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

Melbourne : the authors, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 112, illustrated, a very good copy.

Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 1 page (240 x 195 mm); headed 'Depot of British Prisoners at Givet in France, September 6th 1813', the document is a petition by an imprisoned British naval seaman, Joseph Hare, formerly of HMS Hussar, to the Royal Navy's prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, requesting that the share of Prize Bounties owing to him be paid to his wife, Hannah, back home in Yarmouth; the document was evidently prepared on behalf of the illiterate Hare by its two signatories, naval officers Thomas Fitzgerald, Boatswain of HMS Grasshopper, and James Anderson, Gunner of HMS Port Mahon; the verso has a number of annotations by naval clerks, including: 'Mrs H[anna]h Hare, Mouse's Alley, No[rth] Yarmouth, 25 April 1814'; '9 May 1814, 2.14.4 paid [signed] Le Mesurier'; 'Nothing since May 14';  '2 May 1817 Party must apply himself'; '26 July 1823 Nothing since';'10 Dec 1825 Nothing since'; original folds, well preserved and legible. In early February 1804, Joseph Hare was serving as a… Read More

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 77 mm each image) on original yellow card mount, c 1875, imprint recto: ""Animals in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, Photographed from life by F. York. 34. Emeu, Dromeus Novae Hollandiae (sic)"". Superb condition. York published his series of photographs of animals in the London Zoo in the 1870s. This image of an emu (Dromaius Novaehollandiae) in captivity appears to be the earliest recorded photograph of this Australian native bird. (NLA holds a Charles Kerry photograph of a taxidermy specimen dated 1894-95).

'Extrait des Mémoires de la Societé Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, Tome XIV'; pp1 - 113; [TOGETHER WITH] JOUAN, Henri. Notes sur la distribution géographique des oiseaux dans quelques archipels de l'Océanie. 'Extrait des Mémoires de la Societé Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, Tome XXII'; pp1 - 35; [AND] JOUAN, Henri. Note sur le jabiru de la Nouvelle-Hollande. 'Extrait des Mémoires de la Societé Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, Tome XIV'; pp124 - 128; [AND] JOUAN, Henri. Quelques mots sur la faune ichtyologique de la côte nord-est d´Australie et du Détroit de Torres comparée à celle de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. 'Extrait des Mémoires de la Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, 1879'; these four essays on the fauna of New Zealand, New Holland and the Pacific Islands by the French mariner and zoologist Henri Jouan are bound in a Sammelband containing 18 of Jouan's scientific essays titled Mélanges Zoologiques, Paris :… Read More

Manuscript in ink, 4 pp., octavo bifolium (175 x 110 mm); headed '59 Berners Street, London, 17 June 1870', and signed 'J. Wolf', the letter is addressed to an anonymous recipient ('Dear Sir'), informing him that 'The Photograph of the Great Bustard is in the hands of Mr. Smit', and promising to let him know 'when the colouring of the Bustard will be ready', wishing Smit had been able to sight the skin of the bird, discussing the different markings and the difficulty of getting the correct colouring; he adds in his postscript: 'I had just finished this when Mr Smit called with the photo - & the coloured Pattern of the bustard, which I think is a great improvement as compared with the one he did first - both (the Photo & the coloured proof) I send herewith per Book-Post.'; in fine condition. Josef Wolf (1820-1899) was described by Sir Edwin Landseer as 'without exception, the best all-round animal painter that ever lived.' He was born in Mörz, Germany, and trained as a lithographer in Münster. Wolf… Read More

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 70 mm each image) on original pale yellow card mount, late 1860s, inscribed in contemporary hand in ink verso: ""Platypus"" and ""Washbourne Photo"". (These inscriptions are in the same hand, quite possibly that of the photographer himself). Light foxing to both images, otherwise very good condition with excellent clarity and rich tonal range. The travelling photographer Thomas Washbourne was prolific in his recording of life and scenery in the colony of Victoria. In the late 1860s he produced a well known series of images of Victorian Aborigines as cartes de visite for commercial sale, as well as a series of stereoscopic prints of Melbourne and surrounding regional areas. He is not recorded as working as a photographer after 1869 (Davies & Stanbury, 'The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900'). The two platypus in this photograph are of course taxidermy specimens and are photographed in a museum cabinet, possibly in the Melbourne Museum… Read More

in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff's Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of Mons. Belon, Mr. Vernon, Dr. Spon, Dr. Smith, Dr. Huntingdon, Mr. Greaves, Alpinus, Veslingius, Thevenot's Collections, and others. The Second Edition. London : Publish'd by Mr. John Ray, Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1705. Octavo (190 mm), contemporary panelled calf (a few scratches), spine in compartments with old manuscript title piece (leather frayed at head), front pastedown with armorial bookplates of Osbert Salvin (1835-1898), British naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist, and Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), British lepidopterist,… Read More

Manuscript in ink, [2] pp., single quarto sheet (250 x 185 mm); headed 'Transport Office, 10th October 1801', signed 'Your most obed. Serv. Alex McLeay', the letter is addressed to D. Turner [Dawson Turner], and is a response to a request about the whereabouts of Professor Espir's Diploma from the Linnean Society, which Macleay says was part of a packet sent to France by Mr. Sowerby [James Sowerby, naturalist and illustrator], which the Paris agent has confirmed was forwarded; For the first part of his professional career Alexander McLeay (1767-1848) was a high-ranking civil servant with the Transport Board in London, but he was also a keen amateur naturalist - a leading member of the Linnean Society and a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1825 he was persuaded by Earl Bathurst to take up an appointment as colonial secretary for New South Wales. He arrived in Sydney with his family in January 1826. From the ADB: '... Although John Macarthur junior had feared that he was too old and that his private… Read More

Stockholm : Ehrnfried Nybergs Boktryckeri, 1914. Royal octavo, publisher's pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 30 pp, illustrated, a very good copy of this account of the Australian socialist experiment in Paraguay. Text in Swedish. Translation of: New Australia, where Socialism has failed : the story of a South American colony. Originally published: London: H.E. Morgan, [1912?]. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria).

[Nouméa] : [printer unknown], 1917. Letter sheet with black mourning borders; bifolium, folding to 130 x 200 mm (260 x 400 mm when opened); first side with lithographically printed notice of the death of Pierre-Auguste Thevenet on 5 November 1917, and his burial on 6 November, with above it a list of the bereaved family members and friends on whose behalf the letter sheet was printed; inner sides blank; designed for mailing, the outer side with the handwritten address 'Monsieur A. Zeitler, Api, Nouvelles Hébrides' (postage stamp removed), and a folding flap to close the envelope; in fine condition. A striking piece of mourning memorabilia produced in a French colonial context, but also with a double connection to Australia. Pierre-Auguste Thevenet was born in Lyon, France on 1 November 1847 to Jean Pierre Francois Thevenet and Pauline Claudine Perrin. After settling in New Caledonia he married Australian woman Harriette Whiteman, who was born at Patrick Plains (Singleton), New South Wales,… Read More

Circa 1911. Photographic glass magic lantern slde with hand colouring, 82 x 102 mm, the mount with a contemporary manuscript label '916/11'; a short crack to the lower corner of one of the sheets of covering glass, not affecting the image; otherwise in fine condition.

[Nouméa], Nouvelle Calédonie : Service des Douanes, 1903. Single sheet, 480 x 250 mm, printed recto and verso, with manuscript entries recording that the permit - valid for one year - was issued on 24 July 1903 to 'femme indigène Kaïpiane', resident of the Loyalty Islands and owner of the ""Chanedra"", a cutter of 10 tons; entries on the verso record five different voyages made by this vessel during 1903, between the islands of Maré and Lifou in the Loyalties and Port Vila on Efate in the New Hebrides; with the relevant signatures, annotations and stamps of the local customs officials; light damp staining at one edge, original horizontal folds, complete.

[=""The four Gospels in Kiwai, Fly Delta, Papua""]. [Sydney?] : Commonwealth of Australia Council of the British & Foreign Bible Society, 1947. Duodecimo, original dark green cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt and with 'KIWAI Gospels' in ms. in white ink, pp iii, 393; endpapers with offsetting, but a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front pastedown. Kiwai is a Papuan language (or language group) of the Papuan Gulf region, centred around the Fly River Delta. Trove locates 4 copies (NLA; SLNSW; ANU Library; University of Sydney Library)

Boroko, PNG : Prehistory Dept., PNG National Museum, 1985. Series: PNG National Museum, Record no. 9. Small quarto (250 mm), publisher's binding of illustrated wrappers within cloth-backed clear plastic cover; pp. vi, 84, followed by 46 b/w photographic plates; line-drawn text figures and maps throughout; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. Focuses on the prehistoric pottery and stone artefacts found in this region, with some references to wooden objects and weapons. Trove locates no copies in Australian collections. 

[=The New Testament in Motu]. Cover title: Taravatu Matamata. London British and Foreign Bible Society, 1935. First edition. Small octavo (170 mm), black cloth limp covers (a few light marks) with stamped lettering to front, pp 510; a near fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside front cover. This is the first edition of the second translation of the New Testament into Motu, made by R. Lister-Turner and J. B. Clark. The first translation, prepared for the London Missionary Society by the Congregationalist missionary W. G. Lawes, was first published in 1891. Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to distinguish it from Hiri Motu) is a Central Papuan Tip language that is spoken by the Motuans, an indigenous ethnic group of Papua New Guinea centred around the Port Moresby region. Trove locates only one copy of the 1935 edition (SLNSW); a second edition was published in 1946.

The Arthur Maurice Hocart Memorial Prize Essay, 1954. Offprint from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 84: 75-90. London : RAI, [1954?]. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), original stapled green wrappers (sunned along spine, very light vertical crease, pen annotation to upper wrapper), pp. 16; internally excellent; from the Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the last page. Study of a ceremonial aspect of Motu culture, by distinguished Australian anthropologist Murray Groves (1926-2011). This prize-winning essay was published very early in Groves's academic career, after he had completed his Diploma in Anthropology at Oxford but before he had embarked on his DPhil.

Port Moresby : [Malcolm Mackellar], 1972. Quarto (300 mm), author's cloth-backed illustrated wrappers with clear plastic cover; 38, [2], 3, [11] leaves, with b/w photographic illustrations, tables, maps; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the dedication leaf. Self-published - no doubt in very small numbers - this essay was originally produced as part requirement for a Masters Degree Qualifier, with the University of Papua New Guinea. The research was undertaken while Mackellar was Assistant District Commissioner, stationed at Menyamya. NLA holds the only copy in Australian libraries.

New York : Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. First edition. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher's pictorial black papered boards printed in white (corners bumped, spine with a few small abrasions), a significant association copy, the front free-endpaper with the ownership signature of Australian anthropologist Ian Hogbin, inscribed below by the author, renowned ethnographer and museum curator Douglas Newton, 'with love from Douglas'; pp 99, illustrated with 259 b/w photographic plates, folding map at rear; internally excellent; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate also to the front free-endpaper. The now-famous catalogue produced for Douglas Newton's landmark exhibition of Melanesian art staged at New York's Museum of Primitive Art in 1961. This copy is inscribed by Newton for his close friend and academic colleague, British-born Australian anthropologist Herbert Ian Priestley Hogbin (1904-1989). Hogbin is best known for his studies of various cultures of the Solomon… Read More

[Beverly Hills, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1933]. From the series Traveltalks : The Voice of the Globe. One reel of 16 mm film (possibly a copy print?) with approximately 8 mins 30 secs of footage, in an Eastman Kodak Company metal can, later (early 1970s) printed label to front of the secondhand and collectable 16 mm film dealer Movie Wonderland (Hollywood), annotated 'Traveltalks, B/W S.O.F. [i.e. the footage was shot on a Sound on Film camera] Papua and Kalabahai'; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), and accompanied by his bookplate. Early film footage of indigenous people of Port Morseby, Papua - ""gateway to the largest unexplored land on earth"" - and Kalabahai, on Alor Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands in the Dutch East Indies. This newsreel was one of James A. FitzPatrick's popular Traveltalks series, shown in North American and Australian picture theatres in the 1930s and 40s. Under contract with MGM FitzPatrick shot his one-reel travelogues in locations all around… Read More

/ by F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist. At head of title: Territory of Papua. Port Moresby : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1928. First edition. Series: Anthropology Report, no. 9. Octavo (230 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked and with a mild vertical crease), pp v, [1 blank], 25; contents clean; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the upper wrapper. Very scarce report on the education of indigenous peoples in the Territory of Papua by the eminent Australian anthropologist F. E. Williams, who served as Government Anthropologist of the Territory of Papua from 1928 until his death in 1942.