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

Melbourne : the authors, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 112, illustrated, a very good copy.

Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 1 page (240 x 195 mm); headed 'Depot of British Prisoners at Givet in France, September 6th 1813', the document is a petition by an imprisoned British naval seaman, Joseph Hare, formerly of HMS Hussar, to the Royal Navy's prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, requesting that the share of Prize Bounties owing to him be paid to his wife, Hannah, back home in Yarmouth; the document was evidently prepared on behalf of the illiterate Hare by its two signatories, naval officers Thomas Fitzgerald, Boatswain of HMS Grasshopper, and James Anderson, Gunner of HMS Port Mahon; the verso has a number of annotations by naval clerks, including: 'Mrs H[anna]h Hare, Mouse's Alley, No[rth] Yarmouth, 25 April 1814'; '9 May 1814, 2.14.4 paid [signed] Le Mesurier'; 'Nothing since May 14';  '2 May 1817 Party must apply himself'; '26 July 1823 Nothing since';'10 Dec 1825 Nothing since'; original folds, well preserved and legible. In early February 1804, Joseph Hare was serving as a… Read More

in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff's Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of Mons. Belon, Mr. Vernon, Dr. Spon, Dr. Smith, Dr. Huntingdon, Mr. Greaves, Alpinus, Veslingius, Thevenot's Collections, and others. The Second Edition. London : Publish'd by Mr. John Ray, Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1705. Octavo (190 mm), contemporary panelled calf (a few scratches), spine in compartments with old manuscript title piece (leather frayed at head), front pastedown with armorial bookplates of Osbert Salvin (1835-1898), British naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist, and Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), British lepidopterist,… Read More

Manuscript in ink, [2] pp., single quarto sheet (250 x 185 mm); headed 'Transport Office, 10th October 1801', signed 'Your most obed. Serv. Alex McLeay', the letter is addressed to D. Turner [Dawson Turner], and is a response to a request about the whereabouts of Professor Espir's Diploma from the Linnean Society, which Macleay says was part of a packet sent to France by Mr. Sowerby [James Sowerby, naturalist and illustrator], which the Paris agent has confirmed was forwarded; For the first part of his professional career Alexander McLeay (1767-1848) was a high-ranking civil servant with the Transport Board in London, but he was also a keen amateur naturalist - a leading member of the Linnean Society and a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1825 he was persuaded by Earl Bathurst to take up an appointment as colonial secretary for New South Wales. He arrived in Sydney with his family in January 1826. From the ADB: '... Although John Macarthur junior had feared that he was too old and that his private… Read More

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 70 mm each image) on original pale yellow card mount, late 1860s, inscribed in contemporary hand in ink verso: ""Platypus"" and ""Washbourne Photo"". (These inscriptions are in the same hand, quite possibly that of the photographer himself). Light foxing to both images, otherwise very good condition with excellent clarity and rich tonal range. The travelling photographer Thomas Washbourne was prolific in his recording of life and scenery in the colony of Victoria. In the late 1860s he produced a well known series of images of Victorian Aborigines as cartes de visite for commercial sale, as well as a series of stereoscopic prints of Melbourne and surrounding regional areas. He is not recorded as working as a photographer after 1869 (Davies & Stanbury, 'The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900'). The two platypus in this photograph are of course taxidermy specimens and are photographed in a museum cabinet, possibly in the Melbourne Museum… Read More

'Extrait des Mémoires de la Societé Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, Tome XIV'; pp1 - 113; [TOGETHER WITH] JOUAN, Henri. Notes sur la distribution géographique des oiseaux dans quelques archipels de l'Océanie. 'Extrait des Mémoires de la Societé Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, Tome XXII'; pp1 - 35; [AND] JOUAN, Henri. Note sur le jabiru de la Nouvelle-Hollande. 'Extrait des Mémoires de la Societé Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, Tome XIV'; pp124 - 128; [AND] JOUAN, Henri. Quelques mots sur la faune ichtyologique de la côte nord-est d´Australie et du Détroit de Torres comparée à celle de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. 'Extrait des Mémoires de la Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, 1879'; these four essays on the fauna of New Zealand, New Holland and the Pacific Islands by the French mariner and zoologist Henri Jouan are bound in a Sammelband containing 18 of Jouan's scientific essays titled Mélanges Zoologiques, Paris :… Read More

Manuscript in ink, 4 pp., octavo bifolium (175 x 110 mm); headed '59 Berners Street, London, 17 June 1870', and signed 'J. Wolf', the letter is addressed to an anonymous recipient ('Dear Sir'), informing him that 'The Photograph of the Great Bustard is in the hands of Mr. Smit', and promising to let him know 'when the colouring of the Bustard will be ready', wishing Smit had been able to sight the skin of the bird, discussing the different markings and the difficulty of getting the correct colouring; he adds in his postscript: 'I had just finished this when Mr Smit called with the photo - & the coloured Pattern of the bustard, which I think is a great improvement as compared with the one he did first - both (the Photo & the coloured proof) I send herewith per Book-Post.'; in fine condition. Josef Wolf (1820-1899) was described by Sir Edwin Landseer as 'without exception, the best all-round animal painter that ever lived.' He was born in Mörz, Germany, and trained as a lithographer in Münster. Wolf… Read More

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 77 mm each image) on original yellow card mount, c 1875, imprint recto: ""Animals in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, Photographed from life by F. York. 34. Emeu, Dromeus Novae Hollandiae (sic)"". Superb condition. York published his series of photographs of animals in the London Zoo in the 1870s. This image of an emu (Dromaius Novaehollandiae) in captivity appears to be the earliest recorded photograph of this Australian native bird. (NLA holds a Charles Kerry photograph of a taxidermy specimen dated 1894-95).

Stockholm : Ehrnfried Nybergs Boktryckeri, 1914. Royal octavo, publisher's pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 30 pp, illustrated, a very good copy of this account of the Australian socialist experiment in Paraguay. Text in Swedish. Translation of: New Australia, where Socialism has failed : the story of a South American colony. Originally published: London: H.E. Morgan, [1912?]. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria).

[Nouméa], Nouvelle Calédonie : Service des Douanes, 1903. Single sheet, 480 x 250 mm, printed recto and verso, with manuscript entries recording that the permit - valid for one year - was issued on 24 July 1903 to 'femme indigène Kaïpiane', resident of the Loyalty Islands and owner of the ""Chanedra"", a cutter of 10 tons; entries on the verso record five different voyages made by this vessel during 1903, between the islands of Maré and Lifou in the Loyalties and Port Vila on Efate in the New Hebrides; with the relevant signatures, annotations and stamps of the local customs officials; light damp staining at one edge, original horizontal folds, complete.

Circa 1911. Photographic glass magic lantern slde with hand colouring, 82 x 102 mm, the mount with a contemporary manuscript label '916/11'; a short crack to the lower corner of one of the sheets of covering glass, not affecting the image; otherwise in fine condition.

[Nouméa] : [printer unknown], 1917. Letter sheet with black mourning borders; bifolium, folding to 130 x 200 mm (260 x 400 mm when opened); first side with lithographically printed notice of the death of Pierre-Auguste Thevenet on 5 November 1917, and his burial on 6 November, with above it a list of the bereaved family members and friends on whose behalf the letter sheet was printed; inner sides blank; designed for mailing, the outer side with the handwritten address 'Monsieur A. Zeitler, Api, Nouvelles Hébrides' (postage stamp removed), and a folding flap to close the envelope; in fine condition. A striking piece of mourning memorabilia produced in a French colonial context, but also with a double connection to Australia. Pierre-Auguste Thevenet was born in Lyon, France on 1 November 1847 to Jean Pierre Francois Thevenet and Pauline Claudine Perrin. After settling in New Caledonia he married Australian woman Harriette Whiteman, who was born at Patrick Plains (Singleton), New South Wales,… Read More

/ by F. E. Williams, Assistant Government Anthropologist, with an introduction by W. M. Strong, and a memorandum by J. H. P. Murray. At head of title: Territory of Papua. Port Moresby : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1923. First edition. Series: Anthropology Report, no. 4. Octavo (230 mm), original printed blue wrappers, pp xiii, [1 blank], 78, with numerous b/w photographic plates and a folding map at rear; an excellent copy, with the Government Printer's acknowledgement of receipt slip still loosely inserted; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the upper wrapper. Very scarce first edition of this famous work on Papuan Gulf cultures by the eminent Australian anthropologist F. E. Williams, who would serve as Government Anthropologist of the Territory of Papua from 1928 until his death in 1942.

[=Arrival in and first impressions of New Guinea]. Palmer, Iowa : Missions-Hilfsverein, 1923. Series: Die offene Tür in Neu-Guinea, Nummer 2. Octavo (222 x 147 mm), publisher's pictorial wrappers (chipped at top corner) with original owner's name Bodensieck to front, stapled; pp 16, with several full-page photographic illustrations, lower wrapper with map; text in German, in Fraktur; a near fine copy. Written by German Lutheran missionary Christian Keysser, a member of the Neuendettelsau Mission and brother-in-law of South Australian missionary Carl Strehlow, this rare pamphlet was printed by the Lutherans in Iowa with the aim of encouraging more American Lutherans to join the missions already established in former German New Guinea - particularly in the Markham Valley and Huon Gulf regions. The cover illustration shows Keysser greeting the first American missionary sisters to arrive. Trove locates only one copy (NLA).

Sydney : New Century Press, 1924. First edition, special issue. Octavo (175 x 120 mm), brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering and device to upper board (light flecking to lower board); a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper: 'To my friend ""Joe"" Butler, with the author's compliments. A. E. Wallis. Mar/25'; pp. 141, [1 advertisement]; occasional foxing, pages browned (as is typical for this book), otherwise a clean and sound copy. A first-hand account of a voyage to New Guinea from Sydney in 1892, made in a schooner previously owned by the LMS.

Lyon : Imprimerie de F. Dumoulin, 1857. Octavo (235 x 160 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners bumped) with cloth spine (splits, small loss to cloth at head and tail); pp 226, [7] (index); hinges cracked, foxing to title page (also a small amount of silverfishing at top edge) and last few leaves, otherwise contents clean and sound; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), and accompanied by his bookplate. A scientifically rigorous taxonomic study by the French Marist missionary and naturalist Father Xavier Montrouzier (1820-1897) of the entomology (most notably beetles and butterflies), ichthyology, and mollusca of Woodlark, an island in the D'Entrecasteaux group lying off the southeastern tip of New Guinea. A very early publication in the field of Melanesian natural history. Scarce. Trove locates only 4 copies (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; University of Queensland Library; University of New South Wales Library).

South Brisbane : Queensland Museum, 2012. Series: Memoirs of the Queensland Museum / Culture. Volume 6. Small quarto (240 x 180 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp vi, 216, illustrated (b/w historical photographs, plus numerous colour plates of field-collected artefacts); 2 fold-out colour maps; a fine copy. Andrew Goldie arrived in New Guinea early in 1876 on a contract to collect botanical specimens for the London nurseryman B.S. Williams. He also had separate arrangements with Ferdinand von Mueller, the Victoria Government Botanist, and E.P. Ramsay of the Australian Museum, to collect all kinds of specimens; botanical, ornithological, entomological, ichthyological and ethnological. In 1878 he established a trading store at Port Moresby to consolidate his business where he remained until poor health forced him to leave in 1890. Although very little has been published about Goldie, he is recognised as one of the most important collectors of New Guinea ethnological artefacts for Australia. The Museum… Read More

London : Staples Press, 1954. First UK edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth (a few marks), in the pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned, else edges chipped with small loss), endpaper maps, pp. 256, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; preface by Paul Claudel; a very good copy, from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the half title. First edition of the English translation of Roman Catholic missionary Father Dupeyrat's memoir Vingt et un ans chez les Papous.

[Canberra : Commonwealth Government Printer, 1953?]. Oblong folio (230 x 355 mm), original green cloth over boards, rivet bound, [4] leaves with text (rectos only), followed by [9] leaves each with a mounted gelatin silver print photograph and printed caption (rectos only); as well as images documenting the unveiling ceremony itself, the photographs include two of the volcano in eruption, one taken by Government Vulcanologist G. A. Taylor and the other by geologist Dr. N. H. Fisher; compliments slip of the Minister for Territories bound in; an exceptionally fine example. 'Mount Lamington, in the Northern District of Papua, erupted in a major volcanic explosion on the morning of Sunday, 21st January, 1951, causing great loss of life and property in an area up to eight miles from the crater. Thirty-five Europeans and 2.907 Papuans lost their lives, and a further 6,000 Papuans, many of them wounded, were driven from their villages.' (page 1) Trove locates a single copy in Australian libraries (NLA).

[PNG] : University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1985. Linguistics series ; no. 2. Quarto, publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers; pp xiv, 297; with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, maps, index, bibliography; text in English, with some Hiri Motu; a fine copy, from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the title page. Police Motu, also known as Hiri Motu, Pidgin Motu, or Hiri, is a simplified version of the Austronesian language Motu. It has slowly been replaced as the main lingua franca of southern Papua New Guinea by Tok Pisin. Dutton's language history is a significant scholarly achievement; however, Trove locates only three copies in Australian libraries (NLA; ANU; Australian War Memorial Research Centre)