Search Results: Authors starting with C from Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Pen and ink illustration and calligraphy with onlaid silver gelatin photograph, on thin card, 420 x 200 mm (sheet); a few light marks around the upper edges, otherwise fine condition. A significant piece of ephemera from one of Melbourne's most famous dining establishments of the 1890s and early 1900s, the Vienna Café, which occupied the grand premises at 25 Collins Street East. The Australia Hotel was later built on the same site. This unique ""sign"" was probably created in-house on the occasion of a special banquet held at the Vienna Café, a private function for the 17 young men in the photograph. Note that each of them has a letter ""B"" for ""Besse"" displayed in his lapel.  ""Completed in Collins Street in 1939 to a Leslie M. Perrott design, the Australia Hotel replaced an existing hotel of that name which had been established on the site of the highly fashionable and popular Vienna Café Hotel (1890-1915), Gunsler's Café Hotel (1879-90), and the City Club Hotel established about 1872. In… Read More

Very large format albumen print photograph, 215 x 270 mm; dated in manuscript in negative lower left '1 Jan 1874'; the verso has a contemporary inscription in pencil 'No. 1' and a straight-line wet stamp in green ink whose lettering is unfortunately indecipherable; the print has three vertical folds, with a short tear at the bottom edge of the central fold; the photograph is preserved in the previous owner's archival mat, on which she wrote in pencil 'Nicholas Caire mount' - presumably, this is a reference to the remnants of a mount that must have perished. The scrubby, scarred landscape certainly makes it possible that this fabulous outdoor group portrait was taken somewhere on the Central Goldfields. Nicholas Caire was living and working in Sandhurst (Bendigo) at this time. There was a surprisingly large number of social events held in Bendigo on New Year's Day, 1874 - in fact, if truth be told, there was probably more entertainment on offer than there would be today. We believe the men in our… Read More

Circa 1895. Photographic magic lantern glass slide with hand colouring, 82 x 82 mm, original printed label affixed to one of the paper borders, '20. Group of Natives, Victoria', plus a larger label printed '20'; fine condition. A superb group portrait of an Aboriginal group in western clothing taken on the Lake Tyers reserve in far eastern Victoria. The original photograph was taken by the photographer Nicholas Caire in 1886, and was first published in a portfolio of Gippsland views.

Albumen print photograph, 280 x 230 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thin card, with a fully contemporary pencilled caption in French beneath the image: 'Splitters fall (partie du milieu) haute 200 pieds'; a strong print with good tonal range, slight yellowing at edges; in very good condition (tiny amount of loss at bottom right corner, probably pre-dating the mounting). The State Library of Victoria holds another copy of this view (PCLTAF ; 302 P.16; in identical format, titled Foot of Splitter's Falls), which it dates to 1879-1881. Note: another waterfall known as Splitter's Falls is located near Hall's Gap, Western Victoria.

Albumen print photograph, 240 x 290 mm, laid down on its original album page (split card) with caption in ink beneath image 'Selectors Camp Gippsland'; a strong print with rich tones and excellent contrast; the detail is so sharp that the printed commercial labels on the tins of salmon in the men's temporary shelter can easily be read. This evocative image was taken by Melbourne photographer N. J. Caire in the foothills of the Yarra Ranges on Gippsland's western fringe. The National Library of Australia holds another example, contained in a late nineteenth-century travel album, which has a manuscript caption that identifies the location as Ferntree Gully.

[1877-78]. Albumen print photograph, 150 x 205 mm, laid down on original card mount, 245 x 300 mm, recto with printed caption beneath image: 'The Benevolent Asylum'; verso with imprint of 'Anglo-Australian Photographic Company. N.J. Caire, Photo., No. 2 Sherwood Street, Richmond', and series title and number 'The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs. No. 10. The Benevolent Asylum', followed by a paragraph of printed text: 'This noble institution was erected in the year 1854, at a cost of £54,000. It is situated at the northern extremity of Victoria Street, Hotham, and occupies a plot of ground neasuring 10 acres. The number of inmates at present is 634, comprising mostly the aged and decrepid of sexes. The annual cost of this establishment for maintenance is £12,000. Mr. McCutcheon is the Superintendent'; the albumen print in good condition with a few tiny spots of foxing; the margins of the mount with some light marks, otherwise fine.  

Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original mount with printed caption label at bottom margin: 'Natives on Caligurnie Bay. In the centre of the women on the log may be seen the oldest woman on the settlement, ""Kitty"".'; the albumen print is in very good condition with a few mild toning spots; verso with another albumen print in identical format, with the printed caption: 'Crystal Bay. This bay is beyond the furthest point of our last picture, and the view is from an elevation on the left bank, looking down the arm.' Lake Tyers Mission, in Far East Gippsland, was established in 1863 by Church of England missionary John Bulmer. The reserve became a home for the Gunai/Kurnai people who had survived the invasion of their land by white settlers in the 1840s-50s. The Melbourne-based photographer, N. J. Caire (1837-1918) worked extensively in regional Victoria, but particularly in Gippsland, where he documented the landscape, Indigenous people and European settlement with his… Read More

[Melbourne : s.n., between 1905 and 1910]. Sepia tone lithographic postcard from an original photograph by N. J. Caire; 91 x 137 mm, recto with generic printed caption 'Australian Aboriginals', verso without publisher's imprint; not postally used; the front has a few tiny spots of foxing at top edge, and the back has a few fingermarks, otherwise condition is excellent. Nicholas Caire's famous and much reproduced photograph of the Cobb & Co. coach at Coranderrk was taken around 1904, the same year in which he published his Companion Guide to Healesville, Blacks’ Spur, Narbethong and Marysville.

Albumen print photograph, 183 x 131 mm, mounted on a leaf of thick card removed from a 19th-century album, inscribed in ink on the mount '""Hanging Rock"", Mount Macedon, Vic.'; some insignificant spotting confined to the edges of the image, otherwise a strong print with excellent tonal range, in very good condition. A very early photographic view of one of the most romanticised beauty spots in Victoria.  The National Gallery of Victoria (Accession Number PH106.6-1988) holds another print of the same image, which it dates to around 1876. It is on the original mount with Caire's printed information, as follows: VIEW OF THE ""HANGING ROCK,"" NEAR MOUNT MACEDON. / COPYRIGHT REGISTERED. ANGLO-AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY, MELBOURNE. 10 Temple Court, Collins Street West. J.W. FORBES, Agent. VIEWS OF VICTORIA. / (GENERAL SERIES.) / No. 6. / VIEW OF THE ""HANGING ROCK,"" NEAR MOUNT MACEDON. / The Hanging Rock is situated about 5 miles in a north-easterly direction from the Railway Station at… Read More

A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of black cloth over boards with gilt-lettered morocco title piece to front. OVERLAND REGISTER, AND PRICE CURRENT Victoria, Hong Kong : Edited, printed and published by John Cairns, at the Hongkong Register Office, 1845. Overland Register, and Price Current. No. 2, 30 September 1845. Folio (420 x 260 mm), pp. 9-12; fine. Victoria, Hong Kong : Edited, printed and published by John Cairns, at the Hongkong Register Office, 1845. Supplement to the Overland Register, and Price Current. 30 September 1845. Folio (420 x 260 mm), pp. [2] (second blank); fine. Victoria, Hong Kong : Edited, printed and published by John Cairns, at the Hongkong Register Office,… Read More

Calcutta : S. C. Auddy & Co., Booksellers and Publishers, 58 & 12, Wellington Street, 1909. ""Revised and enlarged edition"". Duodecimo (160 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned and stained, upper wrapper chipped at bottom edge, lower wrapper with tear at foot of spine), pp [4], 60; bottom corners a little dog-eared, otherwise contents clean and sound; a good copy in the fragile original wrappers. Very scarce. OCLC locates only one copy (Harvard University)

Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed. Edinburgh : printed by A. Donaldson [in volume 3, Printed by A. Donaldson for the author], 1766-68. Three volumes, octavo (210 mm), contemporary full calf, spines with raised bands, contrasting morocco title labels and volume numbers in gilt; pastedowns with armorial bookplate of St. Andrew Lord St. John of Bletsoe; volume 1: pp. [iv including the Townshend dedication leaf], viii, [ii Contents], 2 folding maps ('General Chart' mounted in two sections), 516; volume 2: pp. [iv]; ii, folding map, 692; volume 3: pp. iv (with the Dundas dedication leaf), 745; front hinge of volumes 1 and 3 cracked, all… Read More

London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2021. Quarto, 396 x 261 mm, cloth in slipcase, pp. 392, extensively illustrated. New copy. The authorized monograph on one of the most influential and respected artists of our time, written with the full co-operation of Baselitz himself. A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media, predominantly painting and sculpture, over the course of a career of some sixty years. Born in 1938, Baselitz was expelled from art school in East Berlin in 1956 for ‘socio-political immaturity’, and moved to the western half of the city. By the late 1950s, he had rejected the dominant tendencies of both sides of the country and his singular achievement was to reintroduce the figure, compromised and discredited though it was by both Nazism and Communism, into art. By drawing attention to art by ‘outsiders’, such as psychiatric patients, and invoking a Parisian model of existentialist art and literature, Baselitz proposed… Read More

Sydney : Scotow Press, for Withrow Physical Culture School, [c.1930]. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers (water stained), staple bound, pp 64, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and line drawings in the text.  

[New York] : Nesbitt & Co. printers [for R. W. Cameron], [1859]. Clipper card, 150 x 92 mm, lithograph printed recto only in red and blue on glossy white card; some toning, verso with old glue stains. Scarce clipper card advertising a sailing of the ship Thomas H. Perkins from New York to Sydney in October 1859. The Thomas H. Perkins was one of the fast mail clippers of the Australia Pioneer Line, which had been founded by Canadian entrepreneur R. W. Cameron in 1852 to take advantage of the boom in trade between the United States and the Australian colonies created by the gold rushes. The following advertisement appeared in the New York Herald newspaper, 9 October 1859: 'Australia Pioneer Line - established 1852. Carrying the United States mails ... The fine ship THOMAS H. PERKINS, loading at Pier 18 East River, will be despatched for Sydney, N.S.W., 20th October. For freight or passage apply on board, or to R. W. CAMERON, No. 6 Bowling Green. Sight bills for sale, and cash advances made on… Read More

Penrith, N.S.W. : W.F.J. Cammack, c2005. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 178, illustrated. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author on the endpaper.

Santiago de Chile : Editorial Andrés Bello, 1971. First edition. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers (edges chipped), 594 pp, plus staple-bound abstract in English (10 pp, rear poket), illustrated with black and whitew and colour photographic plates and line drawings in the text, musical notation, bibliography; a very good copy. Scarce. An important study of the Polynesian musical tradition of Easter Island. Unrecorded in Australian collections; only two copies are recorded in New Zealand collections (Alexander Turnbull Library; University of Auckland Library).

Brisbane : Philip Bacon Galleries, 20013. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, very lightly marked, pp. [24], illustrated, price list, a fine copy of a beautifully printed and illustrated exhibition catalogue on this acclaimed Australian artist. Scarce.

Brisbane : Philip Bacon Galleries, 2022. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, very lightly marked, pp. [28], illustrated, a fine copy of a beautifully printed and illustrated exhibition catalogue on this acclaimed Australian artist. Scarce.

Cover: Featured with enormous success by Stella Gastelle in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Hack & Jill. Sydney : Albert's, [c.1910]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Stella Gastelle, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas and music seller's stamp of Dinsdale, Melbourne, [3] pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a tiny amount of silverfishing to the edges of the wrappers and some wear to the fore-edge of the upper wrapper, otherwise a near fine copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia)