Rare Books
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# 46462
[WEBSTER, Hartley]
Studio portrait of Māori chief Wiremu Tāmihana (aka William Thompson), “The Kingmaker”, 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso with fully contemporary note in pencil: ‘Wiremue Tomsana [sic] or William Thompson, The King maker’; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. This would appear to be a pirated copy, probably circulated after the death …
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![[Primera Parte de los] Commentarios Reales, que tratan del Origen de los Yncas, reyes que fueron del Peru, de su idolatria, leyes, y gouierno en paz y en guerra](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/15225816/2015_DSFB_6453-198x300.jpg)
# 38359
Garcilaso de la Vega, "El Inca", 1539-1616
[Primera Parte de los] Commentarios Reales, que tratan del Origen de los Yncas, reyes que fueron del Peru, de su idolatria, leyes, y gouierno en paz y en guerra
… Con licencia de la Sancta Inquisicion, Ordinario, y Paco. En Lisboa: En la officina de Pedro Crasbeeck, 1609 [but 1608]. Small folio (240 x 170 mm), later full vellum with ornate gilt-tooled decoration; [9] preliminary leaves, 264 ff (colophon to verso of leaf 264, with date of 1608), [1 errata] page with woodcut decorations; …
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# 40453
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1889)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1889. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-seventh thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges and corners rubbed, slightly bruised with short tear at head and foot of spine) original endpapers (lightly …
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# 41941
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1882, Sir Charles James Martin’s copy)
London : John Murray, 1882. Second edition, revised and augmented. Fifteenth thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed, upper hinge tender), pale foxing to endpapers, slight marginal stain to lower portion of text block, pp. xvi; 693; blank, 78 text illustrations, ownership inscription of C. J. Martin 1883 to preliminary blank, annotated below ‘fr. …
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# 42443
Fróis, Luís (1532-1597) et al.
Lettere del Giappone dell’anno M. D. LXXVII. Scritte dalli Reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giesù.
Rome : Francesco Za[n]netti, 1579. Octavo, later panelled red calf, boards with gilt central device and borders, spine with raised bands decorated and entered in gilt; gilt dentelles; pp. 72; title with woodcut device; first few leaves with small expert restoration at lower fore-edge, otherwise excellent throughout, a near fine copy. Very rare collection of …
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# 29462
LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)
Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.
London : T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …
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# 46795
SHMITH, Athol
Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia : signed and inscribed portrait photograph
Gelatin silver print photograph, 155 x 110 mm, mounted in the original portfolio of the Athol Shmith studio, Collins Street, Melbourne (label to verso), boldly inscribed in black felt-tip pen below the photograph ‘Greetings from Harold Holt’; very fine. Harold Edward Holt (1908-1967) served as 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 26 January 1966 to …
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![ேசாதிசாதீதிரம். [Sothi Sastra]. The Oriental astronomer : being a complete system of Hindu astronomy, accompanied with a translation and numerous explanatory notes. With an appendix](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1614-300x300.jpg)
# 46553
Uḷḷamuḍaiyān (translator); HOISINGTON, Henry Richard (translator)
ேசாதிசாதீதிரம். [Sothi Sastra]. The Oriental astronomer : being a complete system of Hindu astronomy, accompanied with a translation and numerous explanatory notes. With an appendix
[Bound with] : A complete system of Hindu astronomy, being a translation of the foregoing work. Jaffna : American Mission Press, 1848. Octavo, original Ceylonese binding of half-roan over marbled papered boards (worn, joints rubbed with cords exposed, spine cracked, edges and boards rubbed), local binder’s ticket of Apaswamy, pp. [ii – title leaf]; 177; [3 …
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# 46365
ALBUQUERQUE, Alfonso de (c. 1453 - 1515)
Commentarios do grande Afonso Dalboquerque, capitão geral que foi das Indias Orientaes em tempo do muito poderoso rey D. Manuel, o primeiro deste nome.
Lisbon : Regia Officina Typografica, 1774. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound in contemporary speckled calf, ruled in blind, spines with gilt rule and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, private ex-libris book labels to pastedowns, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [viii]; xliv; 343; large folding map of the Indian Ocean; …
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# 46580
MEDINA, Balthasar de
Vida martyrio, y beatificación del invicto proto-martyr de el Japan San Felipe de Jesús, patron de Mexico, su patria,
imperial corte de Nueva España en el Nuevo Mundo … Segunda Impressión … Madrid : en la imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan García Infanzón, 1751. Quarto (205 x 145 mm), contemporary limp vellum (ties replaced); pp. [28], 176, with one engraved plate depicting the crucifixion of San Felipe; scattered light foxing, else contents very good; …
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# 46648
ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, Major-General (1840-1930)
Moko; or Maori tattooing
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896. Quarto, gilt-lettered brown cloth with moko decoration, (a couple of light stains, minor rubbing at edges, corners a little bumped, small impaction dent to spine), bookplate to front pastedown, photographic frontispiece, 180 illustrations and photographs; a good copy of this scarce publication. Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) was a soldier, …
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# 46581
Anonymous.
Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto mexicano y proto-martyr del Japón, el Beato San Felipe de Jesús.
Añadidas algunas obvias reflecciones en honor del mismo Héroe esclarecido, y de esta dichosísima Ciudad felize en ser su Patria. Por un Eclesiástico de este Arzobispado … … México : En la Oficina Madrileña de la Calle de Sto. Domingo y Esquina de Tacuba, 1802. Octavo (195 x 140 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (very good, with some minor staining and edge wear), spine with gilt decoration, …
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# 46683
BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)
Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)
Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …
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# 46388
TASSO, Torquato [1544 - 1595]
Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)
Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (slightly faded), edges a …
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# 42884
LANG, John Dunmore (1799-1878)
An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony.
London : Cochrane and M’Crone, 1834. First edition. Two volumes, octavo (190 x 125 mm), contemporary uniform calf, spines in compartments with gilt lettering and decoration; pastedowns with early ownership inscription of S. A. Cooper, Canterbury, Kent; Vol. 1. pp. xiv, 401, frontispiece folding engraved map with hand-coloured outlines; Vol. 2. pp. iv, 443; a …
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# 42472
Van Gulik, Robert (1910-1967)
The given day : an Amsterdam mystery.
Kuala Lumpur : Art Printing Works, 1964. First edition. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (canted, lightly marked, glue marks to gutters of endpapers); pp. 132, with illustrations by the author; a very good copy (without the production fault found in other copies on pp.21-30). Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer. He …