Maritime
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# 41601
FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754-1794)
Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.
Öfversättning. Nyköping : J. P. Hammarin, 1795. Octavo (170 x 107 mm), disbound; pp. 96 (including title-page); text in Swedish; scattered light foxing, a vertical tear in the fore-edge margin of p. 15; title-page with contemporary ink signature. Slightly abridged Swedish translation (by Carl Fr. Landell) of Forster’s 1793 German version of the voyage account of Surville, …
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# 41308
WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD. [ARBUCKLE, WADDELL, printers]
Wilhelmsen Line / Norwegian Australian Line … The fast motor ship “Thermopylae” will be despatched … from Melbourne about 14th April, 1938 …
Melbourne : Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd., printers [for Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd.], [1938]. Proof printing for an advertising flyer (160 x 215 mm), printed in blue on buff card, marked ‘Sample’ in manuscript at top right corner along with the wet stamp of Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd.; small loss at top left corner, otherwise …
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# 41351
INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman.
True Patriots All, or, News from Early Australia, as told in a collection of broadsides. (Deluxe edition with three signed etchings – the Coles copy)
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1952. Quarto, gilt-titled half-calf over buckram (small mark to upper board), 280pp. reproducing illustrated broadsides with Australian content. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 signed copies (this is copy number 15), bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, and containing three original etchings signed by Ingleton. An exploration on ephemeral early printings …
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# 36977
HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James
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 by the several commanders, and …
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# 40313
[GREAT BRITAIN. ROYAL NAVY]
A List of His Majesty’s Royal Navy. Navy Office, 1st October 1794.
Large octavo (230 x 150 mm), in the original Admiralty-style binding of straight-grain red morocco with elaborate gilt border incorporating stars, wreaths and cornerpieces, spine gilt in six compartments; inner dentelles; all edges gilt; original marbled endpapers; engraved title-page with date in manuscript 1st October 1794 (although the list has additions to 1801); 200 pp., …
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# 29235
KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy.
In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …
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![[WESTERN DISTRICT; MARITIME] Ledger book of James Henty & Co., Melbourne, 1873-5.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_DSFB_4677-300x300.jpg)
# 41026
[SANDS & McDOUGALL, manufacturing stationers]
[WESTERN DISTRICT; MARITIME] Ledger book of James Henty & Co., Melbourne, 1873-5.
Large heavy folio, 480 x 330 x 130 mm, weighing 16 kg (!); original binding of reverse calf over heavy boards, external leather bands with decorative lacing patterns (some light staining and edge wear), spine with red and green morocco title-pieces stamped in gilt ‘LEDGER’ / ‘J.H. & CO.’ / ‘No. 5’, and with the Sands & …
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# 40355
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875)
Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.
Manuscript in brown ink, 2 pp., octavo (200 x 135 mm), on wove paper watermarked ‘MARION’; headed ‘Toulon, 16 September 1835’, and signed at the foot ‘C. Laplace’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient (but the content makes it clear it is addressed to a representative of the Imprimerie Royale, the publisher of his …
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# 39212
RIEMER, Gustav Adolf (1842-1899)
Group of original photographs from a Prussian expedition to the Far East and South Seas, 1874-77.
Six stereoscopic albumen print photographs, individual images 68 x 68 mm, mounted in identical pairs to the back of the original embossed mounts of thin black card, each 85 x 175 mm, rectos with the photographer’s original pencilled sequence numbers at lower right corners, versos with later pencilled sequence numbers corresponding to the numbers of …
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# 40262
SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)
The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.
/ By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …
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# 39535
DALRYMPLE, Alexander
An account of the discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean
By Alexander Dalrymple, first printed in 1767, reissued with a foreword by Kevin Fewster and an essay by Andrew Cook. Sydney : Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1996. Octavo, full blue calf, lettered and ruled in gilt, blind embossed, pp. 47, xxxi, 103., [5] leaves of folded plates. The deluxe edition, …
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![[NAPOLEONIC WARS] A captured British sailor's petition to the prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, written at the depot for British prisoners of war at Givet, northeast France in September, 1813.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1968-300x300.jpg)
# 39526
HARE, Joseph
[NAPOLEONIC WARS] A captured British sailor’s petition to the prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, written at the depot for British prisoners of war at Givet, northeast France in September, 1813.
Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 1 page (240 x 195 mm); headed ‘Depot of British Prisoners at Givet in France, September 6th 1813’, the document is a petition by an imprisoned British naval seaman, Joseph Hare, formerly of HMS Hussar, to the Royal Navy’s prize commissioners at Greenwich Hospital, requesting that the share of …
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# 38510
RITCHIE, Edward Samuel; [GIBBS, Robert]
Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.
New Bedford, Massachusetts : E. S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman’s Buildings, No. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. Octodecimo (160 x 100 mm), original leather-backed stiff wrappers (stained, small loss to leather at tail of spine), the upper wrapper lettered in black and inscribed in ink – evidently in …
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# 38017
DEGOTARDI, John, senior (1823-1882)
View of Sydney looking across Darling Harbour towards Flagstaff Hill from Balmain, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, 133 x 205 mm, blind-stamped bottom right ‘DEGOTARDI / SYDNEY’; on original mount of thin card with contemporary printed caption label ‘Sydney, from Balmain’; the print has faded, otherwise good condition; matted.
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![[HAWAII; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; CHINA] Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvästra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789, af Johan Meares. Sammandrag utur engelska originalet.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/10/18160507/2017_DSFB_4600-300x300.jpg)
# 30091
MEARES, John (c.1756 - 1809)
[HAWAII; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; CHINA] Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvästra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789, af Johan Meares. Sammandrag utur engelska originalet.
Stockholm : Hos kamereraren J.S. Ekmanson, på Bokhandl. Mag. I. Utters Förlag, 1797. Small octavo, contemporary half mottled calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; pp [12], 404; text in Swedish; heavily scored early ownership signature to bottom margin of title page, with resultant …
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![[DARWIN]. H.M.S. Suffolk : third commission on the China Station 1933-1935](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16103309/2015_DSFB_4897-300x300.jpg)
# 12056
[HOWARD, R.G.]
[DARWIN]. H.M.S. Suffolk : third commission on the China Station 1933-1935
Cover title: H.M.S. Suffolk “Nous maintiendrons”. Hong Kong : privately printed, [1935]. Royal octavo, blue faux leather, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, illustrated title page, 164 pp, with many photographic illustrations and sketches, maps, a near fine copy. Scarce. A record of the Royal Navy cruiser H.M.S. Suffolk‘s third commission on the China …