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

Half-title: La navigation, poëme en six chants, avec des notes historiques et géographiques. A Paris : Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806. Second edition. Octavo, fine contemporary full speckled calf with gilt borders, spine with gilt decoration and brown morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece (arrival of Cleopatra at Tarsus), xiv, 412 pp, [1] engraved plate (the shipwreck of La Pérouse), internally crisp and sound with sparse foxing. A poem divided into six chants, or cantos, written in the style of a Classical epic, which eulogises the great navigators throughout history. Each canto is followed by an extensive section of notes which explain the allusions made in the poetry. The sixth canto is largely dedicated to the voyage and imagined fate of La Pérouse. Note that this edition is structured differently to the first edition of 1805, which was divided into eight cantos. Copies of the second edition are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of… Read More

Paris : Tolmer, 1921. Folio, original pochoir pictorial boards (rubbed), decorative endpapers (front hinge split), 32 pp, 54 pochoir colour illustrations (including folding map of La Perouse's voyages), a poem clipped from a magazine tipped-in at rear blank. This magnificent book represents one of the high points of Art Deco children's book illustration. (It featured in the first major exhibition of Art Deco design, curated by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1971). The book tells the stories of the most notable French explorers, including Cartier, Bougainville, d'Entrecasteaux, Dumont d'Urville and La Perouse, accompanied by the exquisite artwork of Edy Legrand.

[Liverpool] : [E. and W. Smith, Printers, Pool-Lane], [1809]. A very good copy. Playbill, single sheet (285 x 190 mm), advertising a performance of 'The Exile' at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, on Thursday September 14th, 1809, and giving notice of a forthcoming performance of 'The Pantomime De la Perouse' the following evening, Friday September 15th, 1809, with Miss Adams as Madam Perouse and Miss H. Adams as Umba. A relatively early example of a playbill for this stage work, productions of which are recorded from 1801 onwards. An earlier play about La Perouse by the German playwright Kotzebue had been published in 1798, in which La Perouse is depicted as the only survivor of his shipwreck, living with an empathetic native woman on a deserted island until Madame La Perouse and his son discover him. The native woman and Madame La Perouse end up co-habiting on the island, with La Perouse becoming something of a brother to them. Although this story clearly inspired Fawcett, his version of the tragedy had… Read More

With New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. [Liverpool] : E. and W. Smith, Printers, Pool-Lane, [1809]. A good copy, with a very small amount of edge loss at lower left. Playbill, single sheet (285 x 190 mm), advertising a performance at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, on Friday, September 15th, 1809. The play opening the bill is ‘The Suspicious Husband’, and the evening is a benefit for 'The Three Misses Adams'. The full cast for 'La Perouse' is listed, with the protagonist played by Mr Terry and Madame Perouse by Miss H. Adams. A relatively early example of a playbill for this stage work, productions of which are recorded from 1801 onwards. An earlier play about La Perouse by the German playwright Kotzebue had been published in 1798, in which La Perouse is depicted as the only survivor of his shipwreck, living with an empathetic native woman on a deserted island until Madame La Perouse and his son discover him. The native woman and Madame La Perouse end up co-habiting on the island,… Read More

Donnée à Paris, le 4 Mai 1791. Melun [Département de Seine et Marne] : Tarbé, 1791. Quarto, 4pp, letterpress, stitch-bound with a number of other pieces of legislation from the period, without further binding; in crisp, fine condition. This decree by the Assemblée Nationale is the official order to bring forth all documents and manuscripts relating to La Pérouse, missing since his departure from ‘Botanibay’ at the beginning of 1788. It follows on from an earlier decree of February 1791, in which the loss of La Pérouse was first officially acknowledged. The great navigator La Pérouse had seemed destined to rival the achievements of Cook, and to reassert France’s position as the pre-eminent colonial power in the South Seas. It was not to be, the explorer vanishing without trace in the Western Pacific, his last contact being with the barely ashore English settlers of Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet at Port Jackson. The present decree rules that all pertinent manuscripts, papers and… Read More

[Liverpool] : [E. and W. Smith, Printers, Pool-Lane], [1809]. A very good copy. Playbill, single sheet (285 x 190 mm), advertising a performance of 'The Exile' at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, on Thursday September 14th, 1809, and giving notice of a forthcoming performance of 'The Pantomime De la Perouse' the following evening, Friday September 15th, 1809, with Miss Adams as Madam Perouse and Miss H. Adams as Umba. A relatively early example of a playbill for this stage work, productions of which are recorded from 1801 onwards. An earlier play about La Perouse by the German playwright Kotzebue had been published in 1798, in which La Perouse is depicted as the only survivor of his shipwreck, living with an empathetic native woman on a deserted island until Madame La Perouse and his son discover him. The native woman and Madame La Perouse end up co-habiting on the island, with La Perouse becoming something of a brother to them. Although this story clearly inspired Fawcett, his version of the tragedy… Read More

[Paris] : s.n., 1790. Octavo, modern marbled wrappers; 86 pp, engraved head-piece; a fine copy. Attributed to N. Bergasse and to A.M.J. Chasténet, marquis de Puysegur, this satirical play counts amongst its main characters the French explorer La Pérouse and his ""Indian"" (i.e. Polynesian) servant, O Paria. The other characters, all important figures in the French Revolution, have their names thinly disguised, but they include Mirabeau, Lafayette, Bailly and Montmorency. The ships of La Pérouse's expedition left Port Jackson in early March, 1788. This was presumably their last contact with Europeans. La Pérouse's last letter, dispatched from Sydney on the British ship Alexander, informed the French authorities that he expected to return to France by June 1789. However, the expedition of d'Entrecasteaux in search of La Pérouse did not depart France until the end of September 1791. During 1790, the year in which La journée des dupes was written, performed and published, nothing of the fate… Read More

[Liverpool] : Egerton Smith and Co. Printers, Pool-Lane, [1811]. A good copy, with a small amount of loss to three corners and some mild spotting. Playbill, single sheet (300 x 185 mm), advertising a performance at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, on Friday, June 7th, 1811. The play opening the bill is ‘George Barnwell’. The full cast for 'La Perouse' is listed, with the protagonist played by Mr Grant and Madame Perouse by Miss C. Giroux. A relatively early example of a playbill for this stage work, productions of which are recorded from 1801 onwards. An earlier play about La Perouse by the German playwright Kotzebue had been published in 1798, in which La Perouse is depicted as the only survivor of his shipwreck, living with an empathetic native woman on a deserted island until Madame La Perouse and his son discover him. The native woman and Madame La Perouse end up co-habiting on the island, with La Perouse becoming something of a brother to them. Although this story clearly inspired Fawcett, his… Read More

[Liverpool] : Egerton Smith and Co. Printers, Pool-Lane, [1811]. A good copy, with a small amount of chipping to the edges and some mild spotting. Playbill, single sheet (310 x 187 mm), advertising a performance of the tragedy 'Jane Shore' on Thursday June 6th 1811, at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool, and giving notice of a performance of the play 'La Perouse' at the same theatre the following evening, Friday, June 7th, 1811. A relatively early example of a playbill for this stage work, productions of which are recorded from 1801 onwards. An earlier play about La Perouse by the German playwright Kotzebue had been published in 1798, in which La Perouse is depicted as the only survivor of his shipwreck, living with an empathetic native woman on a deserted island until Madame La Perouse and his son discover him. The native woman and Madame La Perouse end up co-habiting on the island, with La Perouse becoming something of a brother to them. Although this story clearly inspired Fawcett, his version of the… Read More

avec une préface par Ferdinand de Lesseps. Paris : Maurice Dreyfous, [ca.1860]. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), pictorial gilt red cloth boards (fine and bright), all edges gilt; 248 pp, illustrated with 11 engravings; third plate (Kamtschatka volcano) has a 40 mm tear at fore-edge, occasional light foxing, but an excellent example. Scarce. Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy de Lesseps (1766-1834) was an officer on the Astrolabe, one of the two ships in the ill-fated scientific expedition of La Pérouse. Having sailed across the Pacific, visiting Easter Island, the Sandwich Islands, Alaska, California, Manila and Macao, the expedition arrived in Kamchatka (the easternmost outpost of Russian colonisation) in September 1787, in order to replenish supplies. De Lesseps was selected by La Pérouse to return overland from there to Europe, carrying with him all the highly-sensitive reports and charts of the expedition up to this point, which La Pérouse was determined should reach French authorities as soon as possible. La… Read More

Foolscap folio (189 x 285 mm), full maroon calf (boards worn and scuffed), spine with gilt decoration; front pastedown with armorial bookplate with the motto VIRTUS INCENDIT VIRES and initials FLS below the coat of arms; manuscript in ink in the author's own hand, [6] 147 [5] pp; the preliminaries comprise a title leaf and 3-page index with date, place and title of each poem (the earliest date being 1821, the latest 1839); the first work (pp. 1-11) is The Philosophic Traveller or a Review of the Globe. A poem, translated from Bruguière de Sorsum, by Edward Herbert Smith, with the translator's preface explaining that it is his translation from the French of Bruguière's Le Voyageur, with the exception of an extended section on Botany Bay, added by Smith himself; the translation is preceded by an Argument of the poem and followed by a Note on Lapérouse (pp. 12-13); it is dated at the foot of page 13: Caen, Septr, Cheltenham, October 1824; p. 14-152 are filled with a large number of Smith's own… Read More

London : Dean & Son, c. 1860. ""Papa Lovechild's series"". Octavo, illustrated wrappers, short split to bottom of spine; pp. 8, printed on one side only, full-page illustrations throughout, with original hand colouring; a very good to fine copy. To modern sensibilities - and probably for children of the time - this morality tale about the potential consequences for a child who decides to play truant from school one day is quite terrifying. An innocent young hare falls in with a band of criminal foxes and ends up taking the rap for their poaching activities. Caught seemingly red-handed in the foxes' hideout, he is given no opportunity to protest his innocence, nor does the ""ape judge"" show him any compassion or leniency. His sentence? Death by hanging. Yes, that's the way the story ends - poor Bunny is led to the gibbet by the ""ox hangman"", and is executed. This early reader speaks volumes about the moral climate of Dickensian Britain, its intractable justice system and the harshness of its penal code.

Perth : B. Stein & Co., Barrack Street, [c.1880]. Square octavo, original cloth backed blue pebbled boards with gilt lettering and ornament (some wear to the edges and corners), containing a leporello concertina foldout with [12] panels views of Western Australia, each 180 x 140 mm, including panoramic views of Perth, Fremantle and Albany; 17 smaller views of Perth; a large view of Fremantle Town Hall and 2 views of Fremantle High Street; 3 views of Geraldton, and views of King Georges Sound and The Terrace, Albany; rear pastedown with publisher's imprint of 'B. Stein & Co., Booksellers, Stationers and Importers of Fancy Goods. Agents for all Colonial and English papers and magazines. Plain and Ornamental Job Printers. Barrack Street, Perth'; verso of last panel with contemporary presentation inscription in ink: 'To my dear little friends Eileen and Jessie, with best love from Augusta'; a few repaired tears at rear of folds, else fine.  

[Melbourne : Schütze, Steffens & Co., 272 Little Collins Street (but printed in Germany), c.1891]. Leporello album. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (corners bumped), containing a concertina foldout with [13] panels of lithographed views (after photographs) of Sandhurst, including a four-panel panorama of the town, public buildings and churches, Alexandra Fountain and Pall Mall from Charing Cross, the Masonic Hall, etc.; in very good condition. An advertisement at the rear panel for 'The Beehive' (general merchants) has the note at the bottom: 'Since this work was completed the name of the city has been changed to its original name - BENDIGO'. 'Having originally begun as Bendigo, a name spawned from Bendigo Creek, it adopted the official name of Sandhurst, named after a military college in England in 1854. It was changed back to Bendigo in 1891 following a plebiscite when all the residents voted, with 1,515 in favour and only 267 against.' - State Library of… Read More

[Germany] : s.n., [c.1888]. Octavo, original cloth backed blue pebbled boards with gilt embossed lettering and decoration, including the Australian coat of arms (rubbed and sunned, some chipping to fore-edges, backstrip with loss in a couple of spots), containing a leporello concertina foldout with [12] panels of views of New Zealand including Dunedin, Christchurch, Auckland, Rotomahana, and Wellington; internally very good. Views of Dunedin include: Knox Church, First Church, Grand Hotel, Princes Street, Union Steam Ship Coy's Offices, Bank of New Zealand, Town Hall, the Octagon, University, High School for Boys, Saint Clair, the Resevoir, the Caves, Entrance to Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, Port Chalmers, and Dunedin from Roslyn. Views of Christchurch include: Post Office, Hospital, Christchurch from the Cathedral, Armagh Bridge, and Victoria Bridge. Views of Auckland include: Queens Street, The Tabernackle, Albert Park, Waiwera, Auckland from the North Shore, Atemuri Waikato, and Birds Eye View of… Read More

Pensacola, Florida : G & L Internet Bank, 2000. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Rare promotional booklet for the short-lived G & L Internet Bank (1999 - 2002), established to service and invest in the gay and lesbian community in the United States. 'We are not just gay friendly ... we're gay'. 

London: Fanfrolico Press, 1928-29. Six volumes, octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 496, with Norman Lindsay illustrations, occasional light foxing, a very good set. A literary periodical incorporating poetry and prose, intended to last only six issues, and published by Jack Lindsay ‘not for profit, but the fun of the thing, obviously’ (contents page). Only complete sets were permitted to be ordered, the subscription of 9 shillings was payable in advance. Arnold 23a

Lionel Lindsay's handwritten draft for an article on French artist Henri Fantin-Latour, published in Art in Australia, Series 3, No. 8, 1924. Manuscript in pen on rectos of [5] sheets, large octavo (170 x 200 mm), signed at the foot of the text 'Lionel Lindsay'; old fold lines, clean and complete.

for glass consumption, but single bottles, and even the smallest quantities of spirits in bottles, can be had as usual. Mr. Fearon continues precisely as heretofore, his varied and extensive Wine business, for consumption both Wholesale and Retail. All the Entrances are in the Court. London : Henry B. Fearon, [c.1836]. Broadside, 255 x 200 mm, on paper watermarked with the date 1836, printed recto only; faint old fold lines and light creasing, otherwise very good. In 1831 London's first Gin Palace was built at 94, Holborn Hill, for the licensed victuallers Thompson and Fearon. It was designed by the architect John Papworth, with a spectacular interior by Stephen Geary that was to influence the many similar London establishments that followed in its wake. This broadside dates to the early years of the business, evidently soon after Fearon had become the sole owner.

One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783.  Manuscript in brown ink on single folio sheet with ""GR"" watermark by Jubb, 185 x 230 mm, above title in upper margin ""Council Office"", below title a list of various expenses incurred by the swearing in of Lord Sydney for his second term as Home Secretary: “To the Clerks of the Council…£10:0:0d., To the Under Clerks…£4:0:0d….To the Under Record Keeper…£6:0:0d….”; a manuscript docketed title to the lower page “Receipt for Council Office Fees No.1”; original folds, clean and crisp. Townshend was created Baron Sydney of Chislehurst and entered the House of Lords on 6 March 1783. In 1785, during his first term as Home Secretary, Sydney, Nova Scotia was named in his honour. In the years that followed, Townshend was responsible for planning the penal colony at Botany Bay, and he appointed Arthur Phillip as the first Governor. On his arrival in January 1788, Phillip named Sydney Cove, which in due course… Read More