Format: Group of eleven postcards, three with stamps and postmarks verso, each approx. 14 x 9cm.

Postcards are from Germany, England, and Australia, and all show images of the devil as a charming, mischievous, and witty imp.

Beginning in the late 19th century, images of the devil began popping up on postcards in Austria and Germany, and by 1902 became so popular they proliferated across all of Europe and then America. Ref: Beauchamp, Devilish Greetings, 2007.

A detailed list is available upon request.

Some creases, chips to corners and edges, foxing.

Format: Lithograph and letterpress die-cut programme card in the form of a scallop shell with decorative ribbon bow in Shell company colours, 10.5 x 10cm.

Text includes “Palais Royal [Adelaide], June 27, 1928. Specialties: Shell Fairy Ballet by the pupils of Miss Nora Stewart; simultaneous dancing and clog dance; carnival dance; military toe dance; demonstration of the English fox trot, yale blues and modern waltz. Lee, Rule & Co. Ltd, printers.”

Minor foxing and stains.

Format: Four Victorian paper lace valentine’s cards housed in one envelope addressed to “Miss Shelton, care of Mr Nickalls, Briston, east Dereham[?]” in ink, each approx. 13 x 9cm.

These delicate Victorian Valentine’s Day cards include chromolithograph floral decoupage, lace doilies, satin ribbons, paper lace trimmings and little poetic verses.

One card is annotated from a separate suitor: “To my cousin Ann Shelton, from J. Fowler York.” Another, which opens to reveal two intricate scenes of floral scraps, likely would have contained a scented sachet.

Some tears to edges, one card with three floral scraps missing to corners. Envelope torn.

Author: Rolleston, C.H.

Publisher: Coogee, NSW: Coogee Advancement League.

Format: Softcover booklet with process screen illustrated wrappers, signed “C.R. Wylie” in image lower right, 36pp, 28 x 22cm.

Filled with photographs and advertisements for Coogee, NSW.

Charles Henry Rolleston was employed as secretary of the Coogee Ocean Pier Co., Ltd, the company responsible for constructing the ill-fated Coogee pier that was opened in 1928, fell quickly into disrepair, and was ordered for demolition by council in 1933. His name appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, 6 January 1931, as in court for bankruptcy.

Charles Roxburgh Wylie (Australian, c1870–1947), the cover illustrator, also designed the armorial bearings for the city of Canberra in 1928, and the flag of the Sutherland Shire in 1929. It is uncertain whether the name bears any relation to Henry Alexander or Mina Wylie, the family who built Wylie’s baths. Ref: The Australian Heraldry Society, issue 159, 2013.

Creases, foxing and stains, tears to old folds including wrappers, centrefold loose from staples.

Format: Letterpress and process screen pamphlet, 4pp, 10.5 x 14.5cm.

Text includes “Moore Street, Sydney. A night school course will pay rich dividends, and the time & money expended will prove a profitable investment. Curriculum: Pitman’s shorthand, touch typewriting, bookkeeping & the science of accounts, Stott & Hoare’s budget system of bookkeeping, penmanship, commercial arithmetic, commercial correspondence, English, French, German. Websdale Shoosmith & Co. printers, 117 Clarence St.”

Teaching staff included Alexander W. Nicol, Frederick A. Charters, C. Hungerford, Harold Woods, J. Arthur Turner, and F. John Sommerhoff.

Stott & Hoare was established by Sydney Stott and William Hoare, early importers of typewriters.

Format: Letterpress trade card, 8.4 x 6.3cm.

Text includes “By arrangement with your secretary, dentist Charles I. Harris allows all members, their wives and families, 20% (4/- in the £). Cnr King & Pitt Streets, Sydney (over Thompson’s Silk store). Branches: Manly, Bondi Junction, Newtown, Oxford St.”

Verso is a calendar for 1925.

Format: Letterpress card, annotated “platform” in pencil in unknown hand, 7.7 x 11.7cm.

Text includes “Citizens’ meeting of protest against Irish Rebel propaganda. Sydney Town Hall, Friday April 20th at 8pm. Speakers: Mr. R.W.D. Weaver; Rev. E.H. Wilson; Rev. W. Gray; Mr W.H. Clutton [etc]. Organ recital (Miss Lilian Frost) from 7 till 8.”

Convened by the Protestant Truth Society to place on record its emphatic protest against the arrival of Father O’Flanagan and Mr. O’Kelly, representatives of the Irish rebels' arrival in Australia, “whose seditious propaganda is designed to be destructive of the interests of the Empire and a menace to the peace of the community.”

The Watchman (26.4.1923) reported that “Sydney's Town Hall has not often been more thoroughly crowded than it was on Friday last,” when fervent Imperialist and pro-conscriptionist politician Reginald Weaver (Australian, 1876–1945) spoke against Irish rebels “disrupting Australian democracy in the interests of Irish Republicanism.” Ref: Wiki; ADB; The Watchman.

Tear to upper left corner, creases.

Author: Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry.

Publisher: Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris.

Format: Softcover square octavo with original lithograph cover, unpaginated [20pp], with 50 plates (4 in colour), 16.6 x 16.6cm.

Colour lithograph cover designed by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) especially for this exhibition catalogue. Printed by Mourlot.

Minor crinkles and foxing, minor tanning to lower edge of cover.

Publisher: Paris: Berggruen & Cie.

Format: Pair of softcover octavo booklets, original lithograph covers, 22 x 10.5cm.

1. Maitres-Graveurs Contemporains, 1965. The cover of this booklet is an original lithograph in seven colours specially designed by Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887–1985) for this catalogue, printed by Mourlot. Lists 439 works, all illustrated. With errata slip. Slight tanning, stains to wrappers, minor surface loss to spine. Wrappers slightly coming away from text block.

2. Maitres-Graveurs Contemporains, 1970. The cover of this booklet is an original lithograph in five colours specially designed by Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893–1983) for this catalogue, printed by Mourlot. Lists 575 works, all illustrated. Price list laid-in. Minor creases and tanning to wrappers, front hinge split.

Galerie Berggruen was a legendary modern art gallery in Paris that championed avant-garde and modern art. It was operated by art dealer Heinz Berggruen from 1947 until 1980.

Format: Unbound chapbook in single sheet with 24 folds, woodcut illustration and six-line verse on cover, 17 x 10cm (folded as 12mo).

Title continues “Including an account of his birth, education, and death.”

Date referenced from National Library of Ireland.

Stains and creases.