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Toronto : Metropolitan Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 68. A book on hanging by Charles Duff, 'Famous British Executioner'. ""The pleasure of the torture chamber. A fascinating book on hanging. The Devil's own masterpiece on the fine art of execution, neck-breaking, throttling, strangling, asphyxiation, decapitation, etc.' - from the cover.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (100 x 62 mm), no photographer's imprint. Top right corner missing, surface soiling, but the image - in particular the facial features of the sitters - has retained its clarity and detail. The woman is dressed in the attire typically worn by members of the Tahitian female aristocracy - she is quite possibly of royal descent. It was certainly not uncommon in the nineteenth century for a European man to marry a Tahitian woman of high standing, the most famous examples being the successful merchants John Brander and Alexander Salmon, whose clan became a powerful trading dynasty in the eastern Pacific through a combination of business acumen and intermarriage with the Tahitian nobility.

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.

[U.S.A. : Adventure Pictures, directed by Sol Lesser, 1930]. Lobby card, 280 x 350 mm, colour process printed, advertising the feature film Isle of desire, which was shot on location in Tahiti and featured an all-indigenous cast; the lobby card is in fine condition.

[= Tahiti. Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars raises the Tahitian [Protectorate] flag and takes possession in the name of France]. Paris : Vor. Delarue et Cie. ; London : Anaglyphic Company ; Leipzig : Gebrüder Rocca, 1844. Lithograph with hand colouring, 305 x  483 mm (sheet 408 x 557 mm), signed 'Louis Lebreton' in stone lower right; printed title in lower margin, along with identification of the various ships, including Dupetit Thouars' vessel Reine Blanche (at far left) and Queen Pōmare IV's residence, Motou Ata (at far right); with 'Dessiné et lith. par Lebreton' and 'Imp. par Lemercier'; edges with mild matte burn (offsetting), short closed tear at top edge right, but a very good example; unframed. Drawn and lithographed by the renowned marine artist Louis Lebreton, this superb lithograph is one of two by this artist which depict the French ships of Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars in the bay of Papeete on 9 September 1842, imposing a French protectorate over Tahiti and the Marquesas. The official… Read More

London : John William Parker, West Strand, 1833. Quarto, disbound, 8pp, printed in double columns, a fine copy. Includes the third part of an article titled Polynesia, an account of the first missionaries in Tahiti (five columns; with woodcuts of a Hawaiian burial ground and an outrigger canoe).

[Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph (160 x 210 mm) of two pages of music notation (the original was most likely handwritten and then lithographically printed before it was photographed); generic title legible as Airs tahitiens at the head of the left-hand page, with the title of the individual tune Arue! Arue! (= Praise! Praise!) at the head of the right-hand-page; the print was laid down on a sheet of folding card (175 x 220 mm) by its original owner, Papeete resident Mary Young (see below), to create a unique ""homemade"" piece of sheet music; the albumen print has a few small small surface scratches but is otherwise in good condition; the card mount is toned and lightly foxed. This unusual photograph of a transcription of traditional Tahitian music was probably taken in Papeete by either Charles Georges Spitz or Mrs Sophia Hoare, the only two professional photographers working in Tahiti in this period. Provenance: Mary Young (Stringer) (1854, Tahiti - 1918, Auckland), wife of merchant James… Read More

[Cover title]. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1854]. Duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, paper loss around edges of the rear wrapper, water stain to lower right corner of front wrapper and all leaves), stitched, title page printed 'Part IV People of the Old World', 16 pp (some water staining to edges, particularly fore-edge of last three leaves), wood engraved illustrations. The fourth in a series of six chapbooks published by Rufus Merrill in 1854, the other titles being My flower pot; Book of birds; Stories about dogs; Book about America, and Indian anecdotes. The parts appear to have been separately issued but examples are also known of the entire series gathered in one binding. Although ostensibly about peoples of the Old World, the front wrapper features a lovely illustration of a man and woman of Otaheiti in ceremonial attire. This image is repeated above the short text describing the Otaheitians on the final page. Other non-European peoples included are… Read More

Albumen print, 128 x 216 mm, verso wet stamped 'G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée', and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: 'Papeete from Signal House, right side'; unmounted; a strong print with rich tonal range, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and Cook Islands compiled in the 1880s by Papeete merchant and Pacific Islands trader James Lyle Young (1849-1929).

[= Harbour and port of Papeete. Arrival at anchorage by Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars]. Paris : Vor. Delarue et Cie. ; London : Anaglyphic Company ; Leipzig : Gebrüder Rocca, 1844. Lithograph with hand colouring, 305 x  483 mm (sheet 408 x 557 mm); printed title in lower margin, along with identification of the various ships, including Dupetit Thouars' vessel Reine Blanche (third from left) and Uranie (second from left), the grave of Pomare II (foreground), and the flag of the Protectorate and the British consulate (at far right); with 'Dessiné et lith. par Lebreton' and 'Imp. par Lemercier'; edges with mild matte burn (offsetting) and residual tape marks at top edge, but a very good example; unframed. Drawn and lithographed by the renowned marine artist Louis Lebreton, this superb lithograph is one of two by this artist which depict the French ships of Rear Admiral Dupetit Thouars in the bay of Papeete on 9 September 1842, imposing a French protectorate over Tahiti and the Marquesas. The official… Read More

Albumen print, 107 x 166 mm, verso wet stamped 'G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée', and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: 'The Diadem taken from the top of Aorai'; unmounted, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and Cook Islands compiled in the 1880s by Papeete merchant and Pacific Islands trader James Lyle Young (1849-1929).

[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1822. Foolscap folio, 305 x 190 mm, disbound, pp 913-918, [2 blank]; a fine copy. 'For the purpose of tariff fixing, the colony of New South Wales made up all of the modern “Australia” until 1825. After the first British settlement in Botany Bay in 1788, the second settlement was in Van Diemen’s Land when a penal colony was set up in 1803 and free settlement began soon after. However, the island was administered as a part of New South Wales until it became a separate colony in 1825. Thereafter tariffs in Van Diemen’s Land, like those in New South Wales, were governed by the British Parliament Act of 1822.' (The First 100 Years of Tariffs in Australia: the Colonies, by P. J. Lloyd, University of Melbourne, p. 6)

[Hobart Town : s.n., circa 1836]. Foolscap folio, 315 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with watermark 'W. Warren 1836'; a colonial Government licence 'to keep an Inn or a Public House ... and to sell and retail therein Ale, Beer, and other Malt Liquors, and Wines, Cider, Ginger Beer, Spruce Beer, Gin, Rum, Whiskey, Cordials, and any other spirituous or fermented Liquors ... by an Act of the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Legislative Council ... Given under my hand this ... day of ... One thousand eight hundred and thirty-'; an unused example, in fine condition. Provenance: Robert Muir Old & Rare Books, Perth (Catalogue 74, 1981, #517); ex Peter Dodds (1929-1980) Peter Dodds was a notable Australian antiquarian book collector and antique dealer, Melbourne-born but based in Perth from 1949, and later York, Western Australia, from 1976. See: Australian book collectors : some noted Australian book collectors & collections of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries /… Read More

Burnie, Tas.; Sydney, NSW : The Potato Marketing Board of Tasmania, [1942 or 1943]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with design by Walter Dowman, staple bound, 48 pp, b/w illustrations, advertisements; a very good copy. Hoyle, 1059. Recipes for potato-based dishes, inspired by Tasmanian Brownell and Bismarck varieties. ""With the object of stimulating the use of potatoes by the general public the Potato Marketing Board of Tasmania has published a booklet entitled 'Chef Brownell's recipe book'. The book covers a wide field, from the simple boiled potato to potato wine, and it also advises how potatoes may be used for both slimming and increasing weight. Its health-giving qualities are also emphasised. The booklet includes recipes for the use of swedes, carrots, and parsnips"" (The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 1943).

[Circa 1890]. Albumen print photograph, in large format 170 x 225 mm; inscribed in the negative: 'Apple picking at Glenora. 974B. Beattie, Hobart'; unmounted; in very fine condition.

[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1842. Foolscap folio, 330 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with Britannia watermark; the manuscript entries record the successful application by Messrs. Henty & Co., Launceston, for a licence 'to be a Dealer, under the said Act, In Wine and in Brandy, Rum, Gin, Whiskey, Cordials, and other Spirituous Liquors, and to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of, in any quantity not less than Five Gallons, all or any of the said Liquors, in or upon any of the said places or premises...'; the physical description of the premises is supplied in manuscript: 'a Brick Store containing a Cellar and three floors, and a Weather boarded Store adjoining situated in Cimetere [i.e. Cimitiere] Street, Launceston, and Her Majesty's Bonded Warehouses'; the document is dated 14 January 1842, and is signed in the bottom margin 'Collector of Internal Revenues'; in fine condition (ink spot in left margin from the clerical quill!). A unique piece of Henty ephemera that attests to the… Read More

Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., foolscap folio (320 x 200 mm); original folds, short tear at top edge (no loss), otherwise well preserved. Case summary prepared by an unnamed police magistrate at Flowerdale, near Wynyard, northwest Tasmania, dated 12 March 1846. 'March 12 46. P[olice ] M[agistrate], Flowerdale. Patrick McKone, Coromandel. TL, Life. Larceny of one coat value 5/-, one jacket value 2/-, one pair of trousers value 4/-, one waistcoat value 6d, three shirts value 6/-, the property of George Simpson. Plea - Guilty. G. Simpson states ""These articles here produced are my property, they were stolen from me on Monday last. The prisoner came to my house that day, and asked for a drink of water. I told him to go inside for it. He went in and I did not see him again. I missed these things from the room about twenty minutes afterwards. Constable Mellor states ""I apprehended the prisoner on Monday night at Residence. I found these articles in his possession."" Sentence: Life with hard labor… Read More

Entire letter. Folding letter sheet, 315 x 200 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked 'J. Green & Co. 1836', cross-written on [3] pages; headed 'Adelaide S.A. / October 31st 1838' and signed 'Your affectionate brother Robt. Leake', the letter is addressed on the outer side to 'Edward Leake Esq. / Lewisham / near Campbelltown / Van Diemen's [sic] Land', with a fine undated double-circle 'POST OFFICE/[lion & crown]/ADELAIDE' handstamp, and very fine boxed 'SHIPLETTER/3DE3/1838' date stamp of Hobart where the letter was rated '11' in ms. (4d for inwards ship letter plus 7d for delivery between 75 and 90 miles); remnants of red wax seal; original folds, very clean and legible. An unpublished and extremely early postmarked letter from the Colony of South Australia - which had been founded just two years earlier - from one of its prominent pioneer settlers, sheep farmer Robert Rowland Leake (1811-1860), to his younger brother in Van Diemen's Land, Edward Leake (1813-1867). At the time of writing,… Read More

Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed 'Circular Head, August 27 1847', signed at the foot 'Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]'; outer side addressed to 'W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston' and endorsed '[Per] ""Mercury""' / Paid'; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete and free from foxing. The Van Diemen's Land Company had established its headquarters at Circular Head (later re-named Stanley), on Tasmania's far northwest coast, in 1826. By 1847 the township had a population of a little over 200. The present letter, written by a VDL Company man at Circular Head (frustratingly, the surname is difficult to decipher), is addressed to William Johnstone, an extremely successful Launceston wine and spirits merchant who had established his business at premises in St. John Street in 1842. The letter seems to be in response to one of Johnstone's pricelists, and regards a possible purchase of port wine: 'Dear Sir, Your price for Port… Read More

Circa 1870. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 72 x 67 mm (irregular), mount 82 x 180 mm, numbered 72 in the negative at lower left of left-hand image; no photographer's imprint; some light foxing to both prints; the mount fine. This stereoview was sourced with a large group of 1860s Tasmanian stereoviews, some of which bore the label of Samuel Clifford (1827-1890).