Search Results: Titles starting with I 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.

Guildford (U.K.) : Genesis Publications, 1980. Octavo, original publisher's brown half-leather with gilt-decorated guitar in black leather inlay to upper board, facsimile signature in gilt to lower board, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting black calf title label lettered in gilt, ruled in gilt with gilt decorated religions symbols, the brown variant binding by the noted firm of Zaehnsdorf of London (one of a number issued by the publisher), all edges gilt, facsimile musical scores to endpapers, pp. 398; (3), numerous plates, photographs, reproductions of song lyrics and musical scores, tipped-in plates with tissue guards, a very fine copy housed in the original publisher's buckram slipcase with paper title label (a few very small marks), and the original cardboard mailing carton. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies signed by George Harrison, this is copy number 1611. A fine example, near-mint, housed in the original mailing carton since publication. 'The first of… Read More

Melbourne : Georgian House, 1947. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges rubbed and worn), pp. x; [ii]; 322, photographically illustrated. Signed by the author on the dedication page. Owner's inscription 'Elsie M. Clark' dated 2.3.49, inscribed by her at a later date 'Peter Perry from', indicating she gifted the book to Perry (former Director of the Castlemaine Art Gallery), his bookplate to front pastedown.

With contributions from Kirsty Grant and Susan van Wyk. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated. Illustrating works by John Brack, Albert Tucker, Elwyn Lynn, Ian Fairweather, Charles Blackman, Robert Klippel, Tony Tuckson, Richard Larter, Brett Whiteley, Grant Featherstone, Barbara Hanrahan, Ian Burn, Fred Williams, Asher Bilu and many others. Scarce.

London : Marcus Ward & Co., [1890?]. Square octavo (175 x 140 mm), publisher's pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), [8] pp, each page with a superb chromolithograph illustration incorporating silver leaf; a couple of pages with light handling marks to the margins, else internally fine; a very good copy. Delightfully illustrated and beautifully printed English nursery rhyme book. Note: On the front cover, each word ""sixpence"" is represented by a picture of the coin. The coins bear the date 1890. Rare. OCLC locates only the example in the University of Rochester Library.

San Francisco : David Emerson Smith for the Poets and Artists, February 1979. Octavo, colour printed wrappers (light edge wear and toning), pp. [iii]; 29, stringbound, black and white illustrations. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed inside the upper wrapper 'To David, in homo-erotic boy love David Emerson Smith' and also inscribed 'Love & Eros, the universe is born & lives in ecstasy, Dennis Dunn' (one of the contributors). 'This collection of poems is in part a response to the homophobic murder of Harvey Milk and George Moscone (a passionate homophile).  New York born Harvey Milk moved to San Francisco in 1972 where he opened a camera ship with his boyfriend in Castro Street. Disillusioned with the bureaucracy of the city and a history of police harassment of the gay community, Milk decided to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, launching campaigns in 1973, 1975, and 1977, where, after intense campaigning over several years and a gradual growth of community support, he was… Read More

Öfversättning af Joh. P. Renmark. I-II. Stockholm : C. F. Marquard, 1802. Octavo (172 x 106 mm), handsome contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt rule and contrasting title- and number-pieces in gilt; pp. [2], 176 + 240; separate title-pages for each part; some browning and very occasional and minor marginal stains; early manuscript correction to subtitle of the first chapter (p. 1); front pastedown with ex libris of Gustaf Berndtsson; a fine example. Le jeune sauvage dans la société was originally published in Paris in 1799. This obscure novel of the late Enlightenment was written by Augustin-Laurent Lejeune, a close associate of the notorious Saint-Just, ""Archangel of the Terror"", who appointed Lejeune Chief of the Police Bureau during the Revolution. The story opens with a shipwreck where the protagonists Stingel and Basill end up on an island in the South Seas whose position - calculated by the stars - is not far from New Zealand. Very rare. OCLC locates no… Read More

/ compiled and drawn by J. Tayler. Also titled: Advantages of New South Wales as a home for the emigrant. Chromolithographed map, single sheet 300 x 390 mm folding to 200 x 130 mm, verso with printed text containing information and statistics on the Colony for prospective immigrants, in original printed green covers (short tears at head and tail of spine), rear with lithograph illustration of Sydney University, front with nineteenth century Swedish collection stamp, a fine copy. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; Royal Geographical Society of South Australia; State Library of South Australia; State Library of Victoria; State Library of New South Wales).

/ compiled and drawn by J. Tayler. 1876. Also titled: Advantages of New South Wales as a home for the emigrant. Chromolithographed map, single sheet 300 x 390 mm folding to 200 x 130 mm, verso with printed text containing information and statistics on the Colony for prospective immigrants, in original printed mauve covers, rear with lithograph illustration of Sydney University, front with nineteenth century Swedish collection stamp, a fine copy. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; Royal Geographical Society of South Australia; State Library of South Australia; State Library of Victoria; State Library of New South Wales).

[Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, 1471]. First edition. Pair of conjoined leaves, each page measuring 441 x 298 mm printed double column in black ink recto and verso, 50 lines in Roman type with rubrication in red and blue inks, chapter headings in red ink in upper margin, foliation upper centre. A fine specimen with exceptionally wide margins, framed in museum timber, overall framed measurements 560 x 705 mm. A fine large-format specimen incunable leaf from the first Venetian press, set up in 1469 by German brothers Vindelinus and Joannes de Spira (aka Johann and Wendelin of Speyer; Vindolino and Giovanni da Spira), just fifteen years after Gutenberg printed his Bible Latina. Their press remained active up until 1477. 'Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313 – 13 July 1357) was an Italian law professor and one of the most prominent continental jurists of Medieval Roman Law. He belonged to the school known as the commentators or postglossators. The admiration of later generations of civil lawyers is shown… Read More

Mussoorie and Dehra Doon : Fitch & Co., Ltd., [c.1930]. Small oblong quarto, publisher's printed thick paper wrappers, original wool ties, inside front wrapper with inscription dated at Mussoorie, September 30 1930, [16] leaves, each recto with a tipped-in hand coloured silver gelatin photograph in format 85 x 135 mm, versos blank; clean and fresh throughout, a fine copy. Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun District of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is located about 35 km from the state capital of Dehradun and 290 km north from the national capital of New Delhi. This booklet of photographic views of Mussoorie is very rare. We can locate no other surviving copy.

I. NUR BAKSH, KHUDA BAKSH KA, Dealer in Arms, old and new ; Koftgari in gold and silver ; Enamel ; Silver and Brass, old and new ; Pottery ; and miscellaneous other things, CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL OF ART, JEYPORE. Business card, 102 x 64 mm, letterpress on thick paper; fine. II. NOTICE. SCHOOL OF ART, JEYPORE. Visitors to the Museum are particularly recommended to go to the School of Art in Ajmere Gate Bazar, within the city, where they will be able to see all the Industrial Arts of Jeypore practised, and also be able to make purchases at reasonable and fixed prices. The Principal of the School will have copies made of any article in the Museum, which visitors may especially desire to possess ... Honorary Secretary, Museum Committee, Jeypore. Broadside, 252 x 165 mm, letterpress on thin paper; original fold lines, fine. II. MESSRS. S. ZOROASTER & CO. / JEYPUR ""RAJPUTANA."" / MOTISINGH BHUMIYA RASTA. / SANGANIR GATE. Brochure, 280 x 197 mm, bifolium, letterpress, front with calligraphic font in bold… Read More

Sydney : Bay Books, 1981. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, slipcase, pp. 264, slight rubbing to edges, very light foxing to preliminaries, extensively illustrated. First edition. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies specially bound, signed by the author. Scarce.

Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery/​Gallery of Modern Art, 2012. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 106, illustrated. This richly illustrated publication presents an insightful consideration of Ian Fairweather's major achievements of the period from 1954 when he moved to Bribie Island in Moreton Bay, off the coast of Brisbane, to his death in 1975. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of South Australia, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, and Bendigo Art Gallery, signed by him on the endpaper.  

Lismore : Lismore Regional Gallery, 2005. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 60, illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Fine copy. This copy with a hand-written inscription from Pat Corrigan to Colin and Liz Laverty, three of the most prominent art collectors of their generation.

Brisbane: Phillip Bacon Galleries, 1984. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear), 36pp., illustrated with tipped-in colour plates. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Foreword by Lawrence Daws. Catalogue by Murray Bail.

Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2018. Oblong quarto, silvery-lettered cloth, pp. 247, illustrated. New copy. Ian North: art/work/words traces the career of New Zealand-born, Adelaide-based artist, curator and writer, Ian North. Edited by Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Art Gallery of South, the book features essays by ten leading academics, curators and writers. The book offers an overview and assessment of Ian North’s wide-ranging career, highlighting his significant work in photography from the 1970s to the present day, and his contribution to Australian museum practice as a curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia (1971-1980) and the National Gallery of Australia (1980-84).

Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2003. Quarto, 280 x 240 mm mm, boards in dustjacket, pp. 104, illustrated. New copy. For a painter who wishes to be remembered as a 'quiet lad', Ian Abdulla has been creating quite a stir over the last 15 years. He is recognised as one of Australia's most distinctive and appealing contemporary visual artists. This book takes you on a journey into the world of Ian Abdulla as he grew up along the River Murray. You'll find the ride enchanting and provocative. As Stephen Fox says of Abdulla's painted chronicles of an Aboriginal life: 'You read the text then view the image or vice versa, no matter which way he has caught your attention, he has told you another story.' Stephen Fox has worked as Art Advisor to Buku-Larrngay Arts at Yirrkala, Northern Territory, as Director of 24HR Art, the NT Centre for Contemporary Art, and since July 1997 as Director of Maruku Arts at Uluru. Stephen still makes art, has run many workshops, and has been friends with Ian Abdulla since 1988.… Read More

[San Francisco] : [Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club], [1980]. Newspaper, 380 x 290 mm, pp. [20], central crease, illustrated in black and white. Includes a contribution from Jane Fonda. Celebration souvenir newspaper of the life of gay politician Harvey Milk who was assassinated eighteen months prior, with articles about gay political activism in San Francisco, and the future of the gay rights movement, inspired by the work of Milk. Scarce.

Sydney : Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 2011. Quarto, cloth-bound boards, pp. 128, illustrated throughout with colour plates of the artist's works, text by Terrence Maloon and Daniel Mudie Cunningham whom curated the exhibition that this catalogue was produced for. A very good copy. Signed presentation inscription from Ildiko Kovacs to endpaper.