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

London : R. Young, 1632. First edition. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, ruled and tooled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt ornament, contrasting morocco title label to spine, lettered in gilt, chips with loss to head and foot of spine, joints and edges rubbed; modern bookplate to front pastedown; title-page cut down and bound in on a blank sheet, a few early leaves with reinforcements to gutters; pp. [398]; engraved headpieces and initials; a couple of early marginal annotations, generally clean and crisp throughout. First edition of John Davies's Welsh-Latin, Latin-Welsh dictionary, the so-called Dictionarium Duplex, published in 1632. Davies was an erudite Renaissance scholar with a particular interest in Welsh language and literature in all its forms, from Old Welsh poetry of the sixth century down to the seventeenth century. His learning and linguistic prowess, although uncredited, are believed to have been largely responsible for the high standard of Richard… Read More

Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1951. Edition limited to 50 copies. Presentation copy from the author to the writer Frank Clune, inscribed on the foreword 'To my good friend Frank Clune. Bob Hanlon 2/1/52'. Octavo, pictorial card covers (spine sunned), stapled, 31 pp, contents fine. THP 94. Reproduces the text of a letter from a convict in Western Australia, originally published in the Cornhill magazine, 1866.

Manuscript in ink on section cut from printed British Association for the Advancement of Science form, 60 x 182 mm, with original full signature of 'Daniel Curdie MD', who also gives 'Port Phillip, New Holland' as his 'usual residence'; in good condition. The following biography of Curdie was published in the Camperdown Chronicle (Vic.), 27 January 1934: 'Dr. Daniel Curdie was one of the earliest settlers in Western Victoria. He took up ""Tandarooke,"" as a pastoral licensee under the New South Wales Government, in October, 1840, five years after the founding of Melbourne, and about 11 years prior to the separation of the Port Phillip district from New South Wales and its erection into an indpendent colony on the 1st July, 1851. The Port Phillip district in 1840 was scantily populated, containing only three towns, viz., Melbourne, Geelong, Portland. Overhauling stock from Sydney began a few years previously, as well as the importation of sheep from Tasmania. Born at Slidderie, Isle… Read More

Large heavy folio, 480 x 330 x 130 mm, weighing 16 kg (!); original binding of reverse calf over heavy boards, external leather bands with decorative lacing patterns (some light staining and edge wear), spine with red and green morocco title-pieces stamped in gilt 'LEDGER' / 'J.H. & CO.' / 'No. 5', and with the Sands & McDougall company mark in gilt at the tail; marbled edges; original marbled pastedowns and endpapers, the front pastedown with the binder's ticket of Sands & McDougall, Manufacturing Stationers, Melbourne, dated in manuscript 2 November 1870; 601 double-pages, containing the firm's accounting records for the fiscal years 1873-4 and 1874-5, with many thousands of manuscript entries in the same immaculate copperplate hand throughout, recording the firm's banking transactions with the Bank of Australasia (the account growing from an opening balance of £31,000 to £153,000 in this period), commissions, salaries, charitable donations, expenditure, and details of client accounts for… Read More

Manuscript letter, octavo bifolium (203 x 127 mm), written on the first side only; headed 'Weronggurt - Warrnambool, 11 July 1868', and signed at the foot 'R. H. Woodward', the letter is addressed to 'E. G. Yorke, Esq., Belfast' [Port Fairy], and regards Woodward's claim, as the executor of the estate of the late Adolphus Sceales, against the estate of the late John Austin for a mortgage debt, plus interest, amounting to over £840; the last side annotated by Yorke 'Austin's Estate: claim of Sceales Trustees, amount of Mortgage and interest'; some toning and old folds. Grazier R. H. Woodward, in his capacity as executor of the estate of the late Adolphus Sceales (d. 1854) of Merrang, was essentially acting on behalf of Sceale's widow, Jane Hood (née Paton, 1821-1910), when he wrote this letter of demand to Mr. Yorke at Port Fairy. Yorke was responsible for the estate of Western District landholder John Austin, recently deceased. In 1855-56 Robert Dowling (1827–1886) had painted Mrs Adolphus… Read More

By Peter B. Kyne. Complete book-length novel. Supplement to the Australian Women's Weekly. Issue June 6, 1936. [Sydney : Consolidated Press], 1936. Folio newspaper (300 x 225 mm), cover illustration by Wynne W. Davies, pp 32, text printed in three columns; a fine example. Very scarce. The only copy of this edition of Kyne's story located on Trove is held in the National Library of Australia; no copies of this edition traced in OCLC. 'Peter Bernhard Kyne (1880-1957) was an American novelist who published between 1904 and 1940. He was born and died in San Francisco, California. Many of his works were adapted into screenplays starting during the silent film era, particularly his first novel, The Three Godfathers, which was published in 1913 and proved to be a huge success. More than 100 films were adapted from his works between 1914 and 1952, many of the earliest without consent or compensation. Kyne created the character of Cappy Ricks in a series of novels.' (Wikipedia)

Visits professionally as follows: Ararat - Tuesday morning, June 11th, at Mr. Wild's Pharmacy. Coleraine - Wednesday (till 2.30 only), June 12th, at Mrs. Braithwaite's Koroit Inn. Heywood - Thursday morning, June 13th, at Righetti's Hotel. Portland - Thursday afternoon and evening, June 13th, at Mr. Martell's Pharmacy. Hamilton - Friday (from 11 till 5), June 14th, at Mrs. Robb's, near Post Office. Lithographic postcard, 87 x 132 mm, verso with Mr. Marchant's schedule for his forthcoming visit to towns in the Western District, printed in red; mailed from Geelong, 2 June 1907, and addressed in manuscript to the wife of the Town Clerk of the Borough of Portland, Mrs. T. E. C. Henry; very fine. An attractive piece of Federation-era Western District ephemera. The State Library of Victoria holds in its collection a similar advertising card for Percy Marchant, dated 1908 and addressed to a customer in Camperdown (Accession No: H88.18/190).

Manuscript in ink, 2 pp, single quarto sheet (250 x 200 mm); written in a scrawly though legible hand; old horizontal and vertical folds, in very good condition. Provenance: Found among papers associated with the family of John Mickle Lyall (1869-1925) of Harewood House, Koo-Wee-Rup, Westernport, south of Melbourne. John was the son of Westernport pioneer William Lyall (1821-1888) and Annabella (Brown) Lyall (1826-1916). We have tentatively attributed this manuscript to John Mickle Lyall's oldest child, Harewood Lyall (b. 1899), as he would have been about the right age to have been the creator of this ""cheat sheet"" for dance steps around the time the fox trot came into vogue (after 1914). It was most definitely written by someone for whom dancing did not come naturally!

Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed 'Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853', addressed to 'Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford'; signed at the foot 'Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt'; outer side with address panel, endorsed 'via New York', with 'LONDON / SP 9 1853 PAID' in red, 'NEW YORK / SEP 23 PAID 24' in red and charged '5 CENTS' in red; remnants of red wax seal; the letter is complete and in exceptionally fine condition. Bain & Burtt were Auckland shipping agents and merchants. The co-owner of the firm, James Burtt, was also American Vice-Consul in Auckland. In this previously unpublished item of business correspondence with the American owner of the whaling ship Jasper, we receive a very detailed insider's view of the conduct and economics of the Pacific whaling trade in the early 1850s, as well as a contemporary account of the shipping crisis at Auckland, caused by the gold rushes in the… Read More

Honolulu, Hawaii : U.S. Consulate, 1857. Lithograph printed document with manuscript entries, 310 x 400 mm, headed 'Cirtificate [sic] of Shipment of Seamen' above the American eagle and 'Consulate of United States of America, for Honolulu, H. I.'; immediately below is the printed declaration with relevant entries supplied in ms.: 'I, the undersigned, Consul of the United States of America for the port of Honolulu, H. I., do hereby certify that the undermentioned Seamen have engaged on board of the Montpelier, New Bedford whereof Job Macomber is Master, at the date, and on the terms specified below. A condition of these Articles (unless otherwise stated) is that any Seaman of whale ships discharged, shall be paid off at Consular prices, and perform labor on board eight days after the arrival of the vessel in Port.'; the document bears the signature of the U.S. Consul George Alfred Lathrop and the seal of the U.S. Consulate, and is dated 7 February 1857; the document was filled out in manuscript by a… Read More

New York : National Distillers Products Corporation, [1939]. Duodecimo, pictorial wrappers (faint vertical fold line, lower wrapper with a few light marks), pp 28, illustrated; contains recipes for many different variations on the classic mint julep; a good copy. OCLC locates only one copy (University of California, Davis).

[London] : s.n., 1840. Octavo (225 x 143 mm), [4] pp; contemporary ink annotation beside lot 11 ""East India""; a couple of small closed tears, light foxing. Apparently unrecorded, this unassuming little catalogue is a record of the sale by auction of wines from the deceased estate of London wine and brandy merchant, Joseph Steavenson. A note on the title-page reads: ""The Wines are now laying at No. 86, Lisson Grove, where they have been bricked up the last TEN YEARS, and where they may be Viewed on Monday prior to the Sale ... when Samples may be had on payment."" The sale was conducted at the late Mr. Steavenson's Grosvenor Square residence by Samuel Lahee of New Bond Street, a well-known auctioneer and house agent. Among the sixty lots offered for sale, most of which comprise fortified wines - port, sherry, madeira, or brandy - are eight bottles of port from 1780, a bottle  of ""very fine sound"" West Indian madeira, and ""a very superior wine, bottled in 1805"", which the catalogue owner… Read More

Photograph album by J.W. Lindt, Melbourne, early 1890s. Oblong quarto, padded leather with gilt blind-tooling stamped 'From J.W. Lindt's Studio, Melbourne', lining papers with floral decoration in gold, all edges gilt, containing [12] leaves of thick card with 20 albumen silver photographs (photographer unidentified) of the University of Cambridge, in uniform format 150 x 205 mm, mounted recto and verso; most are views of the exteriors of buildings and the University's famously picturesque grounds, the first being a view of Newnham College; a cabinet-size albumen print portrait of Anne Jemima Clough, the first principal of Newnham College, is mounted at the front of the album; the prints are uncaptioned; in superb condition throughout, all of the albumen prints with crisp detail and excellent tonal range. This significant and intriguing album, in its deluxe binding by the studio of renowned colonial photographer J.W. Lindt, Melbourne, was compiled in the early 1890s by a graduate of Newnham College,… Read More

s.l. [U.S.A.] : Young Womens Christian Association of the United States, 1919. Duodecimo, printed wrappers, staple bound, 8 pp; a fine copy.

East Shoreham, Vermont [U.S.A.] : F.L. Webster, [circa 1880]. Lithographed business card, 77 x 132 mm; printed recto only, illustration signed David No. 77. Fine condition. Having fiercely protected its merino bloodlines from foreign powers for so long, Spain had relinquished its monopoly on the hugely lucrative merino wool industry by the early 1800s. Merinos were introduced into Australia via the Cape in the late 1790s, and with the encouragement of Sir Joseph Banks, John Macarthur and Samuel Marsden laid the foundations of the industry which has generated an incalculable amount of wealth in Australia. Merino sheep were introduced into Vermont around 1812, and were from different bloodlines to those imported into Australia. By 1835, the merino population in Vermont numbered over one million, close to half the number of merinos which were in Australia at around the same time. During the 1880s, by which period Australia had become the world's leading wool producer, many Australian breeders… Read More

Gelatin silver print photograph, 86 x 133 mm, printed on postcard stock; recto with contemporary manuscript caption in fountain pen ""Sang-Bleu"" bred on with FAIRLIE GRANGE wet-stamped beside the inscription; in excellent condition. The highly successful Fairlie Grange merino stud was established in the last years of the nineteenth century. The property was located near Jerilderie in the New South Wales Riverina, but the family-run business had for many decades a close connection with Central Queensland. The following article appeared in the Longreach Leader (Qld.) 4 May 1940. 'FAIRLIE GRANGE. The Fairlie Grange Stud, owned by Messrs. S. E. Donelan & Sons, was formed by the present owners, and the main portion of the parent stud has been mated, controlled and classed by the late Mr. S. E. Donelan and his sons for the past 44 years. The stud ancestors were bred by Peppin & Sons, of Wanganella, 35 years before, in 1861, and the pedigrees of many of the sires trace back to rams… Read More

Japan : (Meiji 14) [1881]. Handcoloured copperplate print, 990 x 700 mm, folding to 130 x 180 mm, some silverfishing and creases with some splitting, both repaired with Japanese tissue. A map of the world on Mercator's projection by Japanese cartographer Yamanaka Zensaburo. Obviously derived from European sources, it shows the voyages of famous explorers and popular trade routes. Lower panels show flags of the world, small maps of the eastern and western hemispheres, comparisons of the world's longest rivers and tallest mountains, and distances tables. Unusually titled in rōmaji (roman letters).

Hazebrouk : Imp. Stoven, [December, 1917]. Octavo bifolium (245 x 160  mm), lithograph printed on thickish green paper, centre pages with full cast for the evening's entertainment, rear page with humorous notices such as 'If you want anything done come to us [The Wattlers]. Our speciality is beershifting. We do this free providing you have got plenty of BEER', and 'Where do these wonderful working Wattlers live? Why some where in Telegraphic address ""WATTLE""'; old folds, some toning, but complete and well preserved. We can find no information on the unofficial concert party known as The Wattlers, who were perhaps only formed for this one occasion, a Christmas 1917 panto presented to troops behind the front line near Hazebrouck on the Western Front. Were The Wattlers an Australian troupe - or at least, a troupe with an Australian element? Both the name, as well as the irreverent humour evident in this apparently unrecorded programme, would strongly suggest that they were. However, only further… Read More

North Sydney : Winn & Co., 1918. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original brown wrappers with pictorial onlay to front (upper wrapper with chipped corners), pp. 100; with numerous half-tone photographic plates and line-drawn illustrations; internally excellent. The photographs illustrate the activities of the Australian Red Cross at home and abroad during World War One; also includes poems by soldiers of the 1st AIF.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 14.5 x 20 cm; verso with the wet stamp of the A.I.F Publications Section, Australia House (London); superb condition. A significant example of the controversial use of montage by Australia's pre-eminent war photographer, Frank Hurley (1885-1962). From mid 1917 to early September 1918 the Australian photographer and adventurer Frank Hurley, who had already achieved fame for his Antarctic photographs taken on Douglas Mawson's expedition, served on the Western Front as an official war photographer in the A.I.F. with the honorary rank of captain. His dramatic images vividly capture the carnage and atmosphere in perhaps the most brutalizing theatre of war in the history of human conflict. Hurley's photographs featured in the exhibition Australian War Pictures and Photographs, staged in London in 1918. His controversial use of montage (composite images) in order to heighten the impact of his photographs - led to a clash with the A.I.F. high command, who deemed this type… Read More