Militaria
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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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# 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. …
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# 16576
[Bataillonschool]
Reglement op de exercitien en manoeuvres der infanterie. Derde gedeelte. Bataillonschool.
Breda, 1855 [but Dejima, 1857]. Octavo, contemporary Japanese binding of half green calf over marbled papered boards; front free-endpaper with early Japanese owner’s seal stamps in red; pp. vi, 147; Japanese inscription in kanji to rear pastedown; a few leaves with minor worming, else a good copy, housed in a gilt decorated morocco clamshell box …
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# 40306
BAYLISS, Charles (1850-1897)
Panorama of the Georges Head Battery and Sydney Harbour, looking across to North and South Head, 1874-75.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 220 x 290 mm format, window-mounted side-by-side to form a contiguous two-part panorama; some light creasing, else very good condition. Two large-format prints forming a panorama of the Georges Head Battery looking east toward the Heads, and capturing the spectacular sweep of the harbour in the middle ground. Bayliss …
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# 49967
[ABSOLON, John; GRIEVE, Thomas; TELBIN, William]
Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent Street, Pall Mall … Grand Moving Diorama, illustrating The Wellington Campaigns, with the additional pictures, The Lying in State; Funeral Procession; and Interior of St. Paul’s …
At head: Three Exhibitions Daily, during the Christmas Holidays, at 12, 3, and 8 o’Clock. London : printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, [December 1852]. Handbill, 218 x 142 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; early inscribed date of January 1853 to bottom margin; a fine example. The Duke of Wellington’s state funeral was held on 18 …
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# 49989
SEYMOUR, H. D.
Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof : being a narrative of travels in the Crimea and bordering provinces; with notices of the naval, military, and commercial resources of those countries
London : John Murray, 1855. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth (split to upper joint, chips to head of spine), binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants to yellow endpapers, frontispiece engraving, pp. xxiv; 361; five folding maps and plans, 32 (advertisements, dated January 1855), a good copy. A detailed account of the Crimea (Ukraine, Russia) published for …
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![[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_DSFB_7153-300x300.jpg)
# 49083
Peter LEE (BRITISH CONSUL, ALEXANDRIA)
[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.
[Alexandria in Egypt : British Consulate, 1823]. Lithographed pro-forma document with manuscript entries, 270 x 385 mm, on wove paper watermarked with an Eagle and FAG in roman (cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Hilversum, 1950, p. 24); embossed paper seal of the British Consulate, Alexandria in Egypt intact at lower left; signed …
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# 49285
TAYLOR, W. Cooke
A popular history of British India, commercial intercourse with China, and the insular possessions of England in the Eastern Seas.
London : James Madden & Co., 1842. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine with is rubbed), remnants of gilt lettering to spine, pp. viii; 508, internally clean, many leaves remaining unopened (a few have been roughly opened), a very good copy. With a detailed contemporary account of the war with China which saw …
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# 46943
[Anon.]
An authentic narrative of the siege of Plymouth, by the Royalist troops in the year 1643,
with various interesting particulars relating thereto, carefully reprinted from ancient documents : together with a notice of the fortifications of the town at that period, its forts, outworks walls gates, draw-bridges, &c.; and an attempt to trace and point out the existing remains of those ancient fortified barriers. Plymouth : G. P. Hearder 1843. Duodecimo, …
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# 49080
[Compiler unknown].
Persian Gulf Command.
[Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945]. Folio photograph album (320 x 255 mm), original brown textured cloth over boards with embossed silver lettering ‘Persian Gulf Command / Iran’ and embossed insignia of the Persian Gulf Command to upper board, original silk ties; [19] leaves with 268 corner-mounted gelatin silver photographs, most …
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# 49162
RUSSELL, William Howard
My diary in India, in the year 1858-9
London : Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1860. Two volumes, octavo, publisher’s cloth, canted, spines sunned, lettered in gilt, pp. xv; [blank]; 408; xi; [blank], 420, folding map of Lucknow, 12 tinted lithograph plates, a couple of small stains, a very good set. A readable and detailed account of the Indian Mutiny by Irish correspondent for …
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![[Anzac] Australians! ... From a South African girl's point of view.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/01/2025_DSFB_0208-300x300.jpg)
# 45894
[CAMPBELL, Ethel Margaret, aka "The Durban Signaller"]
[Anzac] Australians! … From a South African girl’s point of view.
[Durban : s.n., 1916-17]. Postcard, 90 x 135 mm; recto with lithographed patriotic poem titled Australians!, penned by a young Durban woman, mentioning HMAT Demosthenes, and with lines such as ‘the deathless name of “Anzac”, that thrills from Pole to Pole‘, ‘I’d rather a drunk Australian, than a wealthy Durban funk‘, and ‘We stand on the …
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# 49818
PARFITT, Iris G.J.
Jail-bird jottings : the impressions of a Singapore internee. (With provenance from a Changi P.O.W.)
[Cover title]. Also titled : Jailbird Jottings (title page). [Kuala Lumpur, Malaya] : [The Author?], printed by The Economy Printers, [1947]. First (and only) edition. Small square quarto, original stiff pictorial wrappers (lightly marked, small chip with loss at foot of spine), 84 pp, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Parfitt’s watercolours sketches made in the …