Maritime
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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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![Década primeira [-terceira] da Asia de João de Barros dos feitos que os Portugueses fizerão no descobrimento & conquista dos mares & terras do Oriente. [WITH] Quarta década da Asia de João de Barros ...](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3786-300x300.jpg)
# 50134
BARROS, João de
Década primeira [-terceira] da Asia de João de Barros dos feitos que os Portugueses fizerão no descobrimento & conquista dos mares & terras do Oriente. [WITH] Quarta década da Asia de João de Barros …
Lisbon : Jorge Rodriguez, 1628 (complete second edition of the first three Décadas) ; Madrid : na Impressão Real, 1615 (first edition of the fourth Década). Four volumes, folio (300 x 205 mm, the fourth volume slightly taller), uniform early twentieth-century bindings of gilt-ruled quarter black morocco over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments lettered and …
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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 …
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# 38356
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 48671
[EAST INDIA COMPANY]
A remonstrance of the Directors of the Netherlands East India Company,
presented to the Lords States Generall of the united Provinces, in defence of the said Company, touching the bloudy proceedings against the English Merchants, executed at Amboyna. Together, with the Acts of the Processe, against the sayd English, and the Reply of the English East India Company, to the said Remonstrance and Defence. Published by …
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![The Emigrants' Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_1583-300x300.jpg)
# 49774
[THEOBOLD & CO.]
The Emigrants’ Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)
[London : Theobold & Co, c.1900]. Complete set of twelve magic lantern glass slides, uniform 82 x 82 mm format, illustrated by the chromolithographic transfer process; numbered printed caption labels to top edges of mounts; one slide is lacking its label, another has a diagonal hairline crack across the front glass, otherwise the set is …
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# 48548
HEIDEN, Frans Janszoon van der
Vervarelyke schip-breuk van’t Oost-Indische jacht ter Schelling onder het landt van Bengale
Harderwiljk : Dirk en Jan Rampen, 1707. Quarto, contemporary vellum; pp. [1]-81 (Vervarelyke schip-breuk), 82-96 (accounts of Arakan, Martavan, Tanassery, Bengal, and the Pathans); title with woodcut vignette of Terschelling during the fateful storm in the Bay of Bengal, a further [18] woodcuts in the text; [BOUND WITH] Joosten, Jaques. De kleyne wonderlijke wereld, waar onder …
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# 48416
[PERRY, Matthew C.]
Japan Expedition Press : three printings made on board United States Steam Frigate “Powhatan” and “Mississippi”, dated May 8th, June 28th and September 4th, 1854.
Three rare Japan Expedition Press imprints printed in Hong Kong and at sea, including the critically important letter from Perry to the Emperor of Japan, accompanying the letter from the President of the United States. Printed at sea on board the U.S.S. Powhatan off the coast of Japan in May, 1854, on the small press supplied …
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# 50099
ANSON, George, Baron (1696-1762); WALTER, Richard
A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. (Large paper copy)
By George Anson Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty’s ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from the papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s ship the Centurion, in that expedition. …
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# 50100
STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)
Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.
London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …
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# 50219
INGLETON, Geoffrey C.
Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker
Foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Guildford, Surrey [U.K.] : Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986. Large quarto, publisher’s green cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, upper board with pictorial onlay of Flinders’ Investigator and Baudin’s Le Géographe, front endpapers with map, rear endpapers illustrated with …
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# 50218
PARKIN, Ray
H.M. Bark Endeavour : her place in Australian history.
With an account of her construction, crew and equipment and a narrative of her voyage on the east coast of New Holland in the year 1770. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press (MUP), 1999. Reprint. With plans, charts and illustrations by the author. Quarto, two volumes in slipcase, pp. 468, 25 maps, a few very small spots of …
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# 50217
TERRY, Martin (editor)
The voyage of the Batavia
By François Pelsaert ; reissued with a translation from the original Dutch and a commentary by Martin Terry. Sydney : Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1994. Octavo, quarter green Scottish calf over marbled papered boards (edges lightly rubbed), title label to spine, pp. xxiii, 161, folding plates, a couple of …
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# 12308
HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)
The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea
or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by …