Maritime
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# 27128
SIDDALL, J.B.
H.M. Special Service Squadron. Visit to South Australia, March 10 to 15, 1924 : memento
Cover: With compliments and Greetings from the Citizens. Adelaide : J.B. Siddall, [1924]. Small octavo (180 x 117 mm), pictorial wrappers printed in sepia (mild foxing), lower wrapper with street map of Adelaide, inner wrappers with [2] sepia photographic plates; contains a concertina foldout with [18] black and white photographic views and [1] reproduction of …
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# 26003
ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.
London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. ‘The Orient Steam Navigation Company …
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![[GOLD RUSH] For San Francisco, California. To Sail on the 25th of July, Positively. The First Class American Packet Ship “Louisa,” ...](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/03/26163936/2020_DSFB_1795-300x300.jpg)
# 25206
ADAMS & CO. (MELBOURNE)
[GOLD RUSH] For San Francisco, California. To Sail on the 25th of July, Positively. The First Class American Packet Ship “Louisa,” …
Fare to San Francisco : Steerage, £25. No Cabin Passengers taken. Freight taken at lower rates. For Freight or Passage, apply to Adams & Co., 69, Collins Street, West, Melbourne. Melbourne : Goodhugh & Trembath, 48, Flinders Lane, East, and 174, Elizabeth Street, [1854]. Clipper ship sailing card, 227 x 144 mm, printed recto only …
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# 22229
CHAMBERLAYNE, I. (Israel) (1795-1875)
The Australian Captive; or, An Authentic Narrative of fifteen years in the life of Wm. Jackman. In which, among various other adventures, is included a forced residence of a year and a half among the cannibals of Nuyts’ Land, on the coast of the Great Australian Bight. Also including, with other appendices, Australia and its Gold, from the latest and best authorities…
New York : C. M. Saxton, 1859. Third edition. Small octavo, original blind blocked black coth over boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine slightly rolled, front joint with short split in cloth); 2 lithographed frontispiece portraits of Jackman depicted in western clothing and as a naked “captive” (the first with small portion of loss at …
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# 25726
DOOLEY, Gillian and Danielle CLODE
The first wave : exploring early coastal contact history in Australia
Mile End, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2019. Large octavo (234 x 136 mm) trade paperback, pp x, 448, colour illustrations, maps; brand new publication. ‘The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or …
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# 24588
ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Orient Line to England : list of passengers and general information. R.M.S. Orama … from Brisbane … Sydney … Melbourne … Adelaide … Fremantle … September 1935.
[Sydney] : Orient Steam Navigation Company, [1935]. Octavo (186 x 127 mm), original red wrappers with embossed gold lettering to front (a few light marks), staple bound, [16] pp, text printed in black and red with decorative borders in red at top and bottom margins; internally pristine, a very good copy. The 20,000 ton Royal …
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![[MANUSCRIPT] Campagne de la Corvette à Voiles l'Alcméne. Commandée par Mr. Coudein, Capitaine de Frégate, à destination des Mers du Sud et Océanie.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/05/17161908/2017_DSFB_1800-300x220.jpg)
# 15736
Gendron, Ernest
[MANUSCRIPT] Campagne de la Corvette à Voiles l’Alcméne. Commandée par Mr. Coudein, Capitaine de Frégate, à destination des Mers du Sud et Océanie.
[Libourne, France, between 1882 and 1887]. Folio, 270 x 215 mm, manuscript, [159] pp, in 4 stitched sections of 23, 38, 48 and 50 pages respectively, the third section with 2 pencil and wash drawings in the text, the fourth section with 3 pencil and wash drawings in the text and one laid down on thick paper (a …
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# 23932
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
Merchant sailors. (An essay by Mary Leman Grimstone published in Tait’s Edinburgh Journal, 1835).
Edinburgh : William Tait, 1835. Two pages small quarto (260 x 160 mm), disbound from Tait’s Edinburgh Journal (pp 451-52), printed initials M.L.G. at the foot of the text; fine. English writer and feminist Mary Leman Grimstone (1796-1869) wrote what are arguably the first two Australian novels. These were her second and third novels, Louisa …
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![[MANUSCRIPT] Louis XV forbids his subjects to conduct commerce in the South Seas.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/18215931/2013_DSFB_4546-300x189.jpg)
# 5437
[PHILIPPE, DUC D'ORLEANS; LOUIS XV, KING OF FRANCE]
[MANUSCRIPT] Louis XV forbids his subjects to conduct commerce in the South Seas.
Manuscript letter, single folio sheet, dated 16 February 1716, signed Louis (in the hand of Louis XV’s secretary), countersigned by Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis de La Vrillière, Secretary of State, addressed to Cardin Le Bret, member of the parliament of Provence and nephew of the regent, the Duc d’Orléans, stating that a royal edict has been sent …
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![[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Admiral Charles Baudin : autograph letter signed, to Casimir Gide, dated February 1841](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16130026/2015_DSFB_5428-237x300.jpg)
# 12254
BAUDIN, Charles (1784-1854)
[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Admiral Charles Baudin : autograph letter signed, to Casimir Gide, dated February 1841
A letter relating to the publication of Dumont d’Urville’s account of his second voyage in the Astrolabe, one of the most important Pacific and Antarctic voyages of the nineteenth century. Manuscript in ink, single sheet, quarto, headed Paris, 4 février 1841, a note from Admiral Charles Baudin, commander of the French fleet in Central and …
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# 21618
OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.
1896 / 1897. Joint Schedule showing sailing of steamers of the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. between San Francisco and Yokohoma and Hongkong.
(Including calls at Honolulu, Nagasaki, Hiogo (Kobe) and Shanghai). At head of sheet: United States, Japan and China. San Francisco : Occidental & Oriental S.S. Co., 421 Market Street, September 26, 1896. Lithographed broadsheet, 400 x 230 mm, printed recto only; original folds, in fine condition.
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# 21159
[WOODARD, David]
Extraordinary hardships and adventures of Captain David Woodard.
And five companions, who lost their vessel, the resistance, and afterwards their boat at sea, including their escape from the Malays, after captivity of near three years, and the horrid murder of Archibald Millar, one of the above party. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, [1808]. Octavo, later plain wrappers, LACKING the aquatint frontispiece, pp. 28, …
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![[WHALING] Letter written from Auckland, New Zealand to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/04/26170751/2017_DSFB_0856-300x300.jpg)
# 15422
BAIN & BURTT; [GIBBS, Alexander]
[WHALING] Letter written from Auckland, New Zealand to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853
Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed ‘Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853’, addressed to ‘Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford’; signed at the foot ‘Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt’; outer side with address panel, endorsed ‘via New York’, with ‘LONDON / …
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![[LA PEROUSE] Loi relative à M. De la Peyrouse, et à l’impression des Cartes par lui envoyées.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/J3_26-300x231.jpg)
# 21158
[LA PÉROUSE]. ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE.
[LA PEROUSE] Loi relative à M. De la Peyrouse, et à l’impression des Cartes par lui envoyées.
Donnée à Paris, le 4 Mai 1791. Melun [Département de Seine et Marne] : Tarbé, 1791. Quarto, 4pp, letterpress, stitch-bound with a number of other pieces of legislation from the period, without further binding; in crisp, fine condition. This decree by the Assemblée Nationale is the official order to bring forth all documents and manuscripts …
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# 21090
BEIT, Henry (1826-1881); SANDILANDS, Edward Vincent (1847-1871); GUTSCHMID, Felix von (1843-1905)
Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E.V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.
Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably made when Sandilands had been …
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# 20065
The young sailor, or the sea-life of Tom Bowline.
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, n.d. [c. 1856]. Duodecimo, printed salmon wrappers with woodcut vignette, 16 pp., illustrated with wood-engravings including a title vignette, 1 text & 5 full-page illustrations. “Third Series–No. 8” on the front wrapper. A crisp copy. Chapbook tale of young Tom, who is drawn to the sea, and sails on the ship …