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 : 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

[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

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

/ Words and music by Jack O'Hagan. Melbourne : Allan, 1922. Publisher's number ""B558"". Folio (315 x 240 mm), disbound, original pictorial wrappers (light printing flaws front and back) with inset portrait of ""The Big Four"" singers, and the early ownership signature of Grace Ward; 4 pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano, with ukulele chords); inner wrappers with some pale foxing, but a good copy. Scarce first edition sheet music to one of Australia's most iconic songs. Legendary baritone Peter Dawson made the first recording of Jack O'Hagan's song Along the road to Gundagai in 1924, but O'Hagan actually wrote the song in 1922. Its debut public perfomance was given by Ernest Lauri, ""The Singing Anzac"", who sang it as an encore at the end of a concert at the Sydney Town Hall that year. The song was rapturously received, and before the end of 1922 Allan & Co. had published the sheet music in several printings that differed slightly in the design of the front cover, the constant… Read More

Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1910]. Series: Allan's Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 403. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with portrait of Australian vaudeville singer Miss Maud Bletsoe by Punchinello Co., Manly, inscribed by original owner 'R. Thomas 1912'; [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a fine copy. Trove locates three copies (NLA; SLV; SLNSW).

Cover: Sung by Sam Mayo, also by William Cromwell, in Rupert Clarke, Meynell & Gunn's operatic pantomime Cinderella. Produced by Charles A. Wenman. Sydney : Albert's, [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer William Cromwell, ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, [3] pp of musical notation, lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a fine copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (National Library of Australia).

Melbourne : J. C. W. Nicholson, [1874]. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, pictorial wrappers with a striking front cover design lithographed by Charles Troedel; 5 pp music notation (arrangement for piano); scattered foxing, else a fine copy. Published in Melbourne in July 1874 by Nicholson, Plock's Little Footsteps galop was described by one newspaper of the time as being 'the adaptation of a well-known air to dancing purposes' (Ballarat Star, 14 July 1874). Melbourne orchestra leader and composer Herr Adolph Plock was the arranger. The sheet music was available from the publisher's shop in Collins Street East, and also from the Ballarat music seller J. Harrison, at 137 Sturt Street. The Ballarat Star reviewer (ibid.) opined that the music was 'tastefully printed': small wonder, as it was designed and lithographed by the experienced and talented Charles Troedel, Nicholson's long-term collaborator. A scarce and beautifully lithographed piece of Melbourne sheet music. Trove locates two copies in… Read More

Paroles de Victor Hugo. Musique et acct. de piano de T. Labarre. Prix 2 f. Paris : E. Troupenas et Cie., [1835]. Folio (330 x 250 mm), disbound bifolium, 4 pp (including wrappers), front with a lithographed illustration by Formentin et Cie. depicting a Tahitian woman seducing a European man, calligraphic title in different fonts and publisher's imprint, two pages of music notation (arrangement for voice and piano), last side blank; spine with old paper reinforcement, small loss at bottom corners and a couple of short edge tears, and light creasing; wet stamp of original music seller Souchette, Place des Halles d'Angers to front. 'In addition to teaching the Tahitians to read and write in their own language, the British forbade traditional dancing, an integral element of Tahitian culture and storytelling. They also overthrew traditional Tahitian government, establishing the reign of the successive Pomarés, under whose rule Tahiti became a French colony in 1880. Despite the changes in the brief… Read More

Cover: Dedicated to Young Australians. Melbourne, Sydney : Australian Music Publishing Company, [c.1901]. Folio, illustrated front cover, the design featuring gum leaves, a map of Australia and the Southern Cross, printed in blue and gold by Reporter Print of Box Hill, Melbourne (light marks and small loss at upper right corner), 4 pp of music notation (very short tear at fore-edges, but clean). Probably published around the time of Federation, the composer of this piece of music remains obscure. (Saint Roque is the patron saint of sickness and suffering). Copies are recorded in four Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria; Monash University Library).

Melbourne and Sydney : Stanley Mullen, pp. 5; pictorial front cover, rear cover with publisher's advertisement; a good copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.

Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c1912]. Folio, illustrated cover featuring an Art Nouveau lithographic design by W. George, 7 pp of musical notation, rear cover with music for Remembrance, by Anton Kurtz, a fine copy. Copies are recorded in four Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria; University of Tasmania Library)  

Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy. A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in Australian collections: the National Library of Australia, in its Musica Australis collection, holds a copy of the ""third edition"" inscribed ""Jane Elisabeth Boston July 23rd 1849"", which helps greatly in determining an approximate publication date; the State Library of New South Wales also holds a copy, to which it ascribes a broad date range of 1840 to 1860.

Written by Percy Ford. Composed by J. Chas. Moore. Cover: ""The great sneezing song"" / ""Sung with immense success by J. M. Campbell in J. C. Williamson's pantomime 'Jack & Jill'"" / ""Copyright in all countries 1907"". Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co, [c.1907]. Allan's popular sixpenny edition ; no. 241. Folio (350 x 250 mm), original illustrated wrappers with inset portrait of J. M. Campbell, ownership signature of Roland Thomas, Port Melbourne, 4 pages of music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a very fine copy. Trove locates copies in the NLA, SLV and University of Melbourne Library. 

/​ words by Augusta M. Catlow ; music by Edward J. Catlow. Adelaide : printed and published by Walter C. Sims and Joseph Elliott, 1869. Series: Musical supplement to the Adelaide miscellany ; no. 10. Cover: ""April 22, 1869"". Folio, letter press printed, [2] pp music notation, rear cover with advertisements for Adelaide businesses; scattered pale foxing, small marginal loss to bottom corner of last page, but a good copy of a very scarce sheet music publication. Three copies are recorded in Australian collections (State Library of South Australia; National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales).