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

Toronto : Metropolitan Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 68. A book on hanging by Charles Duff, 'Famous British Executioner'. ""The pleasure of the torture chamber. A fascinating book on hanging. The Devil's own masterpiece on the fine art of execution, neck-breaking, throttling, strangling, asphyxiation, decapitation, etc.' - from the cover.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (100 x 62 mm), no photographer's imprint. Top right corner missing, surface soiling, but the image - in particular the facial features of the sitters - has retained its clarity and detail. The woman is dressed in the attire typically worn by members of the Tahitian female aristocracy - she is quite possibly of royal descent. It was certainly not uncommon in the nineteenth century for a European man to marry a Tahitian woman of high standing, the most famous examples being the successful merchants John Brander and Alexander Salmon, whose clan became a powerful trading dynasty in the eastern Pacific through a combination of business acumen and intermarriage with the Tahitian nobility.

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.

[= Tahiti. Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars raises the Tahitian [Protectorate] flag and takes possession in the name of France]. Paris : Vor. Delarue et Cie. ; London : Anaglyphic Company ; Leipzig : Gebrüder Rocca, 1844. Lithograph with hand colouring, 305 x  483 mm (sheet 408 x 557 mm), signed 'Louis Lebreton' in stone lower right; printed title in lower margin, along with identification of the various ships, including Dupetit Thouars' vessel Reine Blanche (at far left) and Queen Pōmare IV's residence, Motou Ata (at far right); with 'Dessiné et lith. par Lebreton' and 'Imp. par Lemercier'; edges with mild matte burn (offsetting), short closed tear at top edge right, but a very good example; unframed. Drawn and lithographed by the renowned marine artist Louis Lebreton, this superb lithograph is one of two by this artist which depict the French ships of Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars in the bay of Papeete on 9 September 1842, imposing a French protectorate over Tahiti and the Marquesas. The official… Read More

[Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph (160 x 210 mm) of two pages of music notation (the original was most likely handwritten and then lithographically printed before it was photographed); generic title legible as Airs tahitiens at the head of the left-hand page, with the title of the individual tune Arue! Arue! (= Praise! Praise!) at the head of the right-hand-page; the print was laid down on a sheet of folding card (175 x 220 mm) by its original owner, Papeete resident Mary Young (see below), to create a unique ""homemade"" piece of sheet music; the albumen print has a few small small surface scratches but is otherwise in good condition; the card mount is toned and lightly foxed. This unusual photograph of a transcription of traditional Tahitian music was probably taken in Papeete by either Charles Georges Spitz or Mrs Sophia Hoare, the only two professional photographers working in Tahiti in this period. Provenance: Mary Young (Stringer) (1854, Tahiti - 1918, Auckland), wife of merchant James… Read More

London : John William Parker, West Strand, 1833. Quarto, disbound, 8pp, printed in double columns, a fine copy. Includes the third part of an article titled Polynesia, an account of the first missionaries in Tahiti (five columns; with woodcuts of a Hawaiian burial ground and an outrigger canoe).

Albumen print, 128 x 216 mm, verso wet stamped 'G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée', and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: 'Papeete from Signal House, right side'; unmounted; a strong print with rich tonal range, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and Cook Islands compiled in the 1880s by Papeete merchant and Pacific Islands trader James Lyle Young (1849-1929).

[Cover title]. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1854]. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, paper loss around edges of the rear wrapper, water stain to lower right corner of front wrapper and all leaves), stitched, title page printed 'Part IV People of the Old World', 16 pp (some water staining to edges, particularly fore-edge of last three leaves), wood engraved illustrations. The fourth in a series of six chapbooks published by Rufus Merrill in 1854, the other titles being My flower pot; Book of birds; Stories about dogs; Book about America, and Indian anecdotes. The parts appear to have been separately issued but examples are also known of the entire series gathered in one binding. Although ostensibly about peoples of the Old World, the front wrapper features a lovely illustration of a man and woman of Otaheiti in ceremonial attire. This image is repeated above the short text describing the Otaheitians on the final page. Other non-European peoples included are… Read More

[= Harbour and port of Papeete. Arrival at anchorage by Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars]. Paris : Vor. Delarue et Cie. ; London : Anaglyphic Company ; Leipzig : Gebrüder Rocca, 1844. Lithograph with hand colouring, 305 x  483 mm (sheet 408 x 557 mm); printed title in lower margin, along with identification of the various ships, including Dupetit Thouars' vessel Reine Blanche (third from left) and Uranie (second from left), the grave of Pomare II (foreground), and the flag of the Protectorate and the British consulate (at far right); with 'Dessiné et lith. par Lebreton' and 'Imp. par Lemercier'; edges with mild matte burn (offsetting) and residual tape marks at top edge, but a very good example; unframed. Drawn and lithographed by the renowned marine artist Louis Lebreton, this superb lithograph is one of two by this artist which depict the French ships of Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars in the bay of Papeete on 9 September 1842, imposing a French protectorate over Tahiti and the Marquesas. The official… Read More

Albumen print, 107 x 166 mm, verso wet stamped 'G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée', and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: 'The Diadem taken from the top of Aorai'; unmounted, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and Cook Islands compiled in the 1880s by Papeete merchant and Pacific Islands trader James Lyle Young (1849-1929).

[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1822. Foolscap folio, 305 x 190 mm, disbound, pp 913-918, [2 blank]; a fine copy. 'For the purpose of tariff fixing, the colony of New South Wales made up all of the modern “Australia” until 1825. After the first British settlement in Botany Bay in 1788, the second settlement was in Van Diemen’s Land when a penal colony was set up in 1803 and free settlement began soon after. However, the island was administered as a part of New South Wales until it became a separate colony in 1825. Thereafter tariffs in Van Diemen’s Land, like those in New South Wales, were governed by the British Parliament Act of 1822.' (The First 100 Years of Tariffs in Australia: the Colonies, by P. J. Lloyd, University of Melbourne, p. 6)

 / Imité de l'anglais par Mme Louise Montal. [Limoges] : Librairie Nationale d'Éducation et de Récréation [E. A. Ardant], [probably between 1890 and 1900]. Octavo (230 x 140 mm), publisher's gilt and black decorated red cloth over boards (corners and spine ends worn), pp 189, [3], illustrated with 14 wood engravings (including a full-page frontispiece); binding firm, occasional scattered foxing, generally clean throughout. Text in French. An abridged French adaptation of Charles Rowcroft's adventure story set in Tasmania, Tales of the Colonies, or, the Adventures of an Emigrant (1843). The work was based for the most part on Rowcroft's own experiences as a settler in Van Diemen's Land in the 1820s. The story interweaves narratives of bushrangers, Aborigines and the collision of cultures in one of the most remote colonial outposts on earth.  

Single parchment sheet, 330 x 200 mm; manuscript in ink, densely written on 1 page, the entries covering the period January 1838 to April 1844, written in several different hands and in different locations in Van Diemen's Land; the prisoner's physical description and background are entered in the upper margin recto; light staining and rubbing in sections, but for the most part legible; three original horizontal folds, the outer side annotated with the file name 1060 John Jones. The official convict record of John Jones, a cabinetmaker from Manchester who was given a life sentence for stealing a cow.  Jones was aged 21 at the time of his transportation to VDL. He was convicted at the Lancaster Quarter Session on 3 July 1837 (this document records the year 1836, in error). He arrived in VDL per transport Neptune, on 19 January 1838. The following incidents are extracted from his convict record: July 1838. For ""taking improper liberties with his master's female child"": to be employed on probation… Read More

Manuscript in ink, single sheet (225 x 185 mm); signed 'Fras. Burgess' and headed 'Police Department [Hobart Town], Nov. 29 1843', the note is addressed to 'Chas. Schaw Esq., Magistrate'; endorsed at Richmond 'Recd. 1/4 past 2 of pm'; verso docketed 'CPM, 29 Nov '43, ""Bushrangers""'; two original horizontal folds, extremely well preserved. An interesting item of police correspondence from the Chief Police Magistrate at Hobart Town, Francis Burgess (1793-1864), to the Police Magistrate at Richmond, Charles Schaw (1785-1874), regarding the deployment of mounted police troopers in the hunt for a group of bushrangers - escaped convicts from Port Arthur who were now at large in the Prosser's Plains district. Burgess had only recently arrived in Tasmania from England. Although he does not explicitly refer to them as 'natives' or 'blacks', it seems reasonable to speculate that the mounted policemen to whom he refers were two of the Aboriginal trackers from the New South Wales Native Police whose skill and… Read More

Manuscript in ink, 1 page, quarto (250 x 220 mm), written on the first side of a bifolium; signed 'M. Forster, 7th April 1843' and headed 'Police Department [Hobart Town]', the note is addressed to 'The P. Magistrate, Richmond' [Charles Schaw]; verso docketed 'CPM, 7 Apl '43, Respg. T.L. Pass'; two original horizontal folds, extremely well preserved. The Chief Police Magistrate at Hobart Town, Matthew Forster (1796-1846), returns a Ticket of Leave pass issued by the Police Magistrate at Richmond, Charles Schaw (1785-1874) - presumably now cancelled - warning that it was not issued in the spirit of recent instructions: 'My dear Sir, In reference to the enclosed pass, I would observe that the granting of it is certainly against the spirit of the late instructions, for the object contemplated was to make this class of convicts feel the restraint in order that they might have an additional motive for affording assistance in the capture of the Bushrangers....'  

Foolscap folio, 320 x 200 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked 'J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828', 2 pages; written in a clerical hand and signed at the foot 'M. Forster, CPM' (Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate), headed 'Circular. Police Office, Hobart, 23rd April 1833', addressed to 'The Police Magistrate, Richmond' (William Thomas Parramore); Forster writes: 'I have the honour to transmit herewith for Your information and Guidance Copy of a letter received from the Colonial Secretary conveying certain directions as to the mode of disposing of Police characters made out on Parchment of all the Prisoners in your District and which when completed are directed to be forwarded to you by the Muster Master. I am at the same time directed to request that you will have the goodness to give full effect by all the means in your Power to the Lieutenant Governor's wishes upon this subject and that you will take care that your clerk enters all sentences in a small clear and legible hand....'; the… Read More

[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1836. Foolscap folio, 335 x 210 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper watermarked 'Harris & Tremlett 1834'; headed 'Information. Van Diemen's Land (To wit.)' and dated 25 June 1836, the manuscript entries record that on 22 June, at Launceston, Charles Friend, the Chief District Constable, informed John Clark Esq., Justice of the Peace, that James McGinnes of Launceston 'without lawful excuse or authority did knowingly receive and allow to remain on his premises Ruth Bickerdyke a Transported offender', the penalty for which is not less than two pounds and not more than 20 pounds (plus costs), and that Friend has asked that McGinnes be summoned to answer the charge; signed by both John Clark and Charles Friend at the foot, and annotated in the lower left margin 'Plea Not Guilty'; the verso gives the result of the case, and is endorsed 'July 8 1836. Friend v. McGinnes. Breach of 2nd Sessions Act 6 / 4 / 2. Dismissed. Witnesses Alexander Ranken / Greentree', along with -… Read More

Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., foolscap folio (320 x 200 mm); original folds, short tear at top edge (no loss), otherwise well preserved. Case summary prepared by an unnamed police magistrate at Flowerdale, near Wynyard, northwest Tasmania, dated 12 March 1846. 'March 12 46. P[olice ] M[agistrate], Flowerdale. Patrick McKone, Coromandel. TL, Life. Larceny of one coat value 5/-, one jacket value 2/-, one pair of trousers value 4/-, one waistcoat value 6d, three shirts value 6/-, the property of George Simpson. Plea - Guilty. G. Simpson states ""These articles here produced are my property, they were stolen from me on Monday last. The prisoner came to my house that day, and asked for a drink of water. I told him to go inside for it. He went in and I did not see him again. I missed these things from the room about twenty minutes afterwards. Constable Mellor states ""I apprehended the prisoner on Monday night at Residence. I found these articles in his possession."" Sentence: Life with hard labor… Read More

Circa 1880. Two albumen print photographs, each in very large format 265 x 330 mm, mounted recto and verso of an album leaf of thick card from an Anson Bros. portfolio, with the studio's imprint 'Anson Bros. Hobart' and printed calligraphic captions in the lower margins; both albumen prints in fine condition with good tonal range, the mount clean, with some wear to the corners and a small amount of silver fishing in one section.