Highlights

The first volume of the most celebrated and influential Parisian art magazine published in 1937 with five original lithographs by Matisse, Leger, Miro, Rattner and Bores. Large quarto, 128pp, published December 1937, Paris, with colour lithographed cover by Henri Matisse and four colour lithographs of the Four elements, as listed below. Also writings by Gide, Lorca, Dos Passos and Malraux as well as photos by Bresson, Man Ray and Brassai. 355mm x 265mm, Soft cover, Condition-Minor split at top of spine, few minor spots to front cover otherwise in good condition.

Signed photograph of Gough Whitlam December 1975 just after the Dismissal, in a folder with an Australia Post First day Cover for Christmas 1975, also signed by Gough Whitlam. The First Day Cover is stamped 29 Oct 1975 just prior to the 11 November Dismissal.

The Wool Pack Inn. Parramatta. The Birthplace of the Game of Bowls in New South Wales. Etched by Geoffrey C Ingleton 1939. No 41, signed by Ingleton on the bottom right. A few spots else good.

C1620 - Author:Spanish School An Antiphonary is one of the liturgical books intended for use in choro (i.e. in the liturgical choir), and originally characterized, as its name implies, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the Roman liturgy. Bound in calf over thick wooden boards and with metal, vellum leaves, 610mm x 410 mm, Condition-Worn.

Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved. A very early depiction of French explorers in the virgin equatorial landscape of Island Melanesia, painted by Louis-Auguste de Sainson, the official voyage artist on Dumont d’Urville’s famous 1826-29 expedition in the Astrolabe.

Sydney : Kaldor Public Art Projects, 2009. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 sets, housed in a folding clamshell box, with silver lettering, containing thirteen artworks by some of the pre-eminent Australian and international artists who worked on Kaldor Public Art Projects. Jeff Koons Bill Viola, Ugo Rondinone, Christo & Jean-Claude etc.

Edited by Clement Shorter / Arranged and collated, with Bibliography and Notes by C.W. Hatfield. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923. First Complete Edition. Octavo : pp. xxiv, 196 : illustrated with four plates : hand-bound in half dark blue oasis morocco over cloth boards : lettered in gilt to spine : five raised bands : sen headbands : top edge gilt : all other edges trimmed. Fine. (Bookseller inventory #2807)

Including a Survey of Sun-Bathing and “Light Treatments”. Scarce general work on nudism for an English audience by prolific sexuality author George Ryley Scott (1886-c.1980). Provides a general history, overview, and analysis, together with a glossary and directory of English nudist associations.

[London : J. & W. Cary, c. 1791]. First edition of a pocket globe by John Cary, and first known to show the tracks of several First Fleet ships.

C1893 Author:Joseph James Fletcher (1850? - 1926) Rare volume published by the Linnean Society containing a comprehensive illustrated collection of zoological articles, as a memorial to William Macleay (1820-1891). Quarto, 308 pp, with original woodburytype photograph frontispiece of William Macleay, with offsetting onto title page as usual, 41pl. (pl 28 seems not to have been included in "most" copies, partly uncut and unopened in the original green wrappers. Fletcher had become the Society's librarian in 1883. Soft Cover, 322mm x 260mm, Condition-Good.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespeare's Head in the Strand, 1720. Complete in two volumes : Quarto : pp. (12) 590 (13); (8) 527 (1, blank) : cream endpapers : portrait frontis of Milton to both volumes (G. Vertue sculp.), and numerous elaborate head- and tailpieces and historiated initials : contemporary calf boards with gilt tooled edges : five raised bands to spines : red leather title panels and green leather volume panels lettered in gilt : foliated gilt decorations to the other panels : vol. two with armorial bookplate to front paste-down. (Bookseller inventory #2375)

HOCKNEY’S ALPHABET. The Deluxe first edition, Illustrated with twenty seven full Page Colour plates by Hockney and printed on fine art paper. Lond. Faber & Faber. 1991. Fine in the slip-case and signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. Stephen Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney's specially drawn alphabet. The authors included William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro et al. Norman Mailer declined but was included anyway.