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The voyager’s companion, or shell collector’s pilot;

with instructions and directions where to find the finest shells; also for preserving the skins of animals; and the best methods of catching and preserving insects &c. &c. &c. London : printed for and sold by the author, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Fourth edition.…

DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS – Cotton canvas tote bag

Exclusive to Douglas Stewart Fine Books, this high quality canvas tote bag is the perfect accessory for any book lover. Custom designed for our bookshop with heavy, thick cotton, extra reinforced stitching and wide, comfortable canvas handles, the DSFB Tote is a quality product designed to be reused. Measurements :…

Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique.

Où se voyent les Nouvelles découvertes faites en 1739 au sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance par les Ordres de Mrs de la Compagnie des Indes. Dressée sur les Mémoires et sur la Carte Originale de Mr le Lozier Bouvet chargé de cette Expedition. Par Philippe Buache de l’Academie R.le.…

[FIRST FLEET] Midshipman Newton Fowell, on board HMS Sirius at sea, off Rio de Janeiro, 6 August 1787: autograph letter signed, addressed to his father, John Fowell.

Entire letter, 1 page, quarto, manuscript in ink on the first side of a bifolium, laid paper watermarked with Britannia and GR surmounted by crown; dated 6 August 1787 and signed N. Fowell, addressed to John Fowell Esq., Black Hall, S. Brent, Devonshire, England, with DOVER/SHIP-LRE hand-stamp on the face…

Scene on Middle Harbour, Sydney, 1858-59.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 76 x 71 mm (arch-top format), original plain white mount 84 x 172 mm, recto with an erroneous lithographically printed caption ‘Wooloomooloo [sic] Bay, Pott’s Point, Sydney’; verso blank; both albumen prints are in fine condition, although a little dark; the mount is very…

In Kewpie Land

[Melbourne? : Gordon and Gotch?, c. 1920]. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [16], printed in green and pink throughout, full-page illustrations, printed gift vignette inside upper board completed in manuscript, small splits to spine, minor stains and edge wear, a very good copy. Imprint on lower board ‘Gordon Series. Designed and…

Théatre Sarah Bernhardt : programme [L’Aiglon : drame en six actes et en vers de M. Edmond Rostand]

Paris : Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, [1900]. Octavo (210 x 130 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers with portrait of Bernhardt in profile; pp. [18], with 3-page fold-out at centre, illustrations, advertisements; upper wrapper with some light foxing and partially remnant decorative blue ribbon, contents very clean, an excellent example. Original programme for Sarah…

Gariwerd : a kit for teaching Aboriginal Rights and the history of the Grampians / Gariwerd area.

Malvern, Vic. : Action for Aboriginal Rights, 1992. Foolscap folio (300 x 210 mm), spiral-bound clear plastic over pictorial wrappers; pp. 61, [5], illustrated; plus 2 brochures and 1 leaflet for the Brambuk Living Cultural Centre in loosely inserted plastic sleeve; a very good copy. ‘Contains teachers guide, role play…

[NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.

Twenty-five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, average dimensions 100 x 63 mm (mounts), by the Wellington studios of E. S. Richards (4), Richards & Batt (1), Batt & Richards (2), W. H. Davis (7), W. J. Harding (1), Wrigglesworth (1), and Wrigglesworth & Binns (1), and the…

[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.

[Carlton, Vic.] : The Forum, 1981. Handbill, 205 x 295 mm, printed in b/w recto only; corner creasing and a few marks; unmounted. The Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum was held 17-20 April 1981 at Princes Hill High School in Carlton, Melbourne. This is a rare handbill for a benefit…

[OCCULT] Applied magic

London : The Aquarian Press ; New York : Wehman Bros., 1962. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s cream cloth with gold lettering to spine (gleaming and unmarked), in the yellow dust jacket printed in red (price-clipped, but superb); pp. viii, 110; contents immaculate, a very fine…

To commemorate the arrival of the Australian Fleet, Sydney, October 4th, 1913.

Sydney : John Sands, 1913. Quarto bifolium (295 x 205 mm), high quality textured paper, printed in colour on all four sides, the last side with statistical information on the Australia, Melbourne, Encounter, Sydney, Warrego, Parramatta and Yarra; original owner’s name to upper margin of first side, faint horizontal fold,…

BUACHE, Philippe (1700 - 1773)

Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique.

LUKE, Edmund T.

In Kewpie Land

Robert ASHTON (1950- )

Portfolio of 19 copperplate photogravure prints from the exhibition “Photogravure Images”, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 1987.

HETZER, William, fl. 1850-67

Scene on Middle Harbour, Sydney, 1858-59.

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Australian Women 1830s - 1990s

FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)

All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)

[Anon.]

[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.

SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE LTD. [Porter, Carol, artist]

[SEXUALITY] We Aim To Please : a film about female sexuality by Robin Laurie & Margot Nash.

PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

Sturt’s Desert Pea, 1925

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DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS – Cotton canvas tote bag

Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique.

[FIRST FLEET] Midshipman Newton Fowell, on board HMS Sirius at sea, off Rio de Janeiro, 6 August 1787: autograph letter signed, addressed to his father, John Fowell.

Scene on Middle Harbour, Sydney, 1858-59.

In Kewpie Land

Théatre Sarah Bernhardt : programme [L’Aiglon : drame en six actes et en vers de M. Edmond Rostand]

Gariwerd : a kit for teaching Aboriginal Rights and the history of the Grampians / Gariwerd area.

[NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.

[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.

[OCCULT] Applied magic

To commemorate the arrival of the Australian Fleet, Sydney, October 4th, 1913.

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