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

Buxton, UK : Buxton Opera House, [late 1930s]. Octavo bifolium, 210 x 130 mm, [4] pp, with portrait of the magician to front, centre pages with programme for the nightly entertainment at the Buxton Opera House for a short season (""Whit-Monday and a week"") during Levante's first tour of England, featuring The Austral Trio among other support acts, and headlined by The Great Levante; rear page with cinema advertisement; light corner creasing, else very good condition. Australian illusionist Leslie George ""Les"" Vante Cole, known professionally by the stage names ""Levant"", ""Levante"", ""The Great Levante"" and Magician Cole (1892-1978), was regarded as one of the greatest magicians in the world and ""Australia's most famous magician"". For a good overview of his career and achievements, see the article by Levante's biographer Kent Blackmore published on the Magic in Sydney website

Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. First edition. Large octavo, contemporary vellum with later title label, housed in quarter morocco clamshell box, loosely inserted bookplate of Jorge Skinner-Klee, second title 'Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. ""Descubierta"" y ""Atrevida"" en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793', 356 (of 360) pp, all text printed within a decorative border (shaved to margins affecting pagination); the final two leaves in facsimile, sparse foxing and some leaves browned, but a good copy of an exceptionally rare book, the first published account of Malaspina's expedition of 1789-93. Text in Spanish. Ferguson, 5100; 5228. Francisco Javier de Viana was an ensign on Alessandro Malaspina's scientific expedition to the Pacific, undertaken for the Spanish crown during the years 1789-93. This was to be the first Spanish expedition to visit New Holland and New Zealand, and it… Read More

[Drop title]. [No date, but circa 1800]. Unbound manuscript in ink on laid paper, 225 x 165 mm, 3 1/4 pages; initialled 'D' at the foot; in very good condition, clean and legible. This manuscript is an extract from a work entitled Une Relation du Groenland (1647), written by Isaac de La Peyrère (1596-1676) while he was secretary in the French embassy at Copenhagen. The work was completed at the request of François de la Mothe le Vayer (1588-1672), who was a French philosopher and the first to propose Greenland as the location of Atlantis. Probably dating to the late eighteenth century, the manuscript includes La Peyrère's summary of the climate and fauna of Greenland, Norway and Iceland, including descriptions of the harvest, the 'white bears' in these regions, the narwhal (the unicorn of the sea), and the sea surrounding Spitzbergen.

Manuscript letter, single folio sheet, dated 16 February 1716, signed Louis (in the hand of Louis XV's secretary), countersigned by Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis de La Vrillière, Secretary of State, addressed to Cardin Le Bret, member of the parliament of Provence and nephew of the regent, the Duc d'Orléans, stating that a royal edict has been sent to the parliament of Provence 'which explains the circumstances in which merchants of my Kingdom must obtain passports from me, to which edict I append a declaration forbidding any of my subjects to conduct commerce in the South Seas'; the verso with address of Le Bret; the document is complete, legible and remarkably fresh, with original folds. In France, the period 1715-1723 is known as the Régence, during which time Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, was in charge of the country's affairs owing to the fact that Louis XV was still a minor. In 1716, when this letter was written, the War of the Spanish Succession had only recently ended, and a member of the French… Read More

Manuscript in ink on blue paper (245 x 195 mm), an untitled poem of 7 quatrains (4-line stanzas), with an extensive explanatory footnote; signed and dated at bottom margin in the same hand 'Brisbane, December 2nd 1861 / Samuel Gill Mee'; verso with newspaper cuttings from 1861, suggesting that the sheet was removed from a commonplace book at some point; well preserved and legible. The author of this unpublished manuscript poem - which is of an exceptionally early date for Brisbane or, indeed, Queensland - was Samuel Gill Mee, a compositor who from the late 1850s until his death in 1909 worked on the first three incarnations of Brisbane's most famous newpspaper: the Moreton Bay Courier, The Courier, and the Brisbane Courier. The opening quatrain reads: 'In a fierce flaming desert wild-laughing, and leaping / Into its hell with demoniac groans; / And his murderer sleeping while wild dogs are keeping / Carnival over his body and bones!' Mee's footnote, referring to these opening lines, reads:… Read More

[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up a Treaty Marine and numerous other trade agreements between the English and Dutch in the wake of the Second Peace of Westminster at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Dutch War.  The Treaty of Westminster was signed by the United Provinces (Netherlands) and England in February 1674. It was of immense importance in shaping the history of North America, as it renewed the Treaty of Breda (1667), which had originally confirmed the conquest of New Netherland by the English, and produced the Colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The 1674 Treaty provided for a number of territorial… Read More

[Libourne, France, between 1882 and 1887]. Folio, 270 x 215 mm, manuscript, [159] pp, in 4 stitched sections of 23, 38, 48 and 50 pages respectively, the third section with 2 pencil and wash drawings in the text, the fourth section with 3 pencil and wash drawings in the text and one laid down on thick paper (a depiction of the wreck of the Alcméne); the manuscript is very well preserved and complete; [together with] Certificats de mes services à l'État. Signed autograph manuscript, Challans, 22 August 1887; folio, [3] pp, being the complete maritime service record of Ernest Gendron, author of the Alcméne manuscript. An unpublished first-hand account of the voyage of the French naval corvette Alcméne in the South Seas, 1848-1852, including extended descriptions of the loss of crew members to cannibalism in New Caledonia in 1850, and of the vessel's infamous shipwreck at Kaipara on the west coast of New Zealand in 1851, whilst en route from Hobart Town to Tahiti. Born in Bordeaux in… Read More

de la necesidad de abandonarlas o mantenerlas con fuerzas respetables: de los inconvenientes de lo primero, y ventajas de lo segundo; de lo que pueden producir a la Real Hacienda, de la navegación, extensión, y utilidad de su Comercio: con reflexiones que convencen la utilidad de formar una Compañía vajo Real Protección ... ... Manila, 10 February 1765. Small folio (280 x 210 mm), modern limp vellum; manuscript in ink in a neat late eighteenth-century hand, being a fair copy of a mid eighteenth-century document; ff [1], 125; front fly leaf with later pencilled notes erased; contents clean and fresh, in fine condition; housed in an elaborate half crushed morocco and cloth protective box, morocco title pieces with gilt lettering and ornament to front and spine. Vindel states (in his Catálogo of 1896, p. 94) that the printing of this memorial by Francisco Leandro de Viana was forbidden by the Council of the Indies; hence it was not published in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. The present… Read More

[Sydney, N.S.W. : Jones, Printer, Bridge Street, c.1833]. Broadsheet, 450 x 390 mm, letterpress printed; old horizontal and vertical crease, pale foxing, a very good example. Text in English and Māori. A rare broadside printed around 1833 by William Jones of Bridge Street, Sydney, for use in Church Missionary Society schools. It is a lesson sheet for Māori converts. The text, in syllabified Māori, is a translation of Matthew 19:13-15: '13 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” 15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there'. This broadsheet is known to have been one of a pair, the other entitled Christ raiseth Lazarus to life. = Ka wa-ka-a-ra-hia a Ra-ha-ru-hi e Te Ka-rai-ti. Two copies are recorded in Australian collections (Naional Library of Australia; State… Read More

Stockholm : Bokförlaget Natur och kultur, 1931. Series title: Natur och kultur, 109. Small octavo, publisher's brown cloth, title page printed in red and black, 176 pp, illustrated, 1 folding map at rear. Text in Swedish. A very good copy. A history of the Maori which focuses on their struggle with colonialism in the nineteenth century, including biographies of key figures in the Maori Wars. A section is also devoted to Maori mythology and poetry. Only one copy recorded in Australian collections (State Library of New South Wales).

/ na Dr. J. R. Mott i tuhituhi ; na Pererika H. Peneha i whakamaori. Ki te hiahia tetahi tangata ki etahi me tuku mai ia te toru kapa mo te kape kotahi ; i te hereni mo nga ono kape, ki a Rev. F.H. Spencer, Whanganui. Gisborne, N.Z. : Na Te Wiremu Hapata i ta ki te Perehi i Te Raukahikatea, 1915. Duodecimo (142 x 109 mm), original red wrappers lettered in black (upper wrapper sunned at fore-edge), stapled; 10 pp; text in Maori; occasional light spotting; a very good copy. Bagnall, sM2081a Unrecorded in Australian collections.

Moskva : Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii pri Sovete Ministrov SSSR, 1969. Colour map, 770 x 540 mm, folding to 220 x 120 mm; Scale 1:2 000 000; includes inset maps showing economic activity and climatic conditions; plus accompanying booklet by V. M. Andreev (16 pages) containing index and explanatory text; in the original pictorial papered boards (230 x 140 mm); text in Russian; complete and fine. Second edition (first published 1960) of this official Soviet government map of New Zealand. ""Redaktor: Shapiro E.M. Konsulʹtant ėkonomicheskoĭ karty kandidat geograficheskikh nauk: Andreeva V.M. Redaktor teksta: Kostinskiĭ D.N. Teknicheskiĭ redaktor: Tikhomirova A.S."" OCLC locates no copies of this edition in Australasian libraries (Alexander Turnbull Library holds the 1960 edition).

/ entworfen und gezeichnet 1823 nach dem Krusenstern'schen Atlasse umgearbeitet 1825. Weimar: Im Verlage des Geograph. Instituts, 1826. Engraved map with hand colouring, 430 x 595 mm, dissected and laid down on linen, folding to 220 x 190 mm; map of Australia and Oceania with relief shown by hachures; in very good condition with a tiny amount of spotting, the linen backing with mild foxing. Although the coastlines of Australia, New Guinea, the Indonesian archipelago, New Zealand, island Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia are all essentially complete, perhaps the most striking aspect of this map is the vast emptiness of the as yet unexplored interiors of both the Australian continent (Neu Holland) and New Guinea. The cartographer, C.F. Weiland, was trained as a military mapmaker, and as head of map and globe production at the Weimar Geographical Institute, a publishing house and research institute, he was responsible for revising many earlier maps by important cartographers. Weiland's maps are noted… Read More

Paris : Publiée par E. Andriveau-Goujon, 21, rue du Bac, 1870. Steel engraved map with hand colouring, 587 x 855 mm, original vertical fold as issued, short tear at upper margin of fold and two short tears to lower margin,

und Tagebücher der vorzüglichsten Seefahrer bis 1789 entworffen im Jahr 1792, vermehrt 1796. Nürnberg : in der Weigel und Schneiderschen Handlung mit Kayserl. allergnl. Privil., 1796 [but probably 1804-1808]. Copperplate engraved map with hand colouring, 460 x 650 mm, verso with contemporary title in large, bold manuscript AUSTRALIEN; central vertical fold, as issued; a fine copy. A map of Australia (lettered Neu Holland), the Indonesian archipelago and southwest Pacific; relief shown by hachures; shows the tracks of Tasman, Cook, Furneaux, Carteret, Wallis, Bougainville, Byron, Marshall and Shortland, Sarville, Nordwarts, Scarborough, and perhaps most significantly, that of Bass: Tasmania is separated from the mainland by ""Basses Strasse"", and a stretch of imagined coastline (marked as ""unknown"") represents the eastern Australian Bight. Text in German. Tooley, 1333. Copies are held in two Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales).

Aus Kiepert's neuem Handatlas, no. 29. Also titled: Vorder-Indien. Berlin : Dietrich Reimer, 1857. Chromolithographed map, 600 x 470 mm, folding to 200 x 120 mm, in original printed grey covers, a very good copy.

Jaffa : Survey of Palestine, 1938. Colour map, 580 x 370 mm (sheet); scale 1: 500,000; with an inset map of Southern Palestine, and border decoration based on Old Testament-period motifs; in very fine condition, folding into the original grey wrappers, 190 x 110 mm, the front with an illustration of Abraham's oak at Hebron, and with the original owner's name D. Thompson in the top margin; a printed correction slip to the inside of the lower wrapper notes that 'Some of the identifications are controversial'; a lovely example of a rare map.

London : Edward Stanford, 12, 13 & 14 Long Acre, W.C., [c.1920]. Dissected and folding colour map, linen-backed (some panels lifting from the linen), 520 x 685 mm, lower right-hand margin printed Stanford's Geographical Establishment; lower left-hand corner printed London Atlas Series, the map in good condition, mild toning to the margins and a few very light marks; verso of one panel with publisher's advertisement, folding into original green cloth boards, 175 x 120 mm, the upper board with printed title label 'London Atlas Map of the Pacific Ocean' (upper board pastedown torn and lifting).

Photo-lithographed at the Department of Lands and Survey, Melbourne, by W. J. Butson, 7.7.14. Lithographed map, single sheet, 675 x 400 mm, folding to 280 x 102 mm; manuscript title to front 'Booroopki'; a couple of short tears at junctions of the folds, otherwise very good. Pre-World War One map showing land subdivisions (with owners' names) in the Parish of Booroopki in the West Wimmera, bounded by Minimay to the north, Bringalbart (Bringalbert) and Jallakin to the south, Tallageira and Neuarpur to the west, and Morea to the east. A manuscript annotation in red ink records the recent acquisition of several lots by E. J. Patton from E. M. Hamilton and A. and P. Wilson in the far southeastern corner on the boundary with Jallakin.

Complete set of 6 copperplate engraved maps with hand colouring. Maps 1-4 published by 岡安慶介 (Okayasu Keisuke) [1878] (Meiji 11); Maps 5 & 6 published by 桑原伊之助 (Kuwabara Inosuke) [1880] (Meiji 13). 1. Asia, the Middle East, and Russia east of the Urals (340 x 400 mm); 2. Africa (310 x 260 mm); 3. Europe, with Russia west of the Urals (340 x 390 mm); 4. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (370 x 340 mm); 5. South America (350 x 280 mm); 6. Australia, New Zealand, and the island nations of Southeast Asia (310 x 330 mm); each map folding to 150 x 100 mm, and with its original yellow covers with title slip; the 6 maps in very good condition, with an early owner's occasional brushed red and black script next to some of the place names; the folded maps are housed in the original paper case, 155 x 110 mm, as issued. These Meiji era maps would have been largely based on contemporary western sources, the influences of which are evident in the use of latitude and longitude,… Read More