Politics & Law
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![[MELBOURNE] Town Lot purchase document for land in present-day Carlton, with signature and seal of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe, countersigned by William Lonsdale. 16 May, 1853.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_DSFB_3069-300x300.jpg)
# 43897
LA TROBE, Charles Joseph; LONSDALE, William [HEPBURN, Robert]
[MELBOURNE] Town Lot purchase document for land in present-day Carlton, with signature and seal of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe, countersigned by William Lonsdale. 16 May, 1853.
[Melbourne : Government of the Colony of Victoria]. Pro forma document printed on vellum, 340 x 430 mm, with manuscript entries recording the purchase by Robert Hepburn for £270 of a Town Lot measuring one rood (1/4 acre) at the corner of Queensberry Street and Bouverie Street (now Carlton), in the County of Bourke, Parish of …
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# 43910
[HOWE, Robert, printer]; DARLING, Ralph; McLEAY, Alexander
Acts and Ordinances of the Governor and Council of New South Wales … of His Excellency Lieut. Gen. Ralph Darling. 1826.
Sydney : Printed by Robert Howe, Government Printer, 1827. Foolscap folio, original grey wrappers with ‘1826’ in ms. to upper wrapper; letterpress printed. Contents: pp. 25-27 (three 1826 Proclamations by Governor Darling), [4] (title-leaf and index for Acts and Ordinances of the Governor and Council of New South Wales … passed during the administration of …
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# 43912
[MANSFIELD, Ralph, printer]; DARLING, Ralph; McLEAY, Alexander
Acts and Ordinances of the Governor and Council of New South Wales, … during the administration of His Excellency Lieut. Gen. Ralph Darling. 1830.
Sydney : Printed by R. Mansfield, for the executors of R. Howe, 1830. Foolscap folio, original grey wrappers with ‘Proclamations, Acts of Council, Government Orders and Notices from 7th July to 15th November 1830’ in ms. to upper wrapper (wrappers stained and with some silverfishing); letterpress printed. Contents: [6] (title-leaf and Table of contents for Acts …
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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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# 43913
DWORZAK, Thomas; ANDERSON, Jon Lee; REES, Thomas
Taliban
London : Trolley, [2003]. Octavo (210 x 155 mm), publisher’s illustrated boards (no dust jacket, as issued); approx. [119] pp., colour photographic illustrations throughout; a fine copy. In 2002, while on assignment in Afghanistan for the New Yorker, Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak collected an astonishing array of glamourised portrait photos of Taliban fighters in Kandahar, …
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# 43572
DUNCAN, W[illiam]. A[ugustine]., Esq. (1811 - 1885)
Lecture on national education delivered in the School of Arts, Brisbane, on Thursday, the 20th June, 1850.
Brisbane : James Swan, 1850. Octavo, stab-sewn self-wrappers, pp. [24], uncut and unopened, a fine copy. The first book or pamphlet printed in Brisbane, written by the founding president of the School of Arts. At the time of printing, Brisbane had a European population of about 2000 persons. Rare. Ferguson 5340
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![[LAW] Truant Bunny](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_DSFB_0131-300x300.jpg)
# 42550
DEAN & SON
[LAW] Truant Bunny
London : Dean & Son, c. 1860. “Papa Lovechild’s series”. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, short split to bottom of spine; pp. 8, printed on one side only, full-page illustrations throughout, with original hand colouring; a very good to fine copy. To modern sensibilities – and probably for children of the time – this morality tale about …
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# 43558
KNOWLES, Squire (designer); KNOWLES, Evelyn (illustrator)
Program : Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1945. Presented by the United Nations Conference Committee of the City and County of San Francisco.
[Drop title]. San Francisco, CA : The United Nations Conference Committee of the City and County of San Francisco (printed by Pisani Printing Company), 1945. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), stapled blue wrappers lettered in gold (lightly rubbed), 15 pp., sepia tone illustrations (including double-page view of the San Francisco Civic Center Buildings, the venue …
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# 43672
RONIN FILMS
Red Matildas : women, peace and politics in the Great Depression
[Drop title]. Canberra : Ronin Films, [1985]. Portfolio, 310 x 220 mm, printer in black on red card, with 9 single-sided press-release sheets loosely enclosed; in very good condition (appears complete, as issued by the film’s distributor). ‘Through the lives of three women Red Matildas explores the social and political conditions in Australia during the …
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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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![[POSTER] The time has come for abortion law repeal ... and we shall be victorious / March on Washington DC and SF, November 20, for the repeal of all abortion laws,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_DSFB_1382-300x300.jpg)
# 43181
WOMEN'S NATIONAL ABORTION ACTION COALITION (USA)
[POSTER] The time has come for abortion law repeal … and we shall be victorious / March on Washington DC and SF, November 20, for the repeal of all abortion laws,
against forced sterilisation and restrictive contraceptive laws. New York : Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition, [1971]. Poster, 430 x 280 mm, offset-printed; very good condition.
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# 43054
Robert & Thomas DUNKER
Horseshit : the offensive review. Number two.
Hermosa Beach, CA : Scum Publishing Company, 1967. “Fourth printing” (inner lower wrapper). Quarto (280 x 215 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 48, extensively illustrated, and with additional text and illustration on the inner wrappers; a very good copy. Horseshit was a counterculture magazine produced by brothers Robert and Thomas Dunker. Robert was responsible …
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# 41529
HILLERSBERG, Lars; SVEDBERG, Lena; DE GEER, Carl Johan, et al.
Puss. (Complete set, plus prospectus)
Stockholm : Puss, 1968-1973. A complete set of twenty-five issues; number 1 (January 1968) – number 24, (1973), plus the unnumbered issue and the rare prospectus which advertises the Puss preview presented at the Konsthall, 2-14 December 1967. Quarto (nos. 1-21 and the unnumbered issue, as well as the 4-page prospectus) and folio (nos 22-24); …
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# 42515
[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)
Gay vote. News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club
San Francisco : the Club, 1978 – 79. A collection of 13 issues of a highly significant periodical in the gay civil rights movement, commencing with vol. 1 no. 2. Each issue pp. 4, illustrated, in fine condition, unfolded and unposted. The first issues are subtitled News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, and …
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![[GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_DSFB_0791-300x300.jpg)
# 42514
San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.
[GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982
San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …