b'144967 971Wirth Bros. Magazine of Wonders Including the History ofCLARK, Thomas Blakethe Celebrated Founders, printed in Melbourne by Troedel &OMAI, FIRST POLYNESIAN AMBASSADOR TO ENGLANDCooper, (May 1928); 32pp + colour lithographic covers. [San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1940]. 4to. Cloth spine, bark Page 2 provides an illustration and description of Wirthspaper over boards. (iv), 114, (1) pages. One of 500 copies.Park in Melbourne, which, until it was destroyed by fire inAn account of Omais visit to England in 1774 with Captain 1953, occupied the St.Kilda Road location of the present-dayCook and of how he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Victorian Arts Centre. Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich, $100200 and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.$100150 968A shelf of books including Norths Plutarch The Lives of the972Noble Grecians (5 vols., 1929), Adrian Feint Flower PaintingsNATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA: 1945 - 1958 collection of (signed L/E., 1948), Tales from The Heptameron of MargueriteQuarterly Bulletins, including the first years complete. Rarely of Navarre (1976), etc. (11 h/c volumes). seen from this period. (34 editions).$60100$100200 969 973YOUNGS Wine Catalogue, [BOARD GAME]gouache on board, circa 1930, CORROBOREE, a folding playing board, offset printed on 23.5 x 16cm; framed 39 x 31cm overall. paper laid on thick board, illustrated with many scenes of the Original artwork for a wine merchants catalogue. traditional lifestyle of Australian Aborigines,$100150Copyright: Jessie Mackintosh, 1945; printed by G.N. Raymond;framed and glazed (41 x 47.5cm) for opened out display.970 Corroboree, a dice-based game, reflects the growing [ORIGINAL MAGAZINE COVER ARTWORK] awareness of Indigenous culture but also of the commercial The front cover artwork for the 1st Nov.1937 edition of Theappropriation of indigenous motifs by non-Indigenous artists Australian Journal published in Melbourne; gouache onand designers.board, signed by the artist, N.F. Rhoden, at lower left, $200300 46 x 38cm.$200250974The Art of William Dobell ed. Sydney Ure Smith,[Sydney : Ure Smith Pty Ltd., 1946 1st ed.], 136pp, with original signature of WILLIAM DOBELL to the blank endpaper.With bookplate of Elizabeth Friend.$100150 975Four assorted books and catalogues on Australian pottery (4)$100200 976VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED (second series) published by Sands, Kenny & Co., and Sydney : Sands & Kenny, 1862. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered green cloth with elaborate gilt ornamentation$6001,000977EARTH HOLD by Jennifer J. Rankin and illustrated by JOHN OLSEN [Kent, 1978], first edition hardcover with d/j, signed and endorsed by the author, plus a further endorsement and signature of the artist accompanied by an original artwork sketch,$120200 967'