Search Results: Authors starting with V from Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Illustrati per cura di Agostino Valentini. Rome : Agostino Valentini, [1855]. Folio, publisher's illustrated papered boards (slightly marked but very good), engraved title page, pp. 42; [2]; 41 steel-engraved plates illustrating Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Some very light, sparse foxing, else a very good clean copy.

Dundee : Designed & engraved by J. Valentine, [ca. 1853]. Postal envelope, 76 x 125 mm, the verso engraved with six vignette illustrations depicting scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin, and two main legends in capitals, the first around the upper flap: ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO UNTO YOU DO YOU SO UNTO THEM  (Matthew 7:12), and the second below it: YE WHO TAKE FREEDOM FROM MEN HOW WILL YOU ANSWER IT TO GOD (a paraphrase of a line in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter 37); with two legends in smaller lettering, one at the top of the flap: THE EYE OF THE LORD GOD IS UPON YOU, and one at the bottom edge: FEAR NOT! For I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by my name thou art mine (Isaiah 43:1); in the right-hand margin is Valentine's imprint, followed by the notice '30 Sent free for 12, 50 for 16, 100 for 24 or 250 for 48 Pennypost Stamps'; in the left-hand margin is the imprint of 'ABEL MORRALL, NEEDLE MANUFr. / Agent / 7 High St. Manchester & 40 Gresham St. (West) London.'; recto blank… Read More

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto and verso imprinted 'I. Van Berckelaer High Street St. Kilda'; both the print and mount in excellent condition. A full-length portrait of a soldier in the uniform of the Victorian Military Forces. Under magnification, he is clearly wearing the VMF belt buckle with crown at centre and legend AUT PACE AUT BELLO. VICTORIA, although we have not been able to identify his unit.

Melbourne : Collective Effort, 1989. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [64], illustrated. Poems and artworks denouncing the Bicentenary Celebrations due to the dispossession of indigenous Australians from their land as a result of English colonisation. 'These poems were written in protest to the ludicrous bicentenary celebrations held in Australia during 1988 ...' - introduction.

Melbourne : Uro Publications, 2022. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 108, illustrated, limited to 20 copies, housed in publisher's box with accompanying set of postcards. New copy. Designed by Yanni Florence. This limited edition box set includes the Lost Tablets book and 50 postcard images of the ‘dynamic' face of each Lost Tablet featured in the book. The book includes images of the mute sides of the 50 featured Lost Tablets. Available in a limited edition of 20, signed by the author, Jan van Schaik. The Lost Tablets are a series of works by Jan van Schaik that explore the geometric language of architecture through the medium of children’s building blocks. Constructed by van Schaik from found blocks (many bearing the teeth marks of their former owners), each tablet flickers with strange resonances that point to a shared but deeply subjective symbolism of building. From the buttresses of Gothic cathedrals and the blue ceilings of the Shah Mosque of Isfahan, to the inhabited machines and… Read More

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, black Brillianta linen with debossed Rennie Ellis signature and clear foil finish, hand crafted slip case, pp. 135, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale) with an original Rennie Ellis photograph Dino Ferrari, Toorak Road 1976 (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm) signed by his widow Kerry Oldfield Ellis. Mint copy, as new, in shrinkwrap. Rare. “Art or not art, that is immaterial – I continue on my way, seeking my own truth, ever affirming today.” In 1977 Rennie Ellis used this quote, by the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, to explain the rationale for his own photography. When he began to photograph, Ellis aspired to work as a photojournalist, but within a few years he had moved away from the more detached and objective position of a reporter. Rennie Ellis was wholeheartedly engaged with life, with the absurdities, the ironies, the passion and the small dramas of the everyday. Rennie was… Read More

Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver's voyage account, being Anders Sparrman's abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (spine and edges worn and rubbed); contemporary inscription to front pastedown; pp [vi], 184; [viii], 192; 8 full-page engraved plates, all portraits after Webber (from Cook's third voyage) of indigenous subjects, including Van Diemen's Land (2), Friendly Islands (2), Oonalaska (2), and Prince William Sound (2); folding map of the North Pacific and the northwest coast of America drawn and engraved by Sparrman, based on a map published in 1781; as in most copies, the series title page is not present; a very good copy. Sparrman had sailed with Vancouver on Cook's second voyage, and his abridged version in Swedish of Vancouver's voyage account includes some personal… Read More

in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty's command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver. In three volumes. London : printed for G.G. & J. Robinson and J. Edwards, London, 1798. Three volumes, quarto, and one atlas folio. Half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, flat panelled spines lettered in gilt with gilt ornaments, marbled endpapers, vol. I: pp. [xii]; xxix; [blank]; [ii; Advertisement from the Editor]; 432; 7 engraved plates, vol II: pp. [viii]; 504; 5 engraved plates (including one chart), vol III: pp. [viii]; 505; (3 - errata), 6 engraved plates; atlas folio contains 10 folding charts and 6 profile coastline views, mounted on stubs. A fine set.… Read More

American magazine Aspen, ""the first three-dimensional magazine"", was published in ten issues between 1965 and 1971. It was edited by Phyllis Johnson and featured contributions from many renowned and influential artists, among them Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Sol LeWitt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, John and Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, LaMont Young. The ten issues cover Pop Art, conceptual art, minimalist art, postmodern critical theory, new voices in British arts and culture, the Fluxus group, art and literature of the psychedelic drug movement, and Asian art and philosophy. 'The editor Phyllis Johnson, who used to spend her winters in Aspen, Colorado, understood that the great spirit of experimentation that defined the art scene in the sixties demanded a new form of presentation. This is how ASPEN. The Multimedia Magazine in a Box was born in 1965. It was the first ever three-dimensional magazine. Subscribers received a box containing material for… Read More

Melbourne: Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap.  

New York : Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2017. quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 184, illustrated. '‘I’m for mechanical art’, said Andy Warhol (1928-1987). ‘When I took up silkscreening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.’ Printmaking was a vital artistic practice for Andy Warhol. Prints figure prominently throughout his career from his earliest work as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s, to the collaborative silkscreens made in the Factory during the 1960s and the commissioned portfolios of his final years. In their fascination with popular culture and provocative subverting of the difference between original and copy, Warhol’s prints are recognized now as a prescient forerunner of today’s hypersophisticated, hyper-saturated and hyper-accelerated visual culture. Andy Warhol Prints, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Portland Art Museum – the largest of its kind ever to be presented –… Read More

Perth : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1979. Quarto, black wrappers with white text, [pp. 50],black and white illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue of 44 works, with biographical notes.

Sydney : Clinton-Williams, [between 1945 and 1950]. Illustrated paper folder (140 x 85 mm), with five tinted photographs of hair styles created using the Velmol product, captions verso. Wetstamps from a local pharmacy on wrappers. Scarce mid-century Australian trade publication illustrating some highly elaborate women's hair styles to advertise a hair product.

Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2021. Quarto, boards in perspex slipcase created by the artist, pp. 208, new copy, sealed in publisher's box. Chiara Dynys’s oeuvre in a major monograph in limited edition, included in a sculpture by the artist. This volume, edited by Giorgio Verzotti, covers the oeuvre of the artist with previously unpublished essays on the notion of duality. All of the most important production of Chiara Dynys is told through the photos of still lifes and large installations in public spaces where she has been on view this past year: from the Museo Correr in Venice to MACRO in Rome and the historic Villa Reale in Monza. The book (in Italian-English bilingual edition) is a limited special edition of 500 copies in a plexiglas slipcase made by the artist herself. The slipcase evokes the series Look at You, one of her most famous, and was conceived to exist independently from the volume as an actual sculpture: an exclusive plexiglas case with reflective surface and various colours that,… Read More

Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. First edition. Large octavo, contemporary vellum with later title label, housed in quarter morocco clamshell box, loosely inserted bookplate of Jorge Skinner-Klee, second title 'Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. ""Descubierta"" y ""Atrevida"" en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793', 356 (of 360) pp, all text printed within a decorative border (shaved to margins affecting pagination); the final two leaves in facsimile, sparse foxing and some leaves browned, but a good copy of an exceptionally rare book, the first published account of Malaspina's expedition of 1789-93. Text in Spanish. Ferguson, 5100; 5228. Francisco Javier de Viana was an ensign on Alessandro Malaspina's scientific expedition to the Pacific, undertaken for the Spanish crown during the years 1789-93. This was to be the first Spanish expedition to visit New Holland and New Zealand, and it… Read More

de la necesidad de abandonarlas o mantenerlas con fuerzas respetables: de los inconvenientes de lo primero, y ventajas de lo segundo; de lo que pueden producir a la Real Hacienda, de la navegación, extensión, y utilidad de su Comercio: con reflexiones que convencen la utilidad de formar una Compañía vajo Real Protección ... ... Manila, 10 February 1765. Small folio (280 x 210 mm), modern limp vellum; manuscript in ink in a neat late eighteenth-century hand, being a fair copy of a mid eighteenth-century document; ff [1], 125; front fly leaf with later pencilled notes erased; contents clean and fresh, in fine condition; housed in an elaborate half crushed morocco and cloth protective box, morocco title pieces with gilt lettering and ornament to front and spine. Vindel states (in his Catálogo of 1896, p. 94) that the printing of this memorial by Francisco Leandro de Viana was forbidden by the Council of the Indies; hence it was not published in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. The present… Read More

Cairns, Qld. : Arts Nexus Inc., 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, illustrated. Art of Anna Eglitis, Ian Horn, Joey Laifoo, Elaine Lampton, Arone Meeks, Rosella Namok, Dennis Nona, Brian Robinson, Ceferino Sabatino, Zane Saunders, Alick Tipoti and Sasi Victoire. This example printed (in India?) for the India Tour in 2009, exhibited at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi.

Copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State relative to the disposal of the Naval Forces of Great Britain in the event of War, and urging the completeion of certain measures of Defence required in this Colony ; also intimating that the Trops sent to New Zealand shall be forthwith returned. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by His Excellency's command. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862. Single sheet, foolscap folio, printed recto only, near fine; [together with] War with America. Copy of a Circular Despatch rom the Secretary of State, stating that the Question which threatened a War with the United States has been amicably settled : but pointing out the necessity of prompt and effectual preparation against contingencies. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by His Excellency's command. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862. Single sheet, foolscap folio, printed recto only, fine. Two Parliamentary papers issued by the Colony of Victoria in the brief period… Read More

Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria, [1863-73]. Small folio (315 x 200 mm), original printed papered limp boards (scuffed and marked) with cloth back strip; pp. [vi], 8, 4, 2, 6, 4, 4, 8, 6, 6, 8 (all on blue paper) + 16 (last leaf blank) on white; complete, with all of the reports in superb condition; deaccessioned from the Geological Society of London at Somerset House, with old collection wet stamp to upper board and printed label with Withdrawn stamps to front pastedown; hinges strengthened with archival tape; housed in a custom clamshell box. The very rare 1873 collective issue of the Royal Society reports - including the Supplementary Final Report - which comprises the complete official record of the Victorian Exploring Expedition, otherwise known as the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria organised the ill-fated expedition, and was also responsible for mounting the search expeditions that followed. All of the bindings in this collective issue were incorrectly dated… Read More

Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1968. Folio, plain white card wrappers with die-cut title (lightly stained, wear to spine and edges), 94pp., extensively illustrated. Catalogue for the exhibition held 21 August – 28 September, 1968. A couple of light creases. The seminal exhibition of twentieth century abstraction in Australia, featuring colour-field works by Robert Jacks, David Aspden, Alun Leach-Jones, Sydney Ball, Peter Booth, Ian Burn, Robert Hunter, Dale Hickey, Michael Johnson, Robert Rooney, Dick Watkins, Clement Meadmore, Paul Partos and others. The inaugural exhibition at the newly built National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Road, and one of the most influential Australian exhibitions