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![[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Oratione fatta in Roma alla presenza del sommo Pontefice Gregorio XIII. Dal molto R. P. Guasparri Consalvi Portughese, Sacerdote Theatino, à stanzia delli Re, & Legati Giapponesi.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/01/2026_DSFB_0403-300x300.jpg)
# 49441
GONÇALVES, Gaspar; GHETTINI, Agostini (translator)
[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Oratione fatta in Roma alla presenza del sommo Pontefice Gregorio XIII. Dal molto R. P. Guasparri Consalvi Portughese, Sacerdote Theatino, à stanzia delli Re, & Legati Giapponesi.
Et novamente posta in luce ridotta dal latino in lingua volgare da Agostino Ghettini studente in Fiorenza. In Firenze : A stanza di Francesco Dini da Colle, [1585]. Quarto (210 x 140 mm), old full calf with gilt lettering to upper board, spine with raised bands; [6] leaves; title with woodcut coat of arms of …
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# 49683
Sande, Duarte de; d'Almeyda, Antonio; Coelho, Gaspar; Fróis, Luís, et al.
Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl’anni M. D. LXXXIX & M. D. XC.
Scritte al R. P. Generale della Compagnia di GIESV. Milan : Pacifico Pontio, 1592. Duodecimo, later papered card covers; early manuscript title to bottom edge ‘Lettere del Giapone’; pp. 214 (last three pages misnumbered 112-113-114); title with woodcut Jesuit device and early ownership inscription; decorated initials; contents crisp and clean, a very good example.. A …
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![[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Breve relatione del consistoro publico, dato àgli Ambasciadori Giapponesi : dalla buona memoria](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/04225714/2016_DSFB_1996-202x300.jpg)
# 13684
Gonsalves, Gaspar, 1540-1590; Boccapaduli, Antonio, 1530-1593
[TENSHŌ EMBASSY] Breve relatione del consistoro publico, dato àgli Ambasciadori Giapponesi : dalla buona memoria
della Santità di Papa Greg. XIIIj. in Roma, il dì 23. di Marzo 1585 : con l’arriuo fatto in Pisa, & la riceuuta fattagli da S.A.S. per tutto il suo felicissimo stato : et di nuouo baciati li piedi alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V. In Firenze : Dalle scalee di Badia, 1585. …
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# 13319
LUCENA, João de (1550-1600)
Historia da vida do Padre Francisco de Xavier, e doque fizerão na India os mais Religiosos da Companhia de Iesu.
Lisboa [Lisbon] : Impresso per Pedro Crasbeeck, 1600. Small folio, contemporary vellum; engraved title-page, pp [vi], 908, [38]; [2] copperplate engraved portraits of Francis Xavier, and a copperplate of Francis Xavier’s tomb; woodcut initials; text in double columns; loss to margins of pp 183-86, a few light stains; housed in a magnificent custom clamshell box by …
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![[WINE] Studio portrait of John Charles Johnston of Craiglee Vineyard, Sunbury, Victoria, late 1860s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_DSFB_6557-300x300.jpg)
# 45812
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.
[WINE] Studio portrait of John Charles Johnston of Craiglee Vineyard, Sunbury, Victoria, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); recto inscribed in ink in a fully contemporary hand in the lower margin: ‘J. C. J. … Sunbury’; verso inscribed in the same hand ‘John Charles Johnston’, and with the gilt back mark of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street …
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# 49558
SHEARSTON, John S.
H.M.S. “Nelson” : an account of her first commission on the Australian Station. The voyage out – arrival at Sydney – description of the ship – cruises and doings out here; with a detailed account of the establishment of British protectorate at New Guinea in 1884.
Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885. First edition. Octavo (212 x 142 mm), original printed pink wrappers (light stains); pp.78; title-page with off-setting, else contents clean and sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An albumen print photograph (c.1885) by Charles Bayliss of HMS Nelson alongside the ferry Brighton in Sydney Harbour, inscribed verso in period hand ‘From …
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# 50097
AP HUW, D. Ap G.
Gwlad yr aur, neu, Gydymaith yr ymfudwr Cymreig i Australia :
yn cynwys, hanes y cyfandir australaidd, y trefedigaethau prydeinig ynddo, ac ardaloedd yr aur, eu tir, hinsawdd, masnach, cyflogau, deddfau, &c., &c.; yn nghyda lluaws o ffeithiau o ddyddordeb a phwys arbenig i’r ymfudwr. Gan D. Ap. G., Ap Huw, Feddyg. Caernarfon (Wales) : H. Humphreys, [1852]. Octavo, printed wrappers (neatly detached, chipped), folding frontispiece …
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# 48653
CARDIM, Antonio Francisco (1596-1659)
Relaçam da Viagem do Galeam Saõ Lourenço, e sua perdiçaõ nos bayxos de Moxincale em 3 de Septembro de 1649.
Escrita pelo Padre Antonio Francisco Cardim da Companhia de JESUS, Procurador ge[ne]ral da Provincia do Japaõ. A Manoel Severim de Faria. Em Lisboa : por Domingos Lopes Roza, 1651. Small quarto, modern panelled calf, both boards embellished with a gilt cross at centre; pp. 43, [1 blank]; title with woodcut device (the leaf repaired at …
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# 50248
LOUIS XV, King of France
Lettres patentes concernant les Missions Étrangères.
[France, c.1773]. Manuscript in ink, [5] pp., folio; extremely well preserved; bound in modern papered boards with gilt-lettered red leather title label to the front; ex libris label of H. P. Kraus to front pastedown. One of the most important institutions in the history of evangelisation in Asia, the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP), or …
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![The Emigrants' Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_1583-300x300.jpg)
# 49774
[THEOBOLD & CO.]
The Emigrants’ Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)
[London : Theobold & Co, c.1900]. Complete set of twelve magic lantern glass slides, uniform 82 x 82 mm format, illustrated by the chromolithographic transfer process; numbered printed caption labels to top edges of mounts; one slide is lacking its label, another has a diagonal hairline crack across the front glass, otherwise the set is …
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# 48674
GONSALVES, J[oachimo] A[ffonso]
Grammatica Latina ad usum Sinensium Juvenum
a J. A. Gonsalves Congregationis Missionis Presbytero post longam experientiam redacta et Macao in Regali Collegio Sancti Joseph Facultate Regia typist mandate. Macao : St. Joseph’s College, 1828. Small octavo, quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, title leaf (short tear expertly sealed), pp. 232, errata leaf, terminal blank, printed on rice …
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# 49740
VARENIUS, Bernhadus
Descriptio Regni Japoniae et Siam …
At head of title: Bernhardi Vareni Med. D. Cambridge : John Hayes for Samuel Simpson, 1673. Octavo, contemporary calf ruled in blind (a few scuff marks, worn along the outer hinges), spine in compartments with contrasting title label lettered in gilt (scuffed, small loss to leather at head and foot); front pastedown with armorial bookplate …
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# 49562
BATCHELOR, John
An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary and Grammar.
By the Rev. John Batchelor, Church Missionary Society, Hakodate. Tokyo : Printed for the Hokkaido Cho by Y. Kumata, 1889. Large octavo (240 x 165 mm), quarter black morocco over blind-blocked black cloth (expertly recased with new spine replicating the original), upper board with gilt lettering and device, spine in compartments with gilt lettering and …
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# 48548
HEIDEN, Frans Janszoon van der
Vervarelyke schip-breuk van’t Oost-Indische jacht ter Schelling onder het landt van Bengale
Harderwiljk : Dirk en Jan Rampen, 1707. Quarto, contemporary vellum; pp. [1]-81 (Vervarelyke schip-breuk), 82-96 (accounts of Arakan, Martavan, Tanassery, Bengal, and the Pathans); title with woodcut vignette of Terschelling during the fateful storm in the Bay of Bengal, a further [18] woodcuts in the text; [BOUND WITH] Joosten, Jaques. De kleyne wonderlijke wereld, waar onder …
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# 48798
António Francisco Cardim (1596-1659)
Relation de la province du Japon,
ecrite en Portugais par le Pere François Cardim de la Compagnie de IESUS, Procureur de cette province … A Tournay : De l’Imprimerie d’Adrien Quinqué, 1645. Duodecimo, contemporary calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; edges stained red; marbled endpapers, front pastedown with ex libris label of …
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# 49572
BATCHELOR, John
Ainu Karisia Eiwange Gusu an Inonno-itak oma kambi. The Book of Common Prayer, translated into Ainu, by the Rev. John Batchelor (Church Missionary Society). 1896 (signed copy)
[Yokohama? : Bible Societles’ Committee for Japan?], 1896. Large octavo (215 x 150 mm), original blind-blocked black cloth, upper board with gilt lettering; speckled edges; front pastedown with previous Japanese owner’s bookplate; recto of first blank inscribed and signed by the author ‘J. M. Batchelor, March 9th 1940’; title-leaf in English; pp. [2], 417, [1] …