Voyages & Exploration
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# 41535
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)
Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.
Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II reversed by the binder, a fine set in early bindings …
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![[FIRST FLEET] Midshipman Newton Fowell, on board HMS Sirius at sea, off Rio de Janeiro, 6 August 1787: autograph letter signed, addressed to his father, John Fowell.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_DSFB_2154-300x300.jpg)
# 41117
FOWELL, Newton Digby (1768-1790)
[FIRST FLEET] Midshipman Newton Fowell, on board HMS Sirius at sea, off Rio de Janeiro, 6 August 1787: autograph letter signed, addressed to his father, John Fowell.
Entire letter, 1 page, quarto, manuscript in ink on the first side of a bifolium, laid paper watermarked with Britannia and GR surmounted by crown; dated 6 August 1787 and signed N. Fowell, addressed to John Fowell Esq., Black Hall, S. Brent, Devonshire, England, with DOVER/SHIP-LRE hand-stamp on the face and rated in ms. 1/7 (to be …
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# 31523
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (first edition, coloured)
with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, contemporary …
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# 42451
DIXON, George
A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.
Dedicated, by permission, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., by Captain George Dixon. London : Published by Geo. Goulding, 1789. Second edition. Quarto, full diced russia, ruled in gilt, masterfully rebacked, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles; marbled edges and endpapers; presentation inscription …
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# 26694
WHITE, John (1756-1832)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (deluxe coloured edition)
/ with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esqre., Surgeon General to the settlement. London : J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, in an Italian binding of full white vellum, contrasting morocco title labels, decorated in gilt, engraved map from 1802 of the …
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![[BLIGH'S COPY]. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_DSFB_2395-300x300.jpg)
# 42955
BLIGH, William (1754-1817)
[BLIGH’S COPY]. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.
Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. The whole illustrated with charts, &c. Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the …
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# 29230
TENCH, Captain Watkin
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales,
including an accurate description of the situation of the colony; of the natives; and of its natural productions. London : Sold by G. Nicol, Pall-Mall ; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1793. Quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine in compartments with elaborate gilt decoration and green morocco title label lettered in gilt, bookplate removed from front pastedown; all edges speckled red; frontispiece folding Map of the hitherto unexplored country …
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# 42976
COLLINS, David (1756-1810)
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales,
from its first Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by permission, from the Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King; and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr …
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# 44046
LISIANSKY, Urey (1773-1837)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva.
London : John Booth … and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), modern half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt rule, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards; speckled edges; preliminaries (2 blanks, frontispiece portrait of Lisianskii); xxi; [blank]; [ii], …
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![[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_DSFB_1383-300x300.jpg)
# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 37295
SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)
The artist with companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).
Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved. A very early depiction of …
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# 43742
LORING, Josiah (1775 - c. 1840)
Loring’s nine and half inch terrestrial globe.
Drawn and engraved by W, B. Annin. Boston : Josiah Loring, [c.1845]. Terrestrial globe, 9 1/2 inches in diameter, engraved gores and two polar calottes with original hand colouring over papier mache base, graduated equator, ecliptic and date line meridian, the oceans with an analemma showing the delineation of the sun for every day of the …
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# 44160
"AGRICOLA" (ANGAS, George Fife, 1789 - 1879).
Description of the Barossa Range and its neighbourhood, in South Australia.
By “Agricola”. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spot, by George French Angas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., Cornwall, 1849. Quarto, recent half-calf over original embossed cloth-covered boards, original gilt-lettered title label to upper board; marbled endpapers, pp. 20, with six fine hand-coloured lithographed plates with tissue guards, …
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# 44349
ANEMAAT, Louise
Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet)
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, light handling marks, pp. 256, illustrated. A fine copy. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden …
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# 44319
RAMSAY, Christine Wu
Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …
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# 44317
REEVES, Edward
Brown men and women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896
London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1898. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial maroon cloth gilt (light rubbing, corners slightly bumped, head and tail of spine a little softened, spine lightly sunned), 60 photographic illustrations, folding map, bookplate to front pastedown, small paper flaw to frontispiece, internally fresh and clean, a very good copy. Memoir of …