 mm (image), plate number XXIV upper right, very pale foxing, else fine. Originally published in: Wilde Thiere aller Zonen. Ihre Gewohnheiten und Lebensweise, ihr Nutzen und Schaden in 60 nach der Natur gezeichneten und gemalten Tafeln zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für Schulen und …
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![[NEW ZEALAND] De nagemaakte wilden](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/04143408/2016_DSFB_5231-224x300.jpg)
# 14771
PELLERIN & CIE.
[NEW ZEALAND] De nagemaakte wilden
[=The Counterfeit Savages]. Paris : Pellerin & Cie., [c.1902]. Series: Épinal no. 45. Lithographed print with hand colouring, folio sheet (400 x 295 mm); a graphic narrative with 16 illustrations; text in Dutch; unmounted; fine. This Épinal print, originally issued around 1850, tells the story of a sideshow attraction in which two young men con …
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# 376
GILLRAY, James
Consequences of a successful French invasion
No. 1. Plate 1. “We come to recover your long lost liberties”. Scene: The House of Commons. London: James Gillray, 1798 (the Bohn restrike of 1851). Etching with later hand colouring, 270 x 385mm; framed. Satirical depiction of the House of Commons if the planned French invasion was successful, a caption in the image reads ‘This house adjourned to Botany Bay’ …
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# 22606
SPRING, Jessica
A broadside tribute to Charles Darwin’s dog
Tacoma [WA] : Springtide Press, 2009. Screenprinted broadside with hand colouring, 145 x 215 mm (image); 355 x 460 mm (sheet), with the printed quote from CHarles Darwin’s On the Origin if Species (1859) ‘I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on …
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# 13456
DELAUNAY, Sonia (1884 - 1979)
Tristan Tzara with monocle
Lithograph, 370 x 160 mm, signed in pencil lower right. The play Le coeur à gaz by famed Romanian-born dadaist writer Tristan Tzara (1896 – 1963) was first performed in Paris, as part of the 1921 “Dada Salon” at the Galerie Montaigne. For it’s second performance in 1923 at théâtre Michel, the costumes were designed …
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![[KANGAROO] Animaux sauvages. Wild animals. Wilde Thiere. Animales salvages. Animales salvaggios.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16215955/2014_DSFB_7256-300x237.jpg)
# 10019
BURCKARDT, C[amille]. (publisher)
[KANGAROO] Animaux sauvages. Wild animals. Wilde Thiere. Animales salvages. Animales salvaggios.
Weissenburg, Elsass [Wissembourg, Alsace] : C. Burckardt, [c.1890]. Chromolithographic broadsheet, 330 x 410 mm, title in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian, captions in French in German, printed number “101” at upper right, unmounted, original vertical fold, fine. An attractive broadsheet produced for young children, featuring a large, centrally placed kangaroo.
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# 12479
ARNOUX, Guy (1886-1951)
Calendrier des douze mois de l’année.
Circa 1920. Set of twelve sheets of letter paper with pochoir wood engravings, on watermarked laid paper, each sheet 220 x 170 mm; each illustration signed by the artist in the image and with the calligraphic name of one of the months of the year beneath; an exceptionally fine set of designs in the unique …
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# 34398
ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)
Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.
[Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 314 x 241 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 21 printed upper right. light foxing and handling marks. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …
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# 34397
ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)
Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal
[Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving, 318 x 242 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 22 printed upper right; pale foxing and handling marks, a very good example. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …
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# 34200
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Afternoon
Etching on paper, created late 1970s, 195 x 145 mm (image), 395 x 283 mm (sheet), edition 18/30 lower left, titled centre and signed lower right, old mount burn and marks from hinging tape verso upper margin, a very good copy.
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# 33743
GODSON, John Barclay
Mosque Door, Cairo
Etching and drypoint on paper, titled lower right, inscribed lower left ’30 of this one’, 17.7 x 13 cm (plate line), 34 x 21.8 cm (paper), a fine impression. Provenance: Theodore Bruce Auctions, The Etchings of John B Godson & Other Multiples, Sydney, 25/10/2021, Lot No. 6801 Collection of James R Jackson (1882-1975). The Estate …
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# 15593
Maker unknown.
Fiji before Civilization … Dawn of Civilization … Advance of Civilization … Glorious Result of Civilization
[Crystal Palace, London : Machinery Department, c.1879]. Cotton handkerchief, 570 x 580 mm, lithograph printed in brown and red; old fold lines and some insignificant toning and spotting; a very well preserved example. These satirical cotton handkerchiefs lampooning the effects of the introduction of Western civilisation into a “primitive” society in the South Seas were printed in colour in the machinery …
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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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# 33623
GILFILLAN, John Gordon (1839-1875), attributed
Lamb Hill, Wanganui. From nearly north east.
Wood engraving, 165 x 230 mm (image), 200 x 260 mm (sheet); titled in the image Lamb Hill Wanganui, with subtitle in contemporary manuscript From nearly north east; initialled in the image lower left J.G.G.; light edge wear, else very good condition; unmounted. An early wood-engraved view of the first Lamb Hill homestead, Warrengate, done around 1865 by …
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# 33639
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (after)
Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.
[Title from printed caption below image]. Wood-engraved panorama, 195 x 550 mm (sheet); no engraver’s details; central vertical fold with light foxing, else very good. This engraved view was removed (by a previous owner) from a copy of the April 4 1868 edition of the Illustrated London News, in which the panorama was one of …
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# 33797
OLSEN, John (1928 - )
Dinna
Created circa 2015. Sugarlift etching, 195 x 146 mm (plate line), signed and titled below image, probably printed in an edition of 20 copies, this copy is an A/P. Fine example, framed in white timber.