Politics & Law
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# 42513
[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)
If you could see us now … the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club celebrates Harvey’s 50th birthday.
[San Francisco] : [Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club], [1980]. Newspaper, 380 x 290 mm, pp. [20], central crease, illustrated in black and white. Includes a contribution from Jane Fonda. Celebration souvenir newspaper of the life of gay politician Harvey Milk who was assassinated eighteen months prior, with articles about gay political activism in San Francisco, …
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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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![[TASMANIA; ALCOHOL] Licence to keep an Inn or a Public House, circa 1836.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/14111624/2022_DSFB_2270-300x300.jpg)
# 34709
[LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ARTHUR]
[TASMANIA; ALCOHOL] Licence to keep an Inn or a Public House, circa 1836.
[Hobart Town : s.n., circa 1836]. Foolscap folio, 315 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with watermark ‘W. Warren 1836’; a colonial Government licence ‘to keep an Inn or a Public House … and to sell and retail therein Ale, Beer, and other Malt Liquors, and Wines, Cider, Ginger Beer, Spruce …
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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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![[ENVIRONMENTALISM] Anti-woodchipping postcard petitioning the Federal Government to grant parts of East Gippsland National Park protection.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/01/2024_DSFB_0482-300x300.jpg)
# 42847
WILDERNESS SOCIETY
[ENVIRONMENTALISM] Anti-woodchipping postcard petitioning the Federal Government to grant parts of East Gippsland National Park protection.
[Melbourne] : Wilderness Society, [ca. 1990?]. Colour photographic postcard with image of a dead ringtail possum accompanied by main text ‘East Gippsland : wood chip licences available NOW!’, 103 x 110 mm; verso with printed text of petition and space for subscriber’s details; not mailed, in fine condition.
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# 42270
PRATTEN, H. E.
Asiatic impressions
A collection of articles by H. E. Pratten. Sydney : Fergusson, 1908. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Harry Weston, small chips to head and foot of spine, previous owner’s name to title page, pp. 95, occasional underlining in blue pencil, photographically illustrated plates. The author’s descriptions of The Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, China, India, …
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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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![[TRANSPORTATION] Court examen de l'etat politique de la Grande-Bretagne au commencement de l'année 1787;](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_DSFB_7185-300x300.jpg)
# 42007
[WRAXALL, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751-1831] and [FOX, Charles James, 1749-1806]
[TRANSPORTATION] Court examen de l’etat politique de la Grande-Bretagne au commencement de l’année 1787;
Traduit de l’anglais, de M. P., sur la septieme Édition. Par M. L. D. Paris : chez Hardouin & Gattey, 1787. Octavo (185 x 120 mm), disbound; pp. iv. [5]-76; a crisp, clean example. French translation of the seventh edition of a work attributed to Tory politician Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (1751-1831), A short …
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# 41181
GAUL, John
Jamaica-born Gertrude Colleton, daughter of Frederick Colleton and great-granddaughter of Admiral Richard Graves. Melbourne, November 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed from life by Gaul, 75 & 77 Swanston St., Melbourne’ and with an extensive inscription in ink: ‘Gertrude Sophia Jane Plantagenet Colleton, only child of Frederick Nassau William Graves Colleton and great-grandchild of Admiral Richard Graves of Hembury Fort, County …
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![[TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/04/2023_DSFB_2059-300x300.jpg)
# 39538
COZENS, Charles
[TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.
London : Richard Bentley, 1848. First edition. Duodecimo (170 x 110 mm), contemporary half red calf over cloth, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, original marbled endpapers, pp. viii, 272; occasional light foxing, several leaves with browning, else internally excellent; ex St. John’s College Library, …
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![[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_DSFB_6486-300x300.jpg)
# 41699
KAY, Rev. John
[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,
and published by the authority of the Meeting. Edited by the Rev. John Kay, Coatbridge, Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), disbound; pp. [i]-iv, [5]-91; last few leaves with some marginal toning, otherwise fine condition throughout. Rare.
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![[SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of "Greycairn", Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_DSFB_6099-300x300.jpg)
# 41420
[NEILD, John Cash, 1846-1911]
[SYDNEY] A group of personal calling cards collected by politician John Cash Neild of “Greycairn”, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, 1890s.
Group of 17 (seventeen) lithographically printed calling cards, various dimensions (smallest 40 x 75 mm, largest 57 x 93 mm); a number are annotated, some with PPC (Pour prendre congé, indicating a temporary absence), and several with the name of Major (or Lt. Colonel) Neild; all in good condition, with occasional light marks and toning. A …
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# 32714
RUSKIN, John (1819-1900); DATILLO RUBBO, Antonio (1870 - 1955)
Sesame and lilies. (Antonio Dattilo Rubbo’s copy with self-portrait)
London : George Allen, 1901. Complete edition (fifty-second thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges rubbed), pp. xxxviii; 228, lacking the front free endpaper. Preliminary blank with large pencil signature ‘A Datillo Rubbo) with a small pencil sketch being a self-portrait of the artist folding an artist’s case. Sesame and lilies is comprised of two lectures …
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![[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser's Plains district. 29 November, 1843.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5458-300x300.jpg)
# 41347
BURGESS, Francis (1793-1864)
[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser’s Plains district. 29 November, 1843.
Manuscript in ink, single sheet (225 x 185 mm); signed ‘Fras. Burgess’ and headed ‘Police Department [Hobart Town], Nov. 29 1843’, the note is addressed to ‘Chas. Schaw Esq., Magistrate’; endorsed at Richmond ‘Recd. 1/4 past 2 of pm’; verso docketed ‘CPM, 29 Nov ’43, “Bushrangers”‘; two original horizontal folds, extremely well preserved. An interesting …
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![[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph letter signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the cancellation of a Ticket of Leave pass in order to motivate convicts to assist in the capture of bushrangers. 7 April, 1843.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5461-300x300.jpg)
# 41352
FORSTER, Matthew (1796-1846)
[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph letter signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the cancellation of a Ticket of Leave pass in order to motivate convicts to assist in the capture of bushrangers. 7 April, 1843.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, quarto (250 x 220 mm), written on the first side of a bifolium; signed ‘M. Forster, 7th April 1843’ and headed ‘Police Department [Hobart Town]’, the note is addressed to ‘The P. Magistrate, Richmond’ [Charles Schaw]; verso docketed ‘CPM, 7 Apl ’43, Respg. T.L. Pass’; two original horizontal folds, extremely …
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![[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate's case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen's Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5464-300x300.jpg)
# 41356
[McKONE, Patrick]
[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate’s case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen’s Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.
Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., foolscap folio (320 x 200 mm); original folds, short tear at top edge (no loss), otherwise well preserved. Case summary prepared by an unnamed police magistrate at Flowerdale, near Wynyard, northwest Tasmania, dated 12 March 1846. ‘March 12 46. P[olice ] M[agistrate], Flowerdale. Patrick McKone, Coromandel. TL, Life. Larceny of …