Maritime
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![[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5725-300x300.jpg)
# 51434
[Photographer unknown]
[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.
Group of 5 (five) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 85 x 130 mm format; all in good condition, the versos numbered 1 to 5 in ink in a fully contemporary hand; these numbers correspond to the five brief descriptions typed on an accompanying sheet, 160 x 200 mm, old folds but well preserved. On …
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![[ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] Scott's "Discovery" Expedition (1901-04) and "Terra Nova" Expedition (1910-13), and the Shackleton-Rowett "Quest" Expedition (1921-22): a near-complete set of magic lantern slides.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5495-300x300.jpg)
# 51021
NEWTON & CO. (maker)
[ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION] Scott’s “Discovery” Expedition (1901-04) and “Terra Nova” Expedition (1910-13), and the Shackleton-Rowett “Quest” Expedition (1921-22): a near-complete set of magic lantern slides.
London : Newton & Co., [between 1922 and 1925]. Group of 38 (of 42) photographic glass magic lantern slides, in uniform 82 x 82 mm format (mount size); the outer black paper borders all neatly titled in ms. in white ink: ‘Antarctic Expeditions’, along with a sequence number in the range 1-42 (lacking nos. 22/36/37/41); …
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# 51244
SCHILDER, Gunter & KOK, Hans.
Sailing for the east. History & catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602 – 1799
Houten (The Netherlands) : Hes & De Graaf, c. 2010. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 707, extensively illustrated, CD-ROM. A detailed study of the sea routes the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) took from Europe to Asia, illustrated with maps and charts on vellum, instruments and books from the period.
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# 51418
THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828)
Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.
Upsala : J. Edman & J. Edmans enka, 1788-1793. Four volumes octavo, original uniform binding of marbled papered boards (an expected amount of rubbing), spines with leather title labels in gilt; Vol. 1: pp. [26], 390 + [2] engraved plates; Vol. 2: pp. [32], 384 + [4] plates; Vol. 3: pp. [14], 286, 289-389, 400-414; …
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# 51229
LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807,
von G. H. von Langsdorff, Kaiserlich-Russischen Hofrath, Ritter es St. Annen-Orens zweiter Classe, Mitglied mehrerer Akademien und gelehrten Gesellschaften … … Frankfurt am Mayn : Im Verlag bey Friedrich Wilmans, 1812. Two volumes, quarto (270 x 220 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners somewhat worn), spines in compartments …
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# 50759
HULSIUS, Levinus
Four German-language editions from Hulsius’ collection of voyage accounts, chronicling early Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies.
The publishing enterprise of Flemish-born scientific instrument maker, linguist, and bookseller Levinus Hulsius (1550-1606) was inspired by Theodor De Bry’s celebrated series of voyage accounts. The first volume in the collection published by the Hulsius workshop appeared in 1598; and, although Hulsius died in 1606, his publishing project was continued by his widow and heirs, with 26 …
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# 51228
MENDES PINTO, Fernão
Les voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto.
Fidelement traduicts de Portugais en François par le Sieur Bernard Figuier, Gentil-homme Portugais. Et dédiez à Monseigneur le Cardinal de Richelieu. Le contenu de la présente histoire se verra à la page suivante. Paris : Mathurin Henault, 1628. Thick quarto (230 x 170 mm), contemporary full calf, boards with double-gilt rule (minor staining, one corner restored), spine …
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# 48533
LABILLARDIERE, [Jacques Julien Houten de].
Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,
fait par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2me année de la République Francoise. Paris : Chez H. J. Jansen, an VIII de la République Francoise [1800]. Two volumes quarto plus atlas folio, the two text volumes in early quarter papered boards with gilt-lettered calf spines …
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# 50749
DRAPER, William, Sir (1721-1787)
Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction :
in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department. London : printed for J. Dodsley, 1764. Octavo, recent half calf over cloth boards with gilt rule; spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. 43; [blank]; bound with the half title (which is …
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# 50728
HOGAN, James Francis
The Irish in Australia
London : Ward & Downey, 1887. Octavo, lettered cloth (edges rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers, faded stamp to half-title, pp. [viii]; 348; [blank]; viii, text block slightly shaken, a good copy. Written mostly in Melbourne, Hogan’s history of the Irish population in Australia covers the history of Irish emigration to …
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# 51102
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …
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# 49454
LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem
Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;
et des choses a eux advenues: ensemble les conditions, les meurs, & manieres de vivres des Nations, par eux abordees. Plus les Monnoyes, Espices, Drogues, & Marchandises, & le pris d’icelles … … Amstelredam [Amsterdam] : Cornille Nicolas [Cornelius Nicolaius], 1598. Folio, later full polished calf (sunned and lightly marked), spine with raised bands and …
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![Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/02/2017_DSFB_4022-300x300.jpg)
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SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (c.1567-1625)
Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.
Amsterdami : apud Petrum Kærium, 1619. Second Latin edition. Small quarto, contemporary papered boards (rubbed); pp [8], 1-24, 17-71, nine folding maps and plates; title with large vignette of ships and a city and original owner’s annotation ‘This is in Dutch in ye. long booke pa : 145, 3 G.’; as in other copies, pages 14 and …
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# 48371
PELSAERT, Francois (c.1595-1630)
Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.
Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards; title-leaf, pp. 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile); some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves; a clean and well preserved copy, housed in a calf …
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# 48825
THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)
Relations de divers voyages curieux,
qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …
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# 49674
[FREYCINET, Rose de] MALLAC, Jacques
À Madame L. de Freycinet.
Île-de-France [Mauritius, Port-Louis] : Imprimerie de Mallac frères, 25 May 1818. Quarto (250 x 194 mm), 2 pp., letterpress, recto and verso of a single loose leaf; light horizontal fold, a fine example. This extremely rare and precious document – one of only three copies known – is a poetic tribute to the adventurer Rose …