Politics & Law
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![[QUEEN CAROLINE AFFAIR] Fairburn's genuine edition of the death-bed confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne H*******](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_4884-300x300.jpg)
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GUERNSEY, Countess of
[QUEEN CAROLINE AFFAIR] Fairburn’s genuine edition of the death-bed confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne H*******
: developing a series of mysterious transactions connected with the most illustrious personages in the kingdom. To which are added the Q—-‘s last letter to the K—, written a few days before her M——‘s death, and other authentic documents, never before published. London : Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1821. First …
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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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# 40876
à BECKETT, William (1806 - 1869)
The magistrates’ manual for the colony of Victoria,
containing practical directions to the Justices of the Peace, in the performance of their duties, as required by the adoption of Jervis’s Acts, and the New South Wales Act of Council, 14th Vic., No. 43; by His Honour William a’Beckett, Chief Justice of Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Victoria. Melbourne : “Melbourne Morning Herald” Office, …
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# 40488
[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; overall very good condition throughout; a rare complete set of the Australian issues of one of the most significant counterculture publications of the 60s. …
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# 40263
HOGARTH, D. H.
Arabia
Spine title: A history of Arabia. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1922. First edition. Octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s navy cloth over boards (very lightly marked) with gilt-lettered spine; pp. [vi], 139, with large folding map at rear; clean throughout; front pastedown with ticket of Jerusalem bookseller Ludwig Mayer, and front endpaper with …
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![[BINDING] M. Tullii Ciceronis Familiarum Epistolarum Libri XVI.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_DSFB_3033-300x300.jpg)
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CICERO, M. Tullius (106-43 BCE)
[BINDING] M. Tullii Ciceronis Familiarum Epistolarum Libri XVI.
Cum Hubertini Crescentinatis, Martini Philetici, Iod. Badii Ascensii, Ioan. Baptistae Egnatii, & Pauli Manutii ab ipso proxime recognitis, emendatis, atq; auctis comentariis, & aliorum doctissimorum virorum, quorum nomina subscripsimus, annotationibus sparsim appositis, quibus difficillima quaeque Ciceronis loca explicantur, & mendosa corriguntur … Adiectis praeterea argumentis, & lemmatibus Giberti Longolii … … Venetiis : apud Johannem Mariam Bonellum, …
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# 39517
MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873)
Principles of political economy : with some of their applications to social philosophy.
London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. Sixth edition. Two volumes, octavo (225 x 150 mm), uniform contemporary blind-blocked green cloth (fine and unrubbed), spines with printed paper title pieces (one title piece with minor loss at one edge); pp. xvi, 617, [2 publisher’s ads.]; xv, 608; half-title of the second volume with ownership …
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# 39446
THE INTER-STATE NARCOTIC ASSOCIATION (USA)
Beware! Young and old – people in all walks of life! This may be handed you by the friendly stranger. It contains the Killer Drug “Marihuana” – a powerful narcotic in which lurks Murder! Insanity! Death!
[Chicago, Illinois : Insanity Inc., ca. 1970 ]. Poster, offset-printed, 48 x 68 cm; in fine condition, unbacked and unmounted. This anti-marijuana propaganda sheet was originally issued by the USA Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1935. It was reproduced and sold commercially around 1970, its alarmist claims and emotive language making it a ready-made piece …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Review of the Australian administration in Papua from 1907 to 1920.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_DSFB_0841-300x300.jpg)
# 38954
MURRAY, J. H. P.
[NEW GUINEA] Review of the Australian administration in Papua from 1907 to 1920.
At head of title: 1920. Melbourne : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1920. Foolscap folio (320 mm), bound in later greencloth boards with gilt-lettered spine; pp. 29, [1 index]; a very good copy. Divided into three sections, under the headings Duty towards European settlers, Finances, and Duty towards the Natives. The author of the report, Sir …
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![Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the "Preble" to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/12/15142435/2022_DSFB_8084-300x300.jpg)
# 38391
Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the “Preble” to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.
[Japan] : House of Representatives, 31st Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 84, [1850]. Octavo (225 mm), recent half black calf; pp. 44; a fine copy. In August 1848, the American whaler Lagoda was shipwrecked off Hokkaido. The 15 surviving crew were detained and taken to Nagasaki. Commander James Glynn, in the USS Preble, was …
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![[EUREKA REBELLION] Portrait of Peter Lalor, M.L.A.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/29164850/2022_DSFB_5882.jpg)
# 37108
Photographer unknown
[EUREKA REBELLION] Portrait of Peter Lalor, M.L.A.
[Title from printed caption beneath image]. Albumen print photograph, 90 x 60 mm, mounted on the recto of a leaf removed (by a previous owner!) from one of only 100 copies of W. B. Withers’ History of Ballarat which were extra-illustrated with mounted photographs; dimensions of leaf 212 x 132 mm; in fine condition. A rare …
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![[GOLD RUSH] The noble ship Manchester in great danger, From continuing the services of a Pilot of the Egyptian Bondage Sea, in lieu of a Pilot of the Service of the Free Emigration Australian Sea.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/14151214/2022_DSFB_6424.jpg)
# 37333
TAUNTON, Edmund
[GOLD RUSH] The noble ship Manchester in great danger, From continuing the services of a Pilot of the Egyptian Bondage Sea, in lieu of a Pilot of the Service of the Free Emigration Australian Sea.
[Drop-head title:] [Birmingham?] : [s.n.], [1853]. Broadside, folio sheet 430 x 280 mm, with ‘Second edition’ printed above the title at upper right; verso addressed in manuscript to The Right Honorable Viscount Palmerston, MP, Secretary, Home Department, London with the date of 3 November, and with two contemporary postal markings which record that it was sent from Birmingham on …
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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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# 37177
THOMPSON, James (editor)
The financial statements of the colonial Treasurers of New South Wales (presentation copy)
from the introduction of responsible government on the 24th November 1855, to the close of the Parliamentary session of 1880-81, on the 6th April, 1881; together with an appendix by the editor, James Thomson. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1881. Octavo, colonial binding of full crushed morocco, extensively tooled in gilt, light rubbing, all edges …
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# 37097
THE CROWN STUDIOS (SYDNEY)
Presented to the Hon. W. A. Holman, M.L.A., leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party and Premier of New South Wales, by his colleagues, in token of esteem and to wish him “Many Happy Returns of the Day”. August 4th 1914.
[Title from caption in negative]. Gelatin silver print, 370 x 280 mm, laid down on its original mount of thick board; a composite photograph with head-and-shoulder vignette portraits of all the elected MLAs of the New South Wales Labor Party, with W. A. Holman at the centre; a few tiny marks at upper left, otherwise in …
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# 35703
PORT PHILLIP. SUPREME COURT.
Warrant on Fi. Fa. in Assumpsit. Samuel Raymond Esq., Deputy Sheriff of the District of Port Phillip, in the Colony of New South Wales, to William Johnson Sugden, my Bailiff, Greeting:
Sydney : W. J. Row, Government Printer, [1842, or earlier]. Foolscap folio (335 x 210 mm), single sheet of laid paper with Britannia watermark, printed recto only, with manuscript entries; a warrant on Fieri Facias In Assumpsit empowering William Johnson Sugden, the Deputy Sheriff’s Bailiff, to recover the sum of £23 10/- 8d in damages …