The Innocents 1925

Etching, engraving and stipple on paper, 352 x 302 mm, signed lower right, titled lower centre, edition no. 49 of 55 copies lower left, framed in black timber with gold trim. A fine original etching by Norman Lindsay featuring a knight suited in armour approaching a dancing maiden, surrounded by…

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3 inch globe by W. & A. K. Johnston Limited

Edinburgh and London : W. & A. K. Johnston Limited, [ca.1870]. Terrestrial pocket globe, 3 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with a recent shellac applied for protection, two metal pins resting the globe in a fine…

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Landscape, 1972

Mixed media on paper, 50 x 75 cms, signed lower right Nolan, finely framed in timber with gilt leaf and timber slip. A distinctive image of the central Australian landscape by the iconic Australian painter Sidney Nolan at the height of his career, exhibited as the first painting in his…

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A natural history of the birds of New South Wales, collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature.

Illustrated with twenty-six plates. London : J. H. Bohte, 1822 [but 1826 or later]. Folio, 366 x 262 mm, original publisher’s binding of half straight-grained red morocco, gilt-lettered to spine ‘Lewin’s Birds’, expertly re-backed and re-cornered, original grey papered boards, engraved paper title label to front panel, a few light…

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[COOK] Newton’s new & improved terrestrial pocket globe 1817

London : John Newton, 1st January 1817. Terrestrial pocket globe, 3 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with a recent wax applied for protection, two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher’s shagreen case, titled…

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Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.

Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II  reversed by the binder, a…

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The three voyages of Captain James Cook

1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept…

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Davide Sorrenti Polaroids

London : IDEA Books, 2020. Octavo, buckram spine, paperd flushcut boards, photograph insert, pp. 160, photobook. As new copy, still sealed in shrinkwrap. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Designed and edited by Francesca Sorrenti. ‘Davide Sorrenti Polaroids. A book of instantly unforgettable Polaroid photographs taken by Davide Sorrenti…

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A walk in Sydney streets on the shady side

: 20 sketches / drawn, lithographed and published by Nelson P. Whitelocke. Cover title: The streets of Sydney from the shady side. Sydney : Nelson P. Whitelocke, [1885]. Folio (390 x 300 mm), original gilt-ruled half black morocco over brown pebbled cloth, upper board with title lettered in gilt within…

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Australian portrait photographs, 1860s - 1920s

YEOMAN, Richard

Woman dressed as a blind fortune teller. Emerald Hill (South Melbourne), 1882.

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BROWN, Joseph Lyne

Studio portrait of a lady in a fine taffeta dress. Singleton, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, circa 1862.

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YEOMAN & CO.

Members of the Moy Sing family. Melbourne, circa 1890.

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BATCHELDER & O'NEILL

Studio portrait of a magnificently dressed lady with bottle curls. Melbourne, 1862-3.

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New Acquisitions November 2023

MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts (complete set)

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[BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean-Anthelme (1755-1826)]

Physiologie du gout

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BARDIN, William (c.1740-1798)

Wright’s new improved terrestrial globe,

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KANN, Charles Albert (1813-1866)

[GOLD RUSH] Australien och dess guldregioner : tillförlitliga underrättelser för utwandrare till Australien, i synnerhet med afseende på öfwerfart, ankomst, bosättning och guld-gräfning.

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Featured: Teeming with Life. John Olsen : his complete graphics 1957 – 2023

exclusively available for sale from Douglas Stewart Fine Books.

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$10 Black Friday Renovation Sale

We will be renovating our bookshop in early 2024, and rather than pack boxes of books and send them into storage, we would prefer to see them go to our customers.

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