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

Photo-lithograph in green ink on wove paper, 125 x 222 mm (image); 185 x 265 mm (sheet), edge tears to margins, else very good. Lithograph by an unknown artist after an etching of Adelaide first published in Nixon's Views on Adelaide and its Vicinity (1845), the first South Australian view book. Little is known of these 1880s lithographic facsimiles, however another example is held in the National Gallery of Australia (NGA 2011.1196). For the 1845 edition, see Ferguson 4124; Wantrup 233.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (150 x 105 mm). Photographic studio details printed recto; inscribed in ink in period hand verso: ""S.S. Austral, Orient Line. Sunk in Sydney Harbour about 1881.""

Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, light handling marks, but a fine copy. 'Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia's most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised 'Marvellous Melbourne' basking in the glow of the gold rushes. He worked in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and left some of the most memorable images of urban and rural life in colonial Australia. A passionate defender of Indigenous Australians and of the environment, Gill in his art celebrated the emerging quintessential Australian character. This is the first major comprehensive book to be devoted to Gill and presents a radical reassessment of one of the most important figures in Australian colonial art and reproduces, in some instances for the first time, some of the most startling images from… Read More

Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1986. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. viii; 120, a fine copy. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of South Australia, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, and Bendigo Art Gallery, signed by him on the endpaper.  

Also titled: Images 80. Leek, Staffordshire : Macclesfield Community News, 1980. Tabloid newsprint, 450 x 290 mm, 20 pp, photographic illustrations throughout; toned at edges and along the light horizontal fold, otherwise in excellent condition. A very scarce complete copy of the official newspaper of the Salford 80 International Photographic Exhibition, staged at various venues in Salford and Greater Manchester in 1980.

Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 245 x 295 mm; ms. caption in the negative reads: '6395. Lt. Gaunt's Squad drilling. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Protected, Oct. '99'; the print is in good condition; the mount is sunned at the edges and has a tiny amount of insect damage at bottom right corner. Lieutenant (later Sir) Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt raised this native troop, known unofficially as Gaunt's Squad, in 1899 during the Second Samoan Civil War. These fighters were loyal to Malietoa Tanumafili I, and fought alongside the British and Americans against Samoan rebels loyal to Mata'afa Iosefo.

[Sydney : Gaelic Society of New South Wales, 3 Hunter Street, 1875-77]. Letter copybook. Quarto (270 x 220 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed, leather a little worn); spine stamped in gilt 'Letter Book'; alphabetical tab dividers; contains numerous copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence (some written in Scots Gaelic), most signed by Hon. Secretary John Macdonald; complete and well preserved. Around the time of the demise of the St. Andrew's Society of New South Wales, which had become defunct by the end of 1875, two other organisations dedicated to the fostering of Scottish culture in the colony were established in Sydney. One was the Caledonian Society of New South Wales; the other was the Gaelic Society of New South Wales. Both were only relatively short-lived, as in June 1878 they would amalgamate to form the Highland Society of New South Wales, a much more ambitious charitable and cultural organisation with politician Sir John Hay as… Read More

[Sydney : Highland Society of New South Wales, Bell's Chambers, Pitt Street, 1881-86]. Three letter copybooks produced by Sydney stationery firm John Sands. Uniform quarto (270 x 220 mm), half leather over cloth or marbled papered boards (mild rubbing and some wear to extremities), spines stamped in gilt 'Letter Book'; alphabetical tab dividers; containing a large number of copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence, most signed by Hon. Secretary John Macdonald; includes an appended letter on the Society letterhead signed by inaugural President, Sir John Hay; several leaves at front of one book excised (probably at the time), occasional foxing, but generally very well preserved. A unique manuscript record of an institution dedicated to the fostering of Scottish culture in New South Wales in the 1880s. The Highland Society of New South Wales was inaugurated in Sydney in June 1878, with politician Sir John Hay as its first president. The Society was a charitable and… Read More

Cover title: Poems by Paul DeWitt Twinem : Printed in Memoriam. Shanghai : printed by The Presbyterian Mission Press [for Mary Dorothy Fine Twinem], 1929. Octavo (20 x 135 mm), original purple silk over boards, upper board with title in English and Chinese in gilt; frontispiece half-tone photographic portrait of poet and missionary Paul deWitt Twinem, pp [8], 98, printed on Chinese bamboo paper on double leaves in oriental style; a fine copy. Paul DeWitt Twinem was born in Harrisville, Ohio, in 1894. In May 1922, while on the academic staff at the University of Nanking, he married Mary Dorothy Fine (b. 1895 in Trenton, New Jersey), an American Presbyetrian missionary based at Huaiyuan, in Anhui Province. Twinem himself joined the Presbyterian Mission, but only a few months later he died suddenly on 23 September, 1923, leaving Mary a young widow. Mary would spend the next few decades in China as a teacher at the University of Nanking, and she became a Chinese citizen. She was forced to leave Nanjing… Read More

Cover: Successfully introduced into Fuller's brilliant Australian pantomime, ""The Bunyip,"" by Vince Courtney. Sydney : W. J. Deane & Son, [1917]. Quarto (295 x 250 mm), original cloth-backed printed wrappers, with the original owner's inscription in ink '21st November 1918 / Cecil Holl'; [4] pp. music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); slightly trimmed at top and bottom edges, but a good copy. The highly successful pantomime The Bunyip, with music and libretto by Australian composer Vince Courtney, was staged by entrepreneur Benjamin Fuller in 1916 at the Grand Opera House, Sydney; in 1917 at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, and the Majestic Theatre, Adelaide; and in 1918 at the Empire, Brisbane. It seems reasonable to assume that the original owner of this sheet music for one of the show's tunes, My Chinese girl, purchased it after seeing the Brisbane production. Although its title contains the racist epithet Chinee, there is actually little difference between the sentiment in the… Read More

/ Composed for the piano by John W. Lewis. Boston : Oliver Ditson, 1854. First edition. Folio bifolium (330 x 250 mm), disbound; 2 pp music notation (arrangement for piano), the first page with decorative title; as issued, with plain front and rear sides; on this copy, the original owner has annotated the front with the title in pencil 'Australia March', and in ink 'No. 5' (the music would have been bound into the owner's personal album); the bifolium has separated neatly along its fold, but a very clean example. Although he is a relatively obscure figure in the landscape of nineteenth-century American classical music, at least some biographical facts about John William Lewis (1836-1898), composer of Australia March, are known. A member of a wealthy and religious New England family, he demonstrated a prodigious musical talent from an early age. He was still only 17 or 18 years old when Australia March was published by Oliver Ditson of Boston in 1854. The title of this instrumental piece - a 4/4 march… Read More

Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1941. Imperial Edition No. 489. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (spot of surface loss upper right), pp. 16, a clean copy. Scarce. Not in Muir.

 / words and music by Jas. Thornton ... Copyright 1901 by M. Witmark & Sons. Cover: ""Descriptive song by the writer of 'When you were sweet sixteen'"" / ""Sung by Robert McLeish"". Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co, [c.1907]. Allan's popular sixpenny edition ; no. 207. Folio (350 x 250 mm), original illustrated wrappers with inset portrait of Robert McLeish, wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Miss M. R. Walden and ownership signature of Roland Thomas, early cloth spine, 3 pages of music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a very fine copy. Trove locates only the three copies in the NLA. 

Cover: To sing and play with the watcher-bird. Melbourne : Murfett, 1945. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 16 pp, 8 full-page colour illustrations by Outhwaite, a very good copy. Muir 5610.

/ written by Harry Adams ; composed by E. Jonghmans. At the head of title: The Immensely Successful Anglo Australian Patriotic Song. Sung also by Harry Rickards. London : Hopwood & Crew ; Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1887]. Folio (315 x 260 mm), wrappers with a striking colour design of an Australian stockman by British artist Alfred Concanen, the front also with the name and address of the original Melbourne owner 'Lillie Jepson, ""Woodbine"", Clifton Hill' (wrappers lightly foxed, original owner's stitched cloth spine), 5 pp, the first four with music notation (arrangement for voice and piano) and the last with complete lyrics; edges trimmed closely, but a very good example. Trove locates only two copies (NLA; SLV)  

Cover: Featured with enormous success by Stella Gastelle in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Hack & Jill. Sydney : Albert's, [c.1910]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Stella Gastelle, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas and music seller's stamp of Dinsdale, Melbourne, [3] pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a tiny amount of silverfishing to the edges of the wrappers and some wear to the fore-edge of the upper wrapper, otherwise a near fine copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia)

At head of title: D'Albert's celebrated. Sydney : Published by Woolcott and Clarke, Music Sellers, Print Sellers, etc., George Street, [between 1859 and 1865?]. Folio, publisher's decorative wrappers lithographed by F. Cunninghame, 7 pp of music notation (arrangement for piano); lower wrapper with full-page advertisement for Woolcott & Clarke's sheet music with hundreds of titles; leaves with browning, some short marginal tears at foot of gutter, otherwise an excellent example; housed in a modern paper portfolio (the sheet music is expertly tipped-in along the rear of the spine). Scarce. Trove locates only one copy of this sheet music in Australian collections (NLA, suggesting the date range 1859-1865), although the SLNSW does hold a copy (it does not appear on Trove).

[Cover] Introduced in J.C. Williamson's Ltd. Brilliant, Successful Pantomime. The House that Jack Built. Sydney : J. Albert & Son, 1916. Quarto, pictorial wrappers featuring  a red roofed house with garden and vignette portraits of the performer Miss Gretchen Yates and the producer Chas. A. Wenman (paper split along spine, front with stamp of Paling's, Sydney), 3 pp musical notation for voice and piano (some foxing), rear cover with advertisement for J. Albert & Son. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria).

Cover: Tome Armstrong's very latest bewitching rag song. Also sung with great success by Les Warton at Rickards' Tivoli Theatres. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale's Popular sixpenny edition, no. 169. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian vaudeville star Tom Armstrong, [3] pp of music notation; a fine copy. Trove locates only the NLA copy.

Melbourne : Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd., [1915?]. Publisher's number 'B.837'. Folio, illustrated wrappers depicting a scene of African-American plantation workers dancing, clapping, singing and playing the banjo, 5 pp music notation; a good, clean copy. Trove locates only one copy of this piano duet edition (NLA). An earlier piano solo edition was published by Allan's around 1903.