Australiana

John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque – David Hansen

Published by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 2003 at the start of an Australia wide tour of Glover’s works.

A magnificent book and likely the definitive work on Glover. An example of the quality that T.M.A.G. could produce before budget cuts set in – even more so now with Stadiums to pay for.

Large oblong quarto, 311 pages, solid paper taking the numerous reproductions of Glover’s paintings. Pictured laminated boards as issued. A fine copy. Gift worthy.

31 cm by 27 cm, 2.5 kg so a small postage supplement may be required dependent on customer location.

John Glover probably the finest early landscape painter – prolific.

$70.00

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The Menzies Era. The Years that Shaped Modern Australia – John Howard – Signed Edition

John Howard’s comprehensive account and views on the Menzies era.

Published by Harper Collins, Sydney in 2014. Fine hardback with very good dust jacket, 717 pages with useful index and illustrations from relevant photographs.

Signed boldly by the former Prime Minister on the title page.

John Howard and an impressive work on the era that shaped Australia more than any. Probably no better scholar on the subject.

$80.00

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Eugene Von Guerard’s Australian Landscapes – Marjorie Tipping – Signed Limited Numbered Edition

If you want to make an impression this may be the book for you what it has in scale it matches in quality.

Marjorie Tipping’s monumental work on Eugene Von Guerard in Australia. Some books can be status symbols and this is certainly one of them. Large folio landscape, a form and scale required to present the dramatic landscapes of the great artist.

Published by Landsdowne Press in 1975, 47 cm X 35 cm, weighs 4 kg, so a postage supplement will be required dependent on buyer location. A fine copy in a fine slipcase.

Limited to 1,000 copies this numbered 474 and signed by Marjorie Tipping. An excellent introduction on the artist and his technique occupies the first 41 pages. Followed by reproductions and descriptions of 24 super views starting with the “Source of the Wannon” in western Victoria. There is something to appeal to all Australians but it is the images of Tasmania that we are particularly drawn to, including … Hobart Town, Ben Lomond Epping Forest, South End of Tasman’s Island and Cataracts near Launceston.

Eugene Von Guerard in scale and style by Tipping

$180.00

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Mining by W.D. & H.O. Wills – hard to find complete set of 50 cards circa 1912 issued by Wills of Bristol and London.

Very good condition, now protected in standard card wallets.

Seven cards represent Coal Mining featuring Miner Holing; Miner Drilling and Blasting; Electric Coal Cutters; Electric Train; Taking Coal to Pit Mouth by Pony; At the Bottom of the Shaft; Sorting and Cleaning Coal and the all important Mine Surveyor.

Cards specific to Australia include B.H.P. Silver Mine Mechanical Feed and a General View of the Mine … Mount Morgan Gold (with it interesting story) anD Digging and Washing Sapphires in Queensland.

The rest Of the world is represented including Asbestos at Thetford Canada; China Clay at St Austell Cornwall; Copper at the famous Rio Tinto Mine Spain; Diamonds at Kimberley; Tin at Perak Malaya; Turquoises from Nishapour, Persia; Rock salt in Cheshire; Rubies from Burma etc etc

Large 50 card Mining set over 100 years old.

$120.00

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Red Kangaroo – Rene Primevere Lesson – Published Paris in 1838

Original hand coloured copper engraving of the Red Kangaroo produced for Rene Primevere Lesson (1794-1849) for his extension of the great natural history work originally produced by Count Buffon. They were published in Paris in 1838. Lesson participated as doctor and naturalist in the Duperry voyage round the world on board La Coquille (1822-1825).

This is engraved using the painstaking stipple technique with each hair etched one after the other … look around the outside of the kangaroo image.

The Red Kangaroo is Australia’s largest kangaroo, largest mammal and the world’s largest living marsupial. It inhabits the whole of the central area of Australia avoiding only the fertile regions around the coast.

Price $160.00 unframed – if you would like it framed – enquire

The big Red Kangaroo in a fairly contemplative pose.

$160.00

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A Voyage Round the World – Mary Ann Parker – The First Account of the Colony to be Published by a Woman

First published in 1795, reissued with a commentary by Gavin Fry of the Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney Horden House 1991.

Octavo, hand bound in half maroon Scottish calf over marbled boards, 34, xxxi, 150 pages. With 2 illustrations and 3 facsimiles. (Australian Maritime Series No 1). Very good condition.

Mary Ann Parker was the wife of Captain Parker of the Gorgon – she accompanied him out to Australia and back in 1791/2. The voyage also carried Gidley King and his new wife Anna – the only other woman. Approximately a third of the book is taken up by goings on in Port Jackson.

The book is known not only for it being the first female account of such travels to and from Port Jackson but for its full, lively and positive content … nothing dour here.

Limited edition of 750 copies.

$120.00

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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque – David Hansen

The Menzies Era. The Years that Shaped Modern Australia – John Howard – Signed Edition

Eugene Von Guerard’s Australian Landscapes – Marjorie Tipping – Signed Limited Numbered Edition

Mining by W.D. & H.O. Wills – hard to find complete set of 50 cards circa 1912 issued by Wills of Bristol and London.

Red Kangaroo – Rene Primevere Lesson – Published Paris in 1838

A Voyage Round the World – Mary Ann Parker – The First Account of the Colony to be Published by a Woman

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