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

Bendigo : Bolton Bros, [1900-1910]. Quarto, printed on black ink on red paper, upper wrapper with various calligraphic typefaces, lower wrapper illustrated, staple bound, [8] pp, descriptions and prices of all types of footwear, includes illustrations of ladies' shoes and boots; fine.

Melbourne : F. F. Bailliere, 1863. First edition. Octavo, lettered pink papered cards (lightly discoloured), cloth spine, pp. [vi, advertisements], folding map (short tear at gutter), title page, 97; [3]; occasional foxing. Account of Stuart's fifth and sixth expeditions from Adelaide to the north of Australia in search of new grazing land and a passage across the continent. Issued in pink and yellow wrappers with no priority established between them. The term 'With charts' on the title page is misleading, as only one map was included in the book. Ferguson 16380; Wantrup 161.

Melbourne : Currey O'Neil Ross Pty Ltd on behalf of the Library Council of Victoria, 1985. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 128, a very good copy.

Leiden : Brill, 1884. First edition. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, 92 pp, illustrated with [4] double-page chromolithograpic plates, including tiger, wild boar and deer hunting scenes and a native house on stilts; text in Javanese. A very good copy, partly unopened and clean throughout, the margins of the plates with some light foxing or very pale water stains at corners.

Willesden, U.K. : Clifford Jones, for the Discographical Society, January - February - March - May - June - July - August, 1943. Seven issues, newspaper, square quarto, 8 pp, illustrated, all complete and in good condition. These scarce issues of Discography - essentially an early British jazz fanzine - include features on Rosetta Tharp, Spike Hughes, Bix Beiderbecke, Bobby Hackett, Johnny Dodds, Nat ""King"" Cole and Henry Allen.

Reykjavík: Skrudda, 2005. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), publisher's blue cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket, pp 280, b/w plates, map, bibliography, index; text in Icelandic; an as new copy. Icelandic translation of Sarah Bakewell's The English Dane : a life of Jorgen Jorgenson (London : Chatto & Windus, 2005), which tells - through his own manuscripts and letters - the story of one of the most colourful characters in Australia's convict history, who was known to Icelanders as ""the king of the dog-days"". Trove locates no copies in Australian libraries. The Danish adventurer Jorgen Jorgenson first visited Australia in the years 1801-1805, arriving at Port Jackson as a sailor aboard the Harbinger. He was then transferred to the HMS Lady Nelson and probably sailed with Flinders in 1802, visiting Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land. After returning to Denmark he fought against the Royal Navy in the Anglo-Danish War, captaining a privateer. Following his capture and eventual release in London, he… Read More

Reykjavik : Bokfellsutgafan, 1943. Small quarto (250 x 195 mm), original half morocco over marbled papered boards (corners a little worn, lower board scuffed), spine lettered in gilt; pp 279, [1 bibliography], with 7 full-page illustrations; text in Icelandic; pale water stain at top corner of frontispiece plate, otherwise internally very good. First Icelandic translation of Sea urchin : adventures of Jorgen Jorgensen, being a true narrative of the life of a Danish adventurer : his glory, infamy and sad decline (London : Duckworth, 1940). Jorgenson, one of the most colourful characters in Australia's convict history, was known to Icelanders as ""the king of the dog-days"". The Danish adventurer Jorgen Jorgenson first visited Australia in the years 1801-1805, arriving at Port Jackson as a sailor aboard the Harbinger. He was then transferred to the HMS Lady Nelson and probably sailed with Flinders in 1802, visiting Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land. After returning to Denmark he fought against the… Read More

Containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen. Written by Uno von Troil, D. D., First Chaplain to his Swedish Majesty, Almoner of the Swedish Orders of Knighthood, and Member of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. To which are added the letters of Dr. Ihre and Dr. Bach to the author, concerning the Edda and the Elephantiasis of Iceland: also Professor Bergman's curious observations and chemical examination of the lava and other substances produced on the island. With a new map of the island, and a representation of the remarkable boiling fountain called by the inhabitants Geyser. Dublin : printed by G. Perrin for S. Price, W. and H. Whitestone, J. Potts, T. Walker,… Read More

Containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen. Written by Uno von Troil, D. D., First Chaplain to his Swedish Majesty, Almoner of the Swedish Orders of Knighthood, and Member of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. To which are added the letters of Dr. Ihre and Dr. Bach to the author, concerning the Edda and the Elephantiasis of Iceland: also Professor Bergman's curious observations and chemical examination of the lava and other substances produced on the island. With a new map of the island, and a representation of the remarkable boiling fountain called by the inhabitants Geyser. London : W. Richardson, J. Robson and N. Conant, 1780. First English edition. Octavo,… Read More

Venice : [Gryphius], 1555. Three parts in one volume, quarto (175 x 140 mm), later (probably 18th-century) marbled papered limp boards (heavily rubbed, loss of paper along spine), pp [16], 63, [1], [1 colophon]; title and colophon engraved with printer's device; historiated and decorated initials; occasional and very light marginal foxing, text block trimmed close but with no loss of headings or sidenotes, otherwise internally fine. First edition of a rare work on the practice of usury among the Jews.  De foenore Iudaeorum was written by the Venetian Dominican Father Sisto de' Medici (Latin: Sixtus Medices) (1502-1561), prior of the Santi Giovanni e Paolo monastery. Medici was a humanist historian who from 1553 until his death was professor of theology and philosophy at Venice. In the present work, which is written from a theological standpoint, Jewish moneylenders are regarded as playing a valuable role within Christian societies: by being spared from usury, Christians are thus rescued from sin… Read More

... Nunc additis quibusdam Latine redditi, notisque Hebraicis illustrati a R.P. Nicolao Rosty. Tyrnaviae [Trnava] : Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu, 1758. Octavo (215 x 150 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; edges stained red; original marbled endpapers, front pastedown with the ex libris of Hungarian bibliophile Joannes Szász LL.D., half-title leaf, title-leaf, [4], 276, [4] pp.; text in Latin; occasional spotting or browning, otherwise very clean, binding firm; a fine copy; loosely inserted is the Hungarian auction room ticket for the Zichy library sale in 1937. Medici was professor of Hebrew in Florence. His work The rites and manners of the Hebrews refuted in the Italian idiom, 'whose publication the Jewish community in Rome initially prevented, but which appeared in Florence in 1736, was widely distributed and was often reprinted' (Jüdisches Lexikon IV/1, 7). This is the first… Read More

Cum in eas tum praesertim in systema rituum sacrorum quale stante templo altero auctoritate pharisaeorum invaluit et II. partibus postremis libri continetur. Notas et animadversiones adiecit Ioh. Eberhardus Rauiu ... ... Herborn : Johann Nikolaus Andreae Witwe, 1743. Thick octavo (170 x 110 mm); contemporary vellum over boards, spine lettered in manuscript (spine expertly reattached, and with old repair at tail); edges stained red; engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black (old repair at bottom corner), pp. [xxv], 1006; decorative headpieces, side notes; text in Latin, with Hebrew, Syriac and Greek; early ownership signature dated 1775 to verso of frontispiece; very clean throughout; a good copy in a contemporary vellum binding. Monumental work by Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist Adriaan Reland (1676-1718) on Hebrew antiquities in the Holy Land. It was first published in Utrecht in 1708, with two later Utrecht editions in 1717 and 1741. The 1743 fourth edition… Read More

Das ist: ein in zwey Theil verfastes, und denen Juden zur Erkanntnuß des wahren Glaubens vorgesteltes Buch ... ... Brünn : Maria Barb. Swobodin, 1741 (title and preliminaries printed in Znaim by Anton Johann Preyss, 1743) + Der anderte Theil der judischen Augen-Gläser. Ausgezogen aus dem ersten Theil des Entdeckten Judenthums Joannis Eisenmenger ... ... König-Gratz ob der Elbe : gedruckt bey Wentzl Johann Tibelli, 1743. First edition. Two volumes bound in one, folio (320 x 215 mm), contemporary calf (boards a little scuffed), spine in compartments with stamped title-piece; front pastedown with the ex libris of Hungarian bibliophile Joannes Szász LL.D; title page in red and black; pp. [14], 513; [6], 307, [1], 427, [1]; with 6 allegorical copper-engraved plates (one folding) illustrating Jewish customs; head- and tailpieces, decorative initials; text in German in blackletter Gothic, in double columns; occasional spotting, frequent browning in the second part, else clean; binding firm; a very… Read More

hoc est, Arcani, & horribiles Judaeorum adversus Christum Deum, & Christianam religionem libri anekdotoi. Altdorf : Johann Heinrich Schönnerstadt, for Johann Hoffmann (Nuremberg) and Johann David Zunner (Frankfurt-am-Main), 1681. First edition. Six parts in one volume, thick small quarto (220 x 170 mm), contemporary blind-tooled vellum boards (both boards expertly rejoined), spine with raised bands; top edge stained black; original endpapers; engraved frontispiece portrait of Wagenseil (some marginal restoration), title-page printed in red and black, pp. [4], 633, [15]; 260; 60; 480; 45 [i. e., 75], [1]; 100; [1 Errata]; text in double columns in Hebrew with parallel Latin translation by Wagenseil; First edition of Wagenseil's Tela Ignea Satanae (=Flaming Arrows of Satan), an anthology of Jewish polemical writings against Christianity with critique and refutation by the German-Christian translator. The Hebraist Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633-1705) was born in Nuremberg. Over many years he… Read More

[London, U.K. : Daily Mirror, 1909 or 1910]. Two gelatin silver print photographs, 205 x 150 mm and 150 x 205 mm, respectively; versos with wet stamp of of the London Daily Mirror, and an identical caption label which reads: 'Fine Fellers. Jackson and McLaren, world's champion wood-cutters, felling trees on Lord Salisbury's estate at Hatfield yesterday, the logs to be used in the ring at the Olympia Circus on Friday next.'; both prints are unmounted and in excellent condition. ""The Original Australian Woodcutters"", featuring Harry Jackson and Peter McLaren, were managed by Melburnian impresario Thomas Waddell Dougall. The troupe entertained English audiences in 1909-1910 with ""a unique exhibition of Tree Felling and other Australian Bush Novelties"", and was billed as the only act of its kind in the world at that time. They also toured North America in 1908 and again in 1913-14. Later newspaper notices suggest they possibly remained in the States for the duration of the war and well into the… Read More

London : Thames & Hudson, 1989. Oblong quarto, silver lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, slightly faded on spine, pp. 284, extensively illustrated, including folding plates, a very good copy.

Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d`art moderne, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (small mark from a label to foot of spine), bookplate inside upper wrapper, pp. 420, numerous colour plates. Text in French.

Adelaide : Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slightly marked), pp. 120, illustrated. Jacky Redgate's elegant and considered works demonstrate a sustained analysis of form and structure within the disciplines of photography and sculpture. The spatial dimensions of the photographic image has been extended by the artist into sculptural works that investigate perception, colour, volume and mass

Adelaide : Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 60, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue enclosed.

[Cover title]. Also titled : Jailbird Jottings (title page). [Kuala Lumpur, Malaya] : [The Author?], printed by The Economy Printers, [1947]. First (and only) edition. Small square quarto, original stiff pictorial wrappers (a couple of short tears with small section of tape repair to head of the spine; some loss of paper along spine, traces of bookseller's wet stamp to centre of upper wrapper), 84 pp, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Parfitt's watercolours sketches made in the Changi prisoner of war camp, with colour and black and white plates and black and white line drawings in the text; internally clean and sound, a good copy. Rare. London-born Iris Parfitt was a teacher at the exclusive St. George's School in Penang at the time Malaya fell to the Japanese (after the war she served as the school's Principal for a number of years). During the occupation she was an internee in both the Changi and Sime Road camps. In Changi, she was chairman of the camp's Entertainment Committee and… Read More