Politics & Law
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![[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2298-300x300.jpg)
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CLARK, William (1770-1838)
[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.
Single leaf, 308 x 187 mm, laid paper without visible watermark; pro-forma document printed on the recto, headed TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA, with LOUISIANA struck through and amended to Missouri in manuscript; dated at Saint Louis, Missouri Territory on 29 March 1814, the document has manuscript entries which record the granting of power of authority over …
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![[PRISON REFORM] Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, reformer and philanthropist: autograph letter, signed. Upton (Ramsgate), July 1838.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2850-300x300.jpg)
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FRY, Elizabeth (1780-1845)
[PRISON REFORM] Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, reformer and philanthropist: autograph letter, signed. Upton (Ramsgate), July 1838.
Manuscript in ink, 1 1/2 pp., written on the first two sides of an octavo bifolium of wove notepaper (180 x 110 mm); headed ‘Upton, 7/18 1838’, and addressed simply ‘My dear Friend’, the note is written entirely in the hand of Elizabeth Fry and is signed by her at the foot ‘Affectionately & gratefully …
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# 46796
[MENZIES, Robert Gordon, Sir, 1894-1978]
Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for British Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Gelatin silver print, 270 x 220 mm; inscribed, signed and dated on the mount ‘for Harold Wilson, with warm regards Robert Menzies / 1965’; fine condition, presented in a silver frame, housed in a custom blue velvet-lined case. Sir Robert Menzies (1894-1978) served two terms as Prime Minister of Australia, the first from 1939 to …
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![[LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16121634/2014_DSFB_2621-245x300.jpg)
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TOWNSHEND, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800)
[LORD SYDNEY] Note of Fees on Swearing The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Sidney One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State the 23d. Decr. 1783.
Manuscript in ink on single folio sheet with “GR” watermark by Jubb, 185 x 230 mm, above title in upper margin “Council Office”, below title a list of various expenses incurred by the swearing in of Lord Sydney for his second term as Home Secretary: “To the Clerks of the Council…£10:0:0d., To the Under Clerks…£4:0:0d…To …
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# 47119
"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)
The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen” (Facsimile edition)
Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. [Melbourne : Heritage editions, 1976]. Facsimile edition. Three volumes, quarto, gilt-lettered rexine, pp. x; [iv]; 1000; 120; numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set. Includes : The Chronicles of early melbourne. Biographical notes by Michael Cannon. Descriptive …
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![[IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16163023/2014_DSFB_6380-228x300.jpg)
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QUEENSLAND. AGENT-GENERAL.
[IMMIGRATION] Queensland Crown Lands.
London : Agent-General for Queensland, [c.1900]. Quarto (250 x 190 mm), bifolium, [4] pp; a very good copy. An official information brochure designed to encourage emigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland. The back page advertises the various free and assisted passage schemes available at the time, as well as boldly stating the claim that …
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# 39126
CAIRNS, John; STRACHAN, Robert
Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54
A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of …
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# 46883
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988
Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …
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# 47092
ROBERTSON, Geoffrey (1946- )
The justice game. (Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Robertson for Felix Dennis, editor of Oz magazine)
London : Chatto & Windus, 1998. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black cloth with silver-lettered spine in pictorial dust jacket; front pastedown with ex libris of Felix Dennis (1947-2014), editor of London Oz, publisher and later media tycoon; a presentation copy with a highly significant association, inscribed on the title page by Geoffrey Robertson for Dennis: ‘To …
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# 47054
MICHNIEWICZ, Onufry et al.
Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.
[Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: ‘Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et …
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# 46911
SAVAGE, Edward H.
Police records and recollections; or, Boston by daylight and gaslight for two hundred and forty years.
Boston : John P. Dale & Company, 1873. Octavo, half-morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornamentation, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. 388, lithographed plates. A description of the seedier side of Boston by a police officer.
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# 46874
"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)
The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”
Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (refurbished and recoloured, expertly rebacked with new spines lettered in gilt, a pencilled note on the endpaper of the second volume reads ‘Repaired H. Green £6.6.0’), all edges gilt, endpapers replaced, bookplates of Bernard Gore Brett …
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![[DUTCH NEW GUINEA] Rapport inzake Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea over het jaar 1954. Uitgebracht aan de Vereenigde Naties ingevolge artikel 73e van het Handvest.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21112446/2017_DSFB_4709-300x300.jpg)
# 16867
Netherlands. Ministerie van Overzeese Rijksdelen
[DUTCH NEW GUINEA] Rapport inzake Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea over het jaar 1954. Uitgebracht aan de Vereenigde Naties ingevolge artikel 73e van het Handvest.
The Hague : Ministerie voor Uniezaken en Overzeese Rijksdelen; Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, [1954?]. Quarto, original printed wrappers (spine sunned), pp 120, followed by a section of black-and-white photographic plates (one loose), and a substantial number of folding statistical tables and appendices; a good copy. Comprehensive Dutch government report which covers Dutch New Guinea’s trade …
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# 47156
WINDSCHUTTLE, Keith (1942-2025)
The White Australia Policy
Sydney, NSW, Macleay Press, 2004. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), trade paperback, pp. 370; a fine copy.
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# 46700
KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)
Old Korea : the land of morning calm
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (worn, chips with losses, old tape repairs), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy in the flimsy dustjacket, an important illustrated account of Korea.
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# 46285
TROTSKY, Leon (1879-1940), et al.
Leon Trotsky : a group of ephemeral publications, 1930s-40s.
I. Trotsky, Leon. Stalinism and Bolshevism : concerning the historical and theoretical roots of the Fourth International. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, 29, [1] pp; a fine copy. II. Trotsky, Leon. In defense of the Soviet Union : a compilation 1927-1937. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, …