Editore: Curry O'Neil, 1982
Da: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
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Hard Bound Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition.
Da: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
EUR 17,84
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Aggiungi al carrelloHard Cover. Condizione: VG+. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. Folio. original charcoal boards gilt (slightly rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed, closed tear to lower fore-corner); pp. [iv], 84, with illustrations. Oversize item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A very good copy.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Currey O'Neill, South Yarra, Victoria., 1982
Da: Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970. PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
EUR 23,76
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. pp.(iv)+84. 30.5cm. 21 colour illustrations. Black and white illustrations in the text. List and details of illustrations. Bibliography. List of Exhibitions. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Small printed label of private owner on end paper. Good clean copy.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Currey O'Neil, South Yarra, 1982
ISBN 10: 0859023761 ISBN 13: 9780859023764
Da: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Prima edizione
EUR 26,76
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Aggiungi al carrelloHard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 84 pages, illustrated with 21 colour plates, b/w drawings and sketches throughout, bibliography, Von Guerard's exhibitions, index. Page edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The artist embarked in England in 1852 and, from the first day of his voyage and throughout his time in Geelong and on the Ballarat goldfields, he kept a diary and sketchbook which captured his experiences. Size: Folio.
Editore: Melbourne, O'Neil Publishers, 1982., 1982
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
EUR 26,16
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Aggiungi al carrello4to. 84pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Name on fe. B&W illustrations throughout and colour plates. A very good copy. First edition.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011., 2013
ISBN 10: 0724103406 ISBN 13: 9780724103409
Da: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
EUR 44,59
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Aggiungi al carrello4to, 302pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket with faded spine. Exhibition catalogue.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Melbourne University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0522845037 ISBN 13: 9780522845037
Da: Arete Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
EUR 29,13
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Fine.
Editore: Carlton. Melbourne University Press, 1992
Da: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
EUR 26,76
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Aggiungi al carrello(rep) 4to. \dDustjacket. 84pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. The discovery of gold in 1851 changed Australia from a remote outpost for ex-convicts to a land of opportunities. In 1852 artist Eugene von Guerard visited the Ballarat goldfields with his sketchbook.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Lansdowne Press, Melbourne,, 1975
ISBN 10: 0701802065 ISBN 13: 9780701802066
Prima edizione Copia autografata
EUR 189,95
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Number 49 of 1500 copies, numbered and signed by Marjorie Tipping, viii,[2],118pp, colour and b/w ills. throughout, oblong folio, colour illustrations throughout, notes on individual plates, select bibliography, bound in original quarter brown cloth with beige cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, portrait laid down on upper board, housed in original slipcase. Heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Johann Joseph Eugene von Gurard (1811Ð1901) was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia and New Zealand from 1852 until 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Dsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is recognized as one of Australia's greatest nineteenth-century landscape painters. By the early 1860s von Guerard was recognised as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque. He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. He was one of a number of influential German-speaking residents who brought their "epistemic traditions" to Australia, and not only became "deeply entangled with the Australian colonial project", but also were "intricately involved in imagining, knowing and shaping colonial Australia" Fine.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1975
ISBN 10: 0701802065 ISBN 13: 9780701802066
Da: The Devonport Vintage Bookshop, Auckland, NZ, Nuova Zelanda
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EUR 188,54
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Aggiungi al carrelloBrown & Maroon Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Von Guerard, Eugene (illustratore). Limited Ed, No. 550 of 1000. 118 pp, illust. in colour & b&w. Fading to spine. In slipcase that is shop soiled & worn at corners. Signed by Author(s).
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Alister Taylor Publishers,, Martinborough, New Zealand,, 1982
ISBN 10: 0908578377 ISBN 13: 9780908578375
EUR 284,93
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited edition, number 72 of 500 copies, tipped in frontis portrait of the artist, 50 tipped in colour plates + numerous b/w illustrations complete, 306pp, oblong folio, a lavish production fine original decorative black half crushed morocco giltover blue cloth, ribbon marker, fine original cloth clamshell box with mounted colour illustration to front cover. Very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Johann Joseph Eugene von Gurard (1811Ð1901) was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia and New Zealand from 1852 until 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Dsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is recognized as one of Australia's greatest nineteenth-century landscape painters. By the early 1860s von Guerard was recognised as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque. He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. He was one of a number of influential German-speaking residents who brought their "epistemic traditions" to Australia, and not only became "deeply entangled with the Australian colonial project", but also were "intricately involved in imagining, knowing and shaping colonial Australia" (Barrett, et al., 2018, p.2). (2).
Editore: Paris: Henri Charpentier, circa 1861., 1861
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condizione: Good. Original tinted lithograph. 35 x 50 cm (sheet). Very Good, minor rubs, soiling and foxing in the margins.
Editore: G. Steinheil, Paris, 1895
Da: Gilibert Libreria Antiquaria (ILAB), Torino, TO, Italia
Prima edizione
EUR 55,00
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Aggiungi al carrelloIn-8°, pp. 66, (4), legatura moderna m. similpelle con titolo oro al dorso e piatti marmorizzati. Conservata la brossura originale. Sparse sottolineature e annotazioni a margine. Un timbro di privata appartenenza. Buono stato. Prima edizione.
Lingua: Francese
Editore: Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1853, 1853
Da: Jean-Pierre AUBERT, Quiberon, Francia
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EUR 160,00
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Aggiungi al carrelloCouverture rigide. Condizione: Très bon. Edition originale. Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1853 ; 2 vol. in-8 (chacun en deux parties, à pagination continue), 480 pp., 2 planches dépl. et 480 pp., 4 planches dépl., demi-basane moderne, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés, tranches jaunes, quelques rousseurs, très bon état. Les Annales d'Hygiène Publique et de Médecine Légale constituent la première revue française consacrée d'une part à l'hygiène publique et à la médecine environnementale avant la lettre, et d'autre part à la médecine légale et à la toxicologie. Elle renferme aussi des articles de psychiatrie ayant des rapports avec l'hygiène ou la médecine légale. Cette revue, qui rassemble les plus grands spécialistes de l'époque est remarquable pour le caractère novateur de nombreux articles et aussi pour la longueur considérable et tout à fait inhabituelle de certains d'entre eux (qualifiés de mémoires et réalisant de véritables monographies (Cf. N. Krieger, Epidemiology and the people's health,p. 78 :"one of the world's first public health journals" ; A. La Berge, The early nineteenth century French public health movement, p. 48 ; B.P. Lécuyer, L'hygiène en France avant Pasteur, In : C. Salomon-Bayet, Pasteur et la révolution pastorienne, pp. 102-113 ; Nemec, Highlights in medicolegal relations, 378). Nous relevons en particulier dans ces 2 volumes (correspondant à la totalité de l'année 1853) les articles et mémoires suivants : Alph. GUERARD, Mémoire sur la prison cellulaire de Mazas [à Paris] (T. 49, pp. 5-68, 1 pl.) ; VERNOIS & BECQUEREL, Recherches sur le lait, T. 49, pp. 257-322 et T. 50, pp. 43-147 ; Adolphe TOULMOUCHE, Considérations médico-légales sur deux cas assez rares d'aberration mentale, T. 50, pp. 424-449 (cf. article J. Arveiller, Le syndrome de Tardieu : maltraitance des enfants, médecine légale et psychiatrie au XIXe siècle, Evolution psychiatrique, 2011, 76, 219-243) ; Eugène CHEVREUL, Mémoire sur plusieurs réactions chimiques qui intéressent l'hygiène des cités populeuses, T. 50, 5-42 (cf. A. Corbin, Le Miasme et la Jonquille, pp. 28-29 : "longue archéologie du miasme entreprise par le grand chimiste Chevreul, infatigable collectionneur et analyste des boues parisiennes. Pour lui, la salubrité des villes est bien fonction de l'imprégnation passée ; les matières organiques 'tôt ou tard produisent des effets d'infection de diverses sortes'." ; S. Barles, La ville délétère, pp. 251-254 ; A. Guillerme, Bâtir la ville: révolutions industrielles dans les matériaux de construction, p. 270 ; Massard-Guilbau, Histoire de la pollution industrielle: France, 1789-1914 (nombreuses citations); etc.
Editore: Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1975., 1975
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione Copia autografata
EUR 98,10
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Aggiungi al carrelloOblong folio; 118pp. Colour illustrations throughout, notes on individual plates, select bibliography; original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on backstrip, Portrait on front board, a fine copy in original slip-case, . First Edition limited to one thousand signed and numbered copies.
Editore: [France: Cattier, late 19th cent.]
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condizione: Good. Tinted engraving measuring 17 x 21 inches, mounted on cardboard. Title at top is worn off but still legible are the words, "Musée des Rieurs". Print is a bit sunned, rubbed and worn around the edges, with a few light marks here and there.
Editore: Charpentier Editeur à Nantes
EUR 65,00
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Aggiungi al carrelloNantes / Paris, 1868 lithographie sur fond teinté. Format de la feuille : 370mm x 550mm / format de la figure 250mm x 360mm. Tirage d'essai avant la lettre (aucune mention d'éditeur ou de légende). Il ne s'agit pas d'une gravure tirée de l'ouvrage mais d'une épreuve originale de l'imprimeur. Paris dans sa splendeur à d'abord été annoncé en livraison en 1857 puis publié de 1861 à 1863. Une nouvelle édition à été donnée par le même éditeur en 1868. Notre tirage différe des tirages antérieurs par des détails tels que les personnages, plus nombreux ici, qui rendent la vue beaucoup plus vivante. Quelques légères rousseurs, minime déchirure sans manque en marge inférieure. Le dessin est d'Eugène Cicéri (1813-1890).
Editore: 0
Da: Librairie du Levant, Bayonne, Francia
EUR 1.600,00
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Aggiungi al carrelloVOLUME 1 : Description de Paris : Les Palais / Eglises, Chapelles, Cimetières / 1863 / 206 pages // VOLUME 2 : Description de Paris : Promenade dans Paris / Beaux-Arts, Sciences et Lettres / Administration / Etablissements de Bienfaisance / Etablissements de Plaisir / Industrie et Commerce / 1861 / 219 pages // VOLUME 3 : Histoire de Paris - Environs de Paris : Paris Ancien / Paris Moderne / Appendice, Coups d'oeil sur les environs de Paris / 1863 / 184 pages // ATLAS : 100 Planches. Français Publié par Henri Charpentier au format : 36 x 50 cm reliés en demi-chagrin Havane. Les couvertures présentent d'infimes frottements d'usage très peu signifiant, les dos sont conservés malgré un petit manquement sur le troisième volume au niveau du titre, les intérieurs sont frais malgré des rousseurs plus ou moins éparses. // Très belle condition générale autant pour la qualité des papiers que des reliures. SUPERBE & FRANCO DE PORT.
Editore: Paris et Nantes: Henri Charpentier., 1861
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. 3 volumes in- folio, 33.5 x 49cm; light to moderate foxing; 98 of 100 lithographs present. lacks plates 81 and 87.reliés demi-chagrin brun, plats de percaline marron ornés d'un bel encadrement doré, armes dorées de la ville de Paris au centre du premier plat, dos à nerfs ornés, tranches dorées. Exemplaire en reliure d'éditeur.OCLC Number: 4401208. (quelques rousseurséparses, manque planches 81 « Henri II mortellement blessé » et 87 « Mgr Affre blessé mortellement »).Une des plus importantes publications sur Paris, illustrée de 41 vignettes gravées sur bois dans le texte, dont une répétée sur le titre, et 98 sur 100 lithographies hors texte, dont un plan de Paris, tirées sur fond teinté (trois Ouvrage collectif qui eut parmi les rédacteurs Louis Énault, Édouard Fournier, Eugène de La Gournerie, Mary Lafon, Prosper Mérimée, Viollet Le Duc, etc., et parmi les illustrateurs PhilippeBenoist, Jules David, Guérard, etc.
Editore: Paris: Impr. impériale, Dépôt de la Guerre, Kaeppelin et Frick, 1858
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condizione: Good. Large oblong folio. 62 x 90cm. Original board covers, worn and defective along the edges.Complete with 47 plates, some maps and some excellent views and battle scenes.Waterstainis and defects in the margins of some of the prints. Rare. Only 1 copy in OCLC at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, no. 466311387.1 vol. in-folio oblong. Cartonnage éditeur, rubans. Importants manques, reliure enl ?état.Titre, [1]f table, 11 feuillets, 47 planches numérotées de 1 à 34 représentant lesdifférentes étapes de la guerre d'Orient.Bien complet des 47 planches.Mouillure dans la marge supérieure à partir de la planche XI, de plus en plusmarquées selon les planches.
Editore: Goupil & Cie, Paris, / Imp. de Jacomme et Cie,
Da: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Marly, Svizzera
EUR 190,49
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Aggiungi al carrello40x31.5 cm, handkolorierte Lithographie / lithographie coloriée et gommée, 1 feuille déchirure dans les marges / 1 Blatt (63.5x49 cm) (Risse in den Margen). Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Tirée de ?La Suisse? planche 19.
Editore: Published by Verlag von Goupil Cie., Berlin, Coupil et Co., New York, Goupil et Cie. Paris et London, Paris, 1854
Da: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Hand-coloured lithograph. Goupil Publishers blindstamp, Paris. Good condition apart from some overall light foxing and a 2" loss in the bottom right corner. A fine plate from the series 'Les Touristes', which chronicled Guérard's trip through Switzerland, Savoy and Bavaria. Set in a congested street of the German town of Schopfheim, this image depicts several weary travellers arriving at the Gros Coq hotel only to find out that no rooms are available. Born in Nancy, France in 1821, Eugene Guérard was primarily known as a genre and landscape painter, draughtsman, and watercolourist. After briefly studying in the workshop of Pierre Dieudonné in Lorraine, he moved to Paris in 1838, where he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts with the renowned French history painter Paul Delaroche. He exhibited many of his paintings at the Salon and was a prolific draughtsman who published several series of lithographs depicting daily life including Les Parisiennes (c.1850), The Opera (1844), and Aspects of Paris. Guérard also regularly contributed images to the publishing house of Goupil, which issued the series from which this plate comes. With the commencement of the 1848 revolution, Guérard was forced to leave Paris and embarked on a voyage to Switzerland, Savoy and Bavaria before returning to his hometown in 1849. It was on this two and a half month journey that he made the sketches on which his plates from 'Les Touristes' are derived. Rather than picturing the panoramic views and various historical monuments he undoubtedly observed on the trip, the vividly coloured plates in this series instead depict the tourists and locals Guérard encountered. Essentially genre scenes, they focus expressly on the experience of travel and tourism and frequently have a satirical undertone. Cf. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol. 6, p. 530.
Editore: Goupil & Cie, Paris, / Imp. de Jacomme et Cie, 1851,, 1851
Da: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Marly, Svizzera
EUR 317,47
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Aggiungi al carrello31.5x40 cm, Lithographie / lithographie originale, 1 Blatt (41 x 47.5 cm). Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Tirée de ?La Suisse? planche 19.
Editore: Paris: HENRI CHARPENTIER, IMPRIMEUR-EDITEUR, M. DCCC. LXII. 1862, 1862
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condizione: Good. Collection of 19 tinted lithographs. 50.5 x 35 cm. A few with marginal wormholes, tears or stains. PAR MM. PHILIPPE BENOIST, POUR LE PLUS GRAND NOMBRE ET AVEC L'AIDE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE; JULES ARNOUT, BACHELIER, A. BAYOT, FÉLIX BENOIST, CHAPUY, EUGÈNE CICERI, HUBERT CLERGET, JULES DAVID, FICHOT, JULES GAILDRAU , GUÉRARD J. JACOTTET, GUSTAVE JANET HIPPOLYTE LALAISSE, AUG. MATHIEU, SABATIER, ETC. VIGNETTES DE FELIX BENOIST ET CATENACCI, EXÉCUTÉES SUR BOIS PAR LES PREMIERS GRAVEURS.
Editore: Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, 1867
Da: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
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Print. Plate II from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. Gold was discovered in Beechworth, Victoria in 1852, and shortly thereafter along the Ovens River. In the same year, Austrian-born von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the goldfields. Like many, he failed as a miner, but he did produce numerous studies of goldfields life, including this image depicting men working on a sluice. Color lithograph, signed in the plate, with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 x 20" on paper 19 1/2 x 26". Archivally cleaned and backed, some minor marginal splits repaired. Color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 7744587.
Editore: Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, 1867
Da: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
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Print. From Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. A panoramic view taken from a hill looking down towards the lake, farmland surrounding it. The lake is a large coastal lagoon just south of Woollongong, 100 km south of Sydney. Color lithograph, signed in the plate, with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 x 20 1/2" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed, color tastefully enhanced. nOT ON TROVE (?).
Editore: Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, 1867
Da: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
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Print. From Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. Two horsemen are approaching a punt to cross the Goulbourn. A boat in the foreground holds two fishermen. Color lithograph, signed in the plate, with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 x 20 1/4" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed, color tastefully enhanced. Two small marginal cracks repaired. Not recorded on Trove.
Editore: Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, 1867
Da: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
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Print. Plate XVI from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. The location is now named Budj Bim and is a dormant volcano near Macarthur in southwestern Victoria, Australia. The volcanic history of this part of Victoria is remarkable, and the quarried black volcanic rock is seen throughout buildings & walls. Color lithograph, signed in the plate, with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 13 x 19" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed, color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 7744685.
Editore: Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, 1867
Da: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
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Print. Plate VII from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. A stunning view oin the Blue Mountains, N.S.W. Originally named The Weatherboard, the town was Jamisons Valley in 1815. In July 1867, the first railway journey to the Blue Mountains traveled through to Weatherboard Station, where the train terminated. In 1879, the village took its name from the nearby waterfalls, which had been named for William Charles Wentworth, one of the men that headed the exploration to cross the mountains in 1813 and a friend of John Jamison. Two men with a rifle are overlooking the falls. Color lithograph, signed in the plate, with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 13 x 19 1/2" on paper 18 x 24 1/2". Archivally cleaned and backed, color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 7744602.
Editore: Hamel & Ferguson, Melbourne, 1867
Da: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
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Print. Plate XV from Eugene von Guérard's Australian Landscapes 1866-68. American Creek, Mt. Kembla. Trees pictured include cabbage trees, bangalow palms and flame trees. Timbermen are working in the foreground to fell the huge trees. Von Guerard describes the scene thus: This sylvan scene is situated at a distance of little more than ten miles from Wollongong, near the junction of a little stream upon which some prosaic devotee of the bottle has bestowed the dishonouring appellation of the Brandy and Water Creek, with the American Creek, and at the foot of a noble range of mountains. With the lofty bangalow palm, the cabbage palm, the gigantic wild fig-tree, the fire tree (otherwise known as the blaze tree) with its vividly scarlet blossoms, are intermingled the nettle tree, the rose-wood, the sassafras, the white-wood, the wild rose, numerous varieties of the fern tree, and parasites innumerable the whole being woven together into one dense and almost impenetrable mass of foliage. Unfortunately the progress of settlement is necessitating the destruction of some of these magnificent forests, which in many instances clothe a rich chocolate soil of especial value to the farmer. At the time this view was sketched, numerous fires had been kindled by the wood-cutters, and the stately giants were rapidly falling before the pitiless axe of the hardy pioneers of civilization. Color lithograph, signed in the plate, with the oval blind stamp for the publisher Hamel & Ferguson below the title. Image incl. text 14 1/4 x 20 3/4" on paper 25 x 18 3/4". Archivally cleaned and backed, repairing some marginal splits, including one that would be visible when matted. Color tastefully enhanced. Libraries Australia ID 774462.