Maritime
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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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# 50757
BLIGH, William
The dangerous voyage performed by Captain Bligh, with a part of the crew of His Majesty’s ship Bounty, in an open boat, over twelve hundred leages of the ocean; in the year 1789.
To which are added, an account of the sufferings and fate of the remainder of the crew of said ship. Dublin : R. Napper, 1824. Duodecimo, contemporary full calf corner and edge wear, outer front hinge with splits at head and foot), spine with gilt rule and lettering (worn at ends); edges speckled red; woodcut …
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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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# 51046
ROGGEVEEN, Jacob [MULERT, F. E., editor]
Scheepsjournaal, gehouden op het schip Tienhoven tijdens de ontdekkingsreis van Mr. Jacob Roggeveen, 1721-1722,
medegedeeld door F. E. Baron Mulert. Met eene kaart. Middelburg : J. C. & W. Altorffer, 1911. Octavo, publisher’s printed yellow wrappers; pp. 132, with a folding map at rear; text in Dutch; a very good copy. Scarce. Trove locates only the copy in the University of Melbourne Library. Regarded as the last major Dutch voyage …
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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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# 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)
# 16547
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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# 42458
[HARVEY, William, 1752-1807]
Midshipman William Harvey, sailor on all three voyages of Captain Cook : his watercolour portrait and snuff box.
Watercolour on paper, 247 x 227 mm, in an early gilded wood and gesso frame, inscribed verso Midshipman Hardy [sic] of Ct. Cook’s Ship Discovery 1779. Exhibited: Endeavour voyage: the untold stories of Cook and the First Australians. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2 June 2020 – 26 April 2021. Reference: Coates, Ian (editor). Endeavour voyage, the …
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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 …
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# 49798
VIANA, Francisco Javier de (1764-1820)
Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793.
[Also titled: Diario del viage explorador de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida”, en los años de 1789 á 1794]. Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. Octavo, quarter crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (small expert restorations to head and foot of spine); marbled endpapers; …
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# 47061
HARDY, Thomas
Portrait of Henry Daniel Skinner, painted just before his departure from England for Port Phillip in 1852; accompanied by his waistcoat (as worn in the portrait).
Gouache and watercolour on paper, 24.0 x 20.5 cm (sight), signed by the artist l.r.; in fine condition, housed in a nineteenth-century bird’s-eye maple frame with original cover glass; [ACCOMPANIED BY] the embroidered silk waistcoat worn by Skinner in the portrait, approx. 50 x 40 cm (irregular), remarkably well preserved. Souvenirs of a young Englishman’s …
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# 50594
BATCHELDER & CO.
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.
Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …
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![[CRIMEAN WAR] Free frank front signed by Lord FitzRoy Somerset, later Field Marshal and 1st Baron Raglan, one of the main protagonists in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_4093-300x224.jpg)
# 50591
SOMERSET, FitzRoy James Henry
[CRIMEAN WAR] Free frank front signed by Lord FitzRoy Somerset, later Field Marshal and 1st Baron Raglan, one of the main protagonists in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854.
Free frank front, 85 x 125 mm, dated at London, 8 December 1828, addressed to ‘Mrs. Cuffe, St. Wolston’s, Celbridge, Ireland’, and signed lower left ‘FitzRoy Somerset’; laid down on a section cut from a leaf removed from a nineteenth-century autograph album (see note on provenance below), with an annotation by the album’s compiler identifying the …
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# 50377
PHILLIP, Arthur
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island;
Compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments. To which are added, the Journals of Lieutenants Shortland, Watts, Ball and Captain Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. The views &c. &c. drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. Dublin : Printed for …