Search Results: Titles starting with G from Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Section of cardboard cut from a Turkish soap packet, approx. 90 x 140 mm (slightly irregular), the verso with handwritten message in violet pencil headed 'Post Card / On Active Service / June 5th', addressed to the sender's aunt, Mrs S. S. Clarke in Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, with 'INFANTRY BRIGADE/FIELD/10JU15/POST OFFICE/NZ DIVISION' circular date stamp and 'Passed by Censor 2634' cachet in rose; the writer informs his aunt that he is 'quite well', that he has received her letters and parcel, and that 'We are still in the firing line and getting on well ... have not found out about Robert (?)'; the message is signed 'Arthur'; intriguingly, written in the same hand in the top left corner are the initials LHR (Light Horse Regiment) - what connection the sender, or the postcard itself, had with the Australian Light Horse is not clear; the card has been very well preserved and is in near fine condition. A highly evocative and virtually unique piece of Anzac ephemera. While the use… Read More

Government-issue Waterlow & Sons Limited ledger book, folio (320 x 220 mm), original marbled papered boards with hessian backstrip and corners (heavily rubbed and worn from extensive use), upper board lettered in manuscript in black ink: 'H.M.S. Albion / 25th Jany. 1915 / to / 21st July 1915'; [340] pp. with manuscript entries in the hands of the three surgeons on board (approx. 30,000 words in total), being a daily log kept throughout the Albion's involvement in the Dardanelles campaign recording every casualty or case presented to the ship's surgeons, including date and location, name and rank of patient, description of the ailment or wound, and type of treatment prescribed or administered; clean throughout. HMS Albion was a Canopus Class pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy which participated in the Dardanelles campaign. This unique manuscript record gives many insights into how the campaign would have been experienced by a naval surgeon and by wounded or ill sailors. Navy lists… Read More

Moscow : D. IA. Makovskii, 1914. First Russian edition of Noa Noa : voyage à Tahiti. Quarto, original pictorial yellow wrappers, title with vignette illustration, frontispiece plate of Gauguin's self-portrait, 125 pp, 10 full-page black and white plates, one tipped-in illustration and vignette head- and tail-pieces; a fine copy. Text in Russian. The Paris-based Russian art historian and critic Yakov Tugendhold was a champion of Gauguin's work. The rare first Russian edition of the artist's now-famous Tahiti journal was the product of Tugendhold's own initiative, and it includes his essay on Gauguin's life and work. A second edition, more common than the first, was published in 1918.

San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word 'Olympic' redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three weeks prior to the Opening, the United States Olympic Committee filed a law suit against the San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., organisers of the Games, for the unauthorised use of the word 'Olympic', forcing the redaction of the word in marketing and merchandise, including this contemporary newsletter from the organisers. The event was rebranded the Gay Games and has been held every four years since 1982, rotating between host cities. A most interesting contemporary newsletter from the controversy surrounding the Gay Olympic Games. It includes information about the games and events, and a form to be submitted offering to host visiting athletes in housing from… Read More

[Geelong : Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip], May 1850. Manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of a folio bifolium, in the hand of a legal clerk; recording a bond of £160 payable to Deputy Sheriff Alastair Mackenzie. The three liable parties are John Furlong of Barrabool, farmer; George Gibbons, licensed victualler of South Geelong; and George Elliot, general dealer of South Geelong. The condition of the bond is that it will remain in effect from the commencement of Furlong's suit in the Supreme Court at Melbourne or Geelong against Edward Willis and Charles Lambert Swanston (joint owners of Native Creek Station, a sheep run of 4000 acres) for 'taking and unjustly detaining' his property - 'to wit, one stack of hay, twenty bags of oats and dirty wheat, and one horse dray', but that it will be made void if/when the goods are adjudged to have been returned; seals intact on the second side; docketed on the last side: 'Dated [day omitted] May 1850 / John… Read More

af. Chr. Gottfr. Dan. Stein; efter 9:de upplagan af Ã¥r 1819, översätt och försedd med en serskild artikel öfver Skandinavien, af C. Netherwood. Med ett fullständigt Register, som säljes särskildt, och varigenom arbetet tillika kan begagnas som Lexicon. Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1819. Small octavo (146 x 113 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine with bands ruled in triple gilt and maroon leather title-piece lettered in gilt; speckled edges; front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Seton of Ekolsund (the Seton family originally came from Linlithgowshire in Scotland), front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of Alexander Seton dated 22 March 1823; pp. [10], 458; [BOUND WITH] Register till G.D. Stein's Lärobok (an index of place names) .... Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1820. pp. 90, [4]; both works crisp and clean throughout, a very attractively bound volume associated with an interesting dynasty, the Setons of Eskolund. A… Read More

[Parts (I)-II]. Uppsala : Palmblad & c., 1826-27. Duodecimo (170 x 120 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (heavily rubbed), spine with embossed decoration, gilt rule and contrasting title-piece lettered in gilt (somewhat faded); pp. 129,1-118,118b-118e, [2 blanka] + [2],119-464; text in Swedish; the title-page of the first part has some minor staining, the inside of the rear cover and endpaper stained; tears in the upper margin on pp. 105-07 in the first pagination sequence; slight staining on p. 129 in the first pagination sequence to p. 4 in the second and also on pp. 9-15; ink spots on pp. 68-69; in part II, paper soiling at the top of the inner margin on p. 225 and damp stains in the lower margin of pp. 273-74 and in the fore-edge margin on pp. 357-62, 393-404 and sporadically thereafter; with signature of Pehr Gustaf Hanström (1820-88) dated Vimmerby on 2 October 1832 and another by him dated 29 May 1835. Note: Part I is the second edition. Palmblad's primer of physical… Read More

[Brisbane, Qld. : s.n., 1880]. Admission ticket, 75 x 113 mm, printed recto only on orange card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript '123', along with the price 2/6, and is signed lower left by the Club's Hon. Secretary, J. Bauman; verso blank; fine condition. [TOGETHER WITH] Gentleman's Ticket to the same ball, numbered 149, with the price of 5/-, also signed by Bauman; identical format to the Lady's Ticket, but printed on buff card; fine condition. A most attractive pair of tickets to the masquerade ball of 1880 organised by Brisbane's German Glee Club, an amateur singing society. Interesting to note that the admission price for a lady's ticket was half that of a gentleman's - surely in order to boost female attendance.

[=Ball and foundation ceremony of the ""Germania"" Choral Society ... Admission. The Committee]. Brisbane, Qld. : Cleghorn, printer, 1875. Admission ticket, 59 x 91 mm, printed recto only on buff card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript '38', and beside the word Eintritt (Admission) is written the price 7/6; the ticket was initialed by the seller C.H.; verso blank; pale foxing, else very good. Ticket to the inaugural ball and founding celebrations of Brisbane's Germania Choral Society. Note the curious mix of German and English!

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. September 1905. No. 30. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 37 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating most items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 11 artefacts from the Gilbert Islands, among them a rare full suit of coconut-fibre and stingray-skin armour; and 26 items of Chinese weaponry (swords, cross-bows, arrows, quiver etc.). William Ockelford Oldman was a British collector and dealer of ethnographic art and European arms and armour. His business W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London was mostly active between the late 1890s and 1913. A large number of artefacts sold by Oldman now reside in some of the world's most important ethnographic collections, and his illustrated sales catalogues, issued between 1901 and 1913, remain significant works of reference. Oldman's private collection of Oceanic… Read More

Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic camera, and the prints are in an impressive 100 x 300 mm format; the remainder were taken with a small conventional Kodak camera, the prints measuring 110 x 85 mm; many (but not all) of the views are captioned on the mounts; the album opens with a large albumen print of timber cutters in a jarrah forest, Western Australia (235 x 295 mm); the first sequence comprises 8 stunning panoramic shots (mounted two to a page) and two smaller views of the King of the Hills Gold Mine, near Leonora, Western Australia; then follows, under the caption title 'West Africa', a sequence of 21 smaller format views taken on the Ashanti goldfields, including views of mining operations… Read More

Götheborg [Sweden] : C.F. Arwidsson, [1853]. First edition. Octavo, publisher's contemporary buff boards (lightly marked) with blue cloth spine, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 to front pastedown, [2], v, [1], 104 pp. Text in Swedish. Ferguson, 11049a. The first Scandinavian gold digger’s guidebook. A guide book for prospective Swedish travellers to the Victorian and New South Wales goldfields, compiled and published within a relatively short time of the first gold discoveries and probably the earliest Scandinavian work on the Australian gold rushes. It includes specific information about the Turon, Bungonia, Abercrombie River, Summerhill Creek, Shoalhaven and Wentworth diggings in New South Wales, as well as the Victorian diggings in Ballarat and surrounding districts. Anecdotes of successful gold diggers are also recounted, and advice given on overland travel from Portland to Melbourne and from Sydney to Melbourne. The author, known also as Moses Kahn, was born into Stockholm's… Read More

Melbourne : Government printer, 1853. Foolscap folio, string bound, vi, 16, [3] pp; complete and clean

[Germany] : s.n., [circa 1880]. Group of 18 embossed die-cut scraps (designed for use in a child's scrap album), from an Australian-themed series depicting scenes and individual figures including gold diggers, squatters, Aborigines, and ships, and including one scrap printed with the series title Australia; maximum diameter 55 mm, all in good condition. A lovely little group.

Philadelphia: Charles H. Davis, 1855 (first published 1854). Duodecimo, blind-embossed purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine (faded), pp. 128, illustrated with wood-engravings; a very god copy. Children's adventure stories, including 'Encounters with a boa constrictor', 'Ascent of the Wetterhorn', 'Attacks of the cult-fish', 'Perils of the Sperm-Whale fishery' etc., as well as 'The gold-mines of Australia' - a grim picture of the crowded goldfields of Australia illustrated with a wood-engraving of the miners at work. 'The climate is considered unhealthy for Europeans. The gold region is said to be thickly dotted with the graves of those, who, in the hope of becoming wealthy, periled their lives in a country of which they knew almost nothing, and sank under disease and disappointment'.  'Septimus Winner (May 11, 1827 – November 22, 1905) was an American songwriter of the 19th century. He used his own name, and also the pseudonyms Alice Hawthorne, Percy Guyer, Mark Mason, Apsley Street, and… Read More

drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page and five tinted lithographed plates, each plate with printed caption beneath and with a leaf of letterpress text facing (short repaired tears to the lower margin and edges, general light creasing and handling wear); a rare colour plate book from the Australian gold rush, housed in a custom clamshell box of quarter-morocco over cloth, lettered in gilt. 'The earliest colonial plate book inspired by the Victorian Gold Rushes' (Wantrup, Australian rare books, p. 325), Ham's publication contains five engravings of the highest quality by David Tulloch, Ham's engraver. Most copies of the portfolio appear to have been issued with tinted plates, as is the case with the present example,… Read More

Laid upon the Council table by the Chief Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 25th January, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 1 page; fine. This document concerns a supplementary return of claims presented to the Government for injuries inflicted by the military or police at Ballarat in December 1854. The single claim outlined is that of Frank Arthur Hasleham, who is to be awarded £400 on account of the gunshot wound he received in the right shoulder, 'Not having been implicated in the proceedings of the rioters, and having been severely wounded and thereby put to considerable loss and suffering'.

Albumen print photograph of a painted portrait, carte de visite format, 107 x 67 mm (mount), recto of mount with facsimile autograph of the famous writer, along with the artist's details: 'E. Hader pinxit', the publisher's copyright statement: '1882. Gesetzlich geschützt', and the imprint of the photographer and publisher: 'Photographie und Verlag v. Sophus Williams, Berlin W.'; verso with printed caption 'Friedrich Gerstäcker'; the albumen print and the mount are in fine condition. Both the fictional and non-fictional works of German traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872), which are based on his experiences in New South Wales and South Australia, are of great significance to the study of Australian society during the gold rush period. However, we can trace no portraits of Gerstäcker in Australian public collections. From ADB: 'Friedrich Gerstaecker (1816-1872), writer and traveller, was born on 10 May 1816 in Hamburg, son of Friedrich Gerstaecker (1790-1825), opera singer. At an… Read More

Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio, 2 pp; fine. Details of regulations pertaining to gold licenses, claim disputes etc., printed just prior to the Eureka Rebellion.

Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio, 2 pp; fine. Officer commanding the Troops in Victoria, Lt. Col. Thomas Valiant's letter advising of reinforcements for the detachment of the 40th Regiment on the Sandhurst (Bendigo) gold fields, because of the threat of disturbances by miners. These extra troops have been brought from Melbourne and Castlemaine.