Militaria
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![[SLAVERY] Theatre Royal, Derby. ... The Close of the Grand Peristrephic (or moving) Panorama of the Bombardment of Algiers. Displaying the whole of the British Fleet,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4714-300x300.jpg)
# 50868
[MARSHALL, Peter and William]
[SLAVERY] Theatre Royal, Derby. … The Close of the Grand Peristrephic (or moving) Panorama of the Bombardment of Algiers. Displaying the whole of the British Fleet,
the City as it appeared before the Battle, and the City and Batteries in Ruins as they were left on the day of the Battle, with the British Boats bringing away the Christian Slaves released from Bondage to liberty, happiness, and home … The Panorama was visited in Birmingham by 30,000 Persons, and in Nottingham …
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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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# 50837
[Photographer unknown].
Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.
[Italy : s.n., c.1915]. Gelatin print photograph printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; verso inscribed in ink: ‘Gastone Lurini’; in good condition, the verso with paper borders from an old mount. Gastone Lurini (1898-1916) was the son of Italian writer and intellectual Edmea Lurini Bernini, and older brother of Marisa Mori (1900-1985), a …
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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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# 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 …