Search Results: Authors starting with D from Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Entire letter, bifolium (195 x 160 mm), manuscript in ink written on one side, headed 'London, March 12 / 44' and signed at the foot 'Jno. Relfe', the address panel on the outer side with London Ship Letter marking in red dated 13 March 1844, addressed to 'B M Da Costa Esq, Adelaide, N S Wales [!]'; endorsed in Benjamin Da Costa's hand 'Relfe: 12 March 44 / Recd 30 Augt 44 / Ansd. 15 October 47 [!]'; complete, clean, and legible. Transcript of letter: 'Dear Sir, I wrote to you on the 14th Sept. 1843 to solicit your kind & prompt attention to the disposal of Prints &c acknowledged to have been received by you as per letter received per Mr. Snooke 17th Aug 1842. I have again to solicit your attention to this application & beg to repeat that I shall feel much obliged by your forwarding per first opportunity the particulars of Sale & Bill for the amt. - by so doing you will confer a favor on Yrs. respectfully, Jno. Relfe'. Philanthropists Benjamin Mendes Da Costa (1803-1868) and his sister Louisa Da… Read More

Sydney : Savill Galleries, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated.

[Tel Aviv] : Hotsaʼat Daʻat, [1950?]. Trade card, 60 x 83 mm; recto with colour offset-printed design, verso with publisher's name; worn at top corner, otherwise in good condition. Number ""9"" in a series of early Israeli trade cards depicting countries of the world. Although the flag is accurate, the Indigenous Australian is unaccountably represented by a graphic of a generic African drummer.

Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 210 mm; verso with the wet stamp of 'S. J. Dailey, Photographic Artist, 151 Franklin Street, Adelaide', and a fully contemporary caption in pencil: 'Timber cutting, Kangaroo Island, S. A.'; the print has a few short edge tears and some loss at the corners; nevertheless, it is an exceptionally sharp image with a wealth of detail, including of the timber cutters and their implements, larger equipment, a storage shed and bullock teams and drays - plus, of course, lots of scattered timber debris in the foreground. An historically significant photograph documenting the timber cutting industry on Kangaroo Island in the 1890s. It was taken by professional photographer S. J. Dailey, first president of the South Australian Photographic Society. Trove locates no other examples of this image in Australian public collections.

Compiled by order, for the Council of the City of South Melbourne. Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1940. Octavo, original cloth (spine dulled), with two folding maps, plates, internally clean, a very good copy. Scarce.

By Alexander Dalrymple, first printed in 1767, reissued with a foreword by Kevin Fewster and an essay by Andrew Cook. Sydney : Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1996. Octavo, full blue calf, lettered and ruled in gilt, blind embossed, pp. 47, xxxi, 103., [5] leaves of folded plates. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies specially bound, signed and numbered by the author, housed in a buckram clamshell box (a trade edition of 950 copies were also published). Original prospectus loosely enclosed. Provenance : Rodney Davidson, his bookplate to front pastedown and inside box lid, his original invoice and correspondence with the publisher loosely enclosed.

Sydney : F. J. Thwaites, [1930?]. Small quarto, publisher's cloth backed pictorial papered boards, front pastedown with later ex libris, front free-endpaper with two early child owner inscriptions, 62 pp, illustrated with 8 full-page colour plates and line drawings in the text; a fine copy. Muir 1867. Scarce. Five copies are recorded in Australian collections (Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; Deakin University Library; State Library of New South Wales; University of Melbourne Library).

Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mounts), 90 x 57 mm (images), versos with imprint of Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery, Sydney; the albumen prints with some tiny ink spots, otherwise both cartes are in very good condition. The American opera singers Henry Squires (1825-1907) and Lucy Escott (1827-1895) arrived in Australia in 1861 with William Saurin Lyster's opera company. They performed throughout Australasia during the 1860s, with Escott as the company's prima donna. The Australian music historian Harold Love commented: 'Between them, aided by Lyster's promotional flair, Escott and Squires created an audience for opera capable, on occasions at least, of packing the 3,300 seat Royal, and came as close as anyone apart from Melba has ever done in Australia to making it a form of mass entertainment.' (La Trobe Journal, no. 16, October, 1975). The National Portrait Gallery (Canberra) appears to hold the only copies in Australian collections of these studio… Read More

I.  Captain William Dampier’s voyages round the world : describing particularly, the coasts and Islands in the East and West-Indies. The South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. The countries of Tonquin, Achin and Malacca. The Cape of Good Hope, New-Holland, &c. II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer; giving an account of his being left on the isthmus of America, amongst the Indians, and of their treatment of him; with a particular description of the country &c. Also the natural history of those parts. By a Fellow of the Royal Society. And Davis’s expedition to the Golden Mines. III. A voyage round the world: containing an account of Cap. Dampier’s expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St. George. With his various adventures and engagements, &c., together with a voyage from the West Coast of Mexico to East-India. By W. Funnell, Mate to Capt. Dampier. IV. Capt. Cowley’s voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp’s journey over the isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-Seas. VI.… Read More

[Paris : circa 1780]. Elephant folio, 28 x 18 inches (730 x 465 mm), full green morocco, floral gilt decoration to edges, spine in compartments and lettered in gilt with contrasting red morocco title label (rebacked onto vellum with some early restoration to the upper portion), gilt stamped bee designs to the compartments of the spine and corners of the boards; all edges stained red, marbled endpapers, engraved list of the maps Cartes Geographiques De M. D’Anville on front pastedown, no title page (as issued), 42 sheets of engraved maps of various sizes, some folding and with extensions, most with contemporary hand colouring; occasional minor splitting and light discolouration at some folds as usual, all maps reinforced at folds; the maps clean and fresh, a complete and fine example of d'Anville's extraordinary composite atlas. A monumental atlas from the Age of Enlightenment, copies of which were composed to order at the request of d'Anville's clients. The engraved advertisement inside the… Read More

New York : Leo Castelli, 1973. Quarto, lettered wrappers (fore edge crumpled), unpaginated, black and white illustrations. Loosely enclosed : folding poster from Chromatics 6x6, Leo Castelli, 1971.

London : Thames and Hudson, 2022. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 288, illustrated. New copy. 'A richly illustrated guide to the Ottoman Empire, 100 years since its dissolution, unravelling its complex cultural legacy and profound impact on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.' '‘Exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated, this delightful book brings five centuries of Ottoman culture to life. Diana Darke constantly amazes the reader with fascinating facts and points of relevance between the Ottoman past and the present day’ – Eugene Rogan, author of The Fall of the Ottomans A richly illustrated guide to the Ottoman Empire, 100 years since its dissolution, unravelling its complex cultural legacy and profound impact on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. At its height, the Ottoman Empire spread from Yemen to the gates of Vienna. Western perceptions of the Ottomans have often been distorted by Orientalism, characterizing their rule as oppressive and destructive, while seeing… Read More

designed as a companion to the various gazetteers & books of geography now in use, the whole clearly engraved by artists of eminence and carefully coloured. Including maps of the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece. London : William Darton, Jan. 25th 1812 (the maps dated between 1811 - 1812). First edition. Quarto, modern binding of half calf over marbled papered boards, gilt-lettered contrasting morocco title label to spine, gilt ornamentation, new endpapers, engraved title page with vignettes of the four continents, 38 hand-coloured copperplate maps, the maps of the Eastern and Western hemispheres showing the voyages of Cook, the map of Asia including New Holland with dates of notable discoveries; the maps clean and fresh. The rare first edition, in a fine modern binding.

London : William Darton, [1820]. Board game, engraved sheet (495 x 405), hand-coloured, dissected and laid on linen (some offsetting), publisher's advertisement label, in original publisher's card slipcase, marbled paper (edges worn), publisher's label and large illustrated title label with images of the animals; without the printed rule book. ONE OF THE EARLIEST CHILDREN'S GAMES TO DEPICT AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS. British and foreign animals is a variation on the Game of the Goose. The 37 tiles have representations of animals with different perceived moral qualities, the majestic Lion - the king of beasts - being the final central image. The penultimate tile is the Kangaroo, the image taken from the famous depiction by George Stubbs (1772), which was frequently reused by engravers across the following decades. The game wold have been played with a teetotum, and was originally issued with a printed rule book with descriptions of the animals, which (like the Morgan Library copy) is lacking in this… Read More

af Charles Darwin. Med författarens tillåtelse öfversatt från tionde originalupplagan af G. Lindström. Landskrona : J. L. Törnqvists, 1872. Octavo, contemporary gilt-lettered qurter-calf over pebbled cloth (edges rubbed and worn), hinges slightly cracked, pp. vii; 452; 18 (advertisements), ii, text illustrations, internally clean, a very good copy. The first Swedish edition of Charles Darwin's Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, translated from the ""tenth edition"" (or 10th thousandth) of 1860 (see Freeman 20). Freeman 259

London : John Murray, 1893. Second edition, revised by Francis Darwin, sixth thousand. Octavo, publisher's blind blocked dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pp. xiv, 377; [1], lithographed illustrations in the text; some foxing to outer leaves, a very fine copy. First published on July 2 1875, the second edition published in 1888. This work was Darwin’'s study on carnivorous plants, specifically observing the conditions in which they lived. Most importantly, he found that insect-eating plants only reacted to the movements of animals, and not the touch of a researcher. Darwin also discovered that they utilise sticky substances or hinged mouth-like leaves to catch their prey. Freeman 1227.

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1899. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (fifty-sixth thousand). Octavo, original publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth (slightly bruised with short splits at head and foot of spine, small mark to spine) original endpapers (lightly foxed, Manchester Sunday School Union Scholars Examination prize label to front free endpaper), pp xxi, [blank], 432, folding lithographed plate. A fine copy. An unorthodox prize from Sunday School. A fine copy of the sixth edition of one of the most important texts in the history of science. The first edition of 1859, a great rarity, is described in Freeman as ""... the most important biological work ever written.""; Dibner, ""... the most important single work in science.""; Printing & the Mind of Man, ""... revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order… Read More

London : John Murray, 1888. Fourth thousand. Second Edition, Sixth Issue. Octavo, publisher's blind blocked dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slight rubbing to head and foot), pp. x, 208, 32 (publisher's catalogue dated April, 1889), lithographed illustrations in the text; foxing to preliminaries, uncut and unopened, a clean, fresh copy. The movements and habits of climbing plants was first printed in Vol. IX of the Journal of the Linnean Society of London (1865). It first appeared in book form in 1875, much enlarged and revised from the journal publication. Following Origin of Species (1859), Darwin spent much time studying plants to produce evidence for his theory of natural selection. The book stands as his second work on plants, with the first being On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects (1862). Freeman 844. This edition includes the Appendix to the Preface which first appeared in the first issue of the Third Thousand in 1882.    

/ by Charles Darwin ; with photographic and other illustrations. London : John Murray, 1872. First edition, second impression. Octavo, modern binding of quarter crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, vellum tips to corners, spine in compartments with two contrasting Morocco title labels, lettered and ruled in gilt, contemporary owner's name to title page, pp. vi, 374, 4 advertisements (dated November 1872),  with photographic heliotype plates and wood-engraved illustrations in the text; occasional spots of foxing, a few quirked unopened, the contents are clean, a very good copy of the first edition. Freeman, 1142.

Öfversättning från femte Originalupplagan af A.M. Selling. Stockholm : L.J. Hiertas Förlagsexpedition, 1871. Octavo, publisher's gilt-lettered quarter-roan over cloth bound boards, spine and edges rubbed, contemporary owner's name to endpaper, pp. xi; [blank]; 420, lithographed plate between pp. 96-97, a fine, clean copy. The rare first Swedish edition of the greatest treatise in biological science. The first translation of Darwin's magnus opus into Swedish, and the first edition published in Sweden, as well as the first translation of Darwin's Origin into any Scandinavian or Nordic language. It was translated from the fifth edition of the Origin, published in London in 1869. The sixth revised edition would see the title altered from On the origin of species to The origin of species.  The Swedish translation precedes the first Danish translation (1872), Norwegian translation (1890), and Finnish translation (1913). Scarce Freeman 793