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

Sydney : The Macquarie Galleries, 1978. DL size exhibition catalogue, pp. [8], light foxing, illustrated.

Roanoke, VA : H.I.M., circa 1992. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated in colour, mail order form. Formal wear, leisure wear, underwear and fantasy fashion targeting the body conscious gay man of the early 1990s.

Cover: With compliments and Greetings from the Citizens. Adelaide : J.B. Siddall, [1924]. Small octavo (180 x 117 mm), pictorial wrappers printed in sepia (mild foxing), lower wrapper with street map of Adelaide, inner wrappers with [2] sepia photographic plates; contains a concertina foldout with [18] black and white photographic views and [1] reproduction of an engraving of Adelaide in 1836; the foldout in fine condition; [accompanied by] the extremely scarce original postal envelope, printed 'Souvenir of South Australia' and addressed to Mrs. H. Jasper, Faversham, Kent (light foxing back and front). Two copies of this photographic souvenir recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia, State Library of South Australia).

[Title from printed caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), recto of mount with gilt-lettered caption and gilt border around the print; no photographer's imprint; verso (as in other examples) with 3 decorative cartouches in gilt for mounting small portraits; the print has mottling in the negative, as well as a couple of surface scratches and a light mark to the right of the Duke's head. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh's visit of 1867-68 was the first to the Australian colonies by a member of the royal family, a momentous event which created enormous public interest. In March 1868 he would survive an assassination attempt at Clontarf, Sydney, when he was shot in the back by an Irish nationalist, Henry James O'Farrell. The following report of the royal visit to The Band of Hope mine was published in the Melbourne newspaper The Australasian on 14 December, 1867: 'It was not to be expected that the Duke would visit Ballarat without going to see… Read More

Manuscript in ink on card, 110 x 90 mm; verso with some paper adhesions from where the piece was once mounted in an album. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), English writer of adventure fiction, was the author of King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1887), among many other popular works. Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) (1854–1924), ""The Briars,"" Mornington, Victoria (Australia); à Beckett family, Melbourne (by descent).

New York : Atlas Mills, 200 Madison Ave., 1929. Small folio portfolio (305 x 230 mm), original cloth backed textured papered boards (faded and scuffed), housing two sample cards (by Chas. Green Co., New York) with a total of 72 vibrantly coloured silks; a few pencilled annotations (presumably made by a sales representative) and some minor handling marks to the edges of the cards, otherwise in fine condition - a simply dazzling array of haute couture silk samples with colours across the entire palette. Atlas Mills employed a talented wordsmith to come up with a set of names for the colours of their Fall 1929 silk range. From the noble and classic (Jeanne D'Arc; Ondine; Castillian; Dauphine Blue; Nile) to the romantic, daring and exotic (Pandora; Midnight; Brown Sugar; Maracaibo; Goya; Independence; Passion Flower), to the nonchalant and informal (Chin Chin; Brioche; Meadow Sweet; Mother Goose), and the apt and topical (Byrd Blue; Navigator; Pilot), they are all wonderfully evocative. The irony is, of… Read More

Honolulu : Bishop Museum, 1903. First edition. Small oblong quarto (170 x 270 mm), original pictorial stiff wrappers, pp 106, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic plates; a very good copy. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum was founded in 1889, and houses the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artefacts and natural history specimens, in addition to artefacts from Melanesian and Micronesian cultures and significant natural history specimens collected throughout Oceania. This scarce first edition of the Museum's handbook was compiled by its Director, William T. Brigham.

Stockholm : Hos kamereraren J.S. Ekmanson, på Bokhandl. Mag. I. Utters Förlag, 1797. Small octavo, contemporary half mottled calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; pp [12], 404; text in Swedish; heavily scored early ownership signature to bottom margin of title page, with resultant ink marks in the same position on the first three leaves; a small amount of light foxing to the first and last few leaves; a very good copy. Rare first Swedish edition of John Meares' Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka (London, 1790). The translator was Samuel Ödmann, who also wrote the introduction. The State Library of New South Wales holds the only copy in Australian collections. Sabin 47265; Cordier, Sinica 2104; Forbes 274; Löwendahl-von der Burg… Read More

Paris : E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1893. Octavo, colour printed pale blue wrappers, 321 pp, folding map. A lovely copy. A French visitor's impressions and analysis of Hawaiian society.

To be sold at auction by Leonard Joel Pty Ltd July 28, 29, 30 1965. Melbourne : Gaston Renard [printed at The Hawthorn Press], 1965. Octavo, stiff wrappers, pp viii, 196, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, index, corner bumped, a very good copy.

Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1936. Edition limited to 70 copies. Duodecimo, textured paper wrappers (sunned along spine), stitched, [5] pp, some offsetting to first page, a few spots of foxing, but as good a copy as one could hope to find of a delicate and rare publication, the very first imprint of The Hawthorn Press. THP 148. Only four copies are recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Queensland; State Library of Victoria).

Melbourne : Printing Industry Craftsmen [Secretary-Treasuer, John Gartner], 1940. Edition of 300 copies printed for members of the Victorian Division of P.I.C.A. Octavo, textured card wrappers with printed title to front (spine sunned), 13 pp, contents fine.

Melbourne : Velasquez Gallery, 1948. Octavo, exhibition catalogue, single sheet folded, lightly creased, catalogue of 103 works. Includes within the catalogue 11 photographic studies the Theatre Guild's ""Twelfth Night"" Company from the studio of Helmut Newton, 353 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

Adelaide : Lutheran Publishing House, 1975. Reprint of the second edition. Octavo(208 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp vi, 89; with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, folding map at rear; a fine copy. The story of the founding of the Lutheran mission to the Arrernte people at Hermannsburg on the Finke River. 'Summary: Account of first journey from Bethany to Hermannsburg & establishing of mission; history of Kopperamanna; briefly comments on religious & camp life of natives of Aranda tribe.' (Trove)

Hermannsburg, N.T. : Ntaria School, 2002. Large quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, stapled; pp 60, b/w photographic illustrations; text in English and Western Arrernte; a fine presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page for bibliophile and former Hermannsburg resident Charles Fletcher. Hermann Adolph Heinrich (1895-1959) arrived at the Hermannsburg Mission (Ntaria) in 1917, where he was to be the mission school teacher. This publication reproduces the text of six letters written in Western Arrernte (Arrarnta) which were sent to Heinrich in the mid 1930s by Ntaria residents after he and his family had departed Hermannsburg for Adelaide in 1932. The letters are accompanied by English translations. The introduction, written by Heinrich's daughter, Ilona Oppenheim, provides a historical context for the letters. Family trees of the Heinrich family and of the letter writers are also included. The original manuscript letters themselves are illustrated, along with a number of… Read More

Germanton [i.e. Holbrook], N.S.W. : ""The Courier"" office, [circa 1908]. Broadsheet, 220 x 140 mm, printed on both sides, verso with lithographed portraits of Maurice Gerald (acror-manager) and Miss Maud Philippi (actor); loss to upper corner (marginal only), old fold lines. Maurice Gerald's Dramatic Company toured extensively throughout Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and New Zealand from the mid 1890s and well into the twentieth century. This separately issued advertising flyer dates to around 1908, as a review of the company's production of Conn, the Shaughraun at the Cootamundra Town Hall appeared in the Cootamundra Herald, 22 February 1908, along with reproductions of the same portraits which are printed on the verso of the broadsheet.

Hong Kong : Salesian Catechetical Centre, 1957. Octavo, embossed cloth, twenty lettered cards each accompanied by a pop up diorama illustrating a scene of religious instruction. A charming and scarce Hong Kong imprint.

Three sepia tone photographs on printing out paper with celluloid coating, each 200 x 150 mm, laid down on their original board mounts, versos of mounts with contemporary inscriptions in pencil: 'Bore at G. Ryder's paddock'; 'Bore at G. Ryder's new house'; 'Mountain bore (H. Ryder's)'; one of the prints with foxing, the mounts with residual glue marks and staining. Racing administrator, stud master and businessman George Edward Ryder (1905-1989) moved to Cessnock from Inverell in around 1928. He became one of the most prominent figures in Australian thoroughbred racing, both through his ownership of Woodlands and Kia Ora studs and through his 37 years of service on the board of the Sydney Turf Club, for which he served at various times as treasurer, vice-chairman and chairman. He was responsible for creating the Golden Slipper, the STC's most famous race. Randwick's George Ryder Stakes is named in his honour.

With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners - trainers - jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges gilt, pp. 196, extensively illustrated; a fine copy. A scarce publication about horse racing in Victoria.

New York : Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. First edition. Oblong folio, spiral bound, cloth covered boards (short splits and cracking along spine, the laminate flaking), pp. xiii; 104; colour plates, glassine stencilled designs of interiors, internally clean, protected in a modern mylar jacket. A good copy of this classic guide to 1970s interior design. Gold's 'Instant decorator' would be the major source book for many paintings by Australian Howard Arkley. ""As noted under the main entry for 1992, the compositions of almost all the canvases in Arkley’s ‘Mix ’n Match’ show (Tolarno 10/92) were based on the US decorator book The Instant Decorator, by Frances Joslin Gold (New York: Clarkson N.Potter Inc., 1976), a reference source Arkley also used regularly during subsequent years. This book, given to Arkley by his colleague John Nixon, with the sarcastic comment that it would make Arkley’s fortune (quoted and discussed, Carnival 30-32), is extant, more or less intact, in the artist’s studio… Read More