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

Government-issue Waterlow & Sons Limited ledger book, folio (320 x 220 mm), original marbled papered boards with hessian backstrip and corners (heavily rubbed and worn from extensive use), upper board lettered in manuscript in black ink: 'H.M.S. Albion / 25th Jany. 1915 / to / 21st July 1915'; [340] pp. with manuscript entries in the hands of the three surgeons on board (approx. 30,000 words in total), being a daily log kept throughout the Albion's involvement in the Dardanelles campaign recording every casualty or case presented to the ship's surgeons, including date and location, name and rank of patient, description of the ailment or wound, and type of treatment prescribed or administered; clean throughout. HMS Albion was a Canopus Class pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy which participated in the Dardanelles campaign. This unique manuscript record gives many insights into how the campaign would have been experienced by a naval surgeon and by wounded or ill sailors. Navy lists… Read More

Moscow : D. IA. Makovskii, 1914. First Russian edition of Noa Noa : voyage à Tahiti. Quarto, original pictorial yellow wrappers, title with vignette illustration, frontispiece plate of Gauguin's self-portrait, 125 pp, 10 full-page black and white plates, one tipped-in illustration and vignette head- and tail-pieces; a fine copy. Text in Russian. The Paris-based Russian art historian and critic Yakov Tugendhold was a champion of Gauguin's work. The rare first Russian edition of the artist's now-famous Tahiti journal was the product of Tugendhold's own initiative, and it includes his essay on Gauguin's life and work. A second edition, more common than the first, was published in 1918.

San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word 'Olympic' redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three weeks prior to the Opening, the United States Olympic Committee filed a law suit against the San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., organisers of the Games, for the unauthorised use of the word 'Olympic', forcing the redaction of the word in marketing and merchandise, including this contemporary newsletter from the organisers. The event was rebranded the Gay Games and has been held every four years since 1982, rotating between host cities. A most interesting contemporary newsletter from the controversy surrounding the Gay Olympic Games. It includes information about the games and events, and a form to be submitted offering to host visiting athletes in housing from… Read More

[Geelong : Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip], May 1850. Manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of a folio bifolium, in the hand of a legal clerk; recording a bond of £160 payable to Deputy Sheriff Alastair Mackenzie. The three liable parties are John Furlong of Barrabool, farmer; George Gibbons, licensed victualler of South Geelong; and George Elliot, general dealer of South Geelong. The condition of the bond is that it will remain in effect from the commencement of Furlong's suit in the Supreme Court at Melbourne or Geelong against Edward Willis and Charles Lambert Swanston (joint owners of Native Creek Station, a sheep run of 4000 acres) for 'taking and unjustly detaining' his property - 'to wit, one stack of hay, twenty bags of oats and dirty wheat, and one horse dray', but that it will be made void if/when the goods are adjudged to have been returned; seals intact on the second side; docketed on the last side: 'Dated [day omitted] May 1850 / John… Read More

Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic camera, and the prints are in an impressive 100 x 300 mm format; the remainder were taken with a small conventional Kodak camera, the prints measuring 110 x 85 mm; many (but not all) of the views are captioned on the mounts; the album opens with a large albumen print of timber cutters in a jarrah forest, Western Australia (235 x 295 mm); the first sequence comprises 8 stunning panoramic shots (mounted two to a page) and two smaller views of the King of the Hills Gold Mine, near Leonora, Western Australia; then follows, under the caption title 'West Africa', a sequence of 21 smaller format views taken on the Ashanti goldfields, including views of mining operations… Read More

Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1855. Foolscap folio, 1 page; fine. Petition with 752 signatures, claiming compensation from the government on the grounds 'that during and after certain disturbances, which happened on the Eureka, on and about the third December, 1854, there was a wanton and uncalled for destruction of the property of those individuals who chanced to live within and near to what was then called the Stockade'.

[United Kingdom or France] : [s.n.], 1855. Quarter plate ambrotype photograph with hand colouring, 130 x 105 mm, with original passe-partout frame comprising the cover glass (180 x 140 mm) and papered chip-board preserver with oval cut-out and gold painted border; the ambrotype with the original blackened backing paper intact, affixed to the back of the ambrotype's top edge with the original spots of glue (this uppermost part of the ambrotype is not exposed in the oval frame), original cloth covered thick card backing, with contemporary manuscript label inscribed ""Samuel Bates and Lizzy his Wife, 1st January 1855. Left for Austrilla (sic) soon after""; although all of the ambrotype's original components are present, the frame's cloth border has perished, meaning that the components are now separated (this actually provides a good opportunity to observe how this type of ""uncased"" ambrotype was assembled); the cover glass has a short diagonal scratch at the right hand edge, not impinging on the main… Read More

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 - N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria - Australia / GOLD / Eastern Annex; both of the prints and the mount are in fine condition. One of a series of views of the display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at Crystal Palace in 1862, published by the exhibition's official photographers, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. A different photograph taken from the same vantage point includes a diorama with wax figures, illustrating men at work on the diggings. The centrepiece of the Victorian display (also not shown in this particular view) was a 44 feet high gilded obelisk, a symbol of the enormous quantity of gold which had been mined in Victoria in the ten years or so since… Read More

London : s.n., [1865]. Programme, small octavo (178 x 120 mm), [4] pp; embossed decorative borders, front with lithographed view of the Royal Princess's Theatre, centre pages with full cast list and detailed 'Programme of Scenery'; Act III, which is titled 'Life in Australia' and is set on the goldfields, includes the scenes 'Log Hut in Australia' and 'A Ravine', where the plot centres around 'The Great Nugget'; rear side with advertisement for Rimmel's Perfumes; in superb condition. The English dramatist and novelist Charles Reade (1814-1884) wrote several successful plays in the 1850s. It is never too late to mend : a matter of fact romance (1856) was his first novel, and it too was quickly adapted for the stage. Largely based on his earlier play Gold (1853), which was set on the Australian goldfields, Never too late to mend is a melodrama that also makes a damning attack on the harsh and abusive English penal system. It was first performed in 1858, and its popularity with English audiences gave it… Read More

Laid upon the Council table by the Chief Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 10th January, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 6 pp; fine. This document provides a return of claims presented to the Government by over 40 men for injuries inflicted by the military or police at Ballarat in December 1854, plus a short report on those claims.

Melbourne : John Ferres, Government Printer, 1853. Foolscap folio, string bound, 22 pp; fine and complete, as issued. From the ADB: 'Louis John Michel (1825-1904), gold discoverer, was born on 5 July 1825 at Walworth, Surrey, England, son of Louis Michel and his wife Elizabeth, née Watts; his parents were of French origin and came to England in the seventeenth century. He migrated in 1840 to Melbourne with his uncle. He worked as an assistant in a Collins Street grocery, saved diligently and after a few years bought the licence of the Rainbow Hotel in Swanston Street. In 1849 a youth named Chapman showed the proprietor of the Waterman's Arms Hotel in Melbourne a nugget of gold measuring 2 in. (51 mm) by 3 in. (76 mm). Michel was one of many who went to see the find and though nothing came of the incident it served to whet his interest in finding gold. In April 1851 when the news of the discovery of gold at Summerhill Creek in New South Wales created excitement in Melbourne, Michel formed a party… Read More

Ordered by the Council to be printed, 14th March 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio (340 mm), pp iv, 3; a fine example. The Ballarat Outbreak Petition was submitted to the Legislative Council in December 1855. Its 752 signatories demanded compensation for citizens who lived in the vicinity of the Eureka Stockade who had had their property destroyed or damaged during the riots of early December 1854. The Chairman of the Select Committee appointed to review the Petition was none other than Eureka hero Peter Lalor, who had been elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in November 1855 as Member for the new district of Ballaarat. Lalor remained in this role until March 1856 - around the time of the present report - and in November 1856, under the new, more democratic constitution Lalor was elected unopposed to the Legislative Assembly seat of North Grenville (Ballarat West).  

Paris : Lecène, Oudin et Cie, Éditeurs, 1892. ""Nouvelle Édition."" Octavo, red cloth with gilt embossed armorial crest of the Ville de Paris, spine (a little tender) with gilt lettering, 142 pp (occasional spotting), illustrated; a good copy. Text in French. Muir 3655. An adventure story set on the Victorian goldfields.

Author of ""Still Waters Run Deep"", ""Plot and Passion"", ""The Ticket of Leave Man"" &c. &c. The Extensive Scenery designed and painted by Mr. William Telbin, Mr. Telbin, Jun., Mr. H. P. Hall and Assistants. The Appointments by Mr. A. Lloyds. Costumes by Mr. S. May. The Music composed and arranged by Mr. G. Richardson ... ... [London] : s.n., [1867]. Programme, small octavo (180 x 115 mm), [4] pp; embossed decorative borders, centre pages with full cast list and detailed descriptions of 'Scenery in the Drama'; Act II, which is titled 'Australia', takes place en route to the diggings in a 'Canvas Town, with distant View of Melbourne'; Act III is entitled 'At the Diggings', and includes the scenes 'In the Bush', 'Near Ballarat', 'In the Bush Once More' and 'Dead Man's Gully by Moonlight';  an; rear side with advertisement for Rimmel's Perfumes; in very good condition, with some toning and a short paper reinforcement at foot of gutter. Rare opening night programme for the play Antipodes! Or, The Ups… Read More

Laid upon the Council table by the Chief Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 17th March, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 6 pp; fine. Provides a detailed breakdown of the government's expenditure on enforcing law and order at Ballarat during and after the riots of December 1854.

Melbourne : Government printer, 1852. Foolscap folio, string bound, 18 pp; fine. Returns of the names of places in Victoria where gold fields are being worked, the number of gold commissioners, the number of clerks, the number of police, government expenditure relating to the administration of the gold fields, amount of gold carried by government escorts, amount of gold exported, etc.  

[Title from manuscript caption on mount]. [1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on pink card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount with original manuscript inscription in ink at bottom margin Gold Diggers Tub & Cradle Process; both prints have rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the mount has a stain at the right-hand edge (not seriously affecting the print), and the original Scots-Australian owner's name McMillan in pencil on the back. This early Victorian stereoscopic view is a truly iconic photographic image of the Australian gold rushes. The photograph was taken by travelling photographer John H. Jones, prior to September 1862 (see below). The image is reproduced on page 12 of the Bendigo Art Gallery's 2013 exhibition catalogue of Jones' stereoscopic views, Her Majesty's Territories: Stereographic Views of Australian Sceneries (essay by Alva Maguire). Note that the present example is on a variant plain mount that most likely… Read More

[Drop-head title:]  [Birmingham?] : [s.n.], [1853]. Broadside, folio sheet 430 x 280 mm, with 'Second edition' printed above the title at upper right; verso addressed in manuscript to The Right Honorable Viscount Palmerston, MP, Secretary, Home Department, London with the date of 3 November, and with two contemporary postal markings which record that it was sent from Birmingham on 3 November 1853 and received in London the next day (1d red postage stamp is loose); numerous old horizontal and vertical folds and some minor chipping to edges, the ink from the address and the circular postmarks showing through the fine paper but not seriously obscuring any of the printed text. An apparently unrecorded broadside polemic by one Edward Taunton, self-described as 'an Old Foreign Merchant of 1807'. Taunton bemoans the threat of 'Foreign Exchange' against the trade of Manchester, caused in particular by 'two invincible new opponents': the first is 'the emigration of workmen, that must raise services',… Read More

Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 3 pp; fine. Benden Sherral Hassall, publican of the London Hotel, Ballarat, was shot in the leg by soldiers after giving them directions to the Government Camp on the night of 28 November 1854.

London, Timy. Takemin, Hyde Park, [1851]. Folding engraved panorama (113 x 210 mm, folding to 113 x 96 mm); a defective example, lacking the original boards and consequently with only 22 (of 23) engraved scenes; occasional browning and foxing, first panel chipped at left edge. Thomas Onwhyn (1814-1886) was an English satirical artist, illustrator, engraver, and cartoonist. He produced this humorous panorama to coincide with the opening of the Great Exhibition. The protagonist, Mr. Goggleye, is a naive country gentleman who comes up to London to visit the Great Exhibition. He notes the most eccentric exhibits in his (imaginary catalogue), which are then illustrated by Onwhyn in his panorama. These include a scheme to open the North West Passage by digging a tunnel to be 'lighted by gas from seal oil'; a machine for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers; and 'Implements, for raising the wind', a reference to the fever created by the California gold rush which shows an array of miners' equipment.