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Grammar of ornament
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874. The grammar of ornament. London: Day and son, 1856. Owen Jones, an English architect and designer was one of the most influential design theorists of the nineteenth century. He was instrumental in developing modern color theory and flat patterning. His work still resonates with designers today. His two most famous works are the Alhambra and Grammar of Ornament which pioneered new standards in chromolithography. Jones was a pivotal figure in the formation of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) -
Nova totivs terrarvm orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabvla
Title: Nova totivs terrarvm orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabvla Author: Hondius, Hendrik,1597-1651. Date: 1630. First state of Henricus Hondius dated 1630 decorative world map, first issued in the 1631 edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. A fantastic example of Dutch cartography in the baroque-style. Dutch navigator Willem Jansz (Janszoon), aboard his ship the Duyfken, became in 1606 the first (documented) European to make contact with Australia mistaking the Australian coast as a continuation of New Guinea. This original map is held in the University of Melbourne Library Map Collection and is part of the extensive number of digitalised maps available online http://go.unimelb.edu.au/3zkr -
America
Title: America Object 1. Series Title: plate 4 from 'The Four Continents'. Collection Title: Baillieu Library Collection. Accession Number: 2016.0023.000.000. Creator: Collaert, Adriaen de Vos, Marten. Here, an allegorical representation of America is depicted as a woman holding a bow, arrow and axe, and riding an armadillo. In the background at right, the Spanish are at war with the inhabitants, while at left, cannibals prepare a leg on a spit. The image is from a series which represents the four continents produced during an era when Europe was gripped by exploration. -
Boxing
Collection Australian Red Cross Society – National Office. Series Photographs (2016.0081). Item Unidentified prisoners of war camp: boxing match watched by large crowd of men, Lantern Slide, (2016.0081.00045). This photograph is part of a series of lantern slides, used in cinemas by the Australian Red Cross Publicity Department, to increase public awareness of its activities, as well as raise funds and membership. The series depict a wide array of activities including the work of the Central Prisoner of War (POW) Agency, Switzerland - sorting and using Hollerith machines to calculate missing persons and POWs. Red Cross delegates visiting POW camps to ensure the Geneva Conventions were being met. This photograph of a boxing match– is one of many which illustrate life and activities in POW camps. [98] The series (2016.0081) is digitised and available via https://archives.unimelb.edu.au/ -
Serpentine Creek Falls, Mcalister River, Gippsland
Title: Serpentine Creek Falls, Mcalister River, Gippsland Object 1. Collection Title: Baillieu Library. Accession Number: 1993.2078.000.000. Creator: Chevalier, Nicholas. Creation Date: (n.d.). This colonial view of a Victorian landmark is from an album of 12 chromolithographs produced by Nicholas Chevalier, a Russian born artist, and Charles Trödel, a German lithographer, who both sailed to Australia in the late 19th century. Notably their collaboration resulted in this first example of the chromolithography technique to be achieved in Australia. -
The Times, Plate 1
Title: The Times, Plate 1 Object 1. Collection Title: Baillieu Library - Poynton Collection. Accession Number: 1959.2997.000.000. Creator: Hogarth, William. Creation Date: 1762. Hogarth was a biting satirist whose engravings are based on real people and events in England in the 18th century. In The Times the city is on fire to represent the impacts of the global Seven Years’ War. William Pitt, politician is walking on stilts and fanning the fire, while William Beckford, the Lord Mayor points to one of several shop signs which reference political factions. -
Geelong skating
Paolo Giorza (1832-1914). The Geelong skating rink galop. Melbourne: Nicholson & Ascherberg, 1877. Rare Music Collection (call # is Bail Music RB A G4995 GEE.1). The Geelong skating rink galop, with cover illustration by Charles Turner, is a piece of lively dance music for piano by Milanese composer–performer Paolo Giorza, who arrived in Australia in 1871. While the circular image appears to show a frozen river and the two women are pictured dressed for the cold with fur muffs to warm their hands, the wheeled skates tell a different story. This musical work celebrates the Geelong skating rink—with adjoining ballroom—which opened for indoor skating on soundproofed wooden floors in October 1876. -
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Perry, George, active 1810-1811. Arcana, or, The Museum of natural history : containing the most recent discovered objects embellished with coloured plates ... combining a general survey of nature. London : Printed by George Smeeton for James Stratford, 1811. George Perry (born 1771) was a 19th-century English naturalist, a malacologist. -
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Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses : with observations and inquiries thereupon / by R. Hooke, fellow of the Royal Society.London : Printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Bell in S. Paul's Church-yard., MDCLXCV. (1665) Important because it is the first book to illustrate insects, plants etc. as seen through microscopes. The first major publication of the Royal Society, it became the first scientific best-seller. It inspired a wide public interest in the new science of microscopy. Published in January 166, coined the term ‘cell’ Spectacular copperplate engravings of the miniature world, particularly its fold-out plates of insects, would have been astounding to see these images for the first time. Micrographia also describes distant planetary bodies, the wave theory of light, the organic origin of fossils, and other philosophical and scientific interests of Hooke’s. Hooke employed by major scientist Robert Boyle, did half the architectural surveys in London after the great fire in 1666 -
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Modern microscopy : a handbook for beginners and students / by M. I. Cross and M. J. Cole. London, [publisher not identified], Bailliere, Tindall & Cox.. 1895. -
Women medical students 1887
Women medical students, University of Melbourne, 1887 Group photograph of the seven who were the first women to enter the medical course in 1887. Seated (left to right) Clara Stone, Margaret Whyte (or White), Grace Vale, Elizabeth (or Annie) O'Hara, Standing (left to right) Helen Sexton, Lilian Alexander, Annie (or Elizabeth) O'Hara. University of Melbourne Archives 1994.0044.00001 Photograph, black and white print -
Guidonian hand_Rare Music
Guidonian hand, Regole del canto fermo, e di sonare sopra la parte l’organo. LHD 244, Hanson-Dyer Collection, Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library Rare Collections, University of Melbourne. The Guidonian hand, named for the medieval music theorist Guido of Arezzo, helped students to learn the location of ‘joints’ between different hexachords in the medieval scale. -
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Hassall, Arthur Hill, 1817-1894. The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease / by Arthur Hill Hassall. London, : S. Highley, 1849. Arthur Hill Hassall (13 December 1817, Teddington – 9 April 1894, San Remo) was a British physician, chemist and microscopist who is primarily known for his work in public health and food safety. -
The Fairy Story That Came True, Ida Outhwaite
The Fairy Story That Came True, Ida Outhwaite, 1923, Shell Collection, University of Melbourne Archives -
Residence for G.Smith
Residence for G. Smith, 2018.0115.00733, Undated photographer, University of Melbourne Archives Inscription: Dr Smith. New house in Whernside Avenue, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia. Architects, Yuncken, Freeman, Freeman & Griffiths. -
The Pirate Omnibus
The pirate omnibus, London: Collins, 1952 (reprint). Frederick Morgan Collection of Children’s Books, Rare Book Collection, University of Melbourne -
Asia Minor, Ptolemy, Map Collection
Asia Minor Map, Ptolemy, 16th Century, Map Collection, University of Melbourne -
Gang-Gang Cockatoo
Gang-Gang Cockatoo from Parrots in captivity / by W.T. Greene ; with notes on several species by F.G. Dutton, London : Bell, 1884-1887, Rare Books Collection, University of Melbourne -
Foy and Gibson catalogue illustration, 1929
Illustration from 1929 Foy & Gibson Spring/Summer catalogue,
