Voyages & Exploration
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![[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2298-300x300.jpg)
# 47053
CLARK, William (1770-1838)
[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.
Single leaf, 308 x 187 mm, laid paper without visible watermark; pro-forma document printed on the recto, headed TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA, with LOUISIANA struck through and amended to Missouri in manuscript; dated at Saint Louis, Missouri Territory on 29 March 1814, the document has manuscript entries which record the granting of power of authority over …
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# 47321
LEWIS, Meriwether, & CLARK, William
Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States in the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806.
London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1817. Third English edition. Three volumes, octavo, finely bound by the London firm of Root & Son in half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with gilt-lettering, ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (binder’s stamps verso), pp. xxvi; (2); large folding map …
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# 45888
HUC, Évariste Régis, Abbé (1813-1860)
Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.
Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to ‘Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne’, circular postal markings in black ‘Paris 8 Janv. 47’ and ‘Toulouse 11 Janv. 47’; …
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# 47283
A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)
The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.
[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …
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# 47213
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859)
Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer : autograph letter to a Captain Gowan, arranging a meeting at the Hôtel de Londres. Paris, c.1830.
1 page, quarto (260 x 200 mm). Manuscript in ink on fine wove paper with a monogram watermark; written entirely in the third person in French in Humboldt’s idiosyncratic scrawl, the letter is dated simply ‘a mardi’ (Tuesday) and is addressed (indirectly) to a Captain Gowan, whom Humboldt invites to a rendezvous at 2 o’clock the following …
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# 47205
SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)
Banyan trees and bush near Palmerston (Port Darwin), Northern Territory, c.1870
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 220 mm format, mounted recto and verso of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, recto inscribed in pencil below the image by the album’s compiler ‘Banyan trees’, verso without caption; both are strong prints with excellent clarity, in fine condition; a few spots of foxing to …
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# 45937
T'ONG, Ting-kü (1832-1892)
全 集 語 英 (Ying u Tsap Ts’un) or The Chinese and English Instructor
Canton : 1862. Six volumes (complete), tall octavo (279 x 153mm), original stitched wrappers (the first volume lacking the lower wrapper), printed title labels (with remnants on a few volumes), some rubbing and light stains; text in English and Chinese; text blocks folded in fukurotoji style, housed in original wooden boards (one crack repaired) titled …
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# 46811
WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The Orient Missionary Exhibition, in the Central Hall, Academy Street, Cork, March 25th to 29th, 1912.
Cork [Ireland] : Eagle Printing Works, 1912. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original pictorial wrappers (chipped at corner and spine ends, mild edge wear) pp. 28; with b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements; internally clean, a very good copy. The title is somewhat misleading, since as well as exhibits from China, India and Ceylon, the exhibition included …
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# 46753
RETANA, W. E. (Wenceslao Emiliano)
Catálogo de la Biblioteca Filipina de W. E. Retana. (Limited edition, presentation copy inscribed by Retana for Hiersemann)
Edición de treinta ejemplares. Madrid : Imprenta de la viuda de M. Minuesa De Los Rios, 1893. Folio (350 x 250 mm), original leather-backed marbled papered boards (a trifle scuffed), spine with raised bands and red morocco title label lettered in gilt; original marbled endpapers; the limitation page records the names of institutional and private …
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# 46761
ADUARTE, Diego Francisco (1569-1636)
Tomo primero de la historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas, Iapon, y China, de la Sagrada Orden de Predicadores.
Zaragoça : Domingo Gascon, Infançon, Impressor del Santo Hospital Real, y General de Nuestra Señora de Gracia, 1693. Folio, contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties), spine with early ms. title and decoration in black ink; hinges cracked; pp [viii], 767, [53 index]; title page with engraved vignette coat of arms; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; last section of main …
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# 41812
FABER, Ernst
Introduction to the science of Chinese religion.
A critique of Max Müller and other authors. Hong Kong : Lane, Crawford & Co. and Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, [1879]. Printed at the “China Mail” office in Hong Kong. Octavo, lettered card wrappers (expert repairs to spine, some chips and marks), pp. [iv]; xii; 151. A rare tract by the German missionary Ernst …
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# 46762
FAR EASTERN REVIEW
Political railway map of China
[Shanghai] : Far Eastern Review, circa 1914. Map, printed in colour, 520 x 425 mm (sheet), a couple of small chips and edges and small stains lower left, showing the railways of China which are operational, under construction, contracted for, and projected, under French, Belgian, Russian, British, German, Japanese, American and Chinese control. The train …
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# 46646
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Minute of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society on the present state and future prospects of China
[London] : Church Missionary Society, 1853. T. C. Johns, Printer. Octavo, pamphlet, self-wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 15; [blank]. An appeal for additional resources (funds and missionaries) to extend the work of the Church Missionary Society into the interior of China, with greater access now granted to the missionaries. It notes ‘We have never had more …
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![[MOUNTAINEERING] The International Himalayan Expedition (aka "The Times" Kanchenjunga Expedition), 1930 : a substantial archive of official photographs.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2784-212x300.jpg)
# 41419
HOERLIN, Harold (photographer)
[MOUNTAINEERING] The International Himalayan Expedition (aka “The Times” Kanchenjunga Expedition), 1930 : a substantial archive of official photographs.
An archive of 44 original gelatin silver print photographs taken by the expedition photographer Harold Hoerlin; in uniform 260 x 200 mm or 200 x 260 mm format; versos with typed explanatory labels, “The Times Kanchenjunga Expedition” copyright stamps, and release date stamps: 24 May 1930 (10), 28 May 1930 (12), 21 June 1930 (5), 30 June …
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# 19520
DELISLE, Ferdinand; LEUTEMANN, Heinrich Gottlieb (Henrik) (illustrator)
Excursions chez les peuples étranges : causeries ethnographiques
/ avec une préface de A.Quatrefages, membre de l’institut-professeur au muséum d’histoire naturelle; illustrations en couleur par H.Leutemann. Paris : Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre et Cie., Emile Guérin, éditeur, [1889]. First edition. Quarto, original cloth backed pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), pp vi, 71, [1 table of contents], with 12 double-leaf chromolithographic illustrations bound in …
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# 43679
Papua and New Guinea Villager. (Editor’s scrapbook used in the production of “New series”, early 1950s).
[Unpublished]. [Port Moresby : Department of Education, early 1950s]. Disbound foolscap folio scrapbook (a repurposed Australian Diary for 1950), containing hundreds of pasted in photographs and cuttings accompanied by handwritten and typed notes, which indicate the archive was kept as a picture resource for the Papuan Villager magazine; some light foxing and old glue staining, …