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

Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 125 x 222 mm (image); 185 x 265 mm (sheet), edge tears to margins, else very good. Lithograph by an unknown artist after an etching of Adelaide first published in Nixon's Views on Adelaide and its Vicinity (1845), the first South Australian view book. Little is known of these 1880s lithographic facsimiles, however another example is held in the National Gallery of Australia (NGA 2011.1196). For the 1845 edition, see Ferguson 4124; Wantrup 233.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (150 x 105 mm). Photographic studio details printed recto; inscribed in ink in period hand verso: ""S.S. Austral, Orient Line. Sunk in Sydney Harbour about 1881.""

Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1986. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. viii; 120, a fine copy. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of South Australia, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, and Bendigo Art Gallery, signed by him on the endpaper.  

Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, light handling marks, but a fine copy. 'Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia's most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised 'Marvellous Melbourne' basking in the glow of the gold rushes. He worked in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and left some of the most memorable images of urban and rural life in colonial Australia. A passionate defender of Indigenous Australians and of the environment, Gill in his art celebrated the emerging quintessential Australian character. This is the first major comprehensive book to be devoted to Gill and presents a radical reassessment of one of the most important figures in Australian colonial art and reproduces, in some instances for the first time, some of the most startling images from… Read More

Also titled: Images 80. Leek, Staffordshire : Macclesfield Community News, 1980. Tabloid newsprint, 450 x 290 mm, 20 pp, photographic illustrations throughout; toned at edges and along the light horizontal fold, otherwise in excellent condition. A very scarce complete copy of the official newspaper of the Salford 80 International Photographic Exhibition, staged at various venues in Salford and Greater Manchester in 1980.

Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 245 x 295 mm; ms. caption in the negative reads: '6395. Lt. Gaunt's Squad drilling. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Protected, Oct. '99'; the print is in good condition; the mount is sunned at the edges and has a tiny amount of insect damage at bottom right corner. Lieutenant (later Sir) Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt raised this native troop, known unofficially as Gaunt's Squad, in 1899 during the Second Samoan Civil War. These fighters were loyal to Malietoa Tanumafili I, and fought alongside the British and Americans against Samoan rebels loyal to Mata'afa Iosefo.

[Sydney : Highland Society of New South Wales, Bell's Chambers, Pitt Street, 1881-86]. Three letter copybooks produced by Sydney stationery firm John Sands. Uniform quarto (270 x 220 mm), half leather over cloth or marbled papered boards (mild rubbing and some wear to extremities), spines stamped in gilt 'Letter Book'; alphabetical tab dividers; containing a large number of copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence, most signed by Hon. Secretary John Macdonald; includes an appended letter on the Society letterhead signed by inaugural President, Sir John Hay; several leaves at front of one book excised (probably at the time), occasional foxing, but generally very well preserved. A unique manuscript record of an institution dedicated to the fostering of Scottish culture in New South Wales in the 1880s. The Highland Society of New South Wales was inaugurated in Sydney in June 1878, with politician Sir John Hay as its first president. The Society was a charitable and… Read More

[Sydney : Gaelic Society of New South Wales, 3 Hunter Street, 1875-77]. Letter copybook. Quarto (270 x 220 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed, leather a little worn); spine stamped in gilt 'Letter Book'; alphabetical tab dividers; contains numerous copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence (some written in Scots Gaelic), most signed by Hon. Secretary John Macdonald; complete and well preserved. Around the time of the demise of the St. Andrew's Society of New South Wales, which had become defunct by the end of 1875, two other organisations dedicated to the fostering of Scottish culture in the colony were established in Sydney. One was the Caledonian Society of New South Wales; the other was the Gaelic Society of New South Wales. Both were only relatively short-lived, as in June 1878 they would amalgamate to form the Highland Society of New South Wales, a much more ambitious charitable and cultural organisation with politician Sir John Hay as… Read More

Cover title: Poems by Paul DeWitt Twinem : Printed in Memoriam. Shanghai : printed by The Presbyterian Mission Press [for Mary Dorothy Fine Twinem], 1929. Octavo (20 x 135 mm), original purple silk over boards, upper board with title in English and Chinese in gilt; frontispiece half-tone photographic portrait of poet and missionary Paul deWitt Twinem, pp [8], 98, printed on Chinese bamboo paper on double leaves in oriental style; a fine copy. Paul DeWitt Twinem was born in Harrisville, Ohio, in 1894. In May 1922, while on the academic staff at the University of Nanking, he married Mary Dorothy Fine (b. 1895 in Trenton, New Jersey), an American Presbyetrian missionary based at Huaiyuan, in Anhui Province. Twinem himself joined the Presbyterian Mission, but only a few months later he died suddenly on 23 September, 1923, leaving Mary a young widow. Mary would spend the next few decades in China as a teacher at the University of Nanking, and she became a Chinese citizen. She was forced to leave Nanjing… Read More

Melbourne : Allan & Co., c.1908. Folio, illustrated cover with lithographed portrait of a young gypsy woman by W. George (front cover detached, with wet stamp of T.L. Hood Music seller, Hobart, and ownership inscription blacked out), 7 pp of musical notation (pencilled annotations), plus extracts from other pieces on inner rear and rear covers. Unrecorded in Australian collections.  

Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1901].Quarto, opublisher's illustrated wrappers, 30 pp, music notation, a fine copy. 1. Why did they sell Killarney? 2. Somebody loves me 3. Bye-and-bye you will forget me 4. March! March! or blue bonnets 5. Songbirds are singing of you 6. In the valley where the old Ohio flows 7. Castles in the air 8. Baby's tears 9. I loved you better than you knew 10. Gliding down the Mississipp 11. When the pilot takes command 12. THe old church bells are silent 13. Dad's sweetheart long ago 14. Sylvie 15. What might have been. Two copies are recorded in Australian collections (State Library of Victoria; State Library of New South Wales).

Cover: ""The sensational hit from Rex Ingram's Prisoner of Zenda. Featured throughout Australia in conjunction with the filming of the Metro Film, The Prisoner of Zenda"". Melbourne : L.F. Collin, [1922]. Folio, illustrated wrappers, 5 pp of musical notation, a near fine copy.  Copies are recorded in two Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of Victoria). 

Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [1908]. Cover: ""Sung with great success by Lottie Kay and Walter Whyte."" Series: Allan's popular 6d. edition, no. 211. Folio, publisher's illustrated wrappers, upper wrapper with vignette portraits of Lottie Kay and Bert Rache, original owner's signature of ""Roland Thomas Esq."", wet stamp of music seller ""Miss M.R. Walden ... Lower Flat, Eastern Market, Melbourne"", [5] pp music notation, arrangement for voice and piano; a near fine copy. Unrecorded in Australian collections.

New York : Leo. Feist Inc., [1916]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 2 pp of musical notation, a very good copy. Unrecorded in Australian collections.

Sydney : Albert's Music Store, [1906]. (Note that the front cover also bears the imprint of E.W. Cole, Melbourne). Quarto, publisher's illustrated wrappers, full page colour advertisements for Albert's on lower wrapper and inside wrappers, [41] pp, music notation; a fine copy. 1. I'm trying hard to forget you /​ Chas. K. Harris 2. Barney /​ Ed. Rogers 3. Your dad gave his life for his country /​ T. Mayo Geary 4. My Yokahama lady /​ Lee Johnson 5. Under the anheuser bush /​ Harry Von Tilzer 6. Down in the depths /​ W.C. Kreusch 7. Ev'ry morn I bring her a chicken /​ T. Mayo Geary 8. Would you care, waltz /​ Chas. K. Harris 9. Happy hits, lancers /​ L.P. Purnell 10. Georgia ragtime, waltz /​ F. Abtler. Three copies are recorded in Australian collections (State Library of Queensland; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria)

/ The words by Howard Arnold Walters. The music by Laurie Annette Sterne. Dedicated to Ruth B. Fairfax, State President of the Queensland Country Women's Association, May 1931. At head of title: ""I would be Friend to All - The Foe - The Friendless"". Brisbane : The Read Press Pty. Ltd., Ann St., Valley [for The Queensland Country Women's Association], [1931]. Folio (355 x 250 mm), original decorative wrappers (light staining, short edge tears - one closed with tape); 2 pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); contents clean. Very scarce piece of sheet music, being the first edition of the Queensland Country Women's Association's ""creed"", written by American Presbyterian Howard Arnold Walters. For the story of how the song came to be written and used, see the following article by H. MacNeil Saunders from the Queensland Countrywoman Journal, November 1936, reproduced on the CWA website: http://www.cwaofwa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CWA-CREED.pdf Trove locates only two copies of… Read More

Mainz : bei B. Schott's Söhnen ; Brüssel : bei Gebrüder Schott ; London : bei Schott & Cie., [1855?]. Series: Vaterlandslieder / Chants patriotiques / Für das Pianoforte bearbeitet von Ferd. Beyer. No. 45. Folio (330 x 260 mm), bifolium (detached), [4] pages, the front with title and imprint and a colour design featuring a French tricolour flag with the royal crest of Napoleon III (Emperor of the French, 1852-70), 2 pages of music notation, last side blank; discreet stamp of the Bruckner-Konservatorium (Linz) to upper margin of [3], but clean and complete. Rare sheet music from the series Vaterlandslieder, by the German composer and pianist Ferdinand Beyer (Querfurt, 25 July 1803 - Mainz, 14 May 1863). This series comprised at least 75 separately issued pieces of sheet music, the first of which was published in 1848, and the majority of which were arrangements by Beyer of national anthems or patriotic songs for pianoforte. The series drew on music from every conceivable corner of the globe,… Read More

George Robertson & Co., [1907]. First edition. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers (printed in brown and green), spine with archival tape repair (lacking the original string ties), edges chipped, pp. 32, old tape removed from gutters, closed tear to margin of pp. 29-30, scattered foxing. With frontispiece and eight full page illustrations by Outhwaite. Published to coincide with the 1907 'First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work' with printed dedication to Lady Northcote. Muir 6336.

New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) 'The Creole Fashion Plate' in full drag, pp. 6, owner's name to upper panel, a fine copy. 'Karyl Norman' (1897 - 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast of the United States. He toured Australia and New Zealand in 1917, and was known for his fashion gowns, mostly made by his mother, who toured with him. Norman was a key performer as part of the 'pansy craze' which emerged in New York in the 1930s, where gay subculture emerged as mainstream entertainment during the Prohibition era. He was known for his Southern style songs which he mostly wrote himself, quick change of costume and fine voice.

Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1902]. 'Published under licence from M. Witmark New York'. Folio, illustrated cover with inset portrait of the Australian singer Florence Young (front cover detached), 3 pp of musical notation, first page with wet stamp of S. Marshall & Sons, 52 Rundle St., Adelaide, internally clean and sound. Originally a song in the Broadway musical Twirly Wirly, starring the comedians Weber & Fields and the famous singer Lillian Russell. John Stromberg had been the musical director for the comedians. When he was found dead, the manuscript was found on his body. Russell, who sang the song, broke down on the opening night part way through the song. The Australian performer Florence Young (1870-1920) first appeared in the 1890 Melbourne production of Suppe’s Boccacio and was one of Australia's premier performersof  light opera and music theatre through to the First World War period.  Two copies are recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New… Read More