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

New York : Leo. Feist Inc., [1916]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 2 pp of musical notation, a very good copy. Unrecorded in Australian collections.

Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1901].Quarto, opublisher's illustrated wrappers, 30 pp, music notation, a fine copy. 1. Why did they sell Killarney? 2. Somebody loves me 3. Bye-and-bye you will forget me 4. March! March! or blue bonnets 5. Songbirds are singing of you 6. In the valley where the old Ohio flows 7. Castles in the air 8. Baby's tears 9. I loved you better than you knew 10. Gliding down the Mississipp 11. When the pilot takes command 12. THe old church bells are silent 13. Dad's sweetheart long ago 14. Sylvie 15. What might have been. Two copies are recorded in Australian collections (State Library of Victoria; State Library of New South Wales).

Sydney : Albert's Music Store, [1906]. (Note that the front cover also bears the imprint of E.W. Cole, Melbourne). Quarto, publisher's illustrated wrappers, full page colour advertisements for Albert's on lower wrapper and inside wrappers, [41] pp, music notation; a fine copy. 1. I'm trying hard to forget you /​ Chas. K. Harris 2. Barney /​ Ed. Rogers 3. Your dad gave his life for his country /​ T. Mayo Geary 4. My Yokahama lady /​ Lee Johnson 5. Under the anheuser bush /​ Harry Von Tilzer 6. Down in the depths /​ W.C. Kreusch 7. Ev'ry morn I bring her a chicken /​ T. Mayo Geary 8. Would you care, waltz /​ Chas. K. Harris 9. Happy hits, lancers /​ L.P. Purnell 10. Georgia ragtime, waltz /​ F. Abtler. Three copies are recorded in Australian collections (State Library of Queensland; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria)

Cover: Sung by Mr Arthur Romer. Melbourne : Nicholson & Ascherberg, [1875]. Folio, lithographed cover by Charles Troedel of Collins Street, printed in green, original owner's inscription Mary G. Connell July 11th 1875 at upper right and blind stamp of bookseller Walch of Launceston at upper left, 3 pp of musical notation, a very good copy. The composer, arranger and singer of this piece of music remain obscure. The publisher Eugene Ascherberg was born in Dresden and emigrated to Australia in 1870 where he settled in Melbourne and went into partnership with Nicholson until he left Australia in 1880 to try his luck in Britain, where, after an early bankruptcy, his music businesses flourished.  Copies are recorded in two Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales). 

Cover: Sung with great success in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Aladdin. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Miss Clara Beck, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, 7 pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a fine copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections.

Melbourne: Allan & Co., [1924]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (the cover illustration the light brown and red version), staple bound, inscription inside front wrapper, 28 pp., illustrated. Imperial edition 335. First published 1907. Muir 6339.

/ Words & music by Vernon T. Stevens. Cover: Sung by Rev. Frank W. Gorman (The Singing Parson) at Fuller's Vaudeville Theatres. Melbourne : L.F. Collin Pty. Ltd., [c.1920]. Series: Collin's popular sixpenny edition. Folio, front cover with photographic portrait of Frank Gorman and original owner's name 'Vera Bangs' (light foxing and edge tears), 3 pp, music notation (arrangement for voice and piano). Rev. Frank W. Gorman was an American religious minister from Oregon who toured Australia in 1920. The following article was published in The Advertiser (Adelaide), 16 February 1920: 'REV. FRANK W. GORMAN. THE SINGING PARSON. The first thing that strikes one about the Singing Parson (the Rev. Frank Walter Gorman), who opened for a season at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, is the intensely practical nature of his religion. His ideal is the personality of Jesus Christ for the people as opposed to the Church's view. In an interview on Saturday morning Mr. Gorman said, 'My sermons are likely… Read More

Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1941. Imperial Edition No. 489. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (corners a little dog-eared, upper wrapper with short tear at top left corner), staple bound, pp. 16, contents clean. Scarce. Not in Muir.

Cover: The latest song craze. / Miss Cissie Curlette's great success. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1908]. Series: Allan's Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 269. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with inset portrait of English vaudeville singer Cissie Curette by Talma (taken during her 1909 Australian tour), inscribed by original owner 'Mr. Roland Thomas' and with the wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Dinsdale; [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano), [1] page with the complete lyrics; a fine copy. Trove locates only the NLA copy.

/ by Karl Wilhelm Goergs. Author of Echoes of Australia &c. Cover: ""For the Patriotic Fund"". Sydney : [K.W. Goergs?], 1885. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, decorative covers featuring a diagram of the Southern Cross with the date March 3rd, 1885 (closely trimmed at top and bottom edges), [2] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano) and lyrics; rear cover with full listing by name of all members of the New South Wales Soudan Contingent (the heading ""Authentic list of the Contingent"" has been cropped) and below it a list of contributors to the Patriotic Fund with amounts contributed (cropped at the foot); scattered foxing to covers and inside pages, else good. Very scarce. Trove locates only two copies (NLA; SLNSW). 'Sudan (New South Wales Contingent) March-June 1885. In the early 1880s the British-backed Egyptian regime in the Sudan was threatened by an indigenous rebellion under the leadership of Muhammed Ahmed, known to his followers as the Mahdi. In 1883 the Egyptian government,… Read More

Sydney : Published at Grocott's Music Saloon, George Street, [probably 1847]. Folio (340 mm), disbound from a nineteenth-century music album, original stitching with remnants of old paper spine, 7 pp of engraved music notation with decorative title and publisher's imprint at head of first page; original owner's manuscript pagination at top corners; paper browned, otherwise clean; a very good example. According to Dr. Graeme Skinner (see citation below), James Turner Grocott 'was trading as ""printer, stationer, and music seller"" at 486 George Street (formerly Francis Ellard's premises) from March 1847, at which time he appears also to have acquired Ellard's plates, until May 1851, at which time Grocott appears to have ceased trading; he never returned to music publishing and his/Ellard's plates were in turn acquired by Woolcott and Clarke, and later J. R. Clarke.' This very early Sydney edition of Do not mingle, with the Grocott's Music Saloon imprint - probably published in 1847 - appears… Read More