Voyages & Exploration
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# 15496
PELSAERT, François (1595-1630)
Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia uytgevaren onder’t beleydt van den E. Francois Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman, … Verhalende ‘t verongelucken des schips / en de grouwelijcke moordery onder ‘t scheeps-volck / op ‘t eylandt Bataviers Kerckhof, nevens de justitie gedaen sen de moetwillige in de jaren 1628 en 1629.
Amsterdam : Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [c.1663]. Small quarto, later half vellum over marbled boards (rubbed), manuscript title to spine; ex libris bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper; pp 44, title page with woodcut vignette (paper repair to the gutter), and allegorical woodcut verso; a further 6 copperplate vignette illustrations in the text, which is printed in two columns with occasional side …
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# 43478
ANDREWS, Rebecca
George French Angas : South Australia illustrated.
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, [2006]. Quarto, folded card, pp. [8], illustrated. Catalogue of a touring exhibition held Carrick Hill, Adelaide, 5 April-30 June, 2006 and 4 other South Australian venues.
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# 47713
FRIEDE, John; TAYLOR, John Bigelow; DUBLER, Dianne
New Guinea art : masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede
San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with 5 Continents Editions, 2005. Two volumes, large quarto (320 x 240 mm), publisher’s black cloth over boards in pictorial dust jackets, housed in the publisher’s slipcase; pp. 622, 206; chiefly colour illustrations; map; light marks but an excellent set. Showcases one of …
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# 47709
QUILLEY, Geoff et al.
William Hodges 1744-1797 : the art of exploration
Edited by Geoff Quilley and John Bonehill. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press for the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. viii, 212, illustrated. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough. Catalogue to the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 5 July-21 November 2004 and the Yale Center for British Art, …
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# 47671
STEEVENS, G. W.
From Cape Town to Ladysmith. An unfinished record of the South African War
London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Fourth impression. Octavo, prize binding from Presbyterian Ladies College Melbourne by Relfe Bothers of London, with their emblem and old school motto Ohne Hast Ohne Rast on upper board (German, from Goethe Without haste! without rest!, changed due to political considerations at the outbreak of the Second World …
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![[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_DSFB_6590-300x300.jpg)
# 45572
MONTI, Anne-Georges-Augustin de (1753-1788)
[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.
Manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked TM, 1 page, quarto (210 x 170 mm). [Brest], ‘à bord [l’Astrolabe], le 10 juin 1785’. Headed ‘pour L’astrolabe’, and signed at the foot ‘de Monti’, the note comprises a short list of equipment that is required for the vessel: ‘two rudder bars … a spike for the …
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# 47520
[Anon.]
Melancholy and dreadful loss of the Amphitrite : bound from Woolwich to Botany Bay, with 108 female convicts and 12 children, together with a crew of 16, being in the whole 136 souls; of which 133 perished in the dreadful gale of Saturday the 31st of August, 1833, off Boulogne.
[London] : J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials, [1833]. Broadside, 250 x 190 mm, letterpress with large woodcut illustration, laid down on an old backing sheet; toned, ghosting from nineteenth-century glue at each corner, otherwise very good. A rare illustrated broadside ballad lamenting the wreck of the convict transport Amphitrite off the …
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# 46516
Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]
A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.
London : The Working Men’s Educational Union, King William Street, Trafalgar Square [1854]. Coloured lithographic wall hanging printed on calico, 880 x 1160 mm; original brass eyelets at each corner; numbered ‘LM No. 12’ lower left; slightly creased, but a well preserved example, the hand colouring still strong and vibrant. The Working Men’s Educational Union was …
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![[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1728-300x300.jpg)
# 46765
STANLEY, Henry Morton [ROWLANDS, John]
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.
Albumen print photograph (a copy print made in 1872 from a print made by an unidentified American studio in 1864-65), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘J. Laing, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. Castle Street, Shrewsbury’, and with an inscription in ink by the original …
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# 46653
American Presbyterian Mission Press
The China Mission hand-book. First issue
Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1896. Octavo, half roan over cloth (rebacked, a few small stains), ex-library Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, with bookplate to front pastedown and small wet stamp to title page, pp. [vi]; 335; folding hand coloured map of China ‘To illustrate Mr. Mollendorff’s paper’ (neatly detached with paper repairs …
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# 47127
BERNACCHI, Louis (1876 - 1942)
To the South Polar Regions. Expedition of 1898 – 1900
London : Hurst and Blackett, 1901. First edition, first issue. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels, …
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# 42956
OXLEY, John (1784-1828)
Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18.
London : John Murray, 1820. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), contemporary gilt-ruled half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering (expertly rebacked); original marbled endpapers; pp. xv; [i – errata], 408; with two folding engraved charts of the interior of New South Wales, two folding tables, folding etched plate …
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# 42019
BACKHOUSE, James (1794-1869) and WALKER, George Washington (1800-1859)
A Christian address to the free inhabitants of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land.
Sydney : Printed by Henry Bull, Australian College Buildings, 1837. First edition. Duodecimo (170 x 103 mm), later half green calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 28; printed on letterpress; bound without wrappers, but a fine example. An exceedingly rare Sydney imprint, a tract by Quaker missionaries James Backhouse (1794-1869) and …
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# 42354
WOOLLS, William (1814-1893)
A short account of the character and labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden,
formerly Principal Chaplain of the Church of England, in New South Wales ; written for the express purpose of raising funds towards the erection of a church in the Parish of Marsfield, Parramatta. Parramatta : Printed and published by B. Isaacs, George-street, 1844. Small octavo (185 x 115 mm), modern half calf over marbled papered …
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# 47413
DUFRÉNOY, Mme. (Adélaïde Gillette) (1765-1825)
Le Tour de monde, ou Tableau gégraphique et historique de tous les peuples de la terre,
contenant une description succincte des pays qu’ils habitent ; un aperçu des moeurs, coutumes, religions et lois… monumens et antiquités… notices biographiques… littérature, industrie, commerce, etc. Dédié à madame la comtesse de Ségur. Paris : Alexis Eymery, 1814. Six volumes, 32mo (135 x 90 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of mottled calf, spines with gilt decoration and contrasting …
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# 46511
Missionary Advocate. Volume 1, Number 1 (January 1845) – Volume V, Number 12 (March 1850)
New York : Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845 – 1850. Quarto, half-morocco over marbled papered boards (rebacked with new spine,contrasting Morocco title lables lettered in gilt, corners rubbed and worn, various pagination, woodcut illustrations, scattered foxing a good run of this uncommon journal. Includes articles (many of which are illustrated) on Methodist …