Politics & Law
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# 51561
LEE, Kuan Yew
From Third World to First. The Singapore story: 1965 – 2000. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Singapore : Times Media, 2000. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 778, illustrated. Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (1923 – 2015), the first Prime Minister of Singapore. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a presentation bookplate inscribed to him pasted on the front free endpaper signed by …
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# 51589
ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.
Great suffragette demonstration in London : The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square.
Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), from the series Great suffragette demonstration in London, serial no. 11,951, printed title beneath the images The Empire Car (different colonies) passing through Trafalgar Square, recto of mount imprinted The Rose Stereographs …
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# 51567
Col. Sharom bin Hashim, Editor-in-Chief
The Malaysian Army’s battle against communist insurgency in Peninsula Malaysia 1968-1989 (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Kuala Lumpur : Army Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, 2001. Folio, gilt-lettered leather in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 218, illustrated. A very scarce book about guerrilla warfare in Malaysia in the twentieth century. Provenance: The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Minister of Defence …
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# 51565
RAMOS, Fidel (1928 - 2022)
Philippines 2000 : a vision for the nation (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Makati City, (Manila, The Philippines) : Studio 5 Design, 1996. Second edition. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 223; (17), illustrated. The detailed illustrated book outlining President Fidel Ramos’s flagship socio-economic development plan ‘Philippines 2000’ aimed at seeing the Philippines achieving a newly industrialized country status by the year 2000. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, …
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# 51563
MBEKI, Thabo (1942 - )
Africa : the time has come. Selected speeches (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Cape Town : Tafelberg and Johannesburg : Mafube, 1999 (second impression). Octavo, illustrated boards in dustjacket, pp. xxiv; 302, illustrated. Political speeches by South African politician and economist Thabo Mbeki, who served as the second President of South Africa from 1999 until his resignation in 2008. He previously served as Deputy President under Nelson Mandela …
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# 51562
TEMKIN, Ben
Buthelezi : a biography (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
London : Frank Cass, 2003. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xx; 415, illustrated. Biography of Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (1928 – 2023), South African politician and Zulu Prince, who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023. Buthelezi was appointed by Nelson Mandela as Minister of …
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# 51352
[COSMORAMA]
Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.
Also, may be had a complete Narrative of every particular connected with the above Murders, with an exact likeness of Rush, & correct plans of Stanfield Hall, and Pot-Ash Farm, also a survey of the two Estates, copies of the plans, &c, made for the late Trial at Norwich. Open from Ten till Five, and …
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# 51195
MOORHOUSE, Frank
The illegal relatives
[Sydney : Tomato Press, for the author, c.1973]. Octavo (212 x 139 mm), original pictorial stapled self-wrappers, pp. [96]; Moorhouse’s erotic stories accompanied by line-drawn illustrations in several colours by uncredited artists including Jenny Coopes; slight browning at edges (as usual), a fine copy. Moorhouse produced this pirated edition of his own illustrated erotic stories …
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# 51203
"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 (edges rubbed and scuffed as usual, but a solid set), all edges gilt, joints and hinges sound, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, occasional marginal foxing, text block cracked at final leaf of first volume, overall …
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![[FEDERATION] Commonwealth Celebrations. Souvenir invitation cards. Victoria. May 1901.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/21103533/2021_DSFB_9270-300x300.jpg)
# 51238
ASHTON, Julian & Howard; LINDSAY, Norman & LONGSTAFF, John
[FEDERATION] Commonwealth Celebrations. Souvenir invitation cards. Victoria. May 1901.
[Cover title]. [Melbourne : s.n., 1901]. Oblong folio (295 x 395 mm), original red pebbled cloth over boards (scattered light staining) with ornamental gilt borders, upper board lettered in gilt; original silk endpapers, first blank with a gift inscription in ink ‘To Willis from Father, as a present for his 21st Birthday. Canterbury, August 1901’; …
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![[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady's ticket [+ standard ticket]](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5075-300x300.jpg)
# 51146
BURNSIDE, C. L. (Sec. Secretary, Centennial Committee)
[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady’s ticket [+ standard ticket]
[Sydney : Government Printer, 1888]. Companion pair of duodecimo cards, each 60 x 92 mm, printed rectos only in black on yellow and black on brown; both signed by C. L. Burnside, Secretary of the Centennial Committee; the standard ticket has some loss at left and bottom edges; mounted together on a section of an …
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# 51422
CAINS, Geoffrey
Access denied : a bibliography of suppressed Australian literature
Haberfied, NSW : Longueville Media, for the author, 2021. Large octavo, publisher’s red cloth with pictorial dust jacket; pp. xiii, [1], 294; with numerous colour illustrations; a very fine copy.
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# 50746
[NEVILLE, Richard; WALSH, Richard; SHARP, Martin et al.]
Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969
Sydney : Oz Publications Ink Limited, 1963-1969. Forty-one issues, quarto, original stapled wrappers, various paginations between 16 and 20 pages, all illustrated; an expected amount of toning and occasional mild foxing; small tear to lower edge of upper wrapper of first issue, else overall in very good condition throughout; a rare complete set of the …
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# 50718
EYRE, Edward (1815-1901)
Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.
Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested in Mr. Christy’s letter of …
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# 50749
DRAPER, William, Sir (1721-1787)
Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction :
in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department. London : printed for J. Dodsley, 1764. Octavo, recent half calf over cloth boards with gilt rule; spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. 43; [blank]; bound with the half title (which is …
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# 49878
NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
The Riverine question. Speeches in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.
Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon, Collins Street East, 1864. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green pebbled cloth (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson (New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s); pp. vii, [viii-x], 241, [3 blank]; preliminaries with …