Manuscripts
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![[GEELONG] Copy of a bond document pertaining to a suit by Barrabool farmer John Furlong against Edward Willis and Charles Lambert Swanston for theft of his property. May, 1850.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5001-300x300.jpg)
# 41125
SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES (DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP)
[GEELONG] Copy of a bond document pertaining to a suit by Barrabool farmer John Furlong against Edward Willis and Charles Lambert Swanston for theft of his property. May, 1850.
[Geelong : Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip], May 1850. Manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of a folio bifolium, in the hand of a legal clerk; recording a bond of £160 payable to Deputy Sheriff Alastair Mackenzie. The three liable parties are John Furlong of …
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# 40636
CHEVALIER, Nicholas (1828-1902)
Nicholas Chevalier, colonial artist: autograph letter signed, 1877
Manuscript in ink on single octavo sheet, 180 x 110 mm, dated 5 April 1877, addressed to Thomas Hedderwick, Liberal M.P., discussing a commissioned painting which Chevalier has completed for his neighbours at 9 Porchester Terrace, London (Chevalier’s residence at this time was at 5 Porchester Terrace), signed at the foot ‘Yours, much obliged, N. …
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# 40634
PERCEVAL, John 1923-2000
John Perceval : autograph letter signed, to Thomas and Pauline Sanders, 1974
John Peceval to Thomas & Pauline Sanders, holograph letter on 5 sheets of quarto writing paper, in Perceval’s distinctive, extravagant hand, dated 25th June 1974, accompanied by the original airmail envelope with the Sanders’ Japanese address and Perceval’s return address of 38 Wentworth Ave 3126 [Canterbury, Melbourne], complete and fine. An informal and chatty letter …
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# 40638
CHEVALIER, Nicholas (1828-1902)
Nicholas Chevalier, colonial artist : autograph letter signed, 1879.
Manuscript in ink, recto of single octavo sheet of writing paper (180 x 115 mm), dated July 1st 1879, addressed to Mrs. Kayser, discussing the difficulty in obtaining tickets for the Royal Academy Conversazione; signed at foot ‘Yours very faithfully, N. Chevalier’; fine. Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) is considered one of the most important artists active …
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![[LIONEL LINDSAY MANUSCRIPT] 'Fantin'](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/07/17165453/2017_DSFB_2581-300x300.jpg)
# 40635
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874-1961)
[LIONEL LINDSAY MANUSCRIPT] ‘Fantin’
Lionel Lindsay’s handwritten draft for an article on French artist Henri Fantin-Latour, published in Art in Australia, Series 3, No. 8, 1924. Manuscript in pen on rectos of [5] sheets, large octavo (170 x 200 mm), signed at the foot of the text ‘Lionel Lindsay’; old fold lines, clean and complete.
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# 40313
[GREAT BRITAIN. ROYAL NAVY]
A List of His Majesty’s Royal Navy. Navy Office, 1st October 1794.
Large octavo (230 x 150 mm), in the original Admiralty-style binding of straight-grain red morocco with elaborate gilt border incorporating stars, wreaths and cornerpieces, spine gilt in six compartments; inner dentelles; all edges gilt; original marbled endpapers; engraved title-page with date in manuscript 1st October 1794 (although the list has additions to 1801); 200 pp., …
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![[WESTERN DISTRICT; MARITIME] Ledger book of James Henty & Co., Melbourne, 1873-5.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_DSFB_4677-300x300.jpg)
# 41026
[SANDS & McDOUGALL, manufacturing stationers]
[WESTERN DISTRICT; MARITIME] Ledger book of James Henty & Co., Melbourne, 1873-5.
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 & …
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# 40191
MAGRITTE, René (1898-1967)
René Magritte, surrealist : autograph postcard, initialled; New York, 10 December 1965, to his friend André Bosmans.
Picture postcard, 90 x 140 mm, verso with manuscript message in red biro in the hand of Magritte, dated 10 December 1965 and with return address of ‘Hotel Glastone [sic] Room 703, 114 E. 52 Street New York N.Y.’, initialled at the foot ‘R M’; addressed to his friend André Bormans in Liège, mailed from …
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# 40355
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875)
Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.
Manuscript in brown ink, 2 pp., octavo (200 x 135 mm), on wove paper watermarked ‘MARION’; headed ‘Toulon, 16 September 1835’, and signed at the foot ‘C. Laplace’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient (but the content makes it clear it is addressed to a representative of the Imprimerie Royale, the publisher of his …
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![[CHINESE PRINTING] Garden License issued at Sandhurst (Bendigo) to William Hyde, dated 28 August 1883.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_DSFB_2873-300x300.jpg)
# 40073
COLONY OF VICTORIA. Department of Lands and Survey.
[CHINESE PRINTING] Garden License issued at Sandhurst (Bendigo) to William Hyde, dated 28 August 1883.
Melbourne : Government printer, [1883]. Lithograph printing, 210 x 220 mm, printed on both sides with parallel text in English and Chinese characters; manuscript entries record the issue of the License to William Hyde of Sandhurst on 28 August 1883; the License (no. 122155) authorizes Hyde to maintain a garden and residence on Crown Lands …
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# 39762
CIRCUMNAVIGATORS' CLUB (NEW YORK)
The Circumnavigators’ Club. (Including an early Certificate of Membership)
New York, NY : The Circumnavigators’ Club, 104 Pearl Street, 1912. Duodecimo (155 x 118 mm), original limp pigskin (moderate wear to edges, corners and spine), front lettered in blind ‘Circumnavigators’ Club’; marbled pastedowns and endpapers; pp. xxi, [2 blank], [1 List of officers], printed on parchment, text in black with vignette decorations and initials …
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![[NAPOLEONIC WARS] A captured British sailor's petition to the prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, written at the depot for British prisoners of war at Givet, northeast France in September, 1813.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1968-300x300.jpg)
# 39526
HARE, Joseph
[NAPOLEONIC WARS] A captured British sailor’s petition to the prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, written at the depot for British prisoners of war at Givet, northeast France in September, 1813.
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 …
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# 28563
COWPER, Charles, Sir (1807-1875)
An early item of official of correspondence from the Sydney Railway Company, rejecting an application for the position of Engineer. 3 January, 1851.
Manuscript in ink on wove paper, on the lithographed letterhead of the Railway Office, Sydney, dated 3 January 1851. Quarto bifolium (225 x 185 mm), [4] pp, written on the first side only; a holograph note by Charles Cowper, Director of the Sydney Railway Company, to Mr. H. Biddulph, c/- Post Office, Wollongong, advising him …
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![[GALLIPOLI] An improvised On Active Service postcard handwritten on a souvenired Ottoman Turkish soap packet, sent home from Gallipoli by a New Zealand infantryman in June 1915.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/19101935/2022_DSFB_5064.jpg)
# 36664
[GALLIPOLI] An improvised On Active Service postcard handwritten on a souvenired Ottoman Turkish soap packet, sent home from Gallipoli by a New Zealand infantryman in June 1915.
Section of cardboard cut from a Turkish soap packet, approx. 90 x 140 mm (slightly irregular), the verso with handwritten message in violet pencil headed ‘Post Card / On Active Service / June 5th’, addressed to the sender’s aunt, Mrs S. S. Clarke in Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, with ‘INFANTRY BRIGADE/FIELD/10JU15/POST OFFICE/NZ DIVISION’ circular date …
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![[SYDNEY] An important letter to Thomas Smyth’s banker in London, regarding a substantial payment he made to David Collins, signed by Collins on the verso.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/11172343/2022_DSFB_6292.jpg)
# 37336
[COLLINS] SMYTH, Thomas
[SYDNEY] An important letter to Thomas Smyth’s banker in London, regarding a substantial payment he made to David Collins, signed by Collins on the verso.
Autograph letter signed by Thomas Smyth, dated Sydney, 19 March 1795, addressed to his banker in London, John Madden Esq.; manuscript in ink on a single sheet of laid paper, 227 x 183 mm; endorsed and signed on the verso by David Collins; fine. First Fleeter and Provost Marshal Smyth makes a substantial payment to David …
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![[SYDNEY] Manuscript list of the effects of Third Fleeter Edward Robinson, sold at auction for Samuel Terry by Simeon Lord., January 1821](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/11172329/2022_DSFB_6287.jpg)
# 37340
TERRY, Samuel (1776-1838)
[SYDNEY] Manuscript list of the effects of Third Fleeter Edward Robinson, sold at auction for Samuel Terry by Simeon Lord., January 1821
Two sheets, manuscript in ink to the recto of both, each 245 x 183 mm, wove paper; dated Sydney, 16 January 1821; very good, the second sheet with repair to top edge. Samuel Terry buys up the estate of a Third Fleeter. The present manuscripts are clearly the invoices sent by the auctioneer Simeon Lord regarding the …