Militaria
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# 24084
A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.
London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Quarto, pp. 4, single sheet, folded, a little worn. Ephemeral religious printing praising the British armed forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
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# 51567
Col. Sharom bin Hashim, Editor-in-Chief
The Malaysian Army’s battle against communist insurgency in Peninsula Malaysia 1968-1989 (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)
Kuala Lumpur : Army Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, 2001. Folio, gilt-lettered leather in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 218, illustrated. A very scarce book about guerrilla warfare in Malaysia in the twentieth century. Provenance: The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Minister of Defence …
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![[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5725-300x300.jpg)
# 51434
[Photographer unknown]
[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.
Group of 5 (five) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 85 x 130 mm format; all in good condition, the versos numbered 1 to 5 in ink in a fully contemporary hand; these numbers correspond to the five brief descriptions typed on an accompanying sheet, 160 x 200 mm, old folds but well preserved. On …
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# 50806
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
War impressions (deluxe edition, copy number 1, with original signed watercolour)
Being a record in colour by Mortimer Menpes. Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. London : Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Quarto, in a fine signed binding by Bickers of London of full levant morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling, edges slightly rubbed, morocco turn-ins with …
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# 50011
NOBEL, Alfred
Expériences avec la Nitroglycerine (Produit liquide pour l’Explosion des Mines).
Bruxelles : Alfred Nobel, chausée de Louvain 126b, le 18 juillet 1865. Lithographed invitation, single quarto sheet (270 x 210 mm), printed recto only; light old vertical and horizontal folds and diagonal crease lower left, a small amount of foxing, and a couple of tiny perforations; overall a well-preserved example. In 1865, Alfred Nobel and …
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# 51261
HAIGH, Edward (attributed)
Grand Stand on the Werribee, Victoria.
[April, 1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm, verso with contemporary manuscript caption ‘Grand Stand on the Werribee, Victoria’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 68’; both prints, as well as the mount, are …
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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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# 51029
TURNER, Alexander
Australian stages. A play in verse for radio.
Illustrated by Justin O’Brien. With a preface by George Landed Dann. Sydney : Mulga Publications, 1944. Octavo, papered boards with Justin O’Brien cover design, yapp edges with a couple of short tears, pp. x; 22, with illustrations by Justin O’Brien. The first book illustrated by Justin O’Brien, in this wartime radio play about a soldier’s …
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# 50804
Royal Corps of Signals
Jimmy. The magazine of the Royal Corps of Signals in Middle East. No. 3. Christmas 1941
[Cairo] : Royal Corps of Signals, 1941. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated, paper toned a couple of annotations, a very good copy of this scarce wartime magazine.
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# 50607
CRISP, Quentin (1908 - 1999)
All this and Bevin too
With drawings by Mervyn Peake. London : Nicholson & Watson, 1943. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small hole to upper panel, extending to a couple of leaves, lightly marked), pp. 28, illustrated by Peake. A very good copy. A satirical tract on enlistment into the military by English raconteur and queer icon Quentin Crisp. The …
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# 48666
EHLERS, Carl
Tableau of a white settler attacking an Aboriginal man. Grafton, New South Wales, 1890s.
Gelatin silver print, in uncommonly large 30 x 26.4 cm format, on original mount blind-stamped ‘Ehlers & Dalby, Grafton’; fine condition; in a later glazed frame. Like his better-known compatriot J. W. Lindt before him, German-born Carl Ehlers was a professional photographer who worked in the New South Wales Northern Rivers township of Grafton. He …
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# 50833
MADIGAN, Col; SENBERGS, Jan and WATSON, Don
Armidale ‘42 Memory and imagination : a survivor’s account (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 1999. Quarto, black cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 70, illustrated, including numerous Senberg illustrations tipped-in. The deluxe edition, specially bound in cloth with slipcase, of an unspecified edition (but less than fifteen copies), with an original signed pencil sketch by Jan Senbergs bound in. The ‘HMAS Armidale was sunk by aerial torpedoes …
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# 46852
McCRAE, George Gordon (1833-1927)
Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)
[Melbourne, c.1871]. Ink and wash on paper, 235 x 285 mm (sheet), signed in the image lower left ‘G G McCrae’, titled by the artist lower centre ‘Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)’; laid down on board. A large-scale allegorical sketch depicting Bismarck picking over the corpses of France and Liberty, by the Melbourne literary figure George …
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# 50411
LINDT, J. W. (1845–1926)
Studio portraits of an officer in one of the Victorian volunteer regiments. Melbourne, c.1885.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); versos with the highly decorative back mark of ‘J. W. Lindt, Photographer, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne. Prize Medallist Philadelphia, Paris, Sydney, Brisbane, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Christchurch, Amsterdam’; both in fine condition. The carte can be dated to around 1885 based on the …
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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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# 49876
AUSTRALIAN WAR MUSEUM (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA).
Descriptive Catalogue. Exhibition of enlargements. Official War Photographs. Sepia and natural colour.
The Official Collection which the Commonwealth Government is preserving to hand down to future generations. The photographs depict the work of the A.I.F. on Gallipoli, and in France, Belgium and Palestine. Sydney Town Hall Basement, March 4th to April 15th, 1922. Arranged by the Australian War Museum (Commonwealth Government). All proceeds to War Memorials Fund. …