Manuscripts
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![[PERSIA] Prince Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, as Governor of Isfahan : autograph letter signed, to a British military officer. Isfahan, 18 January 1902.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_DSFB_3052-300x300.jpg)
# 43902
Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan (1850-1918)
[PERSIA] Prince Mass’oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, as Governor of Isfahan : autograph letter signed, to a British military officer. Isfahan, 18 January 1902.
Manuscript in violet ink, 2 pp., on bifolium of pink silk-stock notepaper with embossed letterhead in gold in the form of the Lion and Sun emblem of the Kingdom of Persia; the letter is written in English, headed ‘Esfahan, January 18th 1902’, and addressed simply ‘Excellence!’; it is signed at the foot ‘Your sincere friend, …
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# 43904
BELL, Henry Thomas Mackenzie (1856-1930)
Mackenzie Bell, poet : signed autograph manuscript of his poem “The Philosophy of Frequent Failure”.
Manuscript in ink on the recto of a quarto sheet (225 x 175 mm), written in the poet’s flamboyant, idiosyncratic hand, comprising the full text of his poem The Philosophy of Frequent Failure, signed at the foot Mackenzie Bell, and with the word ‘Poet’ written in the hand of Jane Emma Murphy (see below); laid …
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# 39208
BARRY, Zachary (1827-1898)
Zachary Barry, minister of St. John’s, Fremantle, Western Australia: autograph letter signed, dated 27 August 1855, re. receipt of a shipment of Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society.
[2] pp, quarto (250 x 200 mm), manuscript in ink on unwatermarked writing paper; headed ‘Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 Aug. 1855’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’ and is signed at the foot ‘Yrs. very faithfully, Zachary Barry, Incumbent of St. John’s Church, Fremantle, West Australia’; Barry advises of the safe arrival from London, …
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# 39210
B. SMITH & SON
Manuscript commercial letter addressed to John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney, New South Wales, from B. Smith & Son, London, 27 July 1863.
Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., quarto, on blue laid paper watermarked ‘A. C. & S.’; duplicate commercial letter headed ‘7 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, July 27th 1863’, addressed to the publishing firm of Messrs J. Fairfax & Sons, Sydney; written and signed by Henry Durrant on behalf of B. Smith & Son, ink …
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# 43235
CANTON, William (1845-1926)
The poems of William Canton. (First edition, with an autograph letter signed by the author)
London ; Calcutta ; Sydney : George G. Harrap, 1927. First edition. Octavo (175 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered and decorated navy cloth (very fine), in unclipped dust jacket (spine sunned, otherwise excellent); frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. 173; edges with spotting, but internally very clean throughout; loosely inserted is a handwritten letter from William Canton …
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![[TASMANIA] Convict record of John Jones, sentenced at the Lancaster Quarter Session in July 1837 to transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land; arrived on the Neptune, January 1838; remained in penal servitude until April 1844.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13110800/2022_DSFB_2200-300x300.jpg)
# 34748
[COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CONVICTS]
[TASMANIA] Convict record of John Jones, sentenced at the Lancaster Quarter Session in July 1837 to transportation for life to Van Diemen’s Land; arrived on the Neptune, January 1838; remained in penal servitude until April 1844.
Single parchment sheet, 330 x 200 mm; manuscript in ink, densely written on 1 page, the entries covering the period January 1838 to April 1844, written in several different hands and in different locations in Van Diemen’s Land; the prisoner’s physical description and background are entered in the upper margin recto; light staining and rubbing …
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![[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Record of summons for James McGinnes for a charge brought by the Chief District Constable, for allowing a transported female convict to unlawfully remain on his premises. Launceston, June 1836.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113915/2022_DSFB_2221-300x300.jpg)
# 34725
CLARK, John; [FRIEND, Charles] [McGINNIS, James] [BICKERDIKE, Ruth] [FRANKS, William]
[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Record of summons for James McGinnes for a charge brought by the Chief District Constable, for allowing a transported female convict to unlawfully remain on his premises. Launceston, June 1836.
[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1836. Foolscap folio, 335 x 210 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper watermarked ‘Harris & Tremlett 1834’; headed ‘Information. Van Diemen’s Land (To wit.)’ and dated 25 June 1836, the manuscript entries record that on 22 June, at Launceston, Charles Friend, the Chief District Constable, informed John Clark Esq., …
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![[DUMONT D'URVILLE] Louis-Auguste de Sainson, artist on the Astrolabe expedition : autograph letter signed, dated August 1831.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5792-300x300.jpg)
# 41476
SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)
[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Louis-Auguste de Sainson, artist on the Astrolabe expedition : autograph letter signed, dated August 1831.
Manuscript in ink written on 2 sides of a quarto bifolium, 240 x 185 mm; dated at Paris, 18 August 1831, and signed at the foot ‘De Sainson, painter du voyage de l’Astrolabe, rue St. André des arts 55’, the letter is addressed to ‘monsieur le Baron’; de Sainson writes to ensure that a promise obtained …
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Licence issued to Messrs. Henty & Company, Launceston, in pursuance of An Act for the Licensing of Wholesale Dealers in Wine and Sprituous Liquors. January 1842.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113929/2022_DSFB_2226-300x300.jpg)
# 34720
[VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE]
[TASMANIA; WINE] Licence issued to Messrs. Henty & Company, Launceston, in pursuance of An Act for the Licensing of Wholesale Dealers in Wine and Sprituous Liquors. January 1842.
[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 …
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![[NEW ZEALAND] Letts's Australasian pocket diary, with an almanac for 1885.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/01/2024_DSFB_0555-300x300.jpg)
# 42781
LETTS, SON & CO.
[NEW ZEALAND] Letts’s Australasian pocket diary, with an almanac for 1885.
Being the forty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Accession June 20, 1837). London : Letts, Son & Co. Limited, [1884]. “Pocket series, no. 25”. Narrow octavo (180 x 90 mm), original green pebbled cloth with wallet-style flap, publisher’s gilt-stamped crest to front; title page with original owner’s name D. S. McKelne, Perth …
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# 41913
[HOWE, George 1769-1821, printer]; [BLAXCELL, Garnham 1778-1817]; [JAMES, Joseph]; BENT, Ellis 1783-1815; FOSTER, James
Notice of protest form lodged on behalf of Joseph James against Garnham Blaxcell for a dishonoured promissory note; signed by Ellis Bent, Judge Advocate. Sydney, 1813.
[Sydney, NSW : 16 August, 1813]. Small folio bifolium (250 x 200 mm), laid paper watermarked W. SHARP 1810; the first side contains a pro forma legal document printed in letterpress by George Howe, with manuscript entries in a clerical hand recording Judge Advocate of New South Wales Ellis Bent’s protest on behalf of Captain Joseph …
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# 41974
CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)
George Cruikshank, illustrator and caricaturist : presentation signature, dated 20 December 1844.
Large, bold full signature in ink of British illustrator George Cruikshank, on paper sheet (80 x 180 mm) laid down on a section cut from a mid-nineteenth century album page; dated in Cruikshank’s own hand ‘Dec. 20th 1844′; a very well preserved example of Cruikshank’s flamboyant signature. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) achieved notoriety in his lifetime …
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# 39209
PEGGOTT, William
Manuscript letter addressed to Rev. Benjamin Hurst, Wesleyan minister at Goulburn, New South Wales, from fellow Wesleyan William Peggott, Leicestershire, dated 2 June 1855.
Benjamin Hurst (1811-1857), in company with Francis Tuckfield, was sent from England to work as a Wesleyan missionary among the Port Phillip Aborigines in 1838. In 1839-40 he was at the Buntingdale Mission Station in the Geelong-Colac area. He next worked at the Wesleyan Chapel in Collins Street, Melbourne before being posted to Sydney in August …
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# 41904
LEIGHTON, Frederic, Sir (1830-1896)
Sir Frederic Leighton, British painter and sculptor : presentation signature dated March, 1892.
Manuscript in ink on Leighton’s personal card with black mourning border and printed address ‘2, Holland Park Road, Kensington, W.’ , 90 x 115 mm; signed by the artist with his distinctive flourishes above and below the initial letters ‘Fred. Leighton / March 1892’; the signature is bold and very well preserved; the card has …
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# 41666
LOUIS XVI, KING OF FRANCE & NAVARRE (1754-1793)
Royal ordinance signed by Louis XVI. Versailles, January 1787.
Manuscript in ink on parchment, 320 x 250 mm; a royal ordinance approving a property exchange between an aristocrat and an educational institution; dated at Versailles, January 1787, the document bears the signature of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, in the lower margin: ‘Louis’, with the phrase ‘par le Roi’ immediately below; some …
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# 41663
HAGGARD, H. Rider (1856-1925)
H. Rider Haggard, novelist : presentation autograph signature, dated 1888.
Manuscript in ink on card, 110 x 90 mm; verso with some paper adhesions from where the piece was once mounted in an album. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), English writer of adventure fiction, was the author of King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and She (1887), among many other popular works. Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) …