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Cloches de Noel et de Paques
AU$60,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmile Gebhart; Alphonse Mucha
Paris: F. Champenois & H. Piazza et Cie, 1900.Copy No. 1 of 10 on Japon containing an original Mucha drawing. Emile Gebhart’s three medieval tales: Les trois rois, La derniere nuit de Judas, and Alleluia! presented in one of the great illustrated books of the Art Nouveau period. Alphonse Mucha provided the complete decorative programme: cover design, title-page decoration, limitation page, colophon, and 78 individual headpiece compositions with elaborate floral borders enclosing the text, each hand-coloured by au pochoir. This copy, No. 1, contains an original full-page mixed-media drawing in pencil and watercolour on Japon, signed ‘Mucha’ at lower right, depicting a young woman in flowing drapery and broad knotted sash, her hair loose to her waist beneath a patterned headband, in profile with her hands raised to her collarbone, a detailed study for the main figure featured in the vignette on page 69. Also bound in are a complete suite in colour on Japon of the 78 borders and vignettes and the three designs for the title, limitation, and colophon, together with a second state in black on China paper. The original wrappers and prospectus are retained. The prospectus established a hierarchy of 252 copies in five categories, of which the ten copies on Japon with original watercolours (priced at 550 francs each) ranked only below the unique parchment and satin copies (priced at 1,000 and 800 francs), both entirely reworked by the artist, and above 25 further copies on Japon without watercolour and 215 copies on velin de Rives. The prospectus also noted explicitly that trade discount on the watercolour copies excluded “the cost of the watercolour executed by the artist”, formally distinguishing the value of the Mucha original from that of the book at the point of publication. Provenance: Acquired in 1947 by Albert Quesnot (1882-1954), first violinist with the Paris Opera, thence by descent, retained in the family home until 2026, when acquired at auction in Paris. Fresh to the market after nearly eighty years of unbroken family ownership.
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The Electric Automobile: Its Construction, Care and Operation
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. E. Woods
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1900.One of the earliest monographs devoted to electric vehicles, covering their construction, maintenance, and practical operation at a time when electrics were serious competitors to petrol-powered cars. Clinton Edgar Woods (1863-1927), an electrical and mechanical engineer, founded the Woods Motor Vehicle Company in Chicago in 1896 and was a committed advocate of electric propulsion, anticipating that both electric and gasoline vehicles would displace horse-drawn transport. Writing at a moment when the relative futures of electric and gasoline power remained uncertain (though the limitations of battery range were already apparent) Woods expresses a cautious scepticism that would, for much of the following century, be borne out by the dominance of the internal combustion engine. “Will not a battery some time be made to run a vehicle 100 or more miles on one charge? While this may be possible, the writer hardly thinks it probable.”
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The Philosophy of Physiomedicalism: Its Theorem, Corollary, and Laws of Application for the Cure of Disease
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. M. Thurston
Richmond: Nicholson Printing & Mfg. Co., 1900.A late text in the school of Physiomedicalism, a natural medicine system which grew out of Thomsonianism in the United States and was influential in modern herbalism and holistic approaches to health.
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Athletic Queensland: A History of Amateur Rowing, Boxing and Physical Development, Pedestrianism and Cycling, in Queensland
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. B. Carmichael; H. C. Perry
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1900.Under the official patronage of the Queensland Rowing Association, Queensland Amateur Athletic Association, Brisbane Gymnasium, Queensland Cyclists’ Union. 4 works in 1 comprising the most detailed history of 19th century sport in early Queensland recorded by . Not only a detailed guide for physical fitness it is an invaluable record of local history. The four works are: 1. Amateur Rowing: By W. B. Carmichael with contributions by R. H. Roe, C. B. P. Bell, and F. W. de Little: Comprising a history of rowing Brisbane, Maryborough, Rockhampton, &c., crew discipline, how to row (with poses), training, &c.; 2. The Art of Boxing: Hints on Its Acquirement – How to Train – History of Amateur Boxing in Queensland by Harry C. Perry. With which is interwoven a detailed History of the Brisbane Gymnasium, the leading institution of its kind in the colony; and A Special Illustrated Article on Physical Culture, by T. Wilkinson, Together with a concise account of every Athletic Display and Boxing Tournament held under its auspices.; 3. Amateur Pedestrianism by W. B. Carmichael. Also an article on Best Methods of Starting, How to Train, &c. by C. Campbell. A Complete Record of All Intercolonial and Pedestrian Events in the Colony since the Year 1873.; 4. Amateur Cycling by Harry C. Perry. Including an Article on Best Methods of Training and Riding by J. A. Smith, also Recollections of the Pioneers by Geo. Tombuco. A Complete Record of All Principal Events, Both Local and Intercolonial. FERGUSON 7958.