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25.01.2022 1968. Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light wear), pp. 96, illustrated. Prints, posters and protests from the 1960s. #1968 #lastmillenium #thesixties #anzaab $30.00 AUD

24.01.2022 Roads cross. The paintings of Rover Thomas. With Kim Akerman, Mary Macha, Will Christensen and Wally Caruana. Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated #roverthomas $55.00 AUD

23.01.2022 Australia. 300 years of Botanical illustration. Melbourne : CSIRO, 1999. 2000 reprint. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. [viii]; 228, illustrated, slight offsetting from a signed card to endpaper. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. A fine, detailed monograph. #botanicalart #naturalhistory #stilllife #flowerpower $90.00 AUD

23.01.2022 Hey peeps I’ve got some spare Rover Thomas books in mint condition. Gotta clear some room, $35 each including Australian post. DM me if you want one with your email address and I will send an invoice. Good deal! Rover Thomas. I want to paint. Perth : Heytesbury Pty. Ltd. trading as Holmes à Court Gallery, 2003. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 84, illustrated, a fine copy, near mint. Catalogue of exhibition that is a tribute to one of Australia’s great artists Rover Thomas. The catalogue also offers the reader an insight into the life of the artist and the country he lived in and painted. #roverthomas #aboriginalart #iwanttopaint #artbooks

22.01.2022 CLARK, John Heaviside, ca. 1770-1863; [LEWIN, John William 1770-1819] The dance. London : Edward Orme, 1813. Hand coloured aquatint, 240 x 185 mm (plate line), 315 x 225 mm (sheet), fine condition. A fine early image of a dance performed at a corroboree in New South Wales.... From Orme’s Supplement to Foreign Field Sports, titled Field sports of the native inhabitants of New South Wales, originally published in 1813 and later reprinted. Although the plates themselves name Heaviside as the artist and Dubourg as the engraver, it is known that Heaviside, who had never visited Australia, could not possibly have been the original artist. Rather, Heaviside must have adapted the original sketches which, as Wantrup argues convincingly, were probably made by J.W. Lewin (Australian rare books, pp 280-1). see: Ferguson, 739; Wantrup, 213b (note), and pp 280-3. #thedance #heavisideclarke #indigenousaustralia #aquatint #corroboree $440.00 AUD

20.01.2022 Brett Whiteley : portraits, crucifixions, (a paddock at) Oberon, Joel Elenberg, Patrick White. Sydney : David Reid’s Gallery, 1980. Foolscap folio, illustrated wrappers, 16 pp, illustrated in b/w and colour, photography by Greg Weight and Graham McCarter, a few handling creases and small stains. Catalogue for the exhibition which included Whiteley’s famous portrait series of Patrick White and Joel Elenberg, the (A Paddock at) Oberon series, and Crucifixions. #brettwhiteley $125.00 AUD

19.01.2022 GLEESON, James (1915 - 2008) The watcher at the third gate. Oil on board, 150 x 125 mm, signed lower right. Painted circa 1970s. A fine example of Gleeson’s distinctive miniature scenes of a nude male figure in a psychoscape, an exploration of body and mind.... ‘Renowned as Australia’s foremost surrealist painter and poet, James Gleeson’s oeuvre explores the human condition beyond visible reality and the limitations of the senses through powerful enigmas of fleshy biomorphic, mechanical and illusionistic landscape forms. In addition to his contributions to surrealism, throughout his career Gleeson made important contributions to the Australian art world as a dedicated writer, critic and affiliate of a number of art institutions.’ Art Gallery of New South Wales #jamesgleeson #watcheratthethirdgate $3,850.00 AUD

19.01.2022 TILLEY, Peter (1946 - ) A room of one’s own (2012). Cast iron, steel, reclaimed timber sculpture, measures 32.5 cm (h) x 41.5 cm (w) x 16 cm (d), signed and inscribed underneath base, fine condition. Born in Williamstown, Victoria in 1946, Tilley now lives and works in NSW. Tilley received a Certificate of Art and Ceramics from the Newcastle School of Art and Design, NSW and was also privately trained as a sculptor. He was awarded his Master of Philosophy (Fine Art) from New...castle University. Still-life has been the primary focus of Tilley’s recent work and remains a current influence. Drawn to the spatial relationships of scale and context, Tilley continues to investigate the connection of objects and figures as they are precisely staged by the artist. His work investigates the human condition in our contemporary world. He uses animals as avenues for affection, patience and compassion that are not always available in human relationships. They also serve as a metaphor for human behaviour and personality. Tilley’s exhibiting history is extensive, with over 70 group shows and 20 solo exhibitions to his name. He has exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea regularly since 2004, including Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark in 2009 and 2011. #petertilley #aroomofonesown #sculpture $2,200.00 AUD

18.01.2022 Body packaging : a guide to human sexual display. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1988. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, photographically illustrated. An illustrated study on sexuality expressed through clothing, appearance, sign and symbol, lingerie, body language etc. Includes material on bondage and fetishism. #bodypackaging #sexuality #fetishism #bodyart #ifyouvegotitflauntit ... $60.00 AUD

16.01.2022 Autograph letter signed by the French navigator Bougainville. Dated 15 November, 1802. Manuscript in brown ink on blue wove paper, 1 page, quarto (210 x 165 mm); dated at Paris, 24 brumaire an 11 [i.e. 15 November 1802], the letter is to an addressee identified simply as ‘Citoyen’, and is written entirely in Bouganville’s frail hand and signed at the foot ‘Bougainville, Senateur’; Bougainville attests to the infirmity of Citizen Martin, a soldier, and explains that he is unfi...t for duty; a note in another hand at upper left records the date of reception and comments that there are several conscripts with name Martin and that this must be his first name; the letter is in fine condition. An original manuscript document in the hand of the French admiral and explorer of the Pacific, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811). ‘J’ai ramené de la campagne le citoyen Martin à peine convalescent d’une fièvre opiniâtre []’. (‘I brought Citizen Martin back from the countryside, barely recovering from a stubborn fever [])’ Bedridden, Martin was unable to present his infirmity certificate in time, so Bougainville explains the situation on his behalf. ‘Certes, personne plus que moi ne pense que le 1er devoir de tout français est de servir sa patrie mais je vous atteste que le pauvre Martin ne peut faire un soldat et qu’il n’est point de troupe dont il ne soit réformé []’. (‘Certainly, no one more than I thinks that the first duty of all French people is to serve their country, but I certify to you that poor Martin cannot make a soldier and that there is no troop that he could rejoin)’. Note: the document is accompanied by a typed transcription. #bougainville #navigator #explorer $2,200.00 AUD

15.01.2022 PISTOLETTO, Michelangelo (1933 - ) The dining table of cultures. Mantua, Italy : Edizioni Corraini, 2005. Small quarto (250 x 180 mm), pp. 32 printed on diecut aluminium leaves, spiral bound, in publisher’s original cardboard slipcase. Limited to 700 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Text in English and Italian. An as new copy, very fine. A striking artist’s book / private press production, printed entirely on aluminium sheets, which accompanied Pistoletto’s exhibiti...on of the same name, where he created six large scale dining tables out of steel, conceived as meeting point for the cultures and nations bordering the seas. #michaelangelopistoletto #thediningtableofcultures #artistsbook #aluminium $750.00 AUD

15.01.2022 WILLIAMS, Fred (1927-1982) Portrait of Louis James, 1955. Conte and charcoal on paper, image 200 x 390 mm, the subject’s name, artist’s signature and date on right of image; framed. Fred Williams (1927-1982) is regarded as one of Australia’s most important landscape artists. Louis Robert James (1920-1996) was a draughtsman with no formal artistic training, yet his modernist works earned him numerous awards. His works are held in several Australian public collections. A fine w...ork from Williams’ period of study at the Chelsea School of Art. This vibrant portrait features on the cover of the significant exhibition catalogue Figures and faces : drawn from life (Heide Gallery, 1983). ‘A portrait from Fred Williams’ London years appears on the cover of this catalogue. It possesses all the spontaneity of observation and sure touch the lucid fluid line of the Music Hall etchings of those years. Though it is a landscapist that Williams is famed, the figure was a constant, if not public, preoccupation all his life. In the few years before his death he produced a series of portraits of great stature’ Elizabeth Cross, the Introduction to the catalogue. #fredwilliams #louisjames #heidegallery $4,400.00 AUD

15.01.2022 This globe has a delicious patina like salted caramel or burnt butter. Newton’s new & improved terrestrial globe, embracing every recent discovery to the present time. Manufactured by J. Newton & Son, 80 Chancery Lane. London : published Jany. 1st, 1848. Terrestrial globe, 12 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colouring over papier mache base, graduated equator, the oceans with an analemma (‘improved’), the surface showing the tracks of Captain James Cook’s... three circumnavigations, hand-engraved calibrated brass meridian ring, engraved calendrical paper horizon ring with zodiac laid on wood (also dated 1848), supported on the original stand of three turned wooden legs united with cross-stretchers. A very fine example with a rich and warm patina, unrestored apart from the removal of the old nineteenth century shellac, the imprint of crazing from the original shellac forming a tessellated pattern across the surface, recent lacquer expertly applied for conservation. An attractive table globe from the mid nineteenth century, in beautiful condition, showing the three voyages of Cook. #antiqueglobe #terrestrialglobe #globe #theworld #voyages #library #antiques #aaada #mapcollector $14,500.00 AUD

14.01.2022 Jeff Koons : the painter & the sculptor. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2012. Two volumes, quarto, boards in dustjackets (corners slightly bumped), pp. 192; 198, in the illustrated card slipcase. Text in German and English. Catalog of the exhibition Jeff Koons, the painter & the sculptor, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, June 20 through September 23, 2012. #jeffkoons... $250.00 AUD

14.01.2022 S. T. Gill’s Australia. Sydney : Mead & Beckett, 1981. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 160, illustrated; a very good copy. #stgill #samuelthomasgill $45.00 AUD

14.01.2022 Press photograph of Marlene Dietrich during her 1965 Australian tour. Black-and-white press photograph on glossy paper, 205 x 250 mm; verso with wet stamp of The Herald & Weekly Times Ltd. Melbourne, Australia; a superb print with great detail, in fine condition. A wonderful, candid shot of Hollywood superstar Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) by this time in her career a sexagenarian sex symbol seated atop a car, signing autographs and waving to adoring fans in Melbourne duri...ng her visit to Australia in 1965. #marlenedietrich $150.00 AUD

12.01.2022 Hey guys I’ve got a spare copy of this hardcover on Ian Fairweather, anyone want it for $50 including post in Australia? #ianfairweather #artbooks Sydney : Bay Books, 1981. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in creased dustjacket, pp. 264, extensively illustrated. First edition.

11.01.2022 Erotica. Aspects of the erotic in Australian art. Melbourne : Sun Books, 1977. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated. Cover illustration by Brett Whiteley, this work also includes Norman Lindsay, James Gleeson, Martin Sharp, Charles Blackman, Garry Shead, Arthur Boyd, Mike Brown, Donald Friend, Bertram MacKennal et al. #erotica #brettwhiteley #australianart $40.00 AUD

10.01.2022 Very hard to find now. Vassilieff and his art. Melbourne: Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap. #danilavassilieff #stonygrad #vassilieff $125.00 AUD

08.01.2022 Olive Cotton. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. #olivecotton $75.00 AUD

08.01.2022 BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine, Comte de (1729-1811) A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769. by Lewis de Bougainville, Colonel of Foot, and Commodore of the Expedition, in the Frigate La Boudeuse, and the Store-dhip L’Etoile. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. London : Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Davies, Bookseller to the Royal Academy,... in Russel-Street, Covent-garden, 1772. First English edition. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), contemporary full calf (boards lightly marked) with gilt-tooled board edges, spine in compartments with gilt ornament and red leather title label lettered in gilt (joints a trifle worn); front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William P. Adams; [4 blank], xxviii, 476 pp, with 5 folding charts and 1 folding plate; top edges of last few leaves with pale water stain, else clean and crisp throughout and with the folding plates in very good condition; a near fine copy with wide margins. First English edition of the account of the first official French circumnavigation, by Louis-Antoine Bougainville (1729-1811). The first French edition appeared in 1771. Under orders from the French government, Bougainville formally ceded the Falkland Islands to Spain. His account includes a commentary on the discovery and occupation of the Falklands, with a chapter devoted to their flora and fauna. Bougainville then continued through the Strait of Magellan and entered the Pacific, eventually crossing it from east to west and visiting the Tuamotu archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, the New Hebrides, the Solomons, and the Louisiade and New Britain archipelagos. His lengthy and lyrical descriptions of Tahiti, depicting it as an earthly paradise, were a major influence on Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau and Diderot; the appendix contains a Tahitian glossary. Bougainville’s expedition returned to St. Malo in March 1769, a mere seven months after Cook’s departure for Tahiti in August 1768. #bougainville #circumnavigation #rarebooks #travelbooks #anzaab #voyages

06.01.2022 BRETT WHITELEY Catalogue Raisonné : 1955 1992. (Complimentary shipping included). Melbourne : Schwartz City, 2020. Seven volumes, quarto, lettered white cloth, in bespoke white lettered slipcase, over 2400 pages, fully illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Housed in the publisher’s double walled mailing carton. The size of the slipcase is 225 mm tall, 403 mm wide, 203 mm deep. Price is inclusive of courier shipping anywhere in Australia, international freight at cos...t. The weight of this set in the shipping carton is 23.6 kgs, the books themselves in their extravagant slipcase are 22.4 kgs. ‘Compiled by art historian Kathie Sutherland over seven years, this seven-volume set of cloth-bound books is presented in a deluxe, elegantly finished slipcase and presents more than 4600 artworks, including hundreds of never-before-published works. Weighing 21 kilograms and totalling 2400 pages, this catalogue Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné 1955-1992 is an unprecedented publishing event that confirms Whiteley’s enduring significance as a visionary force of Australian art. Volumes I, III and IV hold paintings and drawings from the 1950s to the 1990s; Volume II contains exquisite concertina fold-outs of the mammoth Alchemy and The American Dream; Volume V contains Whiteley’s prints; and Volume VI compiles his ceramics and sculpture. A final book, Volume VII, holds essays, a cataloguing text, an exhibition history, an artist’s biography, a bibliography and an index of persistent themes that lend insightful form to the expanse of Whiteley’s rich and varied oeuvre. This one-off print release is limited to 1000 copies, with each individual set foiled with a unique number in the series and presented in bespoke packaging.’ the publisher Unique in the history of Australian art publishing, an extraordinary academic publication and truly the essential reference on one of Australia’s most significant artists. #brettwhiteley #whiteley #catalogueraisonne $1,500.00 AUD

06.01.2022 Know my name. National Gallery of Australia. Must see exhibition showcasing outstanding work by Australian Women. A personal favourite is always Tracey Moffatt’s Something More. #traceymoffatt #somethingmore #knowmyname #nga

05.01.2022 OXLEY, John (1784 - 1828) Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18. London : John Murray, 1820. Quarto, later papered boards, title label (edges lightly rubbed, small split at head of spine), ink stamp from the Admiralty Library Office to the title page and final page, pp. xv; [i errata]; two engraved folding charts of the interior of New South Wales; two folding tables; pp. 408; fol...ding etched plate (Field Plains from Mount Aymot); three aquatint plates (Arbuthnot’s Range from the West, Liverpool Plains, West Prospect from View Hill; Bathurst’s Falls); folding plan of Port Macquarie; two hand coloured aquatint plates (The grave of a native of Australia; A native chief of Bathurst), internally clean, a fine copy. The first major text relating to the inland exploration of Australia, led by John Oxley, Surveyor General of New South Wales. His first expedition in 1817 to trace the course of the Lachlan River was largely unsuccessful, encountering mostly marshland, while his second expedition of 1818 along the Macquarie River discovered much suitable grazing land and ultimately the fine natural harbour of Port Macquarie. #johnoxley #oxley #portmacquarie #australianexploration #bathurst #colourplatebooks #anzaab #aaada $8,250.00 AUD

05.01.2022 WHITELEY, Brett (1939 - 1992) Towards sculpture 5, 1977. London: Ganymed Original Editions, 1977. Lithograph printed black ink on Arches Velin paper, 77.5 x 79.8 cm (image), 90 x 63 mm (sheet), signed lower right, editioned by the artist lower left, stamped with artist’s monogram upper right. Printed in an edition of 50 copies, plus 5 artist’s proofs. Printed at Curwen Studio, London. Framed. Published as the fifth of eight lithographs in the portfolio Towards Sculpture, Eigh...t Studies of the Nude. ‘In the mid-1970s Whiteley made a number of drawings for nude sculpture which he carved from mangrove wood, exploiting the organic, erotic forms of the material and mounting them on geometric Brancusi-like bases. In 1976 he produced a series of sixteen charcoal drawings of the nude viewed from the rear, with the emphasis on callipygous buttocks, progressing from the eloquent single line of a half-buttock to more fully worked tonal modelling of the form. The following year he made a group of eight lithographs of the nude entitled ‘Towards sculpture’, from which this print comes. The series was commissioned by the London print publisher Bernhard Baer of Ganymed Original editions who first befriended Whiteley in 1962 after seeing his paintings at the Whitechapel’s Australian exhibition.’ Coppel, p. 109 In the handwritten introductory notes to Whiteley’s survey exhibition of printmaking at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1983, Whiteley writes ‘A good print should have the same feeling of ‘rightness’ that a one-off drawing should have’. He does not elaborate on that this ‘rightness’ is, but it is surely felt in his Towards sculpture series. In these lithographs, Whiteley allows the figure to bend and curve, capturing in a moment the grace of the form. The fifth lithograph is perhaps the most impressive, the woman’s arms stretched high, her curves exaggerated and captured while in motion. Of all his graphic works, Towards sculpture 5 perhaps best demonstrates the ‘rightness’ Whiteley sees in a good print. #brettwhiteley #whiteley #lithograph #towardssculpture #nude #australianart $48,500.00 AUD

03.01.2022 ANZAAB JOINT HIGHLIGHTS CATALOGUE FOR DECEMBER NOW ONLINE The booksellers of ANZAAB are delighted to present you with our Highlights Catalogue for December, an outstanding showcase of some of the treasures selected from our members’ shelves and picture rails. This catalogue is full to the brim with heritage Australiana, modern literature, fine art, exquisite manuscripts and more; it is a wonderful reflection of our members’ diverse interests and areas of expertise. Over two h...undred pages are fulled with illustrated descriptions of the material you might usually expect to find at an ANZAAB Book fair, with 25 dealers contributing to present you this showcase of the very best we have to offer. Take amount to read the catalogue and discover that precious work you have been searching for, to select a unique gift for a loved one, or just to learn something new. While so much has changed due to coronavirus the booksellers and their customers remain passionate about collecting and have adapted well to sharing their passion online. Amor librorum nos unit - the love of books unites us. Discover the catalogue here : https://www.anzaab.com

02.01.2022 FOLEY, Fiona (1964 - ) Wild Times Call 2001. The complete suite of seven Type C photographs, edition number 4/10, each signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title verso. Framed in museum timber. In Wild times call, one of Foley’s most critically acclaimed series of photographs, the artists inserts herself within the image, in this case dressed in the traditional clothing of the Seminole people in southern Florida. There is an uneasy familiarity to the works, we are accus...tomed to seeing dark skin in traditional dress, but in this case the subject (Foley) has no personal connection to the Seminole culture. The artist addresses a number of topics with this cultural appropriation, styled in the manner of vintage prints from another era, including the props such as a canoe and dress. Does the view see an individual in such ethnographical portraits, or just a representation of a little known culture? Are there shared or universal experiences felt by first nation cultures in different parts of the world? Can a black woman step outside her cultural heritage and step into another one, or does hers follow with her? Inspired by a fashion shoot published in Oprah Winfrey’s ‘O magazine in September 2000, Wild Times Call raises questions about ethnic identity which are constantly facing indigenous people in Australia and other cultures internationally. #fionafoley #wildtimescall $14,000.00 AUD