Architecture
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# 34661
ROBERTSON, E. Graeme and CRAIG, Edith N.
Early houses of northern Tasmania
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1966. Abridged edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, price clipped, pp. vii; 323, illustrated. A very good copy of a scarce reference.
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# 34660
EDQUIST, Harriet
Pioneers of modernism : the arts and crafts movement in Australia
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 268, illustrated. Out of print and scarce. Between 1890 and 1930, a number of Australian architects and garden designers were heavily influenced by British and American Arts and Crafts movements. This book explores the work of four of Australia’s most radical and innovative Arts and …
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# 34592
ROUGH, Brian G.
Capturing Brisbane : the city’s first photographers, 1855 to 1901.
Brisbane, Qld. : the author, 2022. Large quarto (305 x 220 mm), pictorial paper boards, pp 137; biographies of individual photographers and studios, numerous photographic illustrations, glossary of terms, index; errata page loosely inserted; an as new copy of what will surely be a useful reference for collectors of nineteenth-century Australian photographs, as well as …
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# 34557
ROBERTSON, E. Graeme
Ornamental cast iron in Melbourne.
Melbourne : Georgian House, 1967. First edition. Large quarto, publisher’s cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket (corners rubbed), endpaper maps, pp x, 229, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic plates; pale stain to final few leaves.
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# 34556
DUPAIN, Max et al.
Georgian architecture in Australia
With some examples of buildings of the post-Georgian period. Photography by Max Dupain. Architectural commentary and notes by Morton Herman. Social histories of New South Wales and Tasmania by Marjorie Barnard and Daniel Thomas. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1963. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (water stain to spine), pp. 148, illustrated with Dupain’s photographs. …
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# 34187
McLeod & Smith
Souvenir of Mary Immaculate Church, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1930
Sydney : photographed and published by McLeod & Smith, 1930. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, yapp edges with slight edge wear, pp. [28], staples rusted and central page detached, photographically illustrated. Rare with only two examples located on Trove (NLA; St. Paschal’s Library).
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# 34294
NEWITT, Lyn et al.
Convicts and Carriageways : Tasmanian road development until 1880
Researched and written by Lyn Newitt ; edited by Alan Jones. Tasmania : Department of Main Roads, 1988. Folio, illustrated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. ix, 332, illustrated, previous owner’s blind stamp to half-title, a fine copy.
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# 34296
DAVEY, J. H.
Housing Commission, Victoria presents The Olympic Village, Heidelberg, Victoria
[Cover title : The Olympic Village of the XVIth Olympiad Melbourne, 1956]. [Melbourne : Housing Commission, Victoria, circa 1949]. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cards (slightly soiled), yapp edges, pp. [32], introduction by J. H. Davey, Chairman, Housing Commission, Victoria, map of Melbourne, site plan of the Olympic Village during the Olympics and then for use afterwards, …
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# 33769
SMITH, Sydney Ure; GELLERT, Leon
Sydney bridge celebrations, 1932
Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1932. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with silver highlights (staples slightly rusted, as usual), slight edge wear, pp. 80. illustrated, colour advertisements. A fine Australian art deco publication. A bright copy.
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# 34095
GIURGOLA, Romaldo
Luminous simplicity : the architecture and art of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2006. Quarto, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. International multi-award winning architect, Romaldo Giurgoila (b. Rome, 1920) is best known in Australia as the principal architect of the New Parliament House in Canberra. His latest major work is St. Patrick’s …
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# 32941
Maker unknown.
Artist’s impression of the Harbour Bridge approaches, North Sydney. Late 1920s.
Silver gelatin print photograph of an artist’s drawing, 165 x 390 mm; verso annotated in ink ‘Harbour Bridge Approaches, North Sydney’, and with a newspaper editor’s annotations in pencil ‘1 / 17’ and ‘6 cols’; old vertical fold with a tiny tear at top edge, pin holes at top corners; unmounted.
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# 33600
ROBERTSON, E. Graeme
Carlton
Melbourne : Rigby for the National Trust of Australia, 1974. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 184, illustrated, light foxing to preliminaries.
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# 33419
JODIDIO, Philip
Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979 – Today. 2020 Edition
Cologne : Taschen, 2020. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 672, illustrated. New copy. Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became …
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# 33412
DUPAIN, Max
Francis Greenway : a celebration
Introduction by J M Freeland. Sydney : Cassell, 1980. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 135. Photographic study of Australia’s first architect.
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# 32963
BOWDEN & THRELKELD; [CALDWELL, John, 1817-1884)
Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.
Foolscap folio bifolium (330 mm), with the printed letterhead ‘City Mart, 362, George Street, Sydney. By Bowden and Threlkeld, at auction.’; the first side with entries in manuscript, dated 7 April 1859, recording the sale ‘on account of Messrs. Spier, Callaghan and others’ of ‘A Building in Sussex St. used as a Chapel, purchased by …
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# 33103
JODIDIO, Philip
Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the World
Cologne : Taschen, 2020. Folio, 34 x 25 cms, pp. 592, illustrated. New copy. Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities …