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Melbourne Illustrated – 1880

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‘Melbourne Illustrated – Interior of the Reading Room’

The Illustrated London News

13th November 1880

40 cm x 27 cm

17th Century English Oak Livery Cupboard – AA1664

The two sectioned hinged moulded top above a deep arched fielded panelled iron hinged door, surrounded by an unusual deep rectangular moulded frieze, resting on stump moulded feet.

Having attractive double panelled sides and beautifully knotted backboards.

C. 1680

H: 76 cm W: 60 cm D: 42 cm

Mali Moir – Lotus Australian native – 2009

Common name: Lotus Australian native

Scientific name: Nelumbo nucifera

Water colour on Lana 100% cotton paper.

85 cm x 61 cm (unframed)

129 cm x 99 cm (framed)

$8,900

Note: This subject is painted life size from samples grown by Blue Lotus Nursery Vic.

One from a harlequin set of eight English Country chippendale dining chairs

One from a harlequin set of eight English Country chippendale dining chairs all of ash, elm and fruitwood.

I build this set gradually, cleaned and wax finished each the same and used the same fabric on each drop in seat to bring them in as a set.

Harlequin sets of chairs cost considerably less than a matching set as sets are very scarce and sell for between $15,000 – $30,000.

Individual chairs sell between $1,200 -$1,800 and if matched well can look better than a complete matching set.

This set has been in our home for the last decade.

Iava Maior (Java Major) Map by John van Linschoten – 1598 – CDS700

Woodblock on page of text from ‘Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies’, (London 1598).

A map based on Portuguese charts, from the first English edition of van Linschoten’s ‘Itinerario: Voyages ofte schipvaert van Jan Huyghen van Linschoten naer Ooost ofte Portugaels Indien’, 1579-1592 (1596).

Van Linschoten was a Dutchman who had spent a lengthy period in Portuguese service in Goa. In gathering and publishing higherto unknown information and maps relating to the Spice Islands, he enabled the Dutch and English to challenge the Portuguese monopoly in the East Indies. The placenames on the maps in van Linschoten’s work are in Portuguese, and the last section is a brief history of Portugal, suggesting the possiblity that van Linschoten had perhaps obtained a manuscript copy of the Portuguese geographer Barros’ fabled, incomplete and unpublished work, ‘Treatise on Geography’.

A rare suite of early 19th Century Regency period watercolours of Indian birds – AA1830

Nineteen exquisite ornithological subjects, painted by a visitor to the sub-continent in the 1820’s. The representations are anatomically correct and accurate in scale, yet all of these finely executed watercolours – by an unknown but clearly gifted artist – manage to display strong individual character, painstakingly cut as silhouettes and laid down on eleven contemporary folio album pages (510 x 290 mm each) in the style of decoupage, all but three of the specimens with an accompanying contemporary manuscript label cut and pasted onto the page beside it, all the illustrations in an excellent state of preservation, the colours still vibrant, the paper stable, some residual tape marks to corners and margins of the sheets which do not detract, one of the captions identifying a location (Bellary, in Karnataka, southwest India) and a date (January 1828).

The manuscript labels read as follows:

Black-headed Oriole Mango bird. Lark. Alanda sp. The birds appear in October in immense flocks and depart in March – often mistaken for Ortolans.Plover. Water Wagtail. Eagle. Shot at Bellany Jan 1828. Breadth from Wing to Wing 6 feet. Half size. Falco Sp. Chysactos. Spur Foul: Tetrao sp. Partridge. Short tail Tern. Water Wagtail. Bansputtah or Bamboo Frequenter. Common Florican. Stone Chat. Malacilla Rubicola. Three-toed Quail (male and female). Golden Oriole. Female. Golden Oriole. Male. Grey Shrike. Female. Lanius Sinerius.

Framed by Vicki Hutchins.

David Rabb – CGW134471/5

David Rabb – 1914 -1995

A drawing of a nude. Signed.

Studied in New York in the 1930’s. Art Master at Scots College and Knox Grammar.

Art tutor for Brett Whiteley.

Draakestein – ‘Pua-tsjetti’ – 1686

‘Pua-tsjetti’

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hendrik Draakestein

The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

[MAP] Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen – CDS750

Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen Bellin, Jacques Nicholas [Leipzig], 1753.

Copperplate engraving, 205 x 275 mm, original folds, mild browning to left margin, otherwise fine.

The scarce German version of Bellin’s map of Australia, Carte reduite des terres Australes. The projected eastern coastline joins the charted territories on Van Dieman’s Land and Carpentaria.

First published in Prevost’s L’Histoire Generale des Voyages in the same year, editions in German, Danish and Dutch editions soon followed. Not in Tooley (although cf. Tooley 156/157/157a for French, Dutch and Danish editions); Clancy 6.28.