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

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

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

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 år 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

Three albumen print photographs in identical 140 x 200 mm format, each with the photographer's manuscript captions and consecutive serial numbers (999-1000-1001) in the negative; all preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheets, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: 'C. RUDD, VIEW SPECIALIST, 257 BOURKE STREET.', at l.l. 'C. RUDD, View Specialist', at l.r.: '257 Bourke Street (close to Swanston St.), Melbourne.', and bottom margin centre 'VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS' (sic); the prints and secondary supports are all in excellent condition. Trove locates no copies of any of these views in Australian collections.  

[United Kingdom or France] : [s.n.], 1855. Quarter plate ambrotype photograph with hand colouring, 130 x 105 mm, with original passe-partout frame comprising the cover glass (180 x 140 mm) and papered chip-board preserver with oval cut-out and gold painted border; the ambrotype with the original blackened backing paper intact, affixed to the back of the ambrotype's top edge with the original spots of glue (this uppermost part of the ambrotype is not exposed in the oval frame), original cloth covered thick card backing, with contemporary manuscript label inscribed ""Samuel Bates and Lizzy his Wife, 1st January 1855. Left for Austrilla (sic) soon after""; although all of the ambrotype's original components are present, the frame's cloth border has perished, meaning that the components are now separated (this actually provides a good opportunity to observe how this type of ""uncased"" ambrotype was assembled); the cover glass has a short diagonal scratch at the right hand edge, not impinging on the main… Read More

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 - N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria - Australia / GOLD / Eastern Annex; both of the prints and the mount are in fine condition. One of a series of views of the display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at Crystal Palace in 1862, published by the exhibition's official photographers, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. A different photograph taken from the same vantage point includes a diorama with wax figures, illustrating men at work on the diggings. The centrepiece of the Victorian display (also not shown in this particular view) was a 44 feet high gilded obelisk, a symbol of the enormous quantity of gold which had been mined in Victoria in the ten years or so since… 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, 17th March, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 6 pp; fine. Provides a detailed breakdown of the government's expenditure on enforcing law and order at Ballarat during and after the riots of December 1854.

Melbourne : Government printer, 1852. Foolscap folio, string bound, 18 pp; fine. Returns of the names of places in Victoria where gold fields are being worked, the number of gold commissioners, the number of clerks, the number of police, government expenditure relating to the administration of the gold fields, amount of gold carried by government escorts, amount of gold exported, etc.  

[Title from manuscript caption on mount]. [1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on pink card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount with original manuscript inscription in ink at bottom margin Gold Diggers Tub & Cradle Process; both prints have rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the mount has a stain at the right-hand edge (not seriously affecting the print), and the original Scots-Australian owner's name McMillan in pencil on the back. This early Victorian stereoscopic view is a truly iconic photographic image of the Australian gold rushes. The photograph was taken by travelling photographer John H. Jones, prior to September 1862 (see below). The image is reproduced on page 12 of the Bendigo Art Gallery's 2013 exhibition catalogue of Jones' stereoscopic views, Her Majesty's Territories: Stereographic Views of Australian Sceneries (essay by Alva Maguire). Note that the present example is on a variant plain mount that most likely… Read More

Philadelphia: Charles H. Davis, 1854. First edition. Duodecimo, illustrated papered boards over cloth spine, rubbed, contemporary pencil gift inscription to endpaper, pp. 128; 16 (publisher's catalogue) illustrated with wood-engravings; a very good copy. Children's adventure stories, including 'Encounters with a boa constrictor', 'Ascent of the Wetterhorn', 'Attacks of the cult-fish', 'The Greenland 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… Read More

Melbourne : John Ferres, Government Printer, 1853. Foolscap folio, string bound, 22 pp; fine and complete, as issued. From the ADB: 'Louis John Michel (1825-1904), gold discoverer, was born on 5 July 1825 at Walworth, Surrey, England, son of Louis Michel and his wife Elizabeth, née Watts; his parents were of French origin and came to England in the seventeenth century. He migrated in 1840 to Melbourne with his uncle. He worked as an assistant in a Collins Street grocery, saved diligently and after a few years bought the licence of the Rainbow Hotel in Swanston Street. In 1849 a youth named Chapman showed the proprietor of the Waterman's Arms Hotel in Melbourne a nugget of gold measuring 2 in. (51 mm) by 3 in. (76 mm). Michel was one of many who went to see the find and though nothing came of the incident it served to whet his interest in finding gold. In April 1851 when the news of the discovery of gold at Summerhill Creek in New South Wales created excitement in Melbourne, Michel formed a party… Read More

Paris : Lecène, Oudin et Cie, Éditeurs, 1892. ""Nouvelle Édition."" Octavo, red cloth with gilt embossed armorial crest of the Ville de Paris, spine (a little tender) with gilt lettering, 142 pp (occasional spotting), illustrated; a good copy. Text in French. Muir 3655. An adventure story set on the Victorian goldfields.