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A Sun-News pictorial. Includes a plan for a Three Stage Home for Newly-Weds by Robin Boyd and K. Pethebridge. From a selection of Modernist architecture including books by Robin Boyd.

Pencil and coloured crayon drawing on prepared board 32.5 x 46.3 cm Signed and dated; also titled below the image under the mount. Provenance: Private collection, UK until 2011. The Blue Jacket was an American clipper built in Boston in 1858 and well known for the lavish decoration of the staterooms and saloon. She served in the Liverpool and Australia trades between 1860-1864. The ship was named after The Blue Jackets, a traditional name for sailors in the US and British navies. Hugh Hughes was an Able Seaman aboard the Blue Jacket in 1867.

Thos. Cook & Son. Yokohama. 1913. 3 folding black and white maps, 5 full page black and white maps, black and white photographic plates, 122pp. 12 full page advertisements and adveristements on both endpapers. A near fine copy in bright original cloth boards. 18 x 12.4cm. A very scarce guide particularly in such good condition. First published in 1910 under a slightly different title.

A beautifully presented collection of 180 plates of masks used in the classical Japanese dance-drama Noh. Each plate, photographed by Naomi Maki, is mounted in an individual folder with tissue guard, housed in a portfolio case, and includes an index sheet. An accompanying explanatory volume written by Yasuo Nakamura goes into detail on the subject, as well as containing black and white photographs of the reverse sides of the masks.

First editions, complete in twelve volumes.

A new version by Gilbert Seldes with a special introduction by Mr. Seldes and illustrations by Pablo Picasso.

Rare: all published. The beautifully drawn and handcoloured plates of The Entomology of Australia make it one of the finest of all Australian illustrated natural history books, and one of a very select group of important colour-plate books on Australian natural history issued before 1840; others in this category include the famous books by Smith and Lewin. Gray’s was the second separately published work on Australian entomology.

The major monograph of Russian painter, scene and costume designer, Leon Bakst (1866-1924), the first in English, published alongside a French edition, L’Art Decorative de Leon Bakst, in the same year. Appreciation by Arsene Alexandre. Notes on the ballets by Jean Cocteau, translated from the French by Harry Melvill.

The Shepherd Press Sydney 1947 Roy4to. Hardcover, in dark blue morocco, a little worn at head and tail of spine, gilt vignette on front cover, decorative gilt edge around inside of cover, edges uncut, interior in excellent condition. A deluxe edition of 200 copies of which this is numbered 164, 24 coloured reproduction tipped in plates, 8 tipped in plates of drypoints.

Leipzig: BernhardTauchnitz, 1863. Copyright edition. vellum. Small octavo : two volumes bound in one : pp.vi + 328+ vi + 310 (2, blank) : bound in full vellum decorated in elaborate gilt : all edges gilt, concealing aFINE FORE EDGE PAINTING : foliate printed endpapers with label of G. Brogi on the verso of f.f.e.p. Title on top board slightly faded, some slight darkening to the vellum at edges and corner. Both volumes lack a half title page but conform to Todd and Bowden 682Aa and 683A in all other respects. In other words, a first Tauchnitz impression of this title. Near fine. Item #1558

Original painting for the Poster produced for The Gould League of Victoria in 1977 by Peter Trusler. Titled Common Sea Birds, it is an oil on board measuring 79 x 52 cm and is signed and dated. It has come from the collection of Margaret Cameron by descent to The Ornithological Society, Brisbane