Maritime

# 38391

Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the “Preble” to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.

[Japan] : House of Representatives, 31st Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 84, [1850]. Octavo (225 mm), recent half black calf; pp. 44; a fine copy. In August 1848, the American whaler Lagoda was shipwrecked off Hokkaido. The 15 surviving crew were detained and taken to Nagasaki. Commander James Glynn, in the USS Preble, was …

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# 37921

Photographer unknown.

Dawes Battery, Sydney, circa 1875.

[Title from caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, 127 x 190 mm, laid down on a 19th-century album page, with manuscript caption in ink to lower margin; slight darkening at corners caused by the original mounting glue, otherwise in very good condition.

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# 38505

RIENITS, Rex and Thea

Early artists of Australia

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. A valuable survey of the first European artworks of the Australian continent, including chapters on Cook’s artists, the First Fleet, Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans, early Tasmanian …

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# 6465

THOMPSON, R. Wardlaw

[MISSIONS] My trip in the “John Williams”

London : London Missionary Society, 1900. First edition. Royal octavo, pictorial cloth (fine and bright), spine lettered in gilt, xii, 208 pp, 62 illustrations, edges with very mild flecking, internally clean and sound, a near fine copy. Account of the voyage of the missionary ship John Williams to New Guinea, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, Fiji, Niue, …

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# 37963

AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD

Official handbook containing information regarding the Ports of Auckland (Waitemata) and Manukau

Auckland : Auckland Harbour Board, December 1915. Octavo, illustrated cloth, pp. 55, double page photographs of Auckland Harbour and the Departure of the American Fleet in 1908, photographic plates, large colour folding maps, a very good copy.

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# 37427

SKIRVING, Robert Scot (1859-1956)

[MARITIME] Wire splicing for yachtsmen

/ by R. Scot Skirving, an old “Conway”. Drawings by J. Hazelton and photographs by E. A. Bradford. Sydney : The Australasian Medical Publishing Company, Limited, 1931. Octavo (215 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial papered boards with vignette illustration of the 1870s sailing ship HMS Conway to upper board (both boards sunned at edges), pp. 34, …

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# 29580

STOW, J[efferson]. P[ickman]. (1830 - 1908)

The voyage of the Forlorn Hope 1865.

Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., 1894. Octavo, lettered wrappers (chipped and torn with loss to spine, repaired by an expert paper conservator), title page with silverfishing and loss, conserved with Japanese tissue, presentation inscription from the author’s daughter to Alfred Rowan dated at Adelaide, 1907 (some loss to the inscription), pp. [vi], 42, (2 …

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# 35527

[NEW CALEDONIA. CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT]

[NEW CALEDONIA] “Congé de mer” (maritime passport), issued to the indigenous female owner of a commercial vessel in the Loyalty Islands, 1903.

[Nouméa], Nouvelle Calédonie : Service des Douanes, 1903. Single sheet, 480 x 250 mm, printed recto and verso, with manuscript entries recording that the permit – valid for one year – was issued on 24 July 1903 to ‘femme indigène Kaïpiane’, resident of the Loyalty Islands and owner of the “Chanedra”, a cutter of 10 tons; entries …

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# 29076

BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)

Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

: contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …

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# 29091

BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine, Comte de (1729-1811)

A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769.

/ by Lewis de Bougainville, Colonel of Foot, and Commodore of the Expedition, in the Frigate La Boudeuse, and the Store-dhip L’Etoile. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. London : Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Davies, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, in Russel-Street, Covent-garden, …

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# 30173

VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;

in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty’s command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop …

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# 34682

GIBSON, Lavinia (née Featherstone) (1823-1888)

Commonplace book of Lavinia Gibson (Featherstone), wife of Hugh Gibson of Glenample Station, southwest Victoria, containing important ephemera relating to the Loch Ard shipwreck, including the earliest known eyewitness sketch of the disaster scene (by F. H. Bruford, customs officer) and an autograph signed note by Eva Carmichael (Townshend), one of the only two survivors.

Small quarto album (235 x 190 mm), original binding of embossed burgundy morocco ruled in gilt (boards a trifle scuffed), spine decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; first blank with a gift inscription to Lavinia Featherstone (later Gibson) from Annabella Helen Gibson (later Sloane), her future sister-in-law, dated 1 January 1855: ‘Give me …

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# 35725

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay’s ship models (original prospectus)

[Sydney] : Angus and Robertson, [1966]. Prospectus for the book, single sheet, folded twice, illustrated. Very scarce prospectus for a book detailing the models which were an enduring passion for Norman Lindsay. Fine copy.

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# 32508

Photographer unidentified.

Hobart Town, looking south [and] Hobart Town, from the harbour. A pair of two-part panoramas, 1876-1881.

Two photographic panoramas mounted on three leaves removed from a mid-19th century album. Approximate dating based on the fact that in one of the prints the lantern tower is missing from St. Mary’s Cathedral (the tower was removed in 1876 and the cathedral was closed until 1881). I. Hobart Town looking south / Tasmania. [View of …

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# 34608

Visit of His Majesty’s Special Service Squadron : official programme : Tasmania March 27 – April 5, 1924.

Hobart : John Vail, Govt. Printer, [1924]. Large octavo (257 x 163 mm), grey wrappers printed in blue, [16] pp, with b/w photomechanical process illustrations; a fine example. Trove locates only one copy (Libraries Tasmania)

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# 34174

FREEMAN, William (1809–1895)

Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Fredk. Metaxa’; verso imprinted ‘Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon & Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor’; the print has …

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