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PTY DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS LTD PO Box 272 • Prahran • Victoria 3181 • Australia • +61 3 9510 8484 [email protected] • www.DouglasStewart.com.au Brisbane Antiquarian Book Fair liBrisFair State Library of Queensland • September 16 - 18, 2011 Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the ceremonies. Similarly Erskine’s own speech, considered for many South-East Coast of New Guinea. years as a “Declaration of Rights for New Guinea”, contrasts strongly with the text of the Proclamation itself - it looks ahead to the real ERSKINE, Commodore James E. / DYER, Augustine (photographer) benefits that the tribesmen might expect and is very specific with regard to the protection offered by Her Majesty Queen Victoria: “look # 1127 upon white persons whom the Queen permits to reside amongst you as your friends....” October to December, 1884. Sydney : Thomas Richards, 1884. [One of 500 copies]. Folio (approx. 425 x 345 mm), contemporary blue However, it is the photographs themselves, attributed to Augustine morocco, gilt, titled in gilt, spine rubbed. Map, 3 chromolithograph Dyer (1873-1923) of the NSW Printing Office, which are of prime plates (2 with multiple images), 33 original silver albumen print importance. The album is principally a visual record, a piece of photo- photographs (215 x 285 mm), one 4 sheet linen-backed folding reportage, unmatched by any comparable work of the period. No panorama (240 x 1025 mm), and one 2 sheet linen-backed panorama other account is so lavishly illustrated with so many and such large (240 x 550 mm), all bar larger panorama mounted on card with photographs, and it manages to weave topography and official printed captions. ceremony into one photographic narrative (Gael Newton, ‘Shades of Light : photography and Australia 1839-1988’, p 58). In addition “The Imperial Government ... decided to take steps to establish a to the five hundred copies produced for presentation, a special copy Protectorate over that part of the southern shores of New Guinea to was delivered to Her Majesty the Queen as “a keen supporter of the east of the territory claimed by the Netherlands, with the double photography”. object of preventing any foreign occupation of the country, and of protecting the inhabitants from aggression...” See also Robert Holden, ‘Photography in colonial Australia : the mechanical eye and the illustrated book’, pp 24-31. This declaration of the expedition’s objectives belies the tone of much of Erskine’s Narrative, which quite naturally evokes the exotic landscape and native way of life without over-focusing on the official $ 38,500.00 1 Fauns and Ladies Entrance or Exit LINDSAY, Jack LINDSAY, Norman # 217 # 220 Norman Lindsay’s original hand-worked With three original woodcuts by Norman The Bookplates of William Hunter copper plate for the etching, measuring 278 x Lindsay. GARTNER, John 206mm, created in 1938. Sydney: Hand–press of J. Kirtley, 1923. # 215 A couple of small spots of oxidisation and some faint scratches, but uncancelled, and in Folio, quarter-lambskin over papered boards, Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1943. Large very good condition. The etching was printed dustjacket (a couple of small stains). A fine octavo, buckram with insert label, essay and in an edition of 40 copies. Actual Norman copy with three signed Norman Lindsay checklist of bookplates, five original signed Lindsay etching plates are rare, and even woodcuts. Limited to 210 copies, but not all etched bookplates tipped-in. Limited to 50 more so when not cancelled. were made up. Arnold 1. copies. $ 12,500.00 $ 4,400.00 $ 1,250.00 A consideration of the art of Ernest Moffitt The NSW Bookplate Club : founders’ [Moffitt, Ernest] Leaves from a squatter’s note book brochure number 1 MAJOR, Thomas NSW Bookplate Club # 322 # 450 # 506 Melbourne: Atlas Press, 1899. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light silverfishing. London: Sands & Company, 1900. Octavo, 1932. Quarto, printed wrappers, illustrated Edition: 200 copies pictorial cloth, 202pp. Two quires loosening with four original tipped-in and signed With an original etching by Ernest Moffitt else very good. The sketches include early bookplates by Adrian Feint, four by Perrottet, Woodcuts on wrappers by Norman and Lionel massacres by the Aborigines with retaliation. and four by Gayfield Shaw. Limited to 115 Lindsay. The first Australian art monograph. Ferguson 12205. numbered copies. $ 2,750.00 $ 485.00 $ 300.00 2 The Bookplates of Norman Lindsay LANE, F.C.V. # 221 One Way Home Thirty years of an artist’s life Adelaide: The Wakefield Press, 1944. Octavo, LYSSIOTIS, Peter [LAMBERT]. LAMBERT, Am. printed wrappers, 32pp. illustrated with # 150 tipped-in bookplates and a checklist of works # 181 The career of G. W. Lambert, A.R.A. Sydney: completed. Limited to 400 copies. Society of Artists, 1938. Octavo, cloth Melbourne: the artist, 2009. Octavo, gilt- bound boards with gilt-titled morocco label, $ 675.00 lettered vellum binding with exposed cords by dustjacket (fine condition), 229pp. illustrated. master Brisbane binder Friedrich Pohlmann, Limited to 200 numbered copies. With an 92pp. hand-written, painted and printed by original signed studio photograph of Amy the artist. Limited to 10 copies plus 3 artists Lambert c. 1910 and a signed letter by her proofs. This is copy number 1. dated 1947, and other minor ephemera. A desirable copy with the signed pieces from One Way Home takes the form of a private the author – the artist’s wife. devotional codex – an intimate book for personal use much like a medieval book of $ 550.00 hours. However it becomes immediately apparent after a few pages that this is not a tribute to the Divine, but rather an internal dialogue of spiritual turmoil. I have recorded in this book the times I’ve ventured towards hope on dead seas in rotting boats – trusting these cheating tides. I make a deep hole of myself and wait to snare my God alive ... Lyssiotis asks a great metaphysical question in One Way Home – how can we continue to believe in God when we find our faith questioned by human experience? In the “The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will colophon he somewhat answers this through Dyson)” reference to the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis, the great Greek philosopher of the twentieth # 529 century who was repeatedly censured by the Church. Kazantzakis viewed Christ’s struggle Magic Pudding money tin London : Cecil Palmer, 1920. Quarto, buckram as defining human experience, and we too LINDSAY, Norman over papered boards, gilt title, 51pp., must struggle with faith, have doubt in God illustrated in black and white and colour. A and enjoy human pleasures to end up with # 1194 fine copy. Loosely enclosed, a signed letter any certainty of belief. from the publisher to Edward Dyson, Ruby’s Cast iron hand painted money tin in the shape brother in law, explaining that this work is It is essential for Lyssiotis that this book is in of the character The Magic Pudding created ‘for private circulation only … in no sense a manuscript, as each word is written it is clear by Norman Lindsay. Measures 115 mm tall. commercial undertaking’, and available only the work is a personal release for the artist. Dates circa 1920s. The tin is in two halves to subscribers. Also included, Dyson’s note to As he debates his choice between piety and which screw together to make the whole. Robert Croll, informing him he is co-ordinating humanity, Lyssiotis approaches the final truth The interior is hollow and a slit at the top the list of Australian subscribers, and engraved on Kazantzakis’s epitaph: ‘I hope for of the hat allows coins to be inserted. Some including him therein. This correspondence nothing. I fear nothing. I am free’. inevitable wear and a crack to the metal on gives reason for the rarity of The drawings of his hat. An extremely unusual and somewhat Ruby Lind, probably no more than a couple of A deeply personal work by one of Australia’s ghastly Norman Lindsay collectable from his hundred copies were printed. most well recognised creators of artists books. most famous children’s book. $ 1,500.00 $ 2,200.00 $ 375.00 3 Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art (signed) PRESTON, Margaret # 1325 contained within Art in Australia, third series, [ABORIGINES] Performing a dance (Cape number seventy-two. Sydney : John Fairfax York?) and Sons, August 1938. Quarto, original Photographer unknown green wrappers, 80 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white, a very good copy. This # 1304 example inscribed on the front free endpaper in blue ink ‘To Mrs. [George] Bell, with kind Photographic magic lantern glass slide (80 x 80 regards from Margaret Preston’. Among the mm), c 1910, with contemporary handwritten various articles and illustrations is a revised caption: “Mainland Natives Dancing”. (The piece by Preston based on a series of lectures [CHILDREN’S] Vselennaya [Universe] handwriting on the label is identical to she gave at the Art Gallery of New South GERSTAECKER, Friedrich (1816-72) that on three Torres Strait glass slides from Wales in 1938. This issue is inscribed to the the same collection, so possibly the word wife of noted modernist painter George Bell. # 1435 ‘mainland’ here refers to the Cape York / Gulf of Carpentaria region). Fine. $ 500.00 Universe : stories for children in physical, mathematical and political geography, $ 110.00 the works of F. Gerstaecker. Chief editor F. Rezenera. St. Petersburg and Moscow : M.O. Wolf, 1885. Large octavo, red cloth with superb gilt pictorial design, 624 pp, 6 chromolithographic plates, 40 wood engravings, 103 line drawings in the text and 10 maps. Text in Russian. A fine copy. Geography stories for children adapted from the works of the German traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstaecker, in particular his ‘Narrative of a Journey Round the World’ (Stuttgart, 1853-54).